SNEWSLEYPIES

u/SNEWSLEYPIES@lemm.ee
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What is happening?

Already answered your own question there chum:

have the Tories just given up

...they're literally just sitting and running down the clock at this point.

This is exactly the sort of aggressive nonsense that constitutes the problem I'm trying to shed light on for you. Stop it. You don't help. The road it leads down ends in oppression for all of us, no matter if it's from the "left" or "right". Stop picking fights.

For the record, your read of me is very far off the mark.

The "i don't want factions" faction

Which you've just invented. No such animal exists unless you insist on comprehending the world in absolutes. It's an unhelpful choice.

irreconcilable differences in ideology

There are none. When you choose an ideology that claims there are, then you are de facto giving up on politics in favour of fighting.

The reason we as a species gradually invented politics over the last five or ten thousand years is precisely to reconcile differences of opinion that would otherwise lead to conflict. A refusal to partake in it would be base barbarism, in my estimation.

I recall having a vague idea it might've been a Charlie Brooker project, but I don't remember why.

The animal genitalia insults fitted, at any rate.

Maybe ISPs is an okay comparison? Most of us are on different ISPs but we access the same internet.

It's probably more productive to just ignore the technical details. Half the country seems to believe they're buying "wi-fi" nowadays.

Just stick with "try Mastodon" or "try Lemmy" and let the non-technical folk build whatever mental model suits them best.

Seems like the BBC may have another one on their hands.

Another... what, exactly? Rude, unpleasant person who happens to be either gay or bi? (I think I get this message from the reporting, but I'm not certain that I've specifically seen the gender of the original "young person" mentioned now that I think about it)

This is such an obviously confected story to fling shit at the BBC. It disappoints me that so many otherwise articulate and sensible people seem to be swallowing it hook line and sinker.