Former Comrade and Current Flag Shagger (from Little Whinging, Fuckershire) KeepTakingTheSoma 🏴‍☠️♌✝🎶🐑

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British, Welsh, living in England very happily.
Pissing off the government one post at a time.
Definitely a dinosaur. Member of a bunch of little whinging fuckers.
Idiots, bores and virtue signallers need not apply.
Whatever your cult is, I don't do it.
Clean out of fucks to give.

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2026-04-16 14:54:07 UTC

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2026-04-15 17:39:26 UTC

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The remake wasn't too bad, but the original is great. See also Funeral in Berlin.

2026-04-12 13:22:23 UTC

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We're meant to be bored of it now so we'll forget that sexual predators and criminals are in positions of power. There'll be another distraction along in a minute that the media will encourage us to emote over.

2026-04-03 07:00:17 UTC

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There will still be people who beg for it. Remember 2020?
To get it over the line, all they have to say is that opposing digital ID is far right white supremacy.

2026-04-02 21:31:39 UTC

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I loved the Billy Bragg one, but Kirsty took the song to a new level.
Sadly missed - a great talent.

2026-04-02 21:27:54 UTC

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London is a shithole - change my mind.

2026-03-29 12:20:17 UTC

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Prolonged warfare is not meant to benefit the people of any country. It is designed to benefit the military industrial complex and the parasite class it supports. These people love war. They can syphon more money from the population while pretending they care for them.
We haven't had a nation vs-nation war for centuries. They are all the parasites vs the people.

2026-03-29 09:38:14 UTC

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Free speech allows people to show us who they really are.

2026-03-27 08:00:14 UTC

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Every crisis is a wealth transfer opportunity.
The Military/Industrial complex owns government, so they can ensure that public money flows their way.
The elite middle classes take public money salaries, so they preserve their income stream.
The rest of us are required to pay for it and like it or shut up.

2026-03-27 07:49:34 UTC

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Living as a woman.
Stunning and Brave.

2026-03-26 18:19:14 UTC

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2026-03-22 22:42:42 UTC

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They need to pretend to be oppressed, not actually oppressed; and definitely not maimed, especially not in that area.
These people are best ignored.

2026-03-22 22:38:51 UTC

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Translation: I need to feel oppressed so I can be more special then anyone else and close off all further conversation. Notice me.

2026-03-21 17:00:12 UTC

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2026-03-21 16:59:59 UTC

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2026-03-19 22:07:10 UTC

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2026-03-16 13:50:49 UTC

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That's interesting.
It's my understanding that many judicial appointments in the US are funded by the likes of Soros who also funds Antifa (but I might be wrong). That way if anything ever gets to court it will be processed with the lightest of touches.
So why do this now? I don't believe for a second that Soros's et al's influence is waning. Either this is complete fiction, or news to distract from something else, or this lot have been thrown under the bus for a reason we have yet to discover.

2026-03-16 00:06:42 UTC

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2026-02-28 18:56:20 UTC

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My dad taught me. He had a poster on the door of the tool cupboard because the colours had changed. I was the only one in the Brownies and Guides who could do it.

2026-02-25 18:56:39 UTC

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2026-02-25 18:55:13 UTC

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You said that Trump's address to the union was unworthy.

2026-02-25 18:53:54 UTC

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What did he do?

2026-02-20 00:47:46 UTC

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Alas, I suspect this is to distract from other matters. Not that I don't welcome his arrest (nobody should be above the law) but I doubt he's the only person of status who's been up to no good. We're all taking bets on whether he'll fess up and dob others in, or he'll be Epsteined while in prison to keep the secrets secret.

2026-02-20 00:37:35 UTC

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I wish I were surprised by this.

