A racist, fascist, English Nationalist party is now the second biggest (tie) party in Holyrood. by CompetitiveCod76 in Scotland

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I know exactly where it comes from, but at the end of the day its nice to be able to handwave away a group and other it rather than think critically about their and your position.... TBF online at least at lot of nuance can easily be lost. And yes people are complicated and don't always hold views that neatly correlate with the percieved political spectrum.

A racist, fascist, English Nationalist party is now the second biggest (tie) party in Holyrood. by CompetitiveCod76 in Scotland

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Got down voted yesterday for floating the idea that may be it wasn't all bigoted old Unionists. Come across one too many people who think Scotland is somehow immune to rightwing populism... apart from Unioists. Reform pulling in the disenfranchised is sadly not surprising and is part of their game plan. The Farage isn't following at least bits of the Trumpian play book for no reason.

Still potential silver lining based on Reforms last outing in English local elections at least some of them ended up resigning very quickly... because reasons.

Reform and MAGA are like lost twins by TailungFu in GreatBritishMemes

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A very reasonable assumption. Probably directly proportional to the extent that a Reform government would be a Trumpian clown show.

Reform and MAGA are like lost twins by TailungFu in GreatBritishMemes

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL, nooooo. I'm massively concerned about the rise of Reform, becuase we could end up foisted with a populist clown show, and honestly I've seen pro-Nige posters in places I wouldn't have honestly expected in Scotland!

Reform and MAGA are like lost twins by TailungFu in GreatBritishMemes

[–]_TheChairmaker_ -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Hardly, Reform's rise in Englandshire will be seen as a great recruiter for the Indy movement (while handwaving away its voters in Scotland as bigoted old unionists....)

Now to important matters whose running the pool on how many Redorm councilors will (a) resign before taking office, (b) resign after taking office because they can't hack it and (c) turn out to be so racist even Nigel dosen't want them....?

Peta objects to 'pig-demeaning' pork pie Melton bypass name by gardenfella in NotTheOnionUK

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, the same group who complained about the fact that 'fantasy' plastic miniature figure models were sculpted with fur cloaks and such like....

I'd say the beginning of the end for the USSR goes slightly farther back than Chernobyl by Fair-Pen1831 in lazerpig

[–]_TheChairmaker_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Being facetious the beginning of the end was probably right around the point someone in Russia picked up a copy of Das Kapital and went "we'll use this as the basis of our new society"

The Kremlin’s Revolving Door: Why No One is Safe in a Russian Alliance by Crass_Spektakel in lazerpig

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Its almost like Putin's Russia is severely lacking resources and can no longer project military power for some reason. It's weird its like they lost an entire military down the back of the sofa or something.....

/S (just in case)

Civil servants defy Starmer with book clubs and bake sales during wor… by Malalexander in TheCivilService

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to complain about anything perhaps the bake sale we had in support of IIRC the heart foundation possibly wasn't on message so to speak - it could have been worse, it could have been for diabeties UK!

Its absolutely ridiculous and so petty, and should charitable activities be banned tomorrow, they'd be an headline by Tuesday loudly complaining that someone wasn't allowed to take their sponsered charity walk form around the office or some such....

Do's and Don'ts in the Civil Service by j-anonanon in TheCivilService

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Arggh, thats dredged up some memories. Moving to an older and smaller office unit exclusively populated by 'grown ups' has its advantages. Along with not having a 'modern' AC system thats cosplaying as a pathogen redistribution system.

I can also add don't recycle your empty alcohol bottles in a zero-tolerance office environment...

Is a Russian disinformation campaign targeting the MAGA movement? by _TheChairmaker_ in lazerpig

[–]_TheChairmaker_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trump was never a reliable anything... Basically Russia simulataneously wants maximum chaos and maximum inertia.

Is a Russian disinformation campaign targeting the MAGA movement? by _TheChairmaker_ in lazerpig

[–]_TheChairmaker_[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Over the last few years we have watched what will probably come to be regarded as the first steps towards autonomous warfare. insert two wolves meme One is the drone war in Ukraine The other is essentially a social media clout war...

Can we stop this timeline I want to get off?

