tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post444421651085384449..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Hurrah for the Yellow Shirts?Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-31413416487090918412018-12-18T00:54:26.937+00:002018-12-18T00:54:26.937+00:00I love the Buzzfeed take you mention:
"Appar...I love the Buzzfeed take you mention:<br /><br />"Apparently, tweeks to the company's algorithms designed to de-prioritise fake news and allow material from "trusted local sources" a higher ranking in one's newsfeeds has privileged local news."<br /><br />I can picture someone smashing their fist on the table. "Fake news, trusted news, national news, local news, damn it, gentlemen, don't you see, the problem is news!"Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06368580633580971373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-9683948823220666282018-12-17T16:05:00.629+00:002018-12-17T16:05:00.629+00:00'It's almost as if there is a large, influ...'It's almost as if there is a large, influential section of elite opinion who refuse to believe there is anything wrong with the world and prefer the delusion of Russki conspiracy or the overweening power of social media to confronting their own obsolescence.'<br /><br />That basically sums up the smug, self satisfied mostly London based metropolitan 'liberals' (for liberal read centre right economically) who pretend to want a left wing answer to the Tories, yet like the Guardian continually attack, belittle, subtly demean and studiously ignore anyone and anything that is simply left wing. The Guardian is merely the slightly less (sometimes admittedly a lot less) odious twin of the Daily Mail, as both are reactionary, sensationalist, quick to stir things up and both seem to dislike poor and working class people.<br /><br />The Gilet Jaunes are the French version of Brexit and Trump voters, a mish mash of people pissed off with the political machine and aloof establishment, and the various puppets, clones and mediocrities in power everywhere. <br /><br />What we need in the UK is significant political, social and economic reform. What I can say is that the middle class 'left liberals' will never speak up for that and indeed with the Tories have spent the last thirty years or so denying even moderate social mobility for millions of working class people of all ethnicities. Fakes, flakes and phonies doesn't even begin to describe the majority of metropolitan 'liberals'. Tmbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-26289043308231351822018-12-16T18:55:19.097+00:002018-12-16T18:55:19.097+00:00Today in Northwestern rural Ireland, anti-eviction...<a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/1216/1017458-roscommon-attack/" rel="nofollow">Today in Northwestern rural Ireland, anti-eviction protestors wearing yellow vests have physically beaten dodgy private security contractors with baseball bats</a>1729torushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09262372962990418135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-65957078652778266102018-12-16T03:46:20.948+00:002018-12-16T03:46:20.948+00:00It already has happened - Ireland seceded from the...It already <i>has</i> happened - Ireland seceded from the UK because rural areas were being neglected and left to die (sometimes literally) by an over-centralised state run by liberals and landowners.<br /><br />1729torushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09262372962990418135noreply@blogger.com