2026-02-17 20:53:40 UTC

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Recruitment is a perfect example of woke in action. Woke makes demands of organisations it infests, so the organisation can no longer do the job it was set up to do but must do woke instead.
So woke tells us that DEI is king. All work places must employ an exact replica of society. Quotas are essential. Any deviation from this is evidence of systemic -isms. Now organisations cannot consider qualifications, aptitude, merit, experience. It becomes a tick box exercise in Pokemon collection.
This is stupid in any line of work, but it is a monumental disaster for jobs like policing.
In an ideal world, policing should be an esteemed role. Only the very best of the best should even be considered. The job involves putting themselves on the line daily. Upholding the law without fear or favour. Having integrity. Respecting the people they serve. And the penalties for corruption should be severe, because of the dangers of loss of trust.
Now we have let's employ people who match our *special protected characteristics* above all else, so the likelihood of any of those employed being able to do the job even adequately is automatically diminished, because being qualified is no longer the primary factor in recruitment.
Every single day we see that those in charge of important things cannot do their jobs. Not even close. Heads really do need to roll.

2026-02-17 19:51:36 UTC

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Please do. It's not a restricted list.

2026-02-17 19:47:40 UTC

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We've seen some of the women who run the world. Jacinta Ardern, Ursula Von De Leyen, Hilary Clinton etc. I think they're just the same as the men. Part of the *do anything for money and power* brigade.
I'd happily settle for anyone in politics at this point who isn't a corrupt, sexually deviant fraudster who's owned by media moguls, blackmailers, alphabet agencies and shadowy billionaires. And that will involve burning it down and starting again.
But that's just me.

2026-02-17 19:38:13 UTC

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Why would this generation consider things like a work ethic, good manners, polite conversation etc to be important? They've been part of the *prizes for all* culture where they should be the centre of the universe for merely existing. I'd like to say that this surprised me, but it doesn't. It took a village to *raise* children like this.

2026-02-15 19:59:29 UTC

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And people wonder why I don't want to teach any more.

2026-02-14 17:51:15 UTC

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Well, colour me surprised.

2026-02-12 16:22:19 UTC

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four–
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
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And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

2026-02-12 16:20:12 UTC

The FB post I read got me thinking about Kipling. I know he's considered *problematic* but there's a lot of value in much of his work.
(I personally don't worry about Kipling - some of us have Kippled many times before and frequently with no ill effects. 😜)

2026-02-12 00:16:52 UTC

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As I keep telling people, don't worry if you haven't read 1984 because you're living in it.

2026-02-04 18:58:45 UTC

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2026-02-02 08:15:25 UTC

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Nobody believed it except a few. It would be more accurate to say that nobody dared say it was wrong.
This is the territory where the ideas are the person, so critiquing the ideas is deliberately perceived as a personal attack and judged to be racially motivated.
Welcome to modern academia.

2026-02-01 23:06:47 UTC

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That was one of my first twatter spats back in 2020. I mocked a post that said that nobody in Africa thought there were only two sexes until whitey colonised them. I was told that I couldn't criticise this theory because it was written by a woman of colour for her PhD and to do so would expose my racism.
We've come so far.
#progress

2026-02-01 12:02:37 UTC

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I just smile and say that if that's what they want I'll not stop them, but I don't want it.

2026-02-01 09:54:46 UTC

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I was in my local Asda with my parents a few months back. I mentioned to the cashier that I wasn't a fan of this tech. I didn't do it in a nasty way, because it's neither his fault or responsibility. During the check out, we put through some wine and my mum did her usual joke about him needing to see some ID to check she was old enough. The cashier then got a bit pissy and said *now you like digital ID?* or words to that effect. It's interesting how people conflate issues. I happen to agree with showing ID to protect minors from making some purchases. That's not the same as monitoring all of us to see that we're being good boys and girls.
I had a similar one in Lidl's. I was asked if I had a store card and I said my usual that I didn't because they're just spying apps to collect data. Again, I don't do it rudely because the cashiers are just doing their job. A chap in the queue behind me shouted at me that the government knows what we're doing all the time if we have a mobile phone, so why was I bothering (ie I should just get with the programme).
It's fascinating how many people will cheer for their enslavement and demonise those of us who raise concerns.

