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I'm filled with anger that it was so easy to gull the people into going along with so much self harming but here we are. Until the people start making smarter

I'm filled with anger that it was so easy to gull the people into going along with so much self harming but here we are. Until the people start making smarter decisions this country will race further and further into the morass it finds itself in. I despise the establishment. I despise the generally spineless main stream media who are strangely unable to ask the right questions and dig deeper for the truth. I despise right wing voters. I despise people who conflates socialism with communism. Pretty much sums up the country.

tetris11 3y ago
You've described my tremulous feelings on the whole situation very well. I blame mostly the Murdoch media. The government was always full of Tory pyschophants, but the media kept the masses informed enough to keep the damage in check. People used to resign in disgrace if they failed their post. After the phone hacking scandal in 2007, the Leveson Inquiry[1], and the resulting lack of action that passed after it, Murdoch media has only been emboldened to act and report disgracefully. As much as I hate the Tory's, I blame the Blair-Murdoch relationship for kicking it off. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry
- mrlonglong 3y ago
  A real shame they didn't put into law the findings of the Leveson inquiry. Shadowy figures in the establishment clearly didn't like the implications of the inquiry and sat on it. Eventually they will have to - look at what's happened already. There needs to be far more transparent accountability for wayward ministers and prime ministers - otherwise what's the point?
rswskg 3y ago
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baal80spam 3y ago
> I despise people who conflates socialism with communism. You despise me then, I can live with that. Having grew up in both, I despise them both equally.
- mrlonglong 3y ago
  "conflates" - confuses socialism and communism. Socialism, when done well, is an enormous force for good, for example the NHS. I cannot understand how people can be against socialism when the benefits clearly outweighs the downsides.

tetris11 3y ago

You've described my tremulous feelings on the whole situation very well. I blame mostly the Murdoch media. The government was always full of Tory pyschophants, but the media kept the masses informed enough to keep the damage in check. People used to resign in disgrace if they failed their post. After the phone hacking scandal in 2007, the Leveson Inquiry[1], and the resulting lack of action that passed after it, Murdoch media has only been emboldened to act and report disgracefully. As much as I hate the Tory's, I blame the Blair-Murdoch relationship for kicking it off. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry

mrlonglong 3y ago
A real shame they didn't put into law the findings of the Leveson inquiry. Shadowy figures in the establishment clearly didn't like the implications of the inquiry and sat on it. Eventually they will have to - look at what's happened already. There needs to be far more transparent accountability for wayward ministers and prime ministers - otherwise what's the point?

rswskg 3y ago

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baal80spam 3y ago

> I despise people who conflates socialism with communism. You despise me then, I can live with that. Having grew up in both, I despise them both equally.

mrlonglong 3y ago
"conflates" - confuses socialism and communism. Socialism, when done well, is an enormous force for good, for example the NHS. I cannot understand how people can be against socialism when the benefits clearly outweighs the downsides.