Liberals don’t want truth or justice, they want a self serving narrative that disguises their contempt for people they feel are beneath them.

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

One of the things that helped with the relative prosperity of Belfast is that George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall, had amassed huge gambling debts so the family had to sell off their extensive property holdings. This was about the mid nineteenth century. There was something of an industrial boom up until the partition of Ireland.

The economist has ever been part of the machinery of the ratchet effect.

At what cost!!?

I’ve been subscribed to Private Eye for about 22 years now. I don’t think it has changed all that much in that time. It’s not as apolitical as it would claim I think because it suffers from a little bit of Capitalist Realism. It doesn’t pull its punches regardless of who it sets its sights on however I feel it fails to tie together overarching themes.

I get your point but this type of action has always been part and parcel of settler colonialism. They cynically write their own history/propaganda. The same shits that deny these things haven’t happened over and over again are terrified of immigrants because of their own internalised behaviours.

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These match books have card matches so they are difficult to strike like a wooden match. The card match is drawn through between the cover of the matchbook and the striking surface. So the ad on the front of the packet is a word play on the igniting mechanism. Larson’s joke here seems to be that Michaelangelo, one of history’s most famous artists, was inspired to become an artist by one of these everyday matchbook puns.

You’re talking about cock…roaches, yeah?

Entertainment dressed as news, channel.

Wonder if the BBC will describe the much higher number of daily murders in Gaza as waves of executions?

Lite?

What is it with racist settler colonists that they love their triumphalist parades so much? Are they just bad people?

Cheers big ears

Any way you could recrop that tweet to include the date

I’ll never forget DRE now

I had my first DRE a few months ago. It felt like the Dr thought my butthole was a dog’s mouth with a piece of chocolate in it.