The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window
@broken-overton.bsky.social
Ex-Labour voter, no more after they became the third cheek of the fascist right uniparty. "no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Labour party"
The "oxy" part is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, too.
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The "oxy" part is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, too.
I'm sorry, I seem to have repeated your point. I didn't see it because Bluesky decided to hide it from me for some reason. Although it's not Twitter, it does have some problematic automoderation about what it thinks people deserve to see.
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm sorry, I seem to have repeated your point. I didn't see it because Bluesky decided to hide it from me for some reason. Although it's not Twitter, it does have some problematic automoderation about what it thinks people deserve to see.
I'm also sure when it started saying it was MechaHitler that this was a perfectly expected and normal thing, happens all the time.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm also sure when it started saying it was MechaHitler that this was a perfectly expected and normal thing, happens all the time.
While I believe chronic diseases that affect the circulatory system are terrible and cost millions of lives every year, they will have one upside.
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
While I believe chronic diseases that affect the circulatory system are terrible and cost millions of lives every year, they will have one upside.
I know enough people from the US to not believe this, incidentally. However, a perfect example of the perception of this stereotype (from the British perspective, at least) is found in old James Bond movies, in the form of the sheriff J W Pepper.
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I know enough people from the US to not believe this, incidentally. However, a perfect example of the perception of this stereotype (from the British perspective, at least) is found in old James Bond movies, in the form of the sheriff J W Pepper.
Please leave the French out of this. The French, for the most part, tend to have taste. Trump unfortunately epitomises all the most negative stereotypes of Americans - loud, brash, tasteless, no sense of style of class - American Tackiness, writ large.
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Please leave the French out of this. The French, for the most part, tend to have taste. Trump unfortunately epitomises all the most negative stereotypes of Americans - loud, brash, tasteless, no sense of style of class - American Tackiness, writ large.
Presumably Keir Starmer will be stepping up with a response any second now.... annnnny second. Hello? Anyone there?
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Presumably Keir Starmer will be stepping up with a response any second now.... annnnny second. Hello? Anyone there?
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, Brexit happened. Where cheap goods at the store were rejected for a fever dream of rose tinted British Empire and xenophobia. Again, you are treating people like perfectly rational actors in a economic system, like simple numbers for you to add up, and not as people.
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, Brexit happened. Where cheap goods at the store were rejected for a fever dream of rose tinted British Empire and xenophobia. Again, you are treating people like perfectly rational actors in a economic system, like simple numbers for you to add up, and not as people.
Bit of an unfair advantage, many will already be familiar with it.
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Bit of an unfair advantage, many will already be familiar with it.
Indeed, you only have to look to the US and the terrible things going on there to realise there is no bottom in the direction they are headed.
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Indeed, you only have to look to the US and the terrible things going on there to realise there is no bottom in the direction they are headed.
You've gone from "someone needs to deal with it" to "ok it was dealt with but it should never have happened in the first place" You're unserious. Goodbye.
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You've gone from "someone needs to deal with it" to "ok it was dealt with but it should never have happened in the first place" You're unserious. Goodbye.
Except US inflation was bought down before the election, and remained relatively stable before and since, so what you're saying sounds somewhat incorrect.
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Except US inflation was bought down before the election, and remained relatively stable before and since, so what you're saying sounds somewhat incorrect.
Who needs to be smart? What was demanded was an emotionally satisfying response.
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Who needs to be smart? What was demanded was an emotionally satisfying response.
Well, given that a lot of them seem happier in the US even though food price inflation is higher, I'd guess it's more about perception than reality, and that if we've learnt anything, it's that there are an awful lot of non-rational actors out there.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Well, given that a lot of them seem happier in the US even though food price inflation is higher, I'd guess it's more about perception than reality, and that if we've learnt anything, it's that there are an awful lot of non-rational actors out there.
There's the parallel - both the democrats and Labour thought by being good little "sensible centrists", by keeping the same old neoliberal cycle ticking over where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, that people would somehow be happy with that.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
There's the parallel - both the democrats and Labour thought by being good little "sensible centrists", by keeping the same old neoliberal cycle ticking over where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, that people would somehow be happy with that.
I see many of us are living in the alternative reality where Biden and not Harris ran. And no, the democrats did not lose by spending too much, they lost by being too staid; they did not seek justice or to right any wrongs, they just went along like nothing was wrong, and now it is too late.
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I see many of us are living in the alternative reality where Biden and not Harris ran. And no, the democrats did not lose by spending too much, they lost by being too staid; they did not seek justice or to right any wrongs, they just went along like nothing was wrong, and now it is too late.
Cartoon Villians were never all that evil, and lulled us all into a false sense of security, misleading us as to what evil was and meant.
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Cartoon Villians were never all that evil, and lulled us all into a false sense of security, misleading us as to what evil was and meant.
To wit, their latest extraterritorial corker is "blocking the UK isn't enough to comply with the Online Safety Act" which I'd say borders on insanity.
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
To wit, their latest extraterritorial corker is "blocking the UK isn't enough to comply with the Online Safety Act" which I'd say borders on insanity.
GBNews continue to be the most complained about and most flagrantly rule-breaking network on the air. I don't recall similar qualms over banning RT for far lesser transgressions, but then Ofcom has long been politically captured and is following an insane path right now.
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
GBNews continue to be the most complained about and most flagrantly rule-breaking network on the air. I don't recall similar qualms over banning RT for far lesser transgressions, but then Ofcom has long been politically captured and is following an insane path right now.
Two bits of wet cardboard with beef sounds like any archetypical British railway sandwich, so the comparison is satisfying on several levels.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Two bits of wet cardboard with beef sounds like any archetypical British railway sandwich, so the comparison is satisfying on several levels.
Ejected before she could do as much harm as her continued presence would have caused doesn't have the same ring to it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Ejected before she could do as much harm as her continued presence would have caused doesn't have the same ring to it.
I remember when she falsely claimed that a Labour activist had punched a Tory staffer, and nothing happened. She should have been fired on the spot.
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I remember when she falsely claimed that a Labour activist had punched a Tory staffer, and nothing happened. She should have been fired on the spot.
Labour plans to make the UK a digital backwater.
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Labour plans to make the UK a digital backwater.