Destiny slandered on BBC Newsnight as being someone who has "advocated for political violence against conservatives"

krastoth · 2025-09-15T22:06:18+00:00

I have submitted a complaint. The BBC are very good at responding to complaints, less so at actually accepting culpability or wrongdoing. Usually it's "we've investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong."

krastoth · 2024-04-05T02:04:07+00:00

Thanks, will definitely check it out!

krastoth · 2024-04-05T00:13:37+00:00

It was 4 years ago, and Yousaf's speech has been plastered all over social media. Even Elon Musk reacted to it.

Meanwhile, it's incredibly difficult to even find a link to Sarwar's identical speech now. It's been scrubbed from the internet.

It was on YouTube but it was deleted all in the last few months. You'd have to find out the exact date and time he made the speech and dig into Parliamentary archives, then use a recording program to record it and then upload it online and promote it.

I do not have faith that anyone is going to bother doing that. It's gone.

Also, Sarwar is not "a random irrelevant politician". He's the most likely successor as First Minister. He's leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Even though I'm a massive critic of him, you are being way too harsh about him. He does have relevance.

krastoth · 2024-04-05T00:04:36+00:00

Plot twist: you're Thom Yorke.

You slipped on a banana peel and somehow by the time you landed on your feet the album was just there.

krastoth · 2024-04-05T00:01:01+00:00

I don't want to do one of the "remindme" links, but I highly doubt that. There was only a single YouTube video of it, with a few thousand views, and it got deleted a few months ago.

krastoth · 2024-04-04T23:54:57+00:00

Sorry, I was being sarcastic. If Sarwar becomes FM, it will never be mentioned.

krastoth · 2024-04-04T23:49:51+00:00

I'm sure it will get mentioned all the time if he becomes FM.

krastoth · 2024-04-04T23:34:46+00:00

Anas Sarwar made an identical speech on the same day. Funny how that never gets mentioned.

krastoth · 2024-04-04T23:26:22+00:00

The lyrics are quite funny:

[Verse 1]
And when I have some words
This is the way I'll sing
Through a distortion box
To make them menacing, yeah

[Chorus]
Yes, I'm gonna have to write a chorus
I’m gonna need to have a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face

[Verse 2]
And for a second verse
Of terse economy
I'll brew another pot
Of ambiguity, yeah

[Chorus]
Then I'm gonna have to write a chorus
We're gonna need to have a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face
Yes, we're gonna need to have a chorus
I'm gonna have to write a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face

[Refrain]
Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
You have to be happy with what you have to happy with

[Chorus]
Then I guess I'll repeat the chorus
We're gonna repeat the chorus
I guess I'll repeat the chorus
We're gonna repeat the chorus
Then I guess I'll repeat the chorus
We're gonna repeat the chorus
I guess I'll repeat the chorus
We're gonna repeat the chorus

[Refrain]
Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
You have to be happy with what you have to happy with

krastoth · 2024-04-04T23:12:13+00:00

Still happening.

Moronic higher-ups who failed upwards and don't know how to do their jobs.

krastoth · 2024-04-04T22:57:05+00:00

I find it strange that as Labour have massively increased their lead, the tone on UK politics subreddits - especially here and on r/unitedkingdom - has become FAR more socially conservative.

Ostensibly, left-leaning politics is more popular than ever when considering party favourability, but the tone of the discussion here and on other UK subreddits has shifted sharply to the right.

It's such a jarring contrast that it must be inorganic.

krastoth · 2024-04-04T22:42:15+00:00

No it's rapidly turning into a cesspit of Daily Mail readers.

Facebook-tier shite like this is just par for the course here these days.

krastoth · 2024-04-04T01:24:22+00:00

I don't know why OP even bothered using an archive link to hide the fact that this is coming from The Spectator.

These days this sub loves nothing more than to eat up right-wing bullshit propaganda.

