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Tim Skellett Profile picture
@Gurdur
Sep 28, 2018 • 22 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
The #BoycottTheGuardian is because of ... the Jews. Who woulda thunk it? What a surprise, so shocking.
Such a surprise, so shocking, it's coz of the Jews, innit
Some seem very eager to attach yellow stars to the Guardian (by the way, for anyone interested in the truth, it's not Jews who own the Guardian at all, and the Guardian tends to be pro-Palestinian. But hey, #BoycottTheGuardian because Jews).
Seriously, #BoycottTheGuardian because Jews. Just come out and say it.
Y'all know the drill. #BoycottTheGuardian because Jews.
You know the drill.
So let's look deeper into how the whole #BoycottTheGuardian thang got started! Turns out, it was one person's idea, and as we shall find out, that person has ... vested interests in behaving this way.
Sadly, it must be said, @TheMendozaWoman's accomplishment is .... rather trivial, tiny, and lacking in any real commercial bite, but hey, let's look into those motivations anyway.
Just an aside: do some really not comprehend irony or sarcasm at all? I only ask. Are they so out of touch with reality as to imagine approval of whatever abhorrences they tweet? Just askin'.
A whole #fakenews post to tell us heathen swine why #BoycottTheGuardian is important! Completely made-up! "Mostly-white journalists at the supposedly liberal Guardian newspaper have reacted with outrage at the invitation of The Canary‘s Kerry-Anne Mendoza"
skwawkbox.org/2018/09/27/gua…
Spoiler: that didn't happen. A tiny tiny number Twitter reacted with disbelief at the invitation of Mendoza. Of course, reacting with disbelief might well be damned rational. But! Here's the original call to #BoycottTheGuardian! thecanary.co/uk/2018/09/27/…
But let's not forget! It's the Jews! The Jews!
[who here, in utter defiance of any reality at all, are accused of cooperating with jihadists. No, srsly. Like, wtf lolwut srsly srs biz srsly]
Mendoza has some .... interesting followers. And by "interesting", I mean they're obsessed about Jews.
#BoycottTheGuardian. All. About. The. Jews.
But let's look at Mendoza's The Canary, a tiny #fakenews site that wants to be THE voice of the British left, Mendoza being all uptight about the Guardian's rather overwhelming presence, and one or two expressing disbelief she got invited to speak.
The Canary. Apart from its habit of making stuff up, like Laura Kuennsberg being invited to address the Conservative Party conference, well apart from that #fakenews, and so on.....
Well! Shocked - shocked! - I say, to discover that The Canary is a really crappy tiny little site, whose business model can be summarized as wanting to be the Alex Jones Infowars of the British left!
medium.com/@harrywalker/k…
Imagine happily tweeting out a screen grab all about how George Galloway, of all people, is on your side. George Galloway. No, srsly. See the screengrab in the tweet below.
But The Canary. @TheCanaryUK. It's, uh, crap.
And Mendoza has such fun followers! And they're all, "It's all about the Jews, innit"
New thread! My personal summation of all this weird and wondrous whackiness!
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Sep 28, 2018
But now, onto my own personal summation of this all. The @Guardian, it is THE paper and site that gives most national (UK) and international (USA, Australia, the damned world) to coverage of issues like poverty, class. It has worldclass investigative #journalism. But.....
... but I admit to being more than fully cheesed off with the Guardian myself. I was a loyal funder, around 60 quid a month, I stopped completely, because the Guardian's new policies were so idiotic and off-putting, not to mention counter-productive.
But! ....
But, bluntly, the @Guardian still is THE major newspaper in the UK, the USA or Australia, to give a very wide range of opinion from the public, & to also give reasonably trustworthy investigative #journalism.
I refuse to contribute money, but it's still very much my first go-to.
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Sep 28, 2018
Oh, and let's discuss that bit of trivia, that went trending on Twitter for a short while, only in the UK, naturally. The #BoycottTheGuardian garbage. Because maybe the UK could benefit from dosing up the tapwater with lithium and haloperidol too.
For those who don't know it: the @guardian is a broadsheet, i.e. a respectable newspaper, not a scandal-mongering tabloid, based in the UK, though its web-presence is heavy in the USA and Australia. It is the smallest of national broadsheets in the UK, and the best one.
The @Guardian, national broadsheet w/ the smallest subscription in the UK, is also the most "left"-wing & liberal of the UK national broadsheets. Known 1821 till 1959 as the Manchester Guardian, it has done a huge deal of v important investigative #journalism over the centuries.
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May 20, 2018
There is an excellent Spanish movie, Alatriste, which opens with a map, and the caption, "When Spain ruled the world". And it's quite amazing; for a period of around 40 years, it really looked like Spain ruled the world. And for longer, it looked like Spain might rule forever
And somewhere around 1600 A.D., it looked like Spain would come to rule the world. It had THE best infantry in the world, the truly feared Spanish tercios. It had a huge, world-spanning empire. It had incredible wealth. And then it all went south, quickly, much by 1650 A.D.
Witticisms can be misleading, but sometimes it's true to say that every great strength hides a great weakness. Spain ruled a huge empire. Almost every single part would rebel. Spain had the world's best infantry - but b/c of aridity, meaning few horses in Spain, little cavalry.
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May 5, 2018
There are people who need cheering up. So I am going to do some cheering up, but in a novel, mixed way. Meaning, I am going to tweet random butterfly photos of mine, and also tell y'all a true story.
cc.@US_Vote, @ElectionBabe
Some of you, may think us blokes have it easy, at least when we're young, energetic, & brain-deficient. Nothing is further from the truth for many of us blokes. Now y'all will hear The Truth. An embarrassing saga of the truth, but a funny one. Very.
My photo again.
Australia. BIG place. Lots of mines, quarries. All dusty, dirty, hot work. Picture to yourself a young, innocent bloke who has just got his indie shotfirer's licence (if new 2 this, see ). Prefers not to work in more mines, BECAUSE ()
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May 5, 2018
1/ OK. Let's stop talking about the embarrassing time I blew myself up and lost half a head of hair, because embarrassing. Let's talk instead about a colleague of mine on another job, who blew himself up dramatically, and I mean drama
2/ You think I'm silly? This other poor bugger, lemme tell you, he blew himself up, was stark bollocks naked as a result, and only just missed being lethally impaled by a jackhammer into the roof of the tunnel, like some weird kind of Industrial Mineworking Pinned Butterfly.
3/ Shotfirer = the bloke (or woman) who sets off the explosive charges in a quarry, mine or demolition site. The "shot" is the actual explosive charge or set of them.
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Mar 12, 2018
Now we get to strand b/ of criticism of Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment Now". That is, "Inequality! [& often then] Therefore Pinker is a racist, sexist, transphobe scumbag who should be scorned".
As @salonium pointed out, most of that criticism is easy to dismiss. And yet...
Here are @salonium's own words (in quillette.com/2018/03/11/ste…) on dismissing some such criticisms; and let's face it, she's right. Except, arrghh whoops, this means an entire system of "#humanism" values being adopted *as well as* techno yada, and things really aren't that simple.
As @salonium herself points out, that vague values bundle includes #liberalism. And that's OK... except liberalism (& objective science) are under attack, & except Pinker simply unconsciously assumes far too much, as we shall see. But first, @salonium on some critics:
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