Particularly when a lot of accusations can just be reduced to "he's a recluse/loner/eccentric and therefore...". This is why we are supposed to have due process and innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt in a civilised society. Anything else is mob justice and witch hunts.
The problem Dev has is that he's trying to paint himself as the one critical of both the left and right at a time when everyone is being told to pick a side as everything accelerates post Trump assassination attempt and we're being told that it's either them or us. Even Tim Pool has dropped the milquetoast fencesitter stance and become firmly right wing and very pro "defend yourself by any means necessary to preserve yourself and your culture" in the last week.
I think a switch was flipped post attempt and a lot of the rhetoric I am seeing from the right is that cancel culture is merely the start and in response to what the left actively say on public forums about the right (see Destiny's rhetoric about the right and in particular, Trump supporters) therefore anything is now fair game, the left is seen as a grave threat and the right must be first to beat them to it. A spiral down into a (hopefully not literal) arms race. Considering we are now post what happened to Trump. An intense anger that has been bottled up and brewing has now been released since that attempt was made. There's no going back from this.
This doesn't mean we need to stalk and harrass those we disagree with like the left does...
Too late. I've seen much support for doxing of home addresses of opponents and worse against the left in a form of spiral towards full and unequivocal retribution. This may be the beginning of what people call the civil war.
Except people aren't advocating for cancel culture, they want far more. I've seen one commentator advocating for the left to get the "Rittenhouse treatment".
Escalation and ramping up seems to be the only way things are going.
This will move toward "cancelling them by getting them fired is not enough". And then both sides will escalate in retribution, ramping up the rhetoric and action on both sides.
Maybe this is the civil war that people were warning about.
What will happen is that after the right engages in cancel culture, the left will retaliate by ratcheting up their actions. We end up in a purity spiral on both sides and we end up in a (hopefully not literal) arms race between the left and the right of escalation and retribution.
I remember Operation Disrespectful Nod targeted advertisers for unethical journalistic outlets. That's different from specifically targeting individuals.
I suspect now we will end up in a spiral where will end up with the left and right engaging in an (hopefully not literal) arms race to not just cancel individuals but go even further. Once the right does this, the left will go one step further and then the right will outdo them and this won't end well.
Listening to a commentator for the Labour Party suggesting the solution that they can make more prison places if they release women (does that include Lucy Letby?), scrap the women's prisons and convert them into men's prisons. So if this commentator gets his way, we will have a two-tier double standard justice system, women will be allowed to get away with literal murder while men continue to go to prison for much lesser crimes?
it would not surprise me if the insecurity of call and SMS infrastructure was used to migrate everyone to WhatsApp. I get the distinct impression that it would save the network operators money and move the running costs of the communication network from them to Meta as they desire a move to data only packages (at the same price of higher, there's no way they'd pass any savings onto the consumer).
Honestly, I would not be surprised if you buy a smartphone in the future and its phone and messaging options are just shortcuts to Whatsapp functions.
Of course, if you're banned from Meta, you effectively get disenfranchised from communication as WhatsApp becomes the default option for everyone to use. Whereas I get a choice of mobile network operators to make calls and send messages from. If I get told to leave one network, there's still three more networks I can use and I can still call and text all my contacts. Not with WhatsApp.
The awful, cool summer (parts of North East Greenland will be warmer than parts of the UK today) has silenced the climate change crowd. Not even Just Stop Oil has been out blocking roads and throwing paint since their Stonehenge stunt.
Speaking of my own experience, lived alone effectively since being a teenager, was lied to about the dating market as said teenager, had to build everything up from being homeless the second I left school and various other issues that do not pertain to a successful dating life. I quit dating at the end of 2016 because the juice isn't worth the squeeze. Have been going my own way ever since and never been happier in that decision. Particularly when I see the cesspit dating is nowadays.
From other men I know, they either married the woman they met in high school or they are single and still on the dating apps and not succeeding. I think this issue goes a lot deeper than society would like to admit. But nothing will get done because it only affects 95% of men and who cares about them? The single women on the other hand, it's either lifetime celibacy by choice or even when they get to their fifties and sixties, never mind twenties and thirties, are getting offers from men left, right and centre.
I do think the red pill manosphere now is full of hucksters, cope, genetics denial and reality denial.
At this point, whatever is left of the Conservatives may as well have talks with Starmer to merge. They are Blue Labour. It irks me when right wing commentators genuinely believe that the Tories are a credible opposition to Labour as they rant about and lecture Reform voters about how they voted incorrectly at the election.
I'm bringing up dating and such because this is inevitably where this all goes to, I'm surprised she hasn't run around calling everybody a virgin yet.
She ultimately believes that your credibility, worth and integrity as a man is based on your ability to get laid. As opposed to someone's accomplishments, merits and content of their character. Frankly, I find her characterisations of her critics as pathetic.
As for Internet and silencing podcasts, Elon Musk has MORE power than the UK government, if Twitter was to pull out of the UK, they'd probably suffer a recession
Unlikely. There'll just be a UK version of Twitter.
If anything, there would be celebration of Twitter exiting the UK. Worse still, they'd prefer to have an internal network which can be crafted and regulated by Government "for your own safety" and "for the safety of the children". It just isn't practical at the moment without destroying your economy or facing a massive backlash - that takes time unlike in regimes like North Korea, Cuba or Iran. But I suspect a national Intranet outside of Government and business is coming and will happen eventually.
A lot of those further on the right, Liz Truss, those who opposed lockdowns, masks and mandatory vaccination as well as those who advocate for Brexit lost their seats last night and the Tories left are predominately Tories in name only. There is no way the remaining Tories will have anything to do with Farage and Reform, no matter what outsiders demand of them.
We saw the vast majority of the public willingly embrace lockdown as opposed to question that strategy and ask legitimate questions as to why we did not adopt what Sweden was doing. One of the doses of reality someone has to come to terms with is that we are a hierarchical society and the vast majority of people prefer to be dictated to by a leader and to have their lives controlled by a higher power. We libertarians are a minority and sadly to say, always will be.
Most people also prefer a two party system and will choose between the two main parties. The First Past The Post political system we have is very well suited to keeping us in that situation. Again, there is no appetite beside from a small minority to bring in Proportional Representation for national Government. People want the status quo and do not want to change.
If you have been paying attention to the news on polling day, the media was pushing the Holly Willoughby kidnapping plot hard and really focusing on the man who planned it - as a loner, a hermit, single, male and unattractive and how those characteristics in men make them a threat to women and girls. Something that will be at the heart of a new Labour Government.
The Lotus Eaters were making the point on their livestream very correctly that there were politicians whining about how Ofcom needed to regulate podcasters and how they should fall under Ofcom rules. So even the Lotus Eaters now are considering, okay, how do we get around jurisdictions.
That gets enforced next year, regardless of whether the Tories or Labour won. I honestly would not be surprised if Labour and the Tories just decide that the Internet is too unregulatable and they decide to go full national Intranet for the populous while making the Internet the exclusive realm of the state and business.
The alternative is that you give permission for the police to do this to you when you do a thought or speech crime. What is done to your opponents can also be done to you.