Brightmare
@brightmare.bsky.social
Yes this is a perfect demonstration of my point. To have no shame appropriating a word describing the worst horror imaginable: to describe a war Hamas needlessly started, every day chose to continue, and still refuses to end. Hysteria, historical ignorance, and a total lack of perspective.
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Yes this is a perfect demonstration of my point. To have no shame appropriating a word describing the worst horror imaginable: to describe a war Hamas needlessly started, every day chose to continue, and still refuses to end. Hysteria, historical ignorance, and a total lack of perspective.
There’s a strain of narcissism in Palestinian activism. They’re self-righteously convinced that their cause is the most important thing in the world, and angrily demand attention if others get sympathy. Especially if it’s Jews. This is entirely about reminding everyone who the *real* victims are.
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
There’s a strain of narcissism in Palestinian activism. They’re self-righteously convinced that their cause is the most important thing in the world, and angrily demand attention if others get sympathy. Especially if it’s Jews. This is entirely about reminding everyone who the *real* victims are.
Most enduring stable societies develop this. We had it, but are currently going through a prolonged midlife crisis. We will recover.
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Most enduring stable societies develop this. We had it, but are currently going through a prolonged midlife crisis. We will recover.
I’m not a Reform voter and I don’t care. I remember being a teenager. I had stupid uninformed opinions, zero life experience and thrilled to break taboos. Do they really have to dig up schoolyard gossip to find something Farage can be attacked on?
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I’m not a Reform voter and I don’t care. I remember being a teenager. I had stupid uninformed opinions, zero life experience and thrilled to break taboos. Do they really have to dig up schoolyard gossip to find something Farage can be attacked on?
As I understand it the current fiscal projections are good for about 2 years then crunch hard right before election 2029. I sense the hand of McSweeney in this.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
As I understand it the current fiscal projections are good for about 2 years then crunch hard right before election 2029. I sense the hand of McSweeney in this.
Boycotting South Africa? Man the 2020s really are attempting to replay all the key geopolitical events of the 20th century.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Boycotting South Africa? Man the 2020s really are attempting to replay all the key geopolitical events of the 20th century.
The problem is that the Reform discontents don’t have policy demands. They have a nostalgic dream, fuelling a scream of rage. Want they want can never be delivered, and nothing that could be plausibly achieved in the real world will ever satisfy them.
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The problem is that the Reform discontents don’t have policy demands. They have a nostalgic dream, fuelling a scream of rage. Want they want can never be delivered, and nothing that could be plausibly achieved in the real world will ever satisfy them.
That’s my morning procrastination sorted ;) looking forward!
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
That’s my morning procrastination sorted ;) looking forward!
It just wasn’t very good :/ scanted the long-term structural causes of Rome’s decline in favour of a trite narrative and anvilicious parallels to modern world problems. Disappointed, I was really looking forward to it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
It just wasn’t very good :/ scanted the long-term structural causes of Rome’s decline in favour of a trite narrative and anvilicious parallels to modern world problems. Disappointed, I was really looking forward to it.
As a percentage of earnings it absolutely is true. But really this argument boils down to a belief that no one anywhere 'should' be rich - no matter how hard they work or how much value they contribute - while any amount of poverty exists. That's bonkers. Communism failed for a reason!
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
As a percentage of earnings it absolutely is true. But really this argument boils down to a belief that no one anywhere 'should' be rich - no matter how hard they work or how much value they contribute - while any amount of poverty exists. That's bonkers. Communism failed for a reason!
'The rich' already contribute by far the majority of the tax revenues that support our country and subsidise the welfare state. If it's greed to want to keep some of what you earned, what is it to demand more and more redistribution of others' money?
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
'The rich' already contribute by far the majority of the tax revenues that support our country and subsidise the welfare state. If it's greed to want to keep some of what you earned, what is it to demand more and more redistribution of others' money?
A peace deal 'on its own terms' is called a 'victory'.
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A peace deal 'on its own terms' is called a 'victory'.
This one feels more performance than substance to me. More an attempt to balance accounts on paper than raise substantial revenue in practise. Council tax has needed total overhaul for years and I can't see this government being the ones to grasp that nettle.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This one feels more performance than substance to me. More an attempt to balance accounts on paper than raise substantial revenue in practise. Council tax has needed total overhaul for years and I can't see this government being the ones to grasp that nettle.
