“All the information is on the task”

On the other hand, there’s nothing you can do anyway, so the only option is to let them burn.

Unrelated to US politics, but I genuinely worry about how social media is fucking over the older generations.

My mother in law is 76, and only gets her news from Facebook these days. On Saturday she told me that Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor, has been voted out during the week. Fuck knows where she got that from because it’s just not true. She doesn’t even live in London, but he’s a demon to the kind of ‘news’ sources she’ll read because he’s a lefty who does lefty things.

It’s mad.

You need to touch less grass and spend more time online.

As someone who has recently begun dipping in to Linux and trying to figure it all out, I agree with this.

I feel like if Samsung or someone embraced Linux in the way Apple have macOS, it could very easily become a serious contender to Windows. But I guess no one could trust Samsung to not fuck it all up and make it a proprietary fork that would end up having nothing to do with Linux.

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Yep, we're in the right place, boys.

I will always upvote Supply Side Jesus. Because he pays me 20 shekels to do so.

Thatcher was responsible for many societal ills, but she did at least provide a public, gender neutral toilet for all to use.

Tip him where? Into a crevasse?

But, like, no one has to be a landlord. If it’s so hard, sell the fucking house.

Ever since I became politically aware, as opposed to just voting for whoever my parents voted (always conservative), I've pondered why exactly, do working class people ever vote Tory.

I'm working class, I know almost entirely working class people, and none of them are as racist and thick as you'd imagine they need to be to vote Tory, and yet, we've been saddled with these venal fucks for 13 years so far.

I guess it all comes down to 'knowing your place', and the endless propaganda from the Sun and Mail, about how the Conservatives can be trusted to know what's best for you, and most people just don't care. Or they think that "they're all the bloody same", so just keep voting for what they know.

But when you examine Conservative governmental history, and the promises they make and break over and over again, there's literally no good reason for anyone without any real capital to vote for them. Their stance on the environment will kill us all, they don't actually want us to have access to free (at the point of use) healthcare, they don't care that every single one of the formerly publicly owned services now cost us significantly more to use, and they don't give a shit that the cost of, well, everything is skyrocketing. They say they care, but their record shows otherwise. Every time.

I try to talk politics with my dad and my mother-in-law, but ultimately it comes down to "well, Labour wouldn't be any better", and then they shut down. Then they go away and vote Tory again.

And I honestly can't work it out.

ITT: Poor, downtrodden ~~leeches~~ landlords talking about how hard it is to be a landlord, when the easiest way to end their suffering is to just sell their extra fucking house(s).