Zombie
@Zombie@feddit.uk
- Comment on Going ‘behind enemy lines’ at a far-right demo I saw how fascism hides behind a veneer of normality 1 day ago:
…blogspot.com/…/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1
I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you…It doesn’t walk in saying,
"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."- Michael Rosen
- Comment on Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag 1 day ago:
Ersin Celik was born in 1982 making him about 43 (depending on month born).
I can fully understand why he would view a small 22 year old as a little kid. She’s half his age.
You can be fully aware someone is a grown adult and at the same time pity them as just a kid, especially one being tortured by a genocidal state.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 1 day ago:
A solarPUNK performing speech control?
I said the word fuck. Not bigotry, not insults.
The vitriol is due to their confident ignorance in the face of facts. They were corrected by the admin of the UK server as to there not being a UK green party and responded with an insulting imperialist stance that they all fly under the Union Jack anyway. Throughout this comment thread they responded with nonsense or holier than thou stances. Even in response to my comment they frame it as a debate and order me to stop when there is no debate to be had.
Your comment is a disappointment to your server’s ideology.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 2 days ago:
Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.
Oh fuck off with this ignorance.
The Scottish Greens and The Green Party of England and Wales are not the same and have no official association.
The Scottish Greens officially declared no longer working with GPEW several years ago because of their transphobic stance. They also have different economic outlooks. The Scottish Greens lean towards socialism while the GPEW has a lot of ex Tories.
The Scottish Greens are also pro independence, so do they fuck fly under the Union Jack.
Yes there’s hope now that the GPEW will move more towards a socialist stance but that doesn’t make them the same.
- Comment on Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest 3 days ago:
GMP said it declared Plato – the national codeword used by police and emergency services when responding to a “marauding terror attack” – at 9.37am.
Anyone know why the name Plato was chosen for that?
- Comment on Britons believe the UK is seen by the rest of the world as ‘weak’ and ‘soft touch’ 1 week ago:
Is that a bad thing?
Do people want to be known as the world bully?
- Comment on Former Member of European Parliament pleads guilty to bribery following Counter Terrorism Policing investigation 1 week ago:
Former leader of Reform in Wales. So not some low rung nobody either
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 week ago:
- Why do we complain of Nature? She has shown herself kindly; life, if you know how to use it, is long. But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men’s fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: “The part of life we really live is small.”[1] For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Vices beset us and surround us on every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment of truth, but they keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust. Their victims are never allowed to return to their true selves; if ever they chance to find some release, like the waters of the deep sea which continue to heave even after the storm is past, they are tossed about, and no rest from their lusts abides. Think you that I am speaking of the wretches whose evils are admitted? Look at those whose prosperity men flock to behold; they are smothered by their blessings. To how many are riches a burden! From how many do eloquence and the daily straining to display their powers draw forth blood! How many are pale from constant pleasures! To how many does the throng of clients that crowd about them leave no freedom! In short, run through the list of all these men from the lowest to the highest—this man desires an advocate,[2] this one answers the call, that one is on trial, that one defends him, that one gives sentence; no one asserts his claim to himself, everyone is wasted for the sake of another. Ask about the men whose names are known by heart, and you will see that these are the marks that distinguish them: A cultivates B and B cultivates C; no one is his own master. And then certain men show the most senseless indignation—they complain of the insolence of their superiors, because they were too busy to see them when they wished an audience! But can anyone have the hardihood to complain of the pride of another when he himself has no time to attend to himself? After all, no matter who you are, the great man does sometimes look toward you even if his face is insolent, he does sometimes condescend to listen to your words, he permits you to appear at his side; but you never deign to look upon yourself, to give ear to yourself. There is no reason, therefore, to count anyone in debt for such services, seeing that, when you performed them, you had no wish for another’s company, but could not endure your own.
- Seneca the Younger
en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/…/Chapter_II
I highly encourage everyone to read these letters by Seneca, the Stoic philosopher, at least once in their life. Preferably earlier than later.
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 1 week ago:
Good. Fuck off big pharma.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 week ago:
Also known as a coward.
Time, aging, and death come for us all. We must make peace with that knowledge. This man is incapable of living life, through fear of losing his life.
