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ME, MYSELF AND I, AND US AND THEM - by Mr Biffo

10/10/2016

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Well, I didn't expect that. Saturday morning, I was reading up on the fallout from Donald Trump's latest faux pas, when I wanted to find out how the right-wing media was attempting to spin the revelation that he uses his fame to drag women around by their genitals, and rubs damp Tic-Tacs on the tip of his ghastly shrivelled micropenis.

This led me to Heat Street - the "news, opinion, and commentary website" run by the controversial former Conservative MP Louise "Corbyn's a Nazi!" Mensch, for Rupert Murdoch's News Corps.

I'd forced myself to look at Heat Street before, and never took it as a sort of conservative version of The Onion - just a news and opinion site that's anti-"SJW", pro-Gamergate, seeing itself at the right-wing frontline of the "culture wars". Admittedly, some of the content adopts a sneeringly humorous tone - a current story has the headline "Screaming Bearded Feminist Hijacks Open Mic at Comedy Club" - but it seemed to report the news that best fits its agenda.

So, really, you can't blame me for mistaking an article about weaponised hurricanes as a real piece, and not the satire it has since been explained to be. Let's face it, there are plenty of other conservative commentators who believe the US government are using the weather as a weapon - the godawful Alex Jones for one.

As Poe's law states: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.”

And I wasn't the only one suckered by Andrew Stiles' piece for Heat Street - the couple of thousand (and counting) who retweeted me were too.
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My tweet - shared from bed, for those who'd like to picture me in the nude - started going viral almost immediately.

It took the best part of Saturday before people started properly cottoning on to it as a piece of fumbled satire - indeed, Mensch herself tweeted and retweeted me, and Stiles revelled in the buzz his post was getting. Mensch and her cronies had chosen a side for me, and that side was on the side of the liberals.

I mean, never mind that I'd also tweeted a link on Saturday morning to a dreadful piece on Vice, which damned the movie Idiocracy as a nothing more than "elitist porn, allowing the fortunate to mock the poor and under-educated through the sheen of the Truth". Vice claims to have no political bias, but there's little question is that its content is far more left-leaning than Heat Street.

Certainly, if I had to choose, I'm probably say I'm more liberal than anything else - but I don't really want to be lumped into any movement, political or social, which seems so inflexible, so driven by a hive mind. The arguments between the right and the left all too often end in drone-like parroting of the sorts of things their side is "meant" to believe in, and an automatic assumption that the other side is wrong.

Free thinking feels like it gets repressed for the sake of a cause. I don't want anything to do with that. Tie your colours to one mast or cause, at whatever cost, and you risk going down with the ship.

You only have to look at the current US presidential campaign. Almost half the American electorate is prepared to ignore all the bad Donald Trump does, his rambling, his lying, his lack of policy, because they're seeing only what they're conditioned to see. 

Just look at how he responded to the question in last night's debate about the Trump Tapes: he avoided the question almost completely, and started shouting "ISIS" over and over again, like his brain had broken. I mean, it's not like it's going to make any difference to his supporters. Defeating ISIS is something they believe in.

Never mind the fact that there was no substance to what he was saying, no intelligence, or thought-out policy, just "ISIS! ISIS! ISIS! BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST! ISIS!" - that's all they'll hear, and they'll ignore the overwhelming evidence that Trump is fundamentally unfit and unskilled to be a US president.
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To a lesser degree, the exactly same phenomena happened in the wake of my tweet. I, and others, ignored how ludicrous the Heat Street article was, because we were blinded by our own perspective and prejudices.

​We have been conditioned to believe the right are a bunch of insane conspiracy theorists, who'll say literally anything to attack the left. We'll ignore the obvious, and clutch the nuggets of evidence which support our frame of reference.

Don't get me wrong - I think even as parody, Andrew Stiles' piece was bizarre. What it was doing on a right-wing news site is anybody's guess. Who exactly was it aimed at? Was it purely there to troll people like me? Or was it mocking the more extreme elements of its own audience?

Nevertheless, it's so important to try and see beyond our own perception to the truth. We all view ourselves, and our place in the world, and other people, through a distorted lens - a self-concept built up through our past and formative experiences, our physiology, and our needs.

​We look for things that fit that self-concept, because breaking it can cause emotional and psychological distress. Our prejudices might keep us scared, but in their own way they're cosy and warm.

