Nice.

Oh the Freedom.

My brother is conservative. Small C. He recognises that the Tories are a shower of pricks and wants them to actually do conservative things, rather than focus on race baiting and hatred. I can talk politics with him, and enjoy doing so even though I’m getting more and more commie as every year passes.

He’s not a right wing shithead.

It’s hard to unwrap the hate and bigotry from conservative ideology nowadays.

This is the trouble I have with conservative thinking now. Even here in the UK, where our Conservatives aren’t as bad as the Republicans in the US (yet), I’m at a place where I can no longer offer the benefit of the doubt to rightwing policies, because now they only seem to exist to make life hard for marginalised people. I can’t point at a single member of our government who supports what they’re doing because it’s what they genuinely believe to be the right thing to do. They’re all interested in how it can enrich them, and they’ll worry about the morality later.

I mean, say what you like about Margaret Thatcher (and believe me, I do), at least she seemed to actually believe in the policies she pushed through. She had an ideology, and was given room to try it out. And it worked. For her and her rich buddies.

But these days it just seems to be hatred and fear for the sake of riling up the proles because it keeps them in power. The power is the goal, not the governance.

To The Moon

Firstly, it’s fairly short, which I appreciate in a game that’s primarily story-driven. Secondly, the story is damn near perfect. When I got to the reveal towards the end I actually sobbed (quietly, in a manly way). No other game has ever affected me that way.

Can we hurry up and get to the bit where Meatball Ron is forced to resign in shame?

Only what, two years after Apple just bundled it in with their regular plan.

Nice one, Spotify.

The real headfuck is that the guy has barely said anything truthful in living memory, yet there he was, London Mayor, then Foreign Minister, then Prime Minister. Absolutely insane.