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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

UwU your healthcare system is irreversibly privatized

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What is grating enough online is much worse coming from a g7 government. The Conservatives, who have spent 14 years running Britain, increasingly subscribe to a narrative that they were a mere bit-part player, rather than its main actor. Gazing upon a dying Conservative administration in 1993, Lord Lamont, who had recently been sacked as chancellor, accused Sir John Major’s government of being “in office but not in power”. What was once an attack has now become the party’s principal defence: the Conservatives may have been in office, but they were never in power. Call it UwU Conservatism.

How is this wrong? Soyconservatism is definitely a thing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I genuinely can't believe that's a real article. What the actual fuck?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

This 100% originated from someone fucking around with ChatGPT

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

I would've thought the actual reason the Tories have made themselves hated enough to lose against Keir fucking Starmer of all people is that they're the exact same kind of floundering, rabbitholed bellend as the person who's written that article, but i guess when you're an anglofascist nosferatu writing for the Economist, being honest with yourself isn't a skill you usually possess.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Bro really did "Merriam Webster defines "UwU" as—"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

After the revolution we use writers for The Economist to torture the other prisoners by having them do 'splainers on memes.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Meekness infects the immediate political ambitions of the Conservative Party, too. It is petrified about Nigel Farage and Reform UK hoovering up voters to its right, yet seems to assume that winning voters to its left is impossible.

There are those on the right that want to try a swapping of the roles like the dems and republicans did. But it won't work in Britain.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
  1. Because they would stop being "Conservatives"

  2. Because they would have to stop being Tories. Toryism having a very long ideological history here.

It's just not possible to make it work, the left wouldn't believe it the centre right wouldn't believe it, and the conservative movement in the UK would find it ridiculous. The furthest left that the tory party can get was David Cameron.

The conservative movement would be torn apart by it and Reform UK would be guaranteed to take over with Farage as fascist leader.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Hard to imagine the type of person who'd write that first paragraph and not immediately take out a hit on themselves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

New Skibidi Biden just dropped