Why didn’t Jeremy Corbyn win when his plan was to raise taxes on the wealthiest individuals and companies to fund better public services for everyone else? : r/AskBrits - "I mean I saw him.talk at an LSE event and he was praising Venezuela and at the time I was working with a guy from there and he told me how awful things were there. So I think questions of his economic competence are valid."
"It's amazing isn't it... Corbyn was a guy who went on holiday to East Germany...a country that imprisoned it's own population and machine gunned it's youth when they tried to escape... And people say they were surprised by how thick he was on geopolitics... You really have to wonder how observant and bright these people are ..."
Why didn’t Jeremy Corbyn win when his plan was to raise taxes on the wealthiest individuals and companies to fund better public services for everyone else? : r/AskBrits - "Well, in Scotland, some of us don't like people who support IRA terrorists who killed innocent people in the UK."
"How do you think we felt in NI?"
Why didn’t Jeremy Corbyn win when his plan was to raise taxes on the wealthiest individuals and companies to fund better public services for everyone else? : r/AskBrits - "It's hard to overstate how aggressive and forced the anti-Corbyn rhetoric was. I don't know which is more depressing, how shameless the media were about it or how gullible the British public proved to be in swallowing it. Probably <10% of the anti-Corbynites I met had an actual material reason to oppose him - by which I dont even mean a good/bad reason, I just mean a reason grounded in any real thing the man had actually done or said. Instead you got just streams of absolute batshit theories that he was an IRA plant or wanted to ban the poppy or whatever other random piece of piss the papers had made up that morning."
"The reason the media was so oppressive with its attacks on Corbyn should have told the entire country that he was good for them."
Left wingers think that people are so easily brainwashed by the evil right wing media. Like when they always claim poor people vote against their interests
Chief Nerd on X - "WHOOPI: “RFK Jr is not a doctor”
CHERYL: “90% of Secretaries of HHS have not been doctors. One of Obama's Secretaries of HHS was an economist.”
WHOOPI: “We have to take a break…”"
Husband did a large dose of shrooms. Became convinced he was Italian chef in a past life. Proceeded to make spaghetti.. : r/shrooms - "Quick background: we live with my mom. My side is very heavily Italian. My mom grew up in Italy. My husband is best described as a southerner(family all in Alabama for 200+ years). He is not a good cook at all. He once burnt ramen. He's been going through a tough time. His dad died 2 months ago. He wanted to do a large dose. His wording was he wanted to take a large dose and follow the advice alot of people give for a heroic dose(dark room, alone, everything turned off, etc). He took 12g of shrooms.. proceeded to go extremely catatonic, spaced out, etc. When he came out of it the next day, He seemed very at peace and declared that he realized he was an Italian chef in a past life.. me and my mom were both very amused because he has never been a good cook. He proceeded to say that he was gonna make spaghetti for dinner and he'd make the sauce from scratch. Me and my mom didn't say anything but a "ah... ok..". He cooked it that night. We were expecting a disaster. Especially because we watched him just wing it. He didn't look up any instructions or measure anything. He said that he couldn't remember specifics but making it felt like "muscle memory". This motherfucker made the best sauce I've ever tasted. My mom was rattled and said it was the best she's ever tasted and it was far superior to hers(and that's not something she'd ever easily admit). She even called it "perfect". Every single person who tasted it was amazed by it. The main question going through my mind right now is "what the fuck?"."
