Are you allowed to post like this on blue sky?

the world is a darker place. there's no room for jovially eating hot curry off of an extended fork anymore

We like to poppy
We like, we like to poppy

It was so insulting to be accused of antisemitism for not wanting violent hooligans to come trash a city centre.

A whole class of politicians and journalists utterly afraid of saying even the blatant truth.

yeah i think that's the idea isn't it. just shut off all attempts at any other line of thought as impossible

cheers mate

This is great, it’s a difficult phenomenon to describe articulately (I certainly can’t) but I hope more people start talking about it like this.

"Is it different from any given government pretending privatisation works, or that nationalisation simply cannot?"

Not really different, no. When Thatcher said "there is no alternative" the purpose was to stop us thinking about alternatives.

Just really bizarre pretending and still for some reason being kept up even now. Very funny that essentially Labour have found themselves essentially saying the police got it wrong even though they can't explain out loud why that's the case

I have to say that though because I was actually reading bell hooks this year

I think a lot of the new modern forms of neuroses we have are coming about from thinking we’re all trapped in a panopticon. The idea that very normal things like relationships or reading is performative or embarrassing comes from an implicit belief that you’re only value is how you’re seen by others

The latter unfortunately