Staying put in our own box, created by ourselves and our environment, is the path of least resistance. Stepping outside of it - to view the world as different to what we want it to be - can be terrifying. Our brain will contort itself in creative ways to avoid ever having to do that. And in doing so we kid ourselves that we have free will.

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Until I didn't, I saw Heat Street's article as "typical right-wing conspiracy nonsense" - when it was, apparently, nothing of the sort - and Louise Mensch and her ilk saw me, and those who retweeted me, as "typical humourless liberals".

We were all guilty of lumping one another into an opposing hive mind, instead of respecting everyone as individuals.

And this is what most concerns me about the way political rhetoric is going. Everything has become Us and Them. Everything is polarised. You're expected to belong to a clique, or you're left out in the cold.

Last week, our own Prime Minister Theresa May gave a speech promoting nationalism over individuality. "If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere," she barked, tossing raw meat to the rabid dogs in the balcony. 

Consequently, I'm now living in a country where my own government demands me to think only of my own, who I've been lumped with by a quirk of fate and geography. Never mind that I might have more in common, as individuals, with someone who lives in - I dunno - Mumbai, than I do with a knuckle-dragging, boorish, lager-guzzling, English football fan, who likes having fights. My own government, my own unelected Prime Minister, wants to build an invisible wall between me and the rest of the world. 

This is not what should be happening. This is not the world, or the country, I want children growing up in. All it will do is breed more intolerance, more Us and Them, make us all much less safe. Everyone else out there is different to us, we're now being told. We here, on this little island... we're all the same. We're better than the rest of them, because we're British.

It breaks my heart, because until recently it felt like the world was making progress. And yet, here we are. Us and Them. And on Saturday I was as guilty of it as anyone.

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50 Comments
Darren link
10/10/2016 12:21:17 pm

Satire is meant to be obvious - a bit like a carefully-crafted April Fools' gag - there should be enough clues in there to tell you that this is poking fun. However, we live at a time where any BS conspiracy theory is paraded as fact and so the lines get blurred and Mr Biffo gets his twitters in a twist. I read it and thought it was ANOTHER barnpot conspiracy theory. Oh well...

But you'll never rid yourself of the stain of Mensch retweeting you...

"Out damn spot, out!"

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Mr Biffo
10/10/2016 12:24:57 pm

At least she was retweeting me because she thinks I'm an idiot.

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Trunkuss
10/10/2016 12:44:35 pm

It's not just people outside Britain who're going to be labeled 'Them' soon - did you read about the lovely Amber Rudd's plan to put all 'foreign workers' on a list and shame employers to give British-born applicants first preference for jobs?

Good video from LBC about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6XxYepCDs

I'm just observing all this as an interested outsider but personally I have deep worries about the direction your country is heading.

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Mr Biffo
10/10/2016 12:54:04 pm

Me too. It feels like something out of dystopian science fiction.

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Plippyploppycheesenose
10/10/2016 01:32:57 pm

What flavour tic-tacs?

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Donald Trump
10/10/2016 05:10:46 pm

Your Mum's pussy flavour.

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Plippyploppycheesenose
11/10/2016 10:22:51 am

Yuk, Ivanka smells of toffee and clothes pegs... I didn't know they made that flavour.

Clive Peppard
10/10/2016 01:36:35 pm

after the whole envoronmental racism thing (which wasnt satire??!!) i bought this completely.

murica is too far gone for satire

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Superbeast 37
10/10/2016 01:39:48 pm

Theresa May isn't unelected.

We don't vote for Prime Ministers. We don't have a Presidential system. We vote for local representatives who are affiliated with a party and the party appoint their own leader from amongst their number. You get to have a say on who is chosen as leader by either joining the party or via your elected representative - and unlike Labour, the Prime Minister has the majority support of the party's elected representatives.

Trunkuss, under western welfare systems we join together as a club and contribute to a mutual insurance and support structure. Like being members of BUPA but on a far larger scale.

There are therefore those "in the club" and those "not in the club". The "them and us" closed system of this club is essential to its long-term financial sustainability.

It's a good idea to prioritise members of the club for jobs. That way we don't have to pay their welfare payments as per our obligations. Having invested in their health and education from birth, we need to get them working and paying tax to earn a return on our investment before they retire and become net recipients again. Too many life-time net-recipients and too few net-contributors = club goes bust.

The club is currently on the road to ruin. It is 1.7 trillion in debt and that debt is growing by around 70bn a year. It is not currently sustainable. Everything we take for granted like the current standards of our health and education systems are therefore at risk.

