Recent ones:
Severance
Pluribus
Older one I didn’t see anyone mention yet:
Peep Show (amazing British comedy, truly uncomfortable levels of cringe)
Trump just seems to repeat the thoughts of the last person he spoke to that actually got through to him somehow. Why Putin seems to be so good at doing that is anyone’s guess.
In any case, this will continue until he meets some European leaders again. I think the person who flipped him last time seems to have been King Charles?
But this all just shows it doesn’t even matter. As Orwell said:
“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”
He is too dumb to do anything else. The record will be changed and changed back again and again.
British here. You’re right. It’s the culmination of decades of intentional misinformation and stoking the fears of the racist and stupid. Appealing to the politicians spreading this (e.g. Farage) is useless. Appealing to the public is useless.
I heard a story about a friend of a friend who thought that one million immigrants entered Britain every day. As in, the population would literally double in two months if this was true. But not only did he not realise that, he repeated the “fact” to other people.
Obviously a lot of us are fine. But Reform is leading in the polls and people believe shit like that so the reality is most of us are not.
We can come back to this comment in a few days. Israel will find some “issue” with it and derail the process.
I hope I’m wrong.