I currently believe that Iran is about to act. Rumours are flying that they’ve threatened the US with “if the US intervenes then the US is a viable target”.

We will see. I’ve seen quite a few breaking crises now and it feels like history is about to happen.

It’s a very real problem. Hooliganish is one way to put it, what I tend to describe it as however is less football and more pub-reactionary. I feel it is connected to british drinking culture, which is unique among all the cultures of europe as we have huge binge drinking issues here. The problem is that these people imagine a specific kind of person as “working class”, they are a caricature though, created from the experiences of what a “hard” bloke seems like after a long night of binge drinking and getting turfed out into the streets, where shit always hits the fan between the drinking, those looking for fights, and the cops that always make things worse.

This experience shapes what these men imagine as the working class man of britain. But it’s just a caricature, a minority of dickheadish after pub/nightclub behaviour. This caricature though is something a lot of these boys and man-boys want to be though, they see it as “hard”, they like it.

It has its uses I will say. This type of person is significantly more likely to be up for a scrap, or up to doing a bit of crime. But it comes with the baggage of social/cultural behaviours perceived to be attached to being this “hard” man.

If this image were to change, if being pro-lgbt were to become attached to this image of the drunk man after pubs/nightclubs, then their caricature would change with it. They are pandering to this image and they would continue to pander to this image if it were to shift form a bit.

The US doesn’t do this, yet.

I have long thought that the “North Korea kills three generations of your family” talk was projection. It is what the capitalist authoritarians can imagine themselves doing if they ever have to put the boot down as hard as possible.

Pay attention to their false accusations because they are talking about things they have thought of reasons for doing.

It’s so incredibly divisive it’s ridiculous. They call trans people and capitalist pushing the trans on people the “divisive” ones but the reality is that these people are drawing this line, not the rest of the left.

It’s fucking ridiculous. If we can blast through this issue somehow we will have something incredibly powerful going but I don’t know how. It’s so hard headed. These are intelligent fucking people on every single other fucking thing but they are letting prejudices and heebie jeebies get the better of them on this one.

One thing I do have to say about it is that all the men that I meet that have this problem all feel like they’re men that have something to prove about masculinity, they are men that want to be MEN, the women on the other hand barely exist. There is a serious sexism issue going on.

I can feel another crisis-news session coming.

Feels like it might come in the next 48 hours, maybe up to 7 days? Definitely feeling it though.

CENTCOM commander General Kurilla is expected to go to Israel Thursday to coordinate around a possible attack on Israel by Iran and its proxies.

Though I unfortunately think this propaganda trick will work on the western public.

Not here in the UK.

There isn’t a single supporter of Palestine that currently exists that will change their position to one of support or acceptance of any Israel action against Rafah.

Anyone that accepts that wasn’t a supporter of Palestine to begin with.

Hamas are defeated

Fighting against Hamas will take time

They’re counting on the fact that it doesn’t matter if the film is bad because her recognisability will sell anything remotely similar after Barbie.

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It’s both. We are in a perpetual state of struggle where everything is in motion. The struggle itself creates the movement and the struggle itself creates the leader of the movement.

What is taking place is a consistent rolling through of different ideas and tactics that fail and become checked off in the “this tactic has failed” list of people’s minds. Once that has occurred they move onto the next. “Why did that idea fail? Because we had a weak leader? Ok lets get a strong leader.”

The next stage is determining why the strong leader fails. And what needs to be different in order for it to succeed. I can already pre-empt that: The strong leader fails because the left is divided. The general left will not collaborate with Galloway and his ilk because of his social conservatism. Corbyn has outright refused to work with him. The failure here is the division of the left, this has to be resolved but through what means? Through the collapse of the socially progressive left or the collapse of the socially conservative left. What answer people come to when asking themselves these questions will determine what tactic they pursue after him.

It’s a shame that Galloway has his socially conservative views, because he’s exactly the kind of brash personality that I and many others have been wanting for so long.