Some naturally wish to abuse the club and refuse to work. The solution is to either eject them from the club (we can't do this) or modify the club rules to create a disincentive to their behaviour - e.g. cutting benefits for those who refuse to work. With those that do wish to work, it may be prudent to invest further in their skills to make them more employable, or in the instance you describe, they should be prioritised for work.

Accepting a new outside member doesn't help solve that problem. It may seem attractive at first as outsiders initially come for "free" without the health/education costs of a new born. Unfortunately such outsiders typically work in low paid jobs that pay little tax. Whilst they are initially net-contributors by a Rizla-thin margin, they pay no where near enough to offset the cost of providing for the surplus person who is on the dole, let alone repay our initial investment in that surplus person. Furthermore, should those outsiders start pro-creating, they rapidly become net recipients too due to their marginal tax rates.

Biffo's invisible wall is essential.

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MrPSB
10/10/2016 02:22:14 pm

That was a very long-winded way of saying "I'm a racist cunt and also we should kill all the poor"

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David W
10/10/2016 04:25:32 pm

I miss your whimsical fannies.

MrPSB
10/10/2016 04:50:07 pm

Donald grabbed them all

David W
10/10/2016 05:32:16 pm

Happy now. Big fanny hugs.

Wicked Eric
10/10/2016 02:55:39 pm

For a second lets just put aside the horrific way that you have reduced the value of human life solely down to its impact on the nation's fiscal balance sheet.

Almost everything you have written is predicated on assumptions that are wildly off the mark. See this blog post by everyone's favourite lefties at the free-market think tank ASI for actual data on the impact that immigration has on a country's economy - http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/immigration-is-no-reason-to-leave-the-eu

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Superbeast 37
10/10/2016 07:14:56 pm

In case you hadn't realised after all this time Eric, I don't care about virtue signalling, flowery words or fee fees. Using Guardian-esque language like "horrific" in a childish attempt at discrediting an argument without actually addressing an argument just won't fly. It certainly doesn't pay bills and won't pay back the 1.7 trillion.


The woolly nonsense in that link is contradicted by the BOE's own admission on migration and pay. It also fails to account for the basic economic point I made in that we have surplus labour and not just unemployed but the underemployed too. Importing more people (except for those with very rare and sought after skills) doesn't solve the under-utilisation problem that is bankrupting us. We only need immigration when we run out of surplus labour in that skill category. We need to put our surplus to work first because they still consume expensive food and housing when they aren't working and it cost us a bleeding fortune to raising them to working age....

Thankfully the Government have started to see sense on underemployment too. The whole "NHS is dependent on immigrants" nonsense came about because we cut training places as it was cheaper to steal pre-trained workers from overseas at the expense of those nations (often impoverished) who trained them. Highly immoral and appalling short-term thinking. Of course it was only cheaper on a spreadsheet at the NHS but not cheaper on the big overall spreadsheet at the treasury. Now we are ramping up the training of our own citizens instead of having highly able people flipping burgers.


Simplistic arguments like "build more houses" sound great but of course that means "build houses anywhere but near me". Try to build homes on the right-on lefties dog walking field and the tune changes. Hence why in 13 years of power Labour did sweet FA about it. So housing benefit is rising - one year of housing benefits is about the same as 20 years of the false phoney benefits of immigration as claimed in that article. 25 billion v 1.5 billion. Largest single cause of household growth (the demand side driver of house price inflation) is immigration of course. But shhhh we don't include that in the figures of immigration because maths is "wwaaaacist" and "horrific".


As per usual with the left, its big on flowery language but not quite so big on how you actually implement it in reality. The only thing they are good at actually doing is spending other peoples money...until it runs out.

Did you know by the way, that if a person (immigrant or otherwise) claims benefit money and goes into a shop to spend it, that transaction in the shop counts towards GDP? So we borrow money on the never never, just give that money to people for doing nothing productive and hey presto they spend it and GDP increases! Amazing! So we can borrow 70bn a year, give it to non-productive or underutilised people who promptly spend it to sustain themselves and GDP looks fine and dandy!

Wicked Eric
10/10/2016 07:51:51 pm

Actually you're wrong again SB. I have no virtue.

colincidence link
10/10/2016 10:49:16 pm

They said 'virtue signalling'! Finish your pint!