2026-01-29 15:41:47 UTC

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You're absolutely right. It is the self-censorship that matters; so much cheaper to frighten people into doing it themselves.
Having said that, I still don't want mass surveillance. It's clear that the police don't want it either as they have to be begged to solve actual crimes.
If our MPs want it so badly, they can lead the way. Let's have 24/7 live footage of them going about their daily business and see if they enjoy it. Then they can ask us to think about it.

2026-01-29 15:28:48 UTC

Live facial recognition treats everyone as a suspect, ends anonymity in public, and has no democratic mandate. A free society would ban it, not regulate it. Respond by 12 Feb, tell the Home Office a “panopticon” is mass surveillance, not policing by consent: https://together.eaction.org.uk/panopticon
#together
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2026-01-20 13:12:19 UTC

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Don't forget the prostitution! They have to unwind a little after a tough day planning how to shaft the rest of us.

2026-01-17 09:09:11 UTC

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Then let him.
With hubris comes nemesis.

2026-01-17 09:06:53 UTC

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Let him. If he ruins the show they won't keep him on.
Six is an ensemble piece. No room for egos and stars.

2026-01-17 09:02:11 UTC

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I don't have a problem with cross-sex casting per se. And the producers should be able to make the art they wish.
My problem is with him pretending to be a woman in real life and demanding we all play along.

2026-01-17 08:57:16 UTC

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I love the way that *we exist* has been used.
What it means is that they think they are the opposite sex, so their *existence* is the grandiose lie in their heads. If you disagree that they are the sex they claim to be, then you must want them dead, thus flipping the onus from them having to prove they're the opposite sex to everyone else having to prove they're not a genocidal bigot. QED.
So many souls lost to a shit ton of nonsense to help a lot of doctors make money peddling surgery and hormones, and a lot of porn-addled men indulge their fetish under the guise of civil rights.
Remember - not one person who started or perpetuated this will ever see the inside of a prison cell.

2026-01-17 08:46:42 UTC

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We appear to live in an age where mental instability is rewarded.
And we always get more of the behaviour we reward.

2026-01-14 22:50:50 UTC

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I love Hawaii. Kilauea is amazing.
And whatever our thoughts about ICE and the protests, it is still sad that a young woman died unnecessarily.

2026-01-14 17:21:27 UTC

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Back in the day when I was doing my BEd we had models of teaching types. One was Mother Hen (here's 30 I made earlier) and another is Joe Cool (learn if you like). We laughed about them then. But they seem to be models that are adopted.
I've met way too many teachers and assistants who pave the jungle for kids instead of helping them lace up their boots and have a go. Learning is hard so don't worry about it.

2026-01-12 08:17:34 UTC

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The ones notionally in charge are puppets. They're rewarded for doing it. What happens to us doesn't matter.

2026-01-11 02:45:41 UTC

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You could get a professor at a university to do a computer model study funded by a company that wanted to promote its vaccines and prove that the vaccines were amazing because the model would show that unless we took them we would all die and then governments could mandate them having spent our money on them and MPs coincidentally buy shares in said companies just before the stock went up.
But I don't think that would happen.

2026-01-11 02:31:19 UTC

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My understanding is that vaccines are best guesses at strains. I have a friend who doesn't think viruses exist; she's into terrain theory and it sounds interesting.
I don't know enough to comment.

2026-01-11 00:23:42 UTC

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It's being aggressively pushed here in the UK too. I guess that there aren't many takers.
Given the almost messianic zeal with which many promoted the *safe and effective* jab and denounced the unjabbed as death carriers and disease vectors, that's a rapid turnaround. Or maybe there weren't as many as we thought, they were just louder.

2026-01-10 23:58:40 UTC

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We are governed by psychopaths; psychopaths who are criminal, corruptible or compromised.

2026-01-10 13:21:33 UTC

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Good questions.
The whole world seems to be going to hell in a handcart thanks to the activities of the globalists. We can only presume that they have created a bolthole for themselves while the rest of us get screwed. I'm just along for the ride now.