I really fucking vibe with this. If Galloway would drop his fucking reactionary shtick he would get the whole left to rally behind him and build a new thing.

I don’t fucking understand why we can’t have the best of both worlds, a hard leader that also encompasses the full breadth of the liberatory left. I don’t know why the choice is repeatedly either a soft leader who is correct or a hard leader who comes with reactionary bullshit baggage.

I think a lot of British leftists have had their brains completely melted by fighting for so long. The “radicals” are institutionalised in a way that fails to present any threat to the system.

No sign of a Corbyn party, only rumours but I don’t know what’s happening with that.

Greens are going to get a big protest vote and Galloway’s party might see significant numbers. We’ll see. Oddly I think despite Galloway being terf and genuinely using trans issues to gain popularity with reactionaries his effort is probably the best one long-term for trans people. I know that sounds weird but there’s way more hope with ideological competition than without.

One way or another Labour literally can’t lose it. But today’s Labour is just the Tories from 10 years ago.

NHS just announced the cancellation of all trans healthcare appointments for under 18s and it’s putting over 18s “under review”. Given the context I expect this to be a build up to trying to cancel all trans healthcare.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-englands-response-to-the-final-report-of-the-independent-review-of-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people/

7. NHS England has already announced that it is bringing forward its review of the adult service specifications, and we have written to the Chief Executives of the organisations that host the GDCs to inform them that this will be undertaken in the context of a broader, systemic review of the operation and delivery of the GDCs. NHS England will provide more detail very soon, but we envisage it will be informed by the deployment of external quality improvement experts into the services. In view of your advice about the need for caution in the initiation of medical interventions for young people under 18 years of age, our letter instructs the adult gender clinics to implement a pause on offering first appointments to young people below their 18th birthday.This letter also makes clear that NHS England expects full cooperation from the GDCs in the delivery of the data linkage study, on which we have corresponded separately.

The few times I went to a card shop for magic events, the venue started smelling half-way through. Some of these were even casual af events.

The problem with a lot of these things is that the venues are unsuitable for them.

If you put a lot of bodies in a room without ventilation and aircon for any length of time people heat up the space and smells start to get bad. Throw into that some of these people are stressed about their matches too.

Yes some people have bad hygiene but if you put 20 dudes in a card shop without aircon and ventilation it is ALWAYS going to smell.

Smash tournaments have essentially the same problem but it’s worse because playing is actually strenuous.

The game won’t be for everyone. It’s a PVE horde fighter that mimicks starship troopers in the sense that you mercilessly die a lot. Fun if accurately recreating Starship Troopers sounds fun to you. Devs are cool though.

Liberals do this shit over and over and over again.

I was just saying to someone the other day that the “Putin’s war” and “Putin’s bombs” bullshit that some so-called “russian leftists” are spewing is the language of regime-change. They don’t want to change capitalism, they just want to change Putin. I told my friend that they should absolutely not trust these “leftists” because their language is sus.

If you wanted to change the system, it would be “capitalism’s war” and “capitalism’s bombs”, because you know damn fucking well that it would still be happening under a different leader within this system.

The entire purpose of blaming the issue on the leader is to divert attention from the systemic problems it so that people think “oh everything is alright now” as soon as the leader is swapped out. Complete and utter bullshit.

That would definitely be a safer bit of satire but I’m convinced there’s a ukraine element going on here.

I was looking at Sweden’s Left Party and they have seats and an anti-nato position, so it tracks that there could be a whole studio with this mindset.

I’m quite certain these people are very left of lib.

Why? Google “unprovoked invasion” and it’s page after page of Ukraine shit, this language has practically been a meme surrounding the ukraine war, and the left has criticised it very heavily: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/11/gfgh-m11.html

If the devs are socialist-leaning then it tracks. Put it this way they also satirise the use of “authoritarian” to describe socialists in the game, which means they’re definitely left of lib.

Yandex wants me to do a captcha every single time because I have a VPN enabled.

This really fucks me off because their results are generally good