While I believe that some aspects of UK welfare spending are excessive or misallocated, I have no problem with this. Children and education are exactly where spending ought to be focused. Triple lock on child benefit and not on pensioners, please.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
While I believe that some aspects of UK welfare spending are excessive or misallocated, I have no problem with this. Children and education are exactly where spending ought to be focused. Triple lock on child benefit and not on pensioners, please.
The problem with Polanski and others like this, is everything is approached from the position ‘We must have x social/economic outcome’. All else is expected to contort to accommodate justice or equality. But history has a solid track record here: when ideology conflicts with reality, reality wins.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The problem with Polanski and others like this, is everything is approached from the position ‘We must have x social/economic outcome’. All else is expected to contort to accommodate justice or equality. But history has a solid track record here: when ideology conflicts with reality, reality wins.
It’s a great feature. Some of the most divisive accounts (on many subjects) have turned out to be misrepresentations. Keep shining the disinfectant of sunlight.
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
It’s a great feature. Some of the most divisive accounts (on many subjects) have turned out to be misrepresentations. Keep shining the disinfectant of sunlight.
People talk like it’s a singular entity making malevolent decisions. ‘The bond market’ is just the aggregate all the people and institutions we have sold debt to. Getting annoyed at them when they act in rational self-interest and not like an indulgent extension of UK government policy, is absurd.
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
People talk like it’s a singular entity making malevolent decisions. ‘The bond market’ is just the aggregate all the people and institutions we have sold debt to. Getting annoyed at them when they act in rational self-interest and not like an indulgent extension of UK government policy, is absurd.
Probably best not to bring it up. Might give Trump ideas.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Probably best not to bring it up. Might give Trump ideas.
The refusal to approach immigration as a complex system, is resulting is terrible policy. It's exactly as stupid as trying to 'fix' high costs via price controls. Unexpected counterintuitive results. We need data and analysis, not slogans.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The refusal to approach immigration as a complex system, is resulting is terrible policy. It's exactly as stupid as trying to 'fix' high costs via price controls. Unexpected counterintuitive results. We need data and analysis, not slogans.
A mysterious dip in bot-driven outrage and also in white-collar worker productivity. Lets party like it's 1999, folks!
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A mysterious dip in bot-driven outrage and also in white-collar worker productivity. Lets party like it's 1999, folks!
Trump is not a conservative. He’s a corrupt populist demagogue and his cult followers are radicals with no interest in conserving anything. They want to burn it all down.
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Trump is not a conservative. He’s a corrupt populist demagogue and his cult followers are radicals with no interest in conserving anything. They want to burn it all down.
The BBC has substantial reach and influence and so can never be apolitical. The best it can probably do is aiming to be nonpartisan. A difficult needle to thread, in a world becoming painfully polarised.
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The BBC has substantial reach and influence and so can never be apolitical. The best it can probably do is aiming to be nonpartisan. A difficult needle to thread, in a world becoming painfully polarised.
Most of my circle is a liberal bubble but I still personally know two men (both in 60s, working class) who are obsessed with Trump and think he’s sliced bread. Even when they don’t agree with him they love him. More like fans of a celeb than followers of a politician.
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Most of my circle is a liberal bubble but I still personally know two men (both in 60s, working class) who are obsessed with Trump and think he’s sliced bread. Even when they don’t agree with him they love him. More like fans of a celeb than followers of a politician.
They did keep slaves though. ‘People’ was understood to mean the tribe, not everyone. Same with murder.
October 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
They did keep slaves though. ‘People’ was understood to mean the tribe, not everyone. Same with murder.
al-Sharaa is a Saudi puppet. I read this as a shot across the bow from Saudi warning the US that they’re willing to shop around if US doesn’t keep Israel in line. The strike on Doha really rattled Gulf leaders.
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
al-Sharaa is a Saudi puppet. I read this as a shot across the bow from Saudi warning the US that they’re willing to shop around if US doesn’t keep Israel in line. The strike on Doha really rattled Gulf leaders.