2026-01-10 11:05:38 UTC

The biggest problem we have is that so many people think that the people who cause problems are the ones that can save them from the same problems.

2026-01-10 11:03:51 UTC

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The US empire has had its day. It was destroyed in the same way that all empires are; too big to manage and has pissed off too many along the way.
What a lot of citizens don't know is that the empire was never for them; it was for the deep state to enjoy the fruits while using its citizens to fund it. Many citizens never knew they were part of an empire; they thought they were part of a freedom project or whatever the propaganda told them to think.
The decline will be rapid and beggar lots of ordinary people. Those who caused the problems feathered their nests years ago and will simply walk away to spend more time with their money; they will leave others to mop up the mess they created.
So many harms caused to make criminals rich and powerful dressed up as something noble.

2026-01-10 10:52:25 UTC

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All true.
Iran's problems started many years ago when the west destabilised the government so they could control the oil. I wonder if any of those political actors saw prison time for their actions. The sheer arrogance of it all.

2026-01-10 10:49:43 UTC

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Because it's always easier to blame anyone but the bully in the playground.
Ask any teacher.

2026-01-10 10:48:35 UTC

Every single politician about every single issue:
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2026-01-10 10:46:46 UTC

Although the bastards are probably adulterating the air, the water and the food.
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2026-01-07 19:17:33 UTC

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We get more of the behaviour we reward.

2026-01-07 19:14:57 UTC

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I used to make them apologise to cleaners/dinner ladies etc in person.
But so many teachers treat cleaners/dinner ladies etc just as badly.

2026-01-07 18:51:27 UTC

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Willing to bet that many teachers had previously been encouraged to move on over this as it escalated because they weren't *managing the behaviour in a positive way.* Also willing to bet that nobody stood up for teachers when they first raised it.
This has been a long time coming.

2026-01-06 18:30:09 UTC

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And before these, there were Vietnam, Iran, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia etc etc etc.
Destabilise, plunder, bomb, rebuild, control, move on.
The playbook never changes.

2026-01-06 18:21:05 UTC

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They all do it because the CIA tells them to.
It's ok when my team does it is rank hypocrisy.

2026-01-06 16:57:20 UTC

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I've noticed that we seem to spend a lot of time treating children like adults (votes for 16 year olds, choosing an *identity* etc etc) and then spend time treating adults like children (hate speech laws, safetyism, fact checkers etc).
I often wonder why.

2026-01-05 14:16:55 UTC

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Not attending school is an interesting one.
It is possible to register children as home educated in England; don't know if that's the case in Scotland. I know a few home-schoolers (I do a bit of private tutoring for some) and they're glad their kids are out of the system.
Of course, we also know that some children are out of the system so that abuse can happen undetected and some are the children of parents who can't be arsed to do anything.
I've come across all types. The knack is knowing which is which.
I predict a case of a child death owing to violence/neglect which will be used to crack down on home-schoolers (low-hanging fruit) and the abusive/negligent will continue to be left alone.

2026-01-04 17:32:20 UTC

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It takes a village to defraud a system.
The people who do it aren't clever or sly or good at covering their tracks. They exploit policy and use systems to their own ends. They using kickbacks to get people in the system to turn a blind eye. And once done, it cannot be got out of without admitting guilt. Alea iacta est. And so it continues.
This is common in tribal groups. Power goes to those who are the strongest and they must have power so they can use it reward others in the tribe while plundering and/or destroying those who are not.
If not in power, claim to be marginalised and in need of aid/clemency. If in power, offer none. It's as old as humanity. It will again soon.

2026-01-04 16:58:02 UTC

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There will come a tipping point for many liberal types when they can no longer afford the entry fee to the virtue club game and either leave voluntarily or are disposed of in a purity spiral.
Not everyone can be the most liberal of the most liberals and you have to be in it to win it.