My husband and son getting competitive while playing games. : r/Jokes - "Husband said" I fucked your mom"
to which the son replied" I have been deeper inside her than you'll ever be""
US singer demands divorce after she ‘unknowingly’ married Malaysian sultan - "U.S. singer-songwriter Brittany Porter is demanding a “proper divorce” after she says she unwittingly married a Malaysian sultan in a ceremony she assumed was simply a celebration of their engagement. Porter, 30, who releases music under the name Brook Lynn, spoke to the South China Post about the debacle, claiming that she first met Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan, the former King of Malaysia, in January 2024 through mutual friends. “We had this instant chemistry and good banter,” she said, sharing she was particularly drawn to his “cute” British accent. “We were just friends at first, but we started talking every day and the next thing you know,” she explained. The two embarked on a whirlwind romance, marked by extravagant travels across Asia and lavish gifts. “He flew me and my friends all around the world. He was so generous, the nicest hotels, giving my friends the best treatment, experiences and gifts,” Porter claimed. “He loves hotels, he probably spent millions on them for our trips.” However, it was before their first overseas trip to the Middle East last April that Porter says the Sultan, 56, proposed to her. “He asked if I wanted to go on holiday in Oman with him... it felt like I was in a real Disney princess movie,” she recalled to the Daily Mail. “He proposed right after that, and he got me a blue diamond, because I said I wanted it to match my eyes.” Porter claimed that while they were in Oman, Muhammad V flew her friends in for a religious ceremony. “In my culture, the big ceremony is a wedding, which we planned for January 2025. So I was confused,” she added to the South China Post. “They brought an imam out and I did the whole conversion, but he didn’t teach me all that much about Islam… I only recently learned that a nikah constitutes a marriage under Islamic law.” Porter further clarified on her social media: “In Western culture, the ceremony itself is considered the official wedding, so I didn’t realize how different the terminology and process would be under Islamic law. “But the truth is - I was, and still am, his wife in the eyes of Allah,” she continued. The recording artist further claimed that once they returned to Malaysia, she was expected to produce a male “heir” as soon as possible. She said that she eventually became pregnant before suffering a miscarriage. “It was horrible,” she confessed to the Mail. “But after that, we just started fighting a lot.” Despite the unraveling of their relationship, the California native said she pressed forward with wedding planning, traveling back to her home state to meet with a wedding planner. “He was being distant with me and I was freaking out so I flew back to Malaysia — but he wasn’t there,” she said, alleging, “He blocked me on everything. He just texted my best friend saying it wasn’t going to work out.” She said she hasn’t heard from him since, and is now looking for a “proper divorce.”... He was previously married to his first wife, Tengku Zubaidah binti Tengku Norudin, from 2004 to 2008. In 2010, he married his second wife, Sultanah Nur Diana Petra, before adding another wife, Russian beauty queen Oxana Andreevna Voevodina (referred to as Rihana Petra during their marriage) in 2018. He and Voevodina divorced a year later — the same year they welcomed a son together. While the events were traumatic, Porter now looks back on them with a sense of optimism. Her “bizarre” experience has inspired her debut single, “Oh My Gosh,” which is out now. “It’s been amazing, it’s been a healing journey for me, and really freeing,” she told the Mail. “I am grateful for everything that happened at the end because the songs are about him.”"
Open Source Intel on X - "Iranian official: “We poured millions into spreading Islam in Japan. After six years, only one person converted, and he wasn’t even Japanese.”"
Of course, nothing to see here since it's not a Western country promoting Christianity
Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - CNN is now admitting that “errors” in the 2020 census were almost always to the benefit of blue states, such as Rhode Island being overcounted, and to the detriment of red states, such as Alabama being undercounted. Funny how “errors” only ever help one side."
Story of judge forgiving 15-year-old boy for stealing in viral video is fake - "Claim: According to a video shared online, a Western judge decided to forgive a 15-year-old boy who was apprehended for stealing bread for his ailing mother. The video ends with a statement about how Pakistan’s judges are failing, while judges in the Western World are carrying out justice.
Fact: The claim made in the video is false. The boy seen in the video is Christian Fernandez, who was brought before a Jacksonville, Florida court in 2011 after being accused of beating his two-year-old brother to death. The judge seen in the video is American judge Frank Caprio, known for his kind and considered rulings in Providence, Rhode Island. Fernandez, who was 12 years old at the time of his arrest, has never come before Judge Frank Caprio. The images in the video appear to have been stitched together to convey a false narrative."
Freyy on X - "i finally did it: someone was talking on the phone with loud speaker sitting close to me while we were inside the bus. so I joined the conversation with full confidence. when she gave me that “are you mad?” look, I said, “sorry,I thought it was a group call since you put it on loudspeaker for all of us.” she quietly told the person, “I’ll call you back,” and ended the call immediately."
