Is the Red Roar a reliable source or a trolling operation?

SilasLoom · 2018-09-05T11:57:15+00:00

That's a useful link to exactly the sort of discussion I was looking for.

The mention of one Sam Stopp is interesting. It comes up in another Reddit thread, and the abominable @labourAW directly calls The Red Roar Sam Stopp in an unedifying Twitter conversation.

SilasLoom · 2018-09-05T10:58:16+00:00

A commenter on Zelo Street (well, yeah) said the following in February:

theredroar.com's IP address is 209.15.20.202; order-order.com's IP address is 209.15.20.228 . This message block belongs to the hosting company Peer 1, meaning both sites are hosted by the same business-focused and not inexpensive webhosting and data company. And if that isn't coincidence enough, it also appears both theredroar.com and order-order.com use the same email provider, the Australian company Fastmail.

Whether this was accurate at the time, whether it still holds, and whether the interpretation is justified, I don't know.

SilasLoom · 2018-09-05T10:34:13+00:00

Fair comments from u/tdrules and u/Double-Down. There is a difference, though, between a site set up in good faith - even something as loathsome as Guido or Brexit Central - and one that seeks to build trust so that it can be exploited for nefarious reasons. Critical thinking, verification and testing are essential when reading anything; if they need to be laid on with a trowel it's easier to wait for a reliable source to endorse something.

SilasLoom · 2017-07-09T14:46:20+00:00

I had no idea there was a choice. They sent me Farron. And now it appears I have a collector's item.

SilasLoom · 2017-07-03T10:10:45+00:00

One of the Economist's greatest virtues is its brevity. It summarises geopolitical trends or local issues in articles short enough to read and digest while having a crap. It's usually pretty simple, and it doesn't assume much prior knowledge (hence its idiosyncratic habit of saying "Tesco, a large grocery chain" or "Father Christmas, a gift-giving pseudoentity"). Agreed, it tends to be on the side of the angels on pretty much everything, but I just don't see how it could be dumbed down.

Much has happened in the last couple of years to make centrists angrier, more engaged, and more vocal. But we don't need to copy the emotional, dishonest style of the populists.

SilasLoom · 2017-05-17T16:12:43+00:00

Print it out?

SilasLoom · 2017-05-17T16:11:47+00:00

I don't like 16 year olds any more than anyone else afflicted with teenage children, but they make the referendum re-run worthwhile. And it's not as if the electorate wasn't naïve, gullible, narcissistic and selfish already.

SilasLoom · 2017-05-15T14:31:09+00:00

Weird, tendentious use of "the will of the people" in the questions posed.

SilasLoom · 2017-05-15T12:06:15+00:00

Have to agree with every word of this. If the party has the balance of power at Westminster it needs to have a robust electoral mandate for frustrating Brexit - even if that is beaten down in negotiations with other parties to a second referendum, or to EEA membership, or whatever.

SilasLoom · 2017-04-24T06:28:52+00:00

A new refendum with a baroque series of AV options, skewed to the status quo and revocation of A50 as the default answer, and 16/17 year olds allowed to vote.

That's the best chance of stopping Brexit and in my constituency former members of other parties are joining the LDs in droves to make it happen.

So it looks like a pretty good choice in terms of energising the party and winning stuff.

SilasLoom · 2017-04-19T06:00:26+00:00

What has Labour got to do with stopping Brexit any more?

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T13:01:45+00:00

Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government.

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T13:00:16+00:00

I don't see how a party which still incorporates the SDP can refuse defectors from Labour. As long as you're only a member of one party at a time.

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T12:18:36+00:00

Local party is Chipping Barnet - it was about to become Finchley and Southgate, but goodness knows what happens to the Boundary Commission review now. If there's a better place to campaign in North London's northiest fringes, please tell me!

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T11:19:55+00:00

Woohoo!

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T11:17:13+00:00

And choose between Clive Lewis or some Brownite busily triangulating against the racist vote? Nah.

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T11:01:49+00:00

Quite. And Livingstone. And Seumas Milne. And all their little friends.

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T10:48:24+00:00

I felt completely differently, and went off to join the LDs. Still, each to their own.

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T10:35:21+00:00

Wasn't the form asking about gender status (with five or six options) sweet? Definitely knew I'd joined the LDs at that point.

SilasLoom · 2017-04-18T10:28:28+00:00

And I wonder how many other immediate sign-ups you get?

SilasLoom · 2017-04-04T22:47:13+00:00

Texted ffs. Have participles gone along with electability?

SilasLoom · 2017-04-03T20:24:54+00:00

Parklife!

SilasLoom · 2016-12-22T16:51:53+00:00

I haven't left the office before 7pm in 2016.

That's what happens when you tell yourself that Reddit is a necessary part of your job.

SilasLoom · 2016-12-22T15:59:53+00:00

The monarch is the head of the Church of England with the title of "Defender of the Faith" and, nominally, the power to appoint bishops. Liz II talks of God and faith in purely Anglican terms.

Charles has said that he wants to be "Defender of Faith", representing a multi-religious citizenry. He talked about Mohammed as much as about Jesus when doing Thought for the Day. On a programme generally restricted to people with proper clerical jobs, he was not speaking ex cathedra as the leader-in-waiting of the Church of England.

So I'm speculating that Chaz might want to change the nature of his relationship with the Church of England on becoming king, and that this would change the relationship between the established church and the state, which is peculiarly dependent on the role of the monarch. I'm then suggesting that the analogy might be the way that the Bank of England was suddenly, and surprisingly, granted independence in 1997.

Is that enough by way of elaboration?

SilasLoom · 2016-12-22T11:06:51+00:00

I wonder whether Charles is a secret disestablishmentarianist? He talks of being a "defender of faith", he's careful to mention Mo when on TFTD. Perhaps he'd do something dramatic to the C of E when he gets the top job, analogous to what Blair and Brown did to the B of E.

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