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As with “what has JK said that isn’t transphobic”, I keep thinking “ok you’ve accepted implicitly that racism exists and is bad. Could you give an example of it?”

(Really shows where the Tories are that @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk is liking my posts dunking on the living avatar of Gove’s school policy, which was the only time in the last 15 years I’ve had to hold my hands up and admit the Tories were right and I was wrong. But still they’re *so* weird)

This must be most people in Britain

- Everyone associated with a Jewish faith school
- Everyone associated with a Christian faith school
- Every Jew (for implying they’re the same as Christians)
- Every Christian (for implying they’re the same as Jews)
- Everyone associated with that school who’s not Jewish and Christian

Fun game: count the number of different groups justifiably offended by “we are the one school in the country that teachers strong judeo Christian values”

Margaret Thatcher's resignation shocked politicians in US and USSR, files show Emotional Henry Kissinger called to say it was ‘worse than a death in the family’ and Soviet ambassador reported consternation

Literally Gorbachev when Thatcher resigned www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Strictly as a matter of “is this possible in theory”, could Leo XIV disprove papal infallibility by saying “speaking infallibly, Chicago will win the World Series” and that not happening?

(Yes I know he obviously wouldn’t)

Was it a problem for Ed Balls? If they’d won that election he’d have won the seat, as it was he was done anyway

Whereas on election night you can absolutely tell

Yeah tbf canvass returns are weird, I did Cardiff north for lab in 2019 and v experienced organiser said to me we knew we’d won in 2017 but this time no idea. Anna’s majority increased substantially.

I bring up the reason they do it (they think it sells more) to rebut the accusation made by Pochin that it’s some kind of political agenda not because I know or care whether it works

B) by doing this they are doing some moral harm to someone, presumably white people. You’re going to need to defend that position

Ok but you saying the ad companies might get it wrong in what way
A) they’re wrong that ethnically diverse ads increase sales. Ok. Unless you work in that industry I don’t know why you’d care and it seems less important than a member of parliament saying she “hates seeing black faces”

Most people in Britain are also not professional footballers or currently on a family package holiday to the Balearic Islands

No and if you think it’s *morally wrong* for non-speaking roles in television adverts to not be representative of census ethnicity data, then I guess it’s a free country. I… don’t.

No it’s not? It’s like saying “politicians are trying to win elections and govern, not working in service of a secret Soros agenda”

I don’t actually think it’s a good idea but I completely unironically think if Ed wants it (unlikely) and can get to the members (unsure) it’s his lol

They’re statistically unrepresentative because they’re trying to have as many potential customers represented as possible. It’s not woke, they’re trying to sell insurance to black people. This is why there are so many mixed race families, you’d v rarely see an ad without a white person either

I never got round to it but I wanted to start an anonymous social media account about the fact Taylor swift’s tour played Madrid but not Barcelona and see how many people I could convince this was a coded anti-Catalan independence message

(Reminder that a lot of the stats about areas with lots of English in wales being Brexity come from rural border regions where a lot of Welsh people are born in England bc that’s the nearest hospital)

Solving the Spanish housing crisis by telling Pedro to stop Madrid’s biggest landmarks being in the middle of roundabouts with no way to get near them

I mean I’ve been on holiday there several times (I went to Primavera!) and as a tourist it is so much better than Madrid, I’m sorry

Oh they’ve decided that, it’s white Basque descent Australian Jacob Elordi lol, going with the “he’s Spanish and a bit bronzed” theory

Fair, I just think it’s worth bearing in mind when I see the protests to not turn on my UK YIMBY brain - when Oxford builds a 6-8 story apartment building on every m^2 *it is physically possible to build on*, I’ll start listening to the NIMBYs about their ideas, and Barcelona is basically there

Barcelona is a genuinely exceptional to unique edge case (it’s an already very very dense city surrounded by mountains and the sea), pretty much anywhere else my response is build more bloody houses

Looking at Wikipedia I count three full captures and one incident of a disgruntled Lord (Ifor Bach “Ivor the Shorty”, he of the nightclub) climbing the walls singlehanded and kidnapping the earl of Gloucester

Cardiff Castle’s history timeline is a long series of it changing hands between sides in wars and it’s hard to not to conclude it was quite a shit castle

If he had any intellectual integrity he would be just as angry that every building in Britain doesn’t have its own time zone offset by a few milliseconds from its neighbour of course

Less Angry Day

Not the main issue but it’s just so… dumb? Like at some point surely the right could comprehend that ads are diverse to hit as many potential customers as possible. They’re supposed to be the ones in favour of capitalism!