I'm pretty sure that they all know it's intended as satire. They just think the fash look cool, so they don't care.

I think that might be a reasonable calculation tbh. It's obviously not 1-1 but in many ways he's our Trump, and MAGA people have proven to be almost infinitely malleable depending on what the moment demands of them.

If The NVP has to go in and wins this game, as a Bears fan I'll be delighted. Hopefully Allen is ok though.

More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!

Genuinely puzzled as to what Mandelson would have to do to no longer be treated as a prime source of political wisdom by the BBC, esp as he doesn’t seem to be prepared to apologise or accept responsibility

Lmao. Stay on there if you like, but please don't try to frame it as a brave bit of activism.

It seems that some (important) people think it is, or are at least saying as much:

I'd be surprised. I imagine you'd be incinerating your career and possibly your whole life if you got caught.

It's awful, and it's also odd that it's been leaked because it seems like that can only have been done by ICE and that must mean they think it's exculpatory.

It turns out this not even entirely true, they've just made it 'slightly' more difficult for free users to access this feature: www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

If Ofcom doesn't see him explicitly monetising the ability to access the harassment/CSAM tool and immediately take action then I don't know what they're for.