2026-01-04 16:16:22 UTC

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Trust in policing in the UK is at an all-time low. Police are in thrall to lobby groups, and senior police behave like wannabe politicians. There seems to be little training in the law and lots of behaviour to support *laws* which they wish were the law.
Policing by consent and without fear or favour is out of the window. They often act as the private militia for certain lobby groups and there are a lot of malicious complainers that have the ear of the police.
They picked a side and it isn't ours.

2026-01-04 15:06:23 UTC

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Same in the UK. Higher and Further Ed is a Ponzi scheme.

2026-01-04 15:04:23 UTC

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The NHS *requires* DIE because it creates bureaucracies to employ the managers produced by elite overproduction. Their job will never be done because they would lose their jobs, so the goalposts must constantly shift to expand their power base.
The *diversity* it seeks is a veneer and is code for people who look different but adhere to the same political ideology. The photo ops look great. It's what I call the Pokémon effect - gotta catch 'em all. Once we understand that the words Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity don't mean what we think they mean, it all makes sense.

2026-01-04 14:57:36 UTC

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It's a self-reinforcing organisation of the *educated* class who couldn't get jobs in the real world. A bit like academe.

2026-01-04 01:01:45 UTC

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Why do these *charities* receive taxpayer money?
Can't the luvvies fund them themselves and write it off as a tax dodge?

2026-01-02 23:52:55 UTC

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It's the part of being human that we cannot face. I remember asking my Gran about the war when I was young (she lived through two world wars) and she told me that the frightening thing is that ordinary people can be persuaded to do terrible things. It's easier for us to think that these people are monsters than to think that we might be capable of such acts.

2026-01-02 23:50:21 UTC

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It's the boundary violation. It's a power kick, and catnip to a narcissistic personality. The best way to find out is to politely say no and watch the reaction.

2026-01-02 23:48:01 UTC

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I wouldn't say no to 1985 again. Good times.

2026-01-02 23:35:46 UTC

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Agreed. I liked the part where Goering said that had Germany won, the US would be on trial for Hiroshima. The show trial element was well-portrayed. The attention to period detail was good and the whole film had a colourless tint that was effective. I also liked the interaction between Kelly and Goering's family.
The journalist was a weak point and was possibly a plot hole; would she have been allowed access to the executions after writing an article that made the US look bad?
I thought the script was excellent. We chatted for over an hour in the pub afterwards.

2026-01-02 23:20:07 UTC

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Nothing wrong with acknowledging what has been. The state has no business mandating what we should or shouldn't believe. We cannot undo what has been done in the past but we can learn from it. Replacing one religion with another is not a solution, merely a change of the guard.

2026-01-02 23:16:44 UTC

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I don't remember you taking that photo.

2026-01-02 23:15:14 UTC

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I enjoyed (is that the right word?) it. Good script, great performances. Man of the match for me was Leo Woodall.

2026-01-02 22:47:07 UTC

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It's life Jim, but not as we know it.

2026-01-02 19:00:37 UTC

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I really don't care. People keep on voting for the leopards eating faces party and are then surprised when the leopards eat their faces.
It's the same story everywhere. We've been doing it in the UK for years now and we still don't learn.

2026-01-02 18:32:55 UTC

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That wasn't proper collectivism. It will be better this time.

2026-01-02 16:16:36 UTC

In the same way we'd struggle to find anyone who really thought that there were WMDs, I wonder if in 2026 we will notice that hardly anyone will:
* defend the lockdowns. Those still loyal to the cause will mumble things about it being a bit excessive, but we did it for good reasons.
* admit that they demanded jabs or jobs. They will say that they defended people's right to choose.
* support the right of men to use women's spaces. They will claim that they just wanted to be kind to cross-dressing men because reasons.
* declare their support for Mermaids or other similar groups. If challenged, they will frame it as supporting the right of children to express themselves.
* demand digital ID. They might mumble a bit about protection or safety, but only the faithful will shill for it.
* champion net zero. People want environmentally friendly, but they've come to realise that net zero is about bankrupting the UK and lining the pockets of globalists.
* profess to going on a BLM march. That's just embarrassing, given the open fraud that took place by the organisation.
* still have pronouns in their social media. Only the porn-addled blue-haired activists do that.
Or perhaps I'm being optimistic.

