Tuesday 16th January 2024

[refitman]

Morning all.

[frog222]

Morning refit

I remember in 1991 reading an article** about young people of different ethnic identities sitting around outside a café , discussing politics and dismissing the idea that there could be dangerous times ahead . After all there had been a lot of intermarriage and friendships between their groups .

Dame Anne Salmond: How to split a society

" Thirty years ago, in 1993, I attended a conference at Oxford which included a workshop on what was happening in Bosnia, where war had just broken out.

Young anthropologists who had been conducting their field work in that country described how a society in which many Serbs and Croats thought they had solved their historical differences was deliberately split apart. "

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/13/dame- ... a-society/

** It was probably in the Economist , which I always read in those days, and the place was Sarajevo .

Manufacturing dissent, 'pernicious polarisation', is surprisingly easy when the times are ripe for it, and the evil weasels go to work .

Now we have Deep-Fakes it's even easier !

[frog222]

Don't forget, all of this noise for the sake of deporting a few hundred people to a failing state ....

[gilsey]

On a lighter note

[frog222]

[frog222]

Back to covid corruption with Vorders -

[refitman]

So, what's the point of voting Labour, if you're LGBTQ?

[AnatolyKasparov]

The usual clickbaity stuff from SfL then.

They outright invented a Starmer "u-turn" earlier this month.

[refitman]

The usual clickbaity stuff from SfL then.

They outright invented a Starmer "u-turn" earlier this month.

Here you go, from the source:


This is either a dog-whistle or actively courting the right. The majority of women in the country (both LGBTQ and straight) support trans rights.

[AnatolyKasparov]

So its actually an attempt at a "middle ground" policy, whatever your spin on it.

[refitman]

Careful with your fingers, around the cybertruck

[refitman]

So its actually an attempt at a "middle ground" policy, whatever your spin on it.

No, it's a promise to make life harder for trans people. It's a promise for women who don't fully conform to social standards of femininity to be harassed when they try to use the toilet.

[refitman]

Also, if Labour proceed with people having to use the toilet that matches their gender at birth, then these people will be using the Ladies. Will women feel 'safer' then?