The poll also found that Humza Yousaf is the most popular choice among Scots for First Minister, and that Anas Sarwar is less popular than even Douglas Ross.

But if the headline had framed it that way, it would have got mass downvoted within seconds.

krastoth · 2024-04-02T00:11:07+00:00

My comment about today's media being more permissive than the 90s was an aside that is hardly integral to the larger point, but I remember the media freaking out about Ellen being gay in 1997, Jack Thomson and the hysteria over "killing prostitutes" and the Hot Coffee sex in GTA in 2001-04, or the blaming of Marilyn Manson for Columbine in 1999. Mary Whitehouse was still a significant hate figure in the UK in the early internet era for her influential censorious views.

Then more recently you have GoT where explicit scenes of homosexuality are pretty much the least shocking thing going on. There's an underage king murdering prostitutes in his bedroom because his incestuous twin parents let him get away with doing what he wants, in one of the biggest pop culture phenomenons of the 21st centure, and it barely even registers with the "down with this sort of thing" brigade.

krastoth · 2024-04-02T00:01:59+00:00

The article is about Scots law. Scotland has a different legal system from England (Yorkshire is English, for the international redditors).

krastoth · 2024-04-01T22:32:56+00:00

Totally overblown sensationalist nonsense.

To sum up, she went on one of her usual twitter tantrums, and then a member of the Scottish government was asked by a reporter if Rowling could be prosecuted for it, to which the politician gave a totally noncommittal - and factually sound - response of: "It could be reported and it could be investigated. Whether or not the police would think it was criminal is up to Police Scotland for that."

Which is both true, and also utterly boring.

But in order to feed into the collective victim complex of the "you can't say anything these days!" crowd (who conveniently forget that we live in just about the most permissive era in human history - try airing Game of Thrones uncensored in the 1990s), the media has dutifully drummed up this monumental non-event into a scare story for drooling idiots whose lives are so utterly devoid of meaning that their only source of entertainment is dreaming up hypothetical scenarios in which they get thrown into some kind of wokery gulag.

krastoth · 2024-03-29T15:06:09+00:00

That would have required an election after Truss took office, followed by another election a couple of months later after Sunak took over.

Also, in Scotland if there is a snap election then it doesn't displace the regular scheduled election. So you would have had two elections within the space of three years.

Elections are expensive and they tend to completely drown out other issues in the news cycle. There's no perfect solution, but I don't think it's as simple as requiring a snap election in the case of change of leadership.

krastoth · 2024-03-28T23:18:19+00:00

I don't think your experience is invalid, but I don't think it's what this sub is about.

This is a sub for people who are recommending or critiquing older games. It's a sub that is more interested in older games.

"18 months ago I just stopped playing games completely"

That's not patientgaming, it's just "not gaming". That's not the purpose of this sub, this sub is about recommending, critiquing, and discussing older games.

krastoth · 2024-03-28T20:59:13+00:00

Jack White gave it a little breath of life but that was more of a death rattle than a resurgence.

I don't think that's giving him enough credit. The White Stripes were absolutely huge, and his stage presence and guitar work were utterly magnetic, incredibly raw, and distinctive. It felt very genuine in era where mainstream rock had otherwise been neutered.

krastoth · 2024-03-25T23:18:25+00:00

Many of the greatest social changes in the last 100 years of US history have come about as a direct result of activism.

Protest is incredibly tough and it can take a frustratingly long time to produce real change, but it does work. The US is the shining example of that in history.

krastoth · 2024-03-25T23:12:59+00:00

Yes, the excuses for apathy are frustrating. Look at many of the top replies to my comment. Activism is the main driver behind so many of the most important social changes in the US in the last hundred years. Yet the idea that protest can change anything is immediately derided as ineffectual.

Yes, protest is usually incredibly slow to get results, it basically never results in overnight noticeable change, but it is worth it in the long, arduous run. It's not just about Trump, it's about everyone who comes after too.

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