Covie on X - "Umm, why is a sitting Supreme Court justice doing an interview with Fox News???"
Bad Hombre on X - "Sotomayor did interviews with NBC on Sept 15th, CBS on Sept 9th and 19th, and Stephen Colbert on Sept 10. Ketanji did an interview with CNN’s Abby Philip and Colbert last year. Not a peep from you."
Meme - "Eva Braun, 18,
2KM-NS, far-right
extremism, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, traditionalism, homophobia
I'm looking for a person with similar views"
Meme - Susan Gerbie @SusanGerbic: "Sadly, this is the world we live in now."
"These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?"
Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo: "This cartoon is very telling, though not the way that people who post it think. The professional class thinks of itself as expert pilots. Much of the rest of America thinks of us as expert pilots who have hijacked their plane."
Earl Scott @rightnGA: "My take on this cartoon is simple....if airline pilots were wrong as often as the "expert class' is then the passengers would probably be just as well off with some random guy flying......fortunately they are not."
Besides the point about "experts" imposing their preferences on everyone, which is distinct from offering what is the best way to attain a goal, left wingers think "qualifications" are more important than achievements and results after all. Jared Kushner's two Middle East peace deals are great cases in point
A hotel is offering ‘self-love pods’ for solo play. Here’s why that’s a thing - "Across America, and around the world, more and more people are going it alone. Nearly a third of US households are single-occupancy, a record high. In Europe, the trend is even stronger, with around 46% of Danish households inhabited by men and women flying solo. People are marrying later and less often. Just 37% of Americans ages 25-49 are married with children, down from 67% in 1970. Google searches for solo travel have had a post-Covid surge and Millennials and Gen Z are driving a boom in solo dining, with more people eating alone at restaurants than ever before. Now a leisure activity traditionally seen as the preserve of couples has been given a lone-wolf twist: the romantic getaway, or its more carnal variant, the dirty weekend. To mark Sexual Health Awareness Month this September, New York’s Walker Hotel Tribeca has introduced a “Self-Love Pod” offer, aimed at the recently single... The perks include a Recess adaptogen drink with claims towards de-stressing and reenergizing; adaptogens are a big player in 2024’s alcohol-free beverage trend. There’s perfume oil and fancy soap from skincare brand Fablerune and a journal from personal growth brand Grow Into. A curated selection of self-love focused meditations from Cacti Wellness awaits guests, plus a free pass to the Othership sauna in the Flatiron district. Finally there’s an egg-shaped personal massager from sexual wellness brand Maude, for external use, suggesting that this is a package aimed at female consumers. Women are, after all, driving the boom in the global wellness industry, of which the $1.8 trillion US market is the biggest in the world. In heterosexual relationships, an estimated 70% of divorces in the US are initiated by women. Due to factors including longer life expectancy for women and men being more likely to remarry after being divorced or widowed, the majority of single-person households are women living alone – in the US and also in developed countries around the world... While DINKs (dual income, no kids) are often on easy street as the demographic with the highest net worth, single Americans bear the weight of what’s colloquially known as the “single tax”: paying premium on rent, mortgages and household bills. Not only do single travelers have to gather their pennies together to afford a hotel room alone, often they face a “single supplement” price hike when booking flights and cruises... For women in midlife, sexual activity becomes increasingly “use it or lose it.” As well as helping maintain good sexual health, a 2020 study by University College London found that women who engaged in sexual activity weekly or monthly — solo or otherwise — were less likely to enter early menopause."
Travel news: Hotels reveal their wildest room service orders - "There’s the Evian-filled bathtub requested for a child’s routine scrub-up, and the customized allergen-free menu for a pet. There’s the separate requests that were fielded for burnt toast, fresh goat milk and 2 kilos of bananas. And finally there’s the demand for a high-five from a team member to ensure their room service request was read."
