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Not to hand it to them if so, better than nothing though.

I tend to listen a lot less now, because the BBC, but every now and again I wonder about the choices when I do listen.

I feel like the 6Music playlist has, in contrast to its news, gone a bit antiwar. There were a few this morning, I forget them but deffo heard Janelle Monae Turntables this morning and now Rilo Kiley's it's a hit.

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It's not Iran working to destroy progressive forces across the globe. No we have to look a lot closer to home for that.

Every last cunt with a column has opinions on Iran, or whoever the boogie man de jour is, collapsing the free West. They're a lot quieter about destroying the post war consensus though, whether domestic or international. Because our media, wittingly or otherwise, are a fascist vanguard.

I don't know how to put it more simply than this: every myth we tell about ourselves, every pretence of mortality is being stripped bare. We are here because imperial "statecraft" collapsed Iranian democracy and our response to the result is to double down in a game of imperial whackamole.

The suspension of thought and the lack of historical context required to make dipshits like Syed sound coherent is positively herculean. Trump's sole break from the last few decades is to openly do what the liberal west likes to do in the dark. The West is destroying itself by ripping the mask off.

I'll note that there are faster ways to see Jesus if they're that keen.

Ruled over by a clique of people who's group think constantly covers for power because they're drawn from it or far too close to it when they are not.

I also feel it's important to say this is the bit our media simply won't talk about. It's times like this when you really get a good look at how they manufacture consent. They won't highlight the origins, they won't talk about the likely consequences.

I feel this is important to highlight for the sensibles here: what you are really supporting won't be one isolated horror, but many beyond guessing. The total normalisation of might makes right.

You see a lot of discourse that runs along the lines of "well I don't agree with how the US has gone about it but the Iranian regime is terrible". Well, the bad news is that if the US does win here, you're going to see them do the "disagreeable" thing again and again and again.

Can recommend, it's interesting and funny... The cover is also too spicy for Bluesky.

I'd remind us that 'regime change' in Iraq resulted in a fragile sectarian comprador government, which folded like a wet newspaper in the face of a few thousand ISIL militants a bare handful of years later.

But that seems that's rather the point in Iran, isn't it?

Hey remember when we were all supposed to believe this piece of shit ghoul was talented? Behold the gutless no mark that she actually is, can't even admit what's happening.

What everyone misunderstands about Iran The story of modern Iran begins with a CIA coup in 1953 - and its lessons should haunt Donald Trump, writes Deputy Foreign Editor Edmund Heaphy.

"The removal of Mr Mossadegh in 1953 looked, at the time, like an unqualified success...

The bill arrived 26 years later and it is still being paid."

- Edmund Heaphy
@news.rte.ie
@edmundheaphy.bsky.social

To the surprise of no one. At their heart a reactionary.

4 panel comic Panel 1: A Pink Guy and an Orange Guy are sitting in the cinema. Pink Guy is munching popcorn and Orange Guy is slurping fizzy pop. Pink Guy points up at screen and says “is that guy cool?” Panel 2: Orange Guy pauses drinking and replies “he just blew up a school full of kids” Panel 3: Pink Guy says “No, I know“ Panel 4: We see the anti-hero on screen. He is wearing a purple t-shirt and a baseball cap facing backwards. Pink Guy continues, “but his cap is so BACKWARDS”

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Mainstream media picking up on this now and look who's on the case! He's finished...

Using a funeral to make shit up whole cloth is a suitably tone deaf and disrespectful microcosm of the Kamala campaign really. How did this utter scold fuck it up? Who can say.

LOL like fuck you did.

"post-literate" meaning doesn't read our bullshit. Everyone knows the real problem is younger generations are all too literate, and rightly suspicious of our media as a result.

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

The Spectator @spectator X.com Those school children and students of ten years ago, with their highly moralistic, Manichean politics and otherworldly theories on gender and race, are now the voters of today. They are also our first post-literate generation, a demographic which doesn't read newspapers, which doesn't read books willingly, who instead get their politics on their smartphones from emotive TikTok videos devoid of nuance, depth and context. This is the demographic with a reduced attention span that doesn't even listen to radio bulletins or watch the news from reputed broadcasting organisations. & Patrick West

I spent a lot of the 2010s explaining that the anti-woke terror was the rage of old men who are going to be dead soon, knowing that when they’re gone, the blue-haired, variously-gendered kids will inherit the Earth and start chucking their most cherished bullshit into the bin. And whaddaya know?

Oh by the way, the author of that op-ed works for a US Department of Defence (Dept of War) funded think-tank whose only real thought is “boy, let’s keep those arms company shares riding high”.

GB News has never made a profit because it doesn’t exist to make a profit. It exists to exert pressure to push broadcast news channels further rightwards. It is about further poisoning the information environment. That’s why it exists.

I'm old enough to remember having an NHS dentist. Young enough to get rinsed by the private ones.

The UK is at minimum complicit in war crimes