Light Relief

This is genuine apparently. Fuck me :crazy_face:

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Next UK gov could well be full of conspiracy driven fuckwits by the look of it. Reform allegedly lowered vetting standards (did they ever have any?) to take just about anyone

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“Our homes are full of EMF radiation”?

Unbelievable.

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Reform? They’re here.

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So unbelievable

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That genuinely made me chortle :+1:

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“Scan your items or get stop and searched like a criminal…”

Erm, yes?

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I love how Self Checkout made their list of crimes, no parking wardens or poo bags in trees though?

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The funniest/tragic thing about these types (predominantly, but not exclusively) right wing, is up until recently they believed every bit of nonsense fed to them unquestionably.

You can’t lose critical thinking if you never had any to begin with. It’s quite frightening how so many are so easily manipulated, despite the amount of genuine research and knowledge freely available on the same device they use to rant on Facebook.

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Ecstasy Mutha Fucker? I’m in!

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Is this signed off

Danny Rampling (sovereign being)

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am not in the UK but genuinely curious. how often do any of you hear people saying this in real life, at work, or family or whatever? I mean the real wacko stuff? Or are there Ramplings hanging around in every shopping mall in army combat gear?

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It does seem mostly comfined to social media as far as I can tell.
Maybe those type of people only share their views in real life with people they know will agree with them though. Worrying if they’re parents mind.

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I’ve had a few from when I was still working as an electrician. Covid really brought them out in the open. I remember a few over the years regarding 9/11. The same ones went full moron with social media and covid. There was a guy who worked security at the university I worked at and the level of bawbaggery was equally hilarious and frightening. He was 100% antivac, yet didn’t actually know even the basics of vaccines. He was convinced it was a global plot to put chips into the population, despite the fact he used a smart phone to post constantly on social media, with all his data given away gratis :joy:

His big rabbit out the hat was the fact that scientists had been working on COVID related vaccines for years and it suddenly came to fruition, out of nowhere - obviously a massive global conspiracy, if you’re hard of thinking, have zero critical thinking skills and have had your head firmly up your ringpiece for decades.

All mainstream media were in on it and have been lying to us and have their own agendas. Fuck my boots, can so many people be this gullible?
I remember seeing a meme that these people were like house cats, cut about thinking they’ve sussed the world yet have zero understanding of the world in which they live in. Like teenagers who suddenly discover not everyone is telling you the truth, but are bald and in there mid 50’s and have kids.

I truly believe social media is a massive step back in human evolution and intelligence. Way beyond anything the worst actors in history could ever have imagined or dreamed of.

Apart from a couple of zoomers on that job and now working in social and health care, and no social media, I come across next to nothing that is blowing up on social media.

I am a leftist and democracy is the most important part of our political system and it’s being eroded day by day by arseholes that make the likes of the Murdochs et al like an anachronistic doddering shit baddie from a straight to VHS b- movie.

And a lot of my fellow leftists are complicit in the shitshow we’re headed to. The economy is everything is a true as when Clinton the twat uttered it. Instead of fighting bullshit culture wars pushed through social media, the project of extending democracy to the most important part of our lives, the economy, is further away than it’s ever been.

The left and centre left are still defending the status quo, flying EU flags ffs, only offering criticism of how much a cunt Trump is (he is), but zero self awareness of how a Trump presidency could happen - twice. It’s nice and comforting to just see every remainer as a racist xenophobe rather than any analyst of why so many voted to leave.

Basically defending an economic philosophy that started with Thatcher, has failed in pretty much every area it’s been applied, constantly refuted by reality, fuck, even some of the foundational mathematics has been proven to be completely false. It projected itself as a hard science, yet completely ignores energy and some of the most fundamental theories of physics, like the laws of thermodynamics.

Is it really any wonder people are willing to vote for complete charlatans like Reform, or MAGA?
And to the right’s credit, they have at least seen the political void and use social media and the like to convert/radicalise the mass of people (a huge chunk of the working class that are either ignored or looked down on by the left)

It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. Politics by social media has turned people into tribal idiots who, despite vast amounts of accumulated human knowledge being readily accessible for the first time in history, into rubes. And the real power is in the hands of handful of people with the wealth above most nations.

I feel sorry for people who need social media as part of their job and careers, and understand it’s easy for me to rant away, but, if possible, delete them all, reconnect with real people in your local communities, get involved in local politics and issues, do something that actually adds positivity to your lives and others. Volunteer and become active in areas you can actually make a difference and help connect rather than divide or become apathetic.

It’s too fucking easy to just be cynical and it’s a cop out. There’s hundreds of charities and organisations that are making a real difference in people’s lives - join up. I’m biased, but anyone Glasgow based you have the amazing Positive Action in Housing - just a bunch of brilliant human beings doing good shit. Drug and alcohol addiction services. All these places need good people and are literally life changing.

There’s a lot of good humans on this forum with skills and knowledge - music (and art in general) being one of the greatest unifiers and a lack of a creative outlet for young people is a disgrace and leads to an unfulfilled life.

Apologies for the rant and going off topic, but I am frustrated by a lot of the current left. The right are cunts, always have been, but the left are huge part of the problem. It’s a lot performative bullshit with zero knowledge of the realities.
At my son’s graduation there were about 4/5 pro Palestinian ‘protests’ - every one a white middle class trying to be edgy. About 70% of the graduates were non white, from all over the world (and a large majority were women) and it was just a few male Brits doing the protests.

I’ve grown up in a very pro Palestinian family, through my mum who’s worked with Amnesty, in advocating for Palestinian prisoners since before I was born. We have a very close family friend from Gaza who got away and studied in Edinburgh, mainly to get away from Hamas. Half her family are now dead since October 23. The fact you have these morons supporting or excusing Hamas/Hezbollah is some seriously fucked up logic - I guess the innocent Syrians barrel bombed by Hezbollah are not worthy of outrage or protest.

This is not to excuse the actions and violence of the Israeli state

This needs to be stated because otherwise, in the tribal Star Wars morality, you get hysterical responses from some peace activists

I dislike having any kind of rant on here. This is one of the only sites I frequent and it’s a place of amazing people, generous in their knowledge and just good fucking eggs.

Ignore the nonsense, build community, do things you’ll look back at the end of your life and be proud and have made some positive difference. Real change starts from the things in front of you, when you turn of the noise.

Life is short and now working daily with people in serious health situations I’ve been totally devastated by the news of Keith McIvor and his brain tumour. He’s not only been an a mazing musical inspiration for me (and countless others) but just as much for his humanity and activism.

Love and peace and resistance :heart::heart::heart:

Also not Light Relief at all :slightly_frowning_face:

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I can’t remember who said it: conspiracy theory people get the feelings right but the facts wrong.

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I know a couple. Mates who smoked too much weed and ended up in internet rabbit holes. Especially through Covid with nothing else to do. It’s the usual range of conspiracies. I also know someone who keeps talking about “2030” and how mysterious groups are controlling the world and there will be some sort of climax to it in 2030. I’m still not clear what this is. I’m not sure he is.

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Yeah, can’t recall either. I mean pretty much every conspiracy has some part of truth to it. The fact that the big circulation newspapers are/were owned by wealthy individuals with agendas is as old as newspapers. But these mass produced intellectual vacuums act like this is some new uncovered fact, rather than what most people used to do in using critical thinking and acknowledging they all have an agenda

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Yes, there is a shadowy cabal controlling everything. No, they’re not lizards (or Jews)

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