Atlanta’s subway cars now home to endangered sea turtles, coral reefs - "Railcars once filled with hustling commuters in the city of Atlanta are now 65 feet below the Atlantic Ocean filled with inquisitive fish, sea turtles and coral. At the end of last year, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) dumped two railcars off Georgia’s coast as part of a program to develop reef habitats and marine wildlife with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Reef Project... Subway cars aren’t the only unusual objects scuba divers and anglers can find in what’s known as Artificial Reef L about 23 nautical miles east of Ossabaw Island. There are also U.S. Army M-60 battle tanks, barges, tugboats and even New York City subway cars... the practice of dumping manmade materials into the ocean to create artificial reefs dates back centuries. In the 1700s Japanese fisherman were known to sink old vessels and rocks into local waters to improve fishing, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources."
🇬🇧 IM 🇬🇧 on X - "If you want to know whether you're on the "right side" of an issue from an external angle, assess the intellectual capacity, mental stability and moral quality of the people agreeing with you. If lots of hysterical people agree, you should probably re-evaluate your position.
This isn’t a foolproof rule, by the way. The fact that a number of unstable or misguided people agree with something reasonable or true does not make it wrong by association. This is simply a heuristic - a signpost for more rigorous self-examination, not a substitute for it."
THE ÁĹĹÀŃ ĆÓÚÑŤÝ 🇺🇬 on X - "If You Ever feel Useless, Just Remember....King Kong Died For A Chick He Can't Even F*ck."
A "gold standard" study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health
James McAvoy Mistakenly Shaved His Head For X-Men - "James McAvoy has revealed that he made a gargantuan mistake ahead of his debut as Professor X in ‘X-Men: First Class’. The Scottish actor shaved all of his hair off ahead of the film, even though he was supposed to have a 60s hairstyle in it. McAvoy has confirmed that he made the huge error after simply assuming that his Charles Xavier would have the same dome as he did in the comics and when Patrick Stewart portrayed the character... He turned to a “dear friend and follicle felicitator” who then proceeded to spend “about 24 hours putting hair extensions into [his] hair.”"
Matthews: Democrats must address working-class voters - "Longtime cable news host Chris Matthews said Democrats’ “snobbery” had compelled working-class voters to support President Trump and Republican-leaning candidates... “How does the Democratic Party, which is trying to talk to working-class people again, but are all, you know, highly educated, and they live in urban places. How do they bridge that divide, like he did?” host Katy Tur asked Matthews, referring to Kennedy... Democrats, which increasingly has become a party of highly educated people living near urban centers. “The people that didn’t go to college are voting for Trump. Why? Because the snobbery and attitude,” Matthews said"
Peter Lloyd on X - "Today marks 10yrs since the Bataclan massacre. Muslims slaughtered 130 and maimed 683. Victims were castrated, raped, disembowelled and tortured before execution. French authorities suppressed this fact for 'social cohesion'. This image was taken moments before the attack.🇫🇷"
Prometheus on X - "I was at a French school when the Bataclan attack happened. The day before, we were told there would be a minute of silence to honor the victims. During that moment, many of the Arab and Muslim students (because their parents had told them to) started making noise and shouting. When the French kids reacted and fights broke out, those same parents complained about the French children not being punished."
Nicolas Battini on X - "Il y a 10 ans, j’étais un jeune militant nationaliste corse incarcéré dans une prison dont la moitié de la population applaudissait et saluait les massacres du Bataclan. Dix ans plus tard, nombre de patriotes corses ont compris l’impérieuse nécessité de faire front commun avec tous ceux qui veulent s’opposer à la conquête islamiste. Dès lors que ceux qui veulent défendre la France acceptent d’intégrer la nécessaire défense de l’identité du peuple corse, ils sont nos alliés naturels et privilégiés. Car il n’y aura que deux camps dans les années à venir. Les défenseurs du monde dont nous héritons et que nous aimons d’un côté. Et en face ceux qui le haïssent au point de massacrer les nôtres. Nous ne nous tromperons pas."
fleur inverse on X - "Ten years ago, a 22yo Corsican nationalist, then in prison in Paris for violent activism, was wondering if there was a football match because half of the prison was cheering, banging on doors and applauding. It was not a match they were cheering on, but the islamic terror attack."