2026-01-02 13:52:45 UTC

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If I lose something, I buy a new one and then I always find the original.

2026-01-02 03:31:48 UTC

Apparently scientists have discovered that there may be as many as 42 parallel universes and I can't find my car keys in any of them.

2026-01-02 02:33:18 UTC

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I remember saying something similar on here when I first joined about how so many issues in our world are part of the same agenda. They all require us to ignore what we can see and chant mantras, trust authorities that lie to us and denounce others for wrongthink. They all rely on censorship of non-approved ideas. Like the Hydra, all the heads need removing and cauterising. I remember a few people getting angry and blocking me for including convid as a hydra head because they still believed the official narrative.

2026-01-01 15:23:36 UTC

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It's a very good point.
It's also a good example of how citizens and governments are conflated.
Governments use taxation (in theory) to make collective spending decisions for the good of the people who provide the money. In practice they use it to further their goals of global domination which benefit them personally. They then *blame* the citizens for government actions and use taxes to *punish* their citizens for said government actions.
So for example, if the government bombs the shit out of a country because - reasons- (war on terror/drugs/whatever) then it ensures (through the presstitutes) that the citizens are seen as morally culpable (because they elected the government, right?) and therefore the *aid* sent abroad is a form of plenary indulgence/humanitarian support and the price you pay for the privilege of being able to bomb the shit out of places, because . . .reasons. This also includes the deliberate influx of migrants (some of which have had the shit bombed out of their country) but many who haven't - if your country hadn't behaved badly then they wouldn't be here, but also they should be here because . . reasons.
It's a rigged game and the only way to win is to refuse to play.
Stop voting for these criminals (and they're all criminals).
Stop paying taxes (they can't fund this shit without your money).

2025-12-31 14:46:57 UTC

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Alas, yes. It's not quite as bad in the UK as say San Francisco, but I suspect that any homeless charity in receipt of taxpayer money automatically becomes incentivised to keep the problem going rather than solve it in any meaningful sense.

2025-12-31 14:18:15 UTC

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It depends upon the circumstances.
Many homeless charities understand that there are different types of homeless people. Some are there because of a few terrible circumstances and won't need much help to get back on their feet again. Some are homeless because they are predisposed to making poor choices and no amount of money will help them.
The knack is identifying which are which.

2025-12-31 14:13:26 UTC

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Most of us already suspected this.
But it not the Somalis committing fraud or the politicians who enabled them, it's us; because racism - duh.

2025-12-29 14:08:45 UTC

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This also begs the question why our political classes don't seek diplomatic solutions by way of persuading other governments to abolish the death penalty for protesting peacefully, asking for increased free speech etc. I think we know the answer.

2025-12-28 14:38:59 UTC

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"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."

2025-12-27 05:42:07 UTC

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We did take the aerial tramway to the top of San Jacinto and the views were wonderful. We also drove up to Idyllwild and down to the other side to Banning coming back to Palm Springs through the valley past the windmills. I shall add these recommendations for next time. It's a beautiful part of the world.

2025-12-26 22:29:57 UTC

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I am too. I love Palm Springs. I'm so sorry for those people who've had their property damaged. Hoping things will be right soon.

2025-12-26 14:09:36 UTC

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I read about this yesterday. Hope all is ok with you.

2025-12-25 22:56:14 UTC

Look what I got for Christmas!
https://media.spinster.xyz/1cca5eb0b03f6af61a9d46a64d3643c1a800d2ba1722008132f8ead861b62c34.jpg

2025-12-21 14:56:09 UTC

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This can only happen for so long in the private sector. The public sector on the other hand . . .

2025-12-21 13:38:48 UTC

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AI is going to be interesting.
I saw an ad for using AI at work which sold it on the grounds that people in offices had no time to either write or read emails, so AI could do it for them.
It made me wonder what they were doing in the office.