Rolling Descent into Fascism Thread [chat away]

I’ve often felt that the cultural impact of Brexit is its most overlooked aspect. Interesting people are less likely to want or be able to come here, we will have less to attract young people and tourists, there’ll be less to spend on the arts, our cultural diet will diminish, and all of those things will only augment the grey, mean, narrow-minded national mindset which carried the vote in the first place. It’s really depressing.

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Agreed to an extent, but it’s not just Brexit. The effect of the war on spongers/shirkers/anyone who doesn’t have a ‘proper job’, from benefit restrictions to tuition fees, basically makes it significantly harder for people who don’t come from a well-off background to make it in any of the arts.

I don’t have much in the way of numbers to hand, but it seems like there’s more and more privately-educated bands / actors than there used to be…

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very, very wary of this “war on fake news”.

it won’t stop at the brexit referendum. we know when they say “disinformation” they mean “facts that undermine the narrative we are peddling”.

Yup. As has been noted elsewhere:

https://mobile.twitter.com/benton_dan/status/1022776403727724544

https://mobile.twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1022748566857687041

https://mobile.twitter.com/benabyad/status/1023987981261176832

Glad we buried that hatchet!

From earlier this year. Capitalist response to country suffering effects of climate change is a punitive one.

Climate fascism. If this is happening to SA imagine how much worse this will be for a country on capital’s shitlist.

Adjacent to this, UK water companies are implementing hosepipe bans while refusing to fix leaks and channeling millions of gallons to fracking sites at grotesquely discounted rates.

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Immigration enforcement cunts swarming all round the flats where I live this morning, I’m assuming this is the start of the hundreds of evictions of asylum seekers.

Meanwhile, there’s a big party in George Square tonight to celebrate the start of the European Championships, because yay us.

Well this is just a step too far!

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Bit upset by this one, tbh:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SadierLae/status/962863533238247424

The courage to speak the truth =
Say nasty things about trans people and women > get 60,000/month on Patreon.

So ruddy bloody brave.

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does anyone find it slightly odd that people expressing justified doubts about other events elsewhere in the world are called conspiracy theorists by the same noted liberal paper of record currently blue-skying the idea of this being a false flag, despite a right wing group claiming responsibility?

anyway, hands off venezuela

and also why is this on the front page considering the shitshow ongoing in our own country atm?

If the story wasn’t on the front page you’d be complaining that it’s (yet another) example of bias by minimising the coverage given to an attempt to assassinate a left-wing head of state.

not really. but anyway, it’s fair to ask why this is on the front page in light of what’s happening here and how desperately we need some good coverage of it.

Idk, clearly there’s a need for things in the UK to be reported properly, but not to the exclusion of what else is going on in the world. I’d still have thought an assassination attempt on a head of state is worthy of pretty major coverage, particularly given all the suggestions of outside interference in Venezuela there’s been.

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It’s because it’s drones. Drones are cool and because there’s TV pictures of it.

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well it’s august so yeah, it’s venezuela time in the british press again. the other article covering the event, fine. i guess i’m wondering what the purpose of writing this weird conspiracist article is. group has already claimed responsibility afaik. bit weird. guardian doing fake news.