Meme - "Am I the only one who peels the croissant before eating it?"
"Getting called into HR for repeatedly sending this to my French colleagues"
Meme - "the Fantastic 4 *Dollytheditz and Mother exposing breasts*"
Meme - "You gotta help me, bro! did it with this girl who lied about being 18! FBI is on my tail!!!"
"Okay dude. Relax. She lied about her age just so that she can have a good time under sheets. If she is 17 or 16 then it's natural for some girls to lie to get some. How old was she anyway?"
"8"
"Nigga you are going to jail"
Meme - Lilith Lovett - Famous Minor...: "Name an instance where this actually happened."
">Devs follow the fans' advice to Improve their game
>Game does stupendously well"
notch @notch: "Minecraft. I didn't originally even consider keeping creative mode in until I found out the players actually were good at designing buildings and enjoyed it. I'm the type of minecraft player who builds.. uh.. let's call them functional housing."
Meme - "Ratatouille is hilarious because the villain wasn't even evil he just didn't want food cooked by rats"
Emil Kirkegaard on X - "Replication failures in political psychology. Since the median researcher is I guess somewhere between Kamala Harris and Bernie, it is not surprising that essentially all research concerns ways to explain the outgroup (American conservatives), and most of this is unflattering, but also doesn't replicate."
Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined
This won't stop left wingers from claiming "science" "proves" that conservatives are evil and defective
Kitler on X - "“We need to talk about the violent crime epidemic in red states.” ……..lists the 10 blackest cities in America"
Time to bash red states based on the ecological fallacy again
Tsujigiri - Wikipedia - "Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally "crossroads killing") is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time. The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri."
Americans are ‘flag jacking’ to pretend they’re Canadian overseas - here’s why it doesn’t work - "Reports of "flag jacking" date back to at least the 1960s, when the U.S. was facing scrutiny over the Vietnam War. It happened again in the 2000s as some Americans reportedly sought to distance themselves from U.S. foreign policy. More recently, Canadians angry with the Trump administration’s policies and rhetoric towards their country have called out the act, with many online even comparing it to cultural appropriation, according to CNN. On top of that, American tourists in disguise are not really fooling anyone. Apart from the obvious differences - such a systems of measurements, accents, customs and geographical knowledge - many subtleties distinguish Americans from their neighbors to the north. European tour guides who spoke to CNN said that one way they can tell Americans apart is how loud they are. “Stereotypes exist for a reason,” Denisa Podhrazska, the founder of the Let Me Show You London tour group, told the broadcaster. “We use them because many of them are true. And it’s not just Americans, it’s for everybody. Every nation has its own little quirks, that’s how we recognize each other.” Americans are typically "really nice, and loud," she added. As Podhrazska said, stereotypes exist on both sides of the aisle. The old joke of: ‘How do you tell is someone is from Canada? They tell you,’ also rings true, according to guides. “Canadians will identify themselves as Canadian right away,” Parisian Bertrand d’Aleman, founder of My Private Paris tours, told CNN. Other tour guides interviewed by the outlet added that Canadians do often try and distinguish themselves from Americans. The approaches tourists take to foreign cultures can also help differentiate which country they come from, guides say. Many Canadians have a broader knowledge of European history and affairs given their cultural heritage. Charley Harrison, founder of the London-based Totally Tailored Tours, meanwhile, told CNN that Americans can fall into the trap of assuming their culture is the norm, even trying to pay in U.S. dollars while abroad and their insistence that it is British people who have an accent. Canadian cultural commentator Stewart Reynolds said that his countrymen aren’t perfect either, however. “Canada’s got jerks. We’ve got loads of jerks,” he told CNN. Robert Schertzer, a professor at the University of Toronto, explained that some Canadians get upset by acts such as “flag jacking” as the country’s nationalism “at its core has an element of anti-Americanism.”"
