Dean Burnett (that brains guy)Nov 4, 2023

Why stop there?

Severely physically or mentally impaired? Lifestyle choice

Living in an abusive environment? Lifestyle choice

Literally drowning right now? You should have chosen a lifestyle with better access to air

Don't have to fund support for anything if everything is a choice, after all.

Show threadNemo

@Garwboy
Most of them, I think they're greedy, or stupid, or lazy, or uncaring. It's disappointing, sad, but not jarring.

This one, every single time, make me go "what the fuck is *wrong* with her".
@cstross

Nov 4, 2023 at 3:31pmWeb
Show threadCharlie StrossNov 4, 2023
@iinavpov @Garwboy The worst thing about Braverman is that she's clearly part of a Project, and she's phase 2 (phase 1 was Priti Patel): coming next is phase 3, and it's going to be home secretary Kemi Badenoch. (Who is like an insane cross between Braverman and Liz Truss.)
Show threadJeff Zugale - Z FactoryNov 4, 2023
@cstross @iinavpov @Garwboy you guys really need to start French Revolution-ing these execrable upper-class twits before you really, truly are reduced to serfs. Your island isn’t that big, and you outnumber them thousands to one. Compared to the US your geo-logistical situation is much simpler.
Show threadJeff Zugale - Z FactoryNov 4, 2023
@cstross @iinavpov @Garwboy I should disclaim here that I would very very much prefer non-violent resolutions to all of this insanity, but history is pretty stark about this.
Show threadNemoNov 4, 2023

@jeffzugale
So... Britain did it first. Too early. And because there was no theory of the liberal state then, the king got replaced by a Lord Protector, and then weaker kings, and *centuries* to tend towards democracy.

I don't know that today there's a theory to replace the liberal state (I'd like social democracy, but that seems transient). And people just don't do revolutions to get the system back where it should.

Nor, perhaps, should they.

@cstross @Garwboy

Show threadCharlie StrossNov 4, 2023
@iinavpov @jeffzugale @Garwboy Revolutions tend to eat their children.
Show threadJeff Zugale - Z FactoryNov 4, 2023
@cstross @iinavpov @Garwboy I know this well. There’s no “good” way to fix any of this. 🤷‍♂️
Show threadMajor Denis BloodnokNov 5, 2023
@iinavpov @jeffzugale @cstross @Garwboy Centuries is a stretch; Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution did effect a very fundamental change. It's just gone a bit shit since.
Show threadrandom thoughtsNov 5, 2023

@cstross @iinavpov @Garwboy

Incoming phase 3 of Fascism in the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values

Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist

Leaked documents spark furious backlash from groups who fear freedom of expression could be suppressed

The Guardian
Show threadCharlie StrossNov 5, 2023
@hittitezombie @iinavpov @Garwboy See you in the camps, I guess?
Show threadrandom thoughtsNov 5, 2023
@cstross @iinavpov @Garwboy I am a very potential 'undesirable'.