Martin Concagh

“It’s not as simple as just swapping out a bad leader-“ idk maybe Labour should try that. See what happens

One may gently point out that the New Statesman since Cowley left has shown how appointing a new leader who whilst not ideal can rapidly improve things by putting better people in key roles and stopping deliberately offending its core consistuency

There’s something morally grotesque about reporting the words of a genocidal war criminal as if they were uttered from a genuine place of authority rather than from atop a pile of Ukrainian corpses.

Hills, water, tight historic areas … can’t think of a more complicated place to try this than Bilbao and yet they did it. A great city even if you never go to the Guggenheim (the subway goes to the beach!). Our only barriers here in Toronto are political.

my new resolution is to normalise threads to just celebrate people I love because I saw a friend and colleague post about how another friend and colleague was this great person and my immediate thought was fuck no no no how can they have died because the only tributes you ever see anymore are obits

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...

...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

To respond to this response: No one is saying you are antisemitic in some ontological sense. The claim is that it is irresponsible for a major journalist to use a large platform to share the antisemitic conspiracy that every Israeli reservist lives in New York City.

Had the counterfactual thought that had LBJ lived longer he probably ends up endorsing Jesse Jackson

It’s 2036. As the political spectrum has fragmented further, the SNP is now the Official Opposition at Westminster. It’s still apparently too difficult to reform the electoral system.

That’s because the way people use LLMs in real life is ‘do my homework for me’.

These kinds of “it’s this or the abyss” threats are also what the Starmer operation did when the Labour backbenches rebelled over welfare cuts (and were forced to back down on said cuts)

It’s fuhrerbunker stuff, that’s where they’re getting to

I think this is mostly aimed at Labour MPs who oppose the proposals

This is also mostly aimed at the PLP who I think have all been getting a lot of very angry emails about these proposals

This is fuhrerbunker shit

Have you ever read the story about how the Toronto Star’s fashion correspondent was in Manhattan on 9/11

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

Good fucking riddance, should not have happened like this but good fucking riddance

I think another issue with this is that I suspect public opinion in a lot of countries will bounce back to being pro-US post Trump. Not to where it once was, but better than now

I believe that the interests of peace for both our nations demand a diplomatic solution that allows the Iranians to feel like they have saved face. Any context you may infer from this on you alone and not present in this post.

Very few ideas have been as utterly discredited by the last few years as the idea that it’s actually good to tear down an imperfectly observed, aspirational ideological facade and ‘be honest’

imo I think a bigger, and almost certainly harder problem then outright detecting LLM use is distinguishing between "legitimate" use of what are at this point widespread tools, vs. total slop usage.

Neither left wing, nor right wing, but a third thing (right wing)

I mean I cry no tears for him if this is true but god knows what this does to the country, the region and to the world

You look at certain aspects of gay culture closely and you end up saying this more and more.

The contentification of everything is truly such a fucking scourge

Iran starts moving ballistic missile launchers into civilian areas in Tehran.

They are using civilians as human shields.

I love how much social media “gay culture“ is just ancient roman gender politics but woke-ly