WittyProfileName2 [she/her]

you should learn to read, and then research logical fallacies and what the terms mean that you call yourself or others.

Everything being made in China is a bit of a hyperbole but…

stream of consciousness rant ahead

The rise of neoliberalism involved the deindustrialisation of the imperial core, partly as a way to cheapen costs by relying on a pool of labour with lower minimum wages and worse safety regulations, partly to kneecap labour unions that were forming an effective political bloc against neoliberal social policies, partly to obfuscate the environmental impact of consumerism by shunting all the environmentally hazardous part of the process of producing consumer goods abroad, and partly to complete the transition of imperial core economies entirely into extraction and finance.

At the time China which was liberalising under Dengist reforms and also cosying up to the west, was a perfect target as one of the places to offload industry.

As for why none of this industrial capacity is being moved out of China despite deteriorating relations between them a the imperial core…

Industrialising a country takes a lot of planning and is expensive, (especially in countries like the UK where most of the factories and former supply line infrastructure has been torn up and the land sold off, and what remains is too dilapidated to support a renewed heavy industry), so it’s unappealing to a capitalist hegemon that’s in favour of austerity and low government spending.

What’s the source of that last image? I’m really hoping that’s one of the examples from the 80s and not a recent one…

Yeah, that’s an 80’s one. Here it is in the Tory Party’s online archive.

I’m hoping this is just me dooming but having grown up in the dying days of section 28, I’m genuinely scared for this next generation of queer people.

Section 28 of the 1988 local government act (often just referred to colloquially as section 28), was a law that made it illegal to discuss queer identities in schools.

It was repealed in 2003, but the recent resurgence of homophobia in parliament is using a similar language around “protecting children” is identical to the shit Thatcher and her cronies were throwing around in the 80’s.

Yeah, and they’ve jumped the “protect our kids” wankery into overdrive as well.

Complete doomer mode: I think they’re also gonna re-establish section 28 soon.

It’s been this kind of shit hole surveillance state for a long time. Look at the snooper’s charter/investigatory powers act, for example.

Fuck yeah! My “Bigfoot is actually a big cellar spider and that’s why it’s always blurry in pictures” theory is gonna be broadcast to everyone’s grandmother!

Manpril sounds like an over-the-counter erectile dysfunction medicine that’s got a list of side effects taller than the bottle it comes in.

Caws.

There’s a lot of horror franchises that shouldn’t’ve been more than a single film. Off the top of my head: Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Blair Witch, and Black Christmas.

Only Fools and Horses shoulda ended on the episode where they finally strike it rich. None of the episodes after that justify bringing it back.

Honestly, other than that terrible Eurovision episode, it’s been a good series overall. Some of the best Dr Who in recent years.

The bluestones in Stonehenge come from West Wales. Instead of quarrying stone from near the monument, they dragged these huge blocks from ~278km away. Likewise, the altar stone comes from ~700km away in North-East Scotland. It must’ve been very important for the ancient Britons to’ve used these specific rocks for some reason, but their religious practices were conveyed via a now extinct oral tradition so no-one knows exactly why they did it.

I don’t know what that means.

What I’m saying is that there’s insufficient force and direction for a shampoo bottle to penetrate just from falling onto it.

Anything that is inserted into the rectum has to be eased through the rectal sphincter. Now, there are ways to make the insertion easier such as using lubrication or taking poppers but there’s still gonna sufficient resistance that it’s not gonna happen without the person making it happen.

I would, but it pissed down, like, an hour after the snow settled and now all the snow’s gone.

I scrolled through the modlog on their home instance and like clockwork…

Thank you :)

I don’t think picking an arbitrary time of, like, 9 years ago is accurate for when the western left’s “idpol turn” started. Labour rights and anti racism have always been closely intertwined causes and the trade unions have been closely aligned with queer groups since the 80’s at least.

But whatever.

What has that accomplished?

Created a more organised front against the current reactionary pushes and helped getting marginalised people politically active despite the neoliberal attempt to crush grassroots political activism.

Who has it helped?

Plenty of people, myself for example: leftist agitation caused both a reform within the Welsh NHS’ gender service to move away from antiquated gatekeeping and towards self-id and informed consent, while at the same time these same groups successfully pushed the Senedd to bring out free prescriptions. My poor, post-grad self wouldn’t have had the time to fight to get a gender identity certificate nor the money to afford HRT treatment if it wasn’t for the intersectional tactics of the “western left”.

It’s an attempt by Meta to swallow the fediverse via Microsoft’s old “embrace, extend, extinguish” strategy.

selling stolen fissile materials hey wait a second…

I almost fell for it, you won’t catch me this easy MI5.

I’ll be visiting family to give them presents and nothing else!

Oh and watching that Wallace and Gromit film that’s gonna be on BBC One