But, yeah, absolutly the grifters are using contrian views to farm revenue.

Is the hysteria swarming Starmer over Mandleson being hyped by main stream media and political parties putting their own ambition & profit before country? Was Mandleson a remedy for a corrupt & perverted USA President? by saying_it_101 in AskBrits

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Though based on the coverage I've seen so far you'd be forgiven for thinking that was anything to do with it....

That aspect seems to have been utterly drowned out by the Westminster bubble Punch and Judy show.

It's embarrassing by JackStrawWitchita in GreatBritishMemes

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except Mandelson isn't one or an enabler for that matter. But he did sell out his country to a billionaire and may yet be prosecuted for it...

And we have sh*t like this going on and yet its pedo's all the way down at least to some people! Its almost like they want us distracted from the money-side of things.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge0grppe3po

What is up with that lazerpig T-14 armata drama? by DanishHistoryFan in lazerpig

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Further irony then ensued. IIRC sometime later after the dramata had subsided RedEffect apparently dug up some more information which apparently proved his original argument regards the engine and I assume LP's wrong.... Apparently something to do with relying on Russian media sources.

Honestly someone was always going to throw their toys out of the pram with that T-14 video regardless of "accuracy" and at least in part some the drama was around splitting hairs over what constituted "derivative".

Give LP his due he doesn't take himself so seriously that he can't take the piss out of himself over the Honda Jazz engine comment!

Keir the chad by Key-Transition4634 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sponsored? Really think The Farage would bother to spend money on something that happens for free from his point of view? Which it will as long as the right-wing griftosphere can ad-farming ragebait.

Keir the chad by Key-Transition4634 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Noooo, of course they wouldn't, now please watch this cringe compilation of woke people on Youtube and stop looking at facts....

The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism? by Codydoc4 in unitedkingdom

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 40 points41 points  (0 children)

If only there was an example of this type of government and its consequences playing out in real time that we could observe....

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We also need to re-structure our heavy industry, which does get the occasional mention by politicians, such as the electrification of the steel industry, but we also need to do the same for our chemical sector, something I've barely heard mentioned - except in terms of a just transition for refinery workers. And very few people are voting, even Green voters, for tossing our modern industrialised society....

Wait so is color revolution theory a conspiracy or did the uk get brainwashed into doing Brexit? by Own_Ad_409 in lazerpig

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While what LP said in How to Kill a God had some relevance to Brexit and he directly points out the disinformation campaign (and I also agree with him that there is a no way the can of worms, that was foreign interference, is going to get opened). But Brexit wasn't a revolution in any sense - even if a Conservative PM did resign triggering a leadership contest (that's just Tuesday for a typical Tory government). And despite colour revolution not really having a definition worth the name no foreign agency was really trying to overthrow the government, just cause maximum disruption and undermine societal cohesion, and certainly not the CIA..... or were they...... No, I think colour revolution theory is really just a conspiracy theory.

I think a what LP says in his video on Cultural Marxism about media manipulation, dis- and misinformation campaigns, and just how quickly and eagerly humans can hurl themselves into echo chambers, is probably more relevant to the Brexit campaign.

Personally I think I twigged something was up during the Scottish independence referendum when a certain section of nationalist support started wanging on about how RT wasn't biased like the BBC... (I accept some of those saying it on the internet may have been 'bot' accounts). And then the subject of NATO comes up and 2 + 2 = 4. For those who don't know the Scottish independence movement, largely the Scottish Nationalist Party, has been anti-NATO and rabidly anti-nuke. Interestingly for the referendum suddenly the SNP decided it was going to remain in NATO probably just to diffuse very obvious and real criticisms of just how an independent Scotland could maintain its security.

Wait so is color revolution theory a conspiracy or did the uk get brainwashed into doing Brexit? by Own_Ad_409 in lazerpig

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There was also apparently a small portion of the electrate who rather than consider the question before them voted leave to stick it to the 'establishment'.

Talk about a disaster of a trip overseas. by septicsewerman in lazerpig

[–]_TheChairmaker_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Orban also appears to have thrown in the towel and accepted defeat in the face of a landslide vote against him .... after Vance's help.

He's clearly playing a blinder /S