I’m gonna go play in some dirt now, and eat raspberries straight from the bush. I know which of us will be enjoying our time on this planet more.
- Comment on WACK. 1 week ago:
Ah, I see, you’ve been turning water into wine again. You be careful now, if you drink too much they’ll have you up on that cross again and we all remember how it took you 3 whole days to recover from that hangover
- Comment on WACK. 1 week ago:
I’m not sure if you’re for or against biodiversity with this comment…
The first line seems to contradict the second.
Unless it’s abolish lawns to replace them with tarmac or something?
- Comment on First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty 2 weeks ago:
Dangerous terrorists but being released on unconditional bail?
Me thinks the courts know this is a farce.
- Comment on UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows 2 weeks ago:
The Grauniad making typos? Never!
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 3 weeks ago:
Hey now, don’t forget the Scots, Irish, and Welsh! Leeching from His Majesty’s Eng’rland so they can buy their heroin, drink, and sheep
- Comment on BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 3 weeks ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBiryX7a8gA&t=1230s
Skip to 20:30 if the time jump doesn’t work.
Comedy has been attacked and gutted from its previous peak as well.
- Comment on Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules 3 weeks ago:
Scumbags.
In contrast, Scotland just protected huge areas.
bluemarinefoundation.com/scottish-government-safe…
To see the sheer devastation and indiscriminate ecocide that bottom trawling does, watch this Attenborough clip:
- Comment on Oldmeldrum man who sent fish porn to pal as ‘joke’ admits obscenity charge 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oldmeldrum man who sent fish porn to pal as ‘joke’ admits obscenity charge 4 weeks ago:
Paywalled, also fuck the P&J.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 4 weeks ago:
Thought real hard from the sound of things. Real hard.
She’s “just tryna make her nut” but get this, if you help the fascists your nut just keeps getting bigger and you keep getting sadder. Committing immoral acts and watching as your country gets worse and your bills just go up.
What a world that the best portrayal of this bullshit stance is from a toilet humour cartoon.
- Comment on We are made of stardust 4 weeks ago:
Dust. High fat or low fat? Anybody?
- Comment on Public testing of the Emergency Alerts system 4 weeks ago:
If we’ve only got 4 minutes anyway, what’s the point?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_warning
Natural disasters, invasion, etc will be announced through so many news systems that I think I’ll stick to a nice silent phone.
So far the UK doesn’t appear to have abused the system but America certainly has and we’re ever increasingly becoming like them, so again, I’ll keep a nice silent phone and get a silent notification from the news if anything urgent happens.
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 4 weeks ago:
Right! Stop that. It’s silly!
- Comment on Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals 4 weeks ago:
Nazi punks! Nazi punks! Nazi punks! FUCK OFF!
- Comment on Met police chief calls for review of law after Graham Linehan arrest 4 weeks ago:
Met police chief forgets his fucking place and how society and justice function in this country.
The politicians set the laws, the police enforce the laws, the courts judge the laws.
The police have no business in politicking. That is a right they gave up in becoming a police chief.
Or should they just start questioning the legitimacy of every law? Where’s their questioning on proscription? Where’s their questioning of the Online Safety Act?
- Comment on Sainsbury’s tests facial recognition technology in effort to tackle shoplifting 4 weeks ago:
Ffs.
Asda, Flannels, Costcutter, Home Bargains, and Sports Direct as well according to the article.
How do you boycott every shop?
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 4 weeks ago:
Aye, so to compensate for a complicated, privatised, and fractured rail system, they implement a complicated ticketing system in the name of convenience. It’s a shit system to cover for all the other shit systems within English rail.
If they instead nationalise the rail, the end user can have simple fares from one easy provider.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 4 weeks ago:
Or nationalise it and then simplify it like this:
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 5 weeks ago:
Rail minister Lord Peter Hendy said: “The railway ticketing system is far too complicated
So by making it reliant upon a foreign satellite navigation system, everyone having a working phone, and a willingness to give us permission to track all of your movements, we’ve now made it simpler than a piece of paper!
- Comment on bet you can think of more 5 weeks ago:
The irony being the internet is where the left retreated when the real world became too hostile
If the time marker didn’t work in the link, skip to 42:10
