Anyone got the Clarkson meme handy?

I consider this a companion piece to https://feddit.uk/post/37420973

Maybe it’s my luck with what branches I’m near. Pret seems to have gone from moderately pricy but with a decent range, to limited and unreasonably expensive.

I think the author comes to the same conclusion as you, but then rules it out because Labour themselves seem unwilling to do it.

Reece Shearsmith and Sanjeev Bhaskar are pretty much UK comedy royalty. Looking forward to Sanjeev in particular, as I think he’s gonna really throw himself at it.

‘Hold my beer’ I believe

Yeah but these are often accompanied by us flying all of our military aircraft over London. I think the analogy holds, even if ours is a bit eccentric.

I’m not American (but we do get a lot of US Pol foisted on us), so forgive me if I’m missing something… I thought the US democratic party was basically everyone more left wing than Joe Manchin. There are ‘third parties’, but in general the broad church argument applies… Anyway aren’t USians able to actually pick the candidates that stand for those parties? So wouldn’t you use the generals to vote ‘against’ Republicans, but then use the primaries process to vote for the shape of D you wanted? Here that’s not an option, the party puts up candidates. But you have the ability to pressure the candidates even after they are elected. Might be a long shot, but is inherently less fatalistic than just giving up, or even (as seems disturbingly popular these days) calling for some form of civil war.

I’m not a ‘we won’t be friends’ person. But I do think this is a really poor response. Who you work for is one of the biggest ethical decisions you make. You take years of training and skills and you use them for 40+ hours a week to… Well, support the actions of an industry that brings misery to millions of people.

Getting a job is hard, but it’s not impossible. And you’re choosing avoiding that discomfort over making life worse for people. You may be but a tiny cog in a giant machine, but if that cog has to turn you’re part of the problem.

I know this is gonna come off as aggressive. I have no beef with you personally, and you are but one of hundreds of millions of people shrugging and working in destructive of unethical enterprises. But that shrugging is the system. Collectively the system doesn’t work without you all dedicating half your waking life to it.

I do wish you the best, but hope you’ll eventually do the hard thing. Because it’s the right thing.

Isn’t that a ‘necessary but not sufficient’ condition though? I’m thinking principally of the struggles in Zimbabwe here.

I love how memes (in the Dawkinsian sense) work. Lots of people have enjoyed this, but I can imagine this being quoted as the original is lost to the sands of time.

Young people everywhere thinking that Aquaman was someone who just bought failing assets from everyone.