I think I would swap the word government for collective, but otherwise I completely agree, and yeah, we’re a long way away unfortunately. But we can hope, and inform others, and join/invest in projects that are working towards that end!

That’s cool. Also TIL asparagus foliage looks a lot like dill.

No reason whatsoever anyone should own 5 “homes” (at that point they are not homes, they are a commodity).

Housing is a human right, and it needs to be entirely decommodified.

Thanks, that’s one race I definitely don’t keep up to date on. All billionaires need to cease to exist.

Think about it!

Do it!!!

Fuck these greedy bastards.

And yet, he’s still one of the what, 5 richest people on the planet?

He doesn’t give a shit, and neither should you (as nice as the schadenfreude might feel). He got something worth more to him than plain old money - an established propaganda platform, which he is using as he intended - to war monger and otherwise interfere in politics to ensure fascism progresses as fast as he can help it. The “dent” (more like a surface scratch) it put in his finances is completely invisible and irrelevant to him.

And it should be to you, too.

He is NEVER going to end up without means or power, not even fucking close, unless we take them from him, and abolish the system that encouraged and enabled him to amass them in the first place.

When my cat was a baby she got tangled by the neck in a blinds cord, thankfully I was right there, but it scared the shit out of me. I rent, and still (and everywhere else I’ve lived) have corded blinds, but the cords are now rolled up and tied to the top so they’re out of the way. This kind of regulation is a good thing.

Right? But as is always the case with sexual violence - some people will always make excuses. It’s just easier for them than confronting the reality (E: that it’s even a possibility), usually because they’re far enough removed from being at direct risk.

They were both adult men of similar age.

Which has literally nothing to do with consent. Men rape other men their own age all the fucking time. What a ridiculous and wilfully ignorant point to try and make, jfc…

It’s because tankies aren’t communists, they’re authoritarians.

Ah, I think I’d caught it on repeat the day before 3 came on, so I must have mixed them up, thanks!

Was Rosie holding baby Alex up to the doorbell camera this episode? That cracked me up 😂

Also I agree, the art task was superb, they all did so fucking well!

This photo is actual nightmare fuel. 😫

I think that’s the point, just like with “a few bad apples”, the original intent of the saying has been subverted to help those in power keep the rest of us down (if you just do this impossible thing, you’ll be just like us! Why don’t you just do that impossible thing already, you useless lazy bastard? And so on. It’s part cognitive dissonance to make themselves feel like they’re “self made”, part gaslighting convincing us we’re just not trying hard enough).

For starters, I’m not a dude. I also don’t have a list for you because I have never spent any of my time thinking about how to make other people dance, nor how others might make me dance (drunk or otherwise). If we somehow ended up at the same party and you (or anyone) pulled a guitar out, I’d get up and walk away from the area (as I’m sure at least a few people did in every single one of the times you mentioned, you just didn’t notice).

So like I said - you do you, but know your audience. You’ve obviously found plenty of “your” people, just enjoy that, but not everyone likes the same things you do, and that’s ok. Suggesting getting people drunk so “everyone” enjoy what you’re doing? Not so much.

Vegan Madras curry with rice (also, it’s 6am, I fell asleep at some point yesterday evening and only woke up again a couple of hours ago, chronic fatigue is a bitch).

Well at least it was consensual

Says the only person who left the room alive.

I’m not saying it was or wasn’t (E: or that the death was planned or deliberate, though that is a possibility, however unlikely), or that consensually doing drugs together and having sex is wrong in itself, but the chem-sex world is absolutely rife with rape, coercion, and abuse, so to just assume it was consensual is a big leap.

I will remember survivorship bias

The just world fallacy is another one worth remembering, in the context of your post, but also generally.

Also

If hard work led to success, then a poor person working three jobs should be rich.

You got George Monbiot’s quote almost exactly word for word:

He didn’t have to work three jobs to pay rent, but he is set up as a rags-to-riches story, using elbow grease and grit to become the mogul he is.

Lastly, you’re right, but it’s important to remember what he does have, and why - privilege, and lots of it (being a white man from a rich background, with a supportive family to boot? They all put his starting points miles ahead of most others), which he is given by white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, which is why he (and many others, even without the billions, privilege is one hell of a drug) will never work to end those systems and work towards creating a world where everyone has equitable access and opportunity.

Capitalist propaganda.

“Aspiration” to be more precise, it’s one of the ways capitalists convince large segments of the public that they’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires, who just need to pull their bootstraps up hard enough, and they will make it, like the people in the programme did (conveniently they never address things like racism, sexism, queerphobia, ableism, and other barriers that many people have to face just to survive, never mind thrive, and the fact that all of these barriers are artificial and created by people who benefit just as much from dividing society up and pitting us against each other, as they do from selling us rags-to-riches bullshit to get us to work harder to make them money).