Any political unit sound enough to project its power over a large geographic area for centuries has deep structural roots. Those roots can’t be pulled up in a day or even a year. If an empire seems to topple overnight, it’s certain that the conditions that produced the outcome had been present for a long time—suppurating wounds that finally turned septic enough for the patient to succumb to a sudden trauma.
That’s why the banalities matter. When the real issues come up, healthy states, the ones capable of handling and minimizing everyday dysfunction, have a great deal more capacity to respond than those happily waltzing toward their end. But by the time the obvious, glaring crisis arrives and the true scale of the problem becomes clear, it’s far too late. The disaster—a major crisis of political legitimacy, a coronavirus pandemic, a climate catastrophe—doesn’t so much break the system as show just how broken the system already was.
A lot of today’s climatologists may at this point feel like Superman’s father and Krypton’s leading scientist, Jor-El, who, in the comic book world, tried to warn the Council of Elders that planetary doom was nigh unless they acted.
No serious scientists believe that we will share the fate of Krypton — the comic book planet exploded — but mitigating and reversing the crisis will have to be done independently of capitalist corporations and their government. Unless that is done, global warming will bring more widespread death and destruction. The poorest countries and populations will bear the brunt of it.
Did the tories really have the put lgbt conservatives in Section 28
I GUARANTEE you that was deliberate. The fuckers are proud of what they are and what they’ve done.
From Wikipedia:
Section 28 or Clause 28[note 1] were a series of laws across Britain that prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality” by local authorities. Introduced by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, it was in effect from 1988 to 2000 (in Scotland) and 2003 (in England and Wales). It caused many organisations such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender student support groups to close or limit their activities or self-censor.
In practice that meant that teachers couldn’t come out to or even mention lgbtq+ people existing to their students without risking losing their jobs, it meant that schools could not support lgbtq+ students or tackle anti lgbtq+ bullying for risk of being punished for it
Section 28 shaped an entire generation of lgbtq+ peoples’ lives and is arguably responsible (at least in part) for the rise of anti-trans sentiment in mainstream politics and media in the UK right now
Lgbtq+ activists protested the law and fought for it to be revoked. The charity Stonewall UK was one of the main organisations behind the law being retracted. Stonewall UK are currently being attacked by UK politicians and press for supporting trans people
And I’ll just leave you with this quote from former conservative prime minister (one current tory pm Boris Johnson seems to greatly admire) Margaret Thatcher:
section 28 was devastating and a lot of the homophobic reasoning in favour of it, and coverage from the press is almost word for word being reproduced against transgender people right now. I wouldn’t be suprised if they created a new one specifically for us. And a lot of the people who agreed with this are in the gender critical movement because despite what they say they are at their core anti ALL lgbt, shown by the mp (too many names to remember in this issue but I’m sure you could find her) who voted against gay marriage getting involved.
Gay conservatives deserve to be shit on by their own side, thi
“During the early stages of the Covid-19 lockdown, prominent newspaper columnists defended their right to have someone clean their homes, even at significant risk to their health, on dubiously feminist grounds. Their argument was that without outsourcing domestic work it would be women who had to do the bulk of it. We might wonder if their cleaners were not also women. When the journalist Owen Jones criticised the cavalier attitude that employers of cleaners were taking to workplace safety, he was accused of sexism. His accusers claimed to be fighting the idea that women have some natural duty or propensity to cleaning but the upshot of their argument was that it is fine for some other – i.e. poorer, usually migrant – women to pick up after them. Escaping the confines of the domestic feminine was their individual prerogative, not a shared horizon for all women.”
— Amelia Horgan, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
During the 1st live iPhone demo, Steve
Jobs was secretly switching phones
because they couldn’t even play a song
without crashing. Their displays were
rigged to show 5 bars of signal strength
and he had to use a portable cell tower
just so they would seem reliable enough
to make calls. One little mistake could’ve
ruined the entire presentation, but Jobs
got through it flawlessly, and the iPhone
was a hit before it ever actually worked.
SourceSource 2
I like how the narrative here is “master showman” and not “dumbass who made a phone that doesn’t work and lied about it.”