PeskyFletch
13/10/2016 03:49:54 pm

Superbigot making inane comments about virtue signalling? Who'd a thunk it? Next year he'll be all about sealioning, mark my words.

amazingmikeyc
10/10/2016 03:02:11 pm

Oh, not you again, dadspaining for us all.

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Rakladtor IV
11/10/2016 03:46:02 pm

hush immature gimp, get an attention span

Da5e
10/10/2016 06:14:22 pm

Are you satire? Was that satire?

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Rakladtor IV
11/10/2016 03:50:45 pm

Probably not, seeing as it resembles a rational argument

Wicked Eric
11/10/2016 04:27:20 pm

It resembles the cobbled together ramblings of a pub bore who half understands every topic on the planet and can't wait to share his thoughts with everyone.

David W
11/10/2016 06:00:13 pm

I think Superbeast 37 does comes in too heavily, like Jiminy Cricket appearing with a claw hammer whenever Mr. Biffo stumbles upon hot topics. However, political comment with half an understanding of things is far, far preferable to Donald Trump.

ChorltonWheelie
10/10/2016 07:52:27 pm

Oh God, not this insufferable cunt again.

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Rakladtor IV
11/10/2016 04:01:42 pm

Omg.. rationalisationing like some kinda "intellect". Must be a racist brexits cuz idk

Chomboss Wankuss
11/10/2016 06:18:04 pm

Superbeast is the embodiment of Lawful Evil. Come to Chaotic Good man - the chicks love it and the parties are the best!!

Spiney O'Sullivan
11/10/2016 06:35:28 pm

@Chomboss Wankuss

In before "no, I'm actually True Neutral".

Antony Adler
10/10/2016 01:41:35 pm

Love. Love will keep us together. I love you Mr B.

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Mr Biffo
10/10/2016 02:02:05 pm

Love you, Tone!

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colincidence link
10/10/2016 10:49:55 pm

Who're you, Ian Curtisn't?

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Keith
10/10/2016 01:49:35 pm

I feel a little bit that you sometimes inadvertently misrepresent strongly held opinions (which are then imperfectly applied to a wider belief system with flaws) by the loudest and worst proponents of them.

Take the analogy about going down with a ship; I agree that that is a risk, but I see the going down with the ship part as being the equivalent to 'losing an argument' (in the sense of history/time/events proving me wrong, rather than literally losing a debate at the time) and assuming you're prepared to lose an argument and evolve from that if need be, there's nothing wrong with being committed to a thought out belief system in the mean time.

I mean, nobody *has* to take sides on anything, and intuitively it feels like the most reasonable position is right in the middle, listening to sensible bits from both sides of whatever is in question, but then as the end of your article suggests, there are some substantial issues that can only really be opposed by uniting alongside an imperfect "side", cause/manifesto/set of policies etc and taking a broad view that right now, that set of policies is something more worthwhile than the other, and arguing for it; as a personal belief system, yep - totally fine to pick and choose the bits from all across the spectrum that seem to make sense and have the added bonus of avoiding what seems like an archaic and divisive left-right dichotomy, but in practice that ends up giving those in power carte Blanche (this is the biggest problem with Corbyn, for me - I like his principles, but he is so, so, devoted to his personal principles that he is ruining any chance of getting to enact them)
I dunno, I'm not sure how coherent that is, so maybe I'm just talking a load of nonsense. But maybe one thing you don't get to see as a writer who gets shitloads of polarised comments when you post about an Issue, is that there are a lot more people who enjoy your writing a lot who go "mhmm, I don't agree with him on this one, but y'know, that's fine - there's still clearly a lot of thought and humanity about what he's written" (and vice versa when we do agree) - in fact, the only time I find your take on something frustrating (again, granted that I in no way claim any kind of right to not be frustrated by something you've written - just that frustration *is* the reaction) is when you write really interestingly on a subject, taking in both sides, and then kind of shrug in what sometimes comes over as a bit of a "nothing we can do about it though" - which, I concede even as I write it, may well be entirely accurate.

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Mr Biffo
10/10/2016 01:59:06 pm

Hey - look. I totally know that there's far more nuance between the extremes (and I'm completely with you on Corbyn - he's clearly utterly inflexible), than I give credit to in this article. But what troubles me is the way that the extremes are increasingly being given more of a voice, are gaining strength. And the extreme which seems to be winning, sadly, is an extreme which very much adheres to the "Us and Them" philosophy, which I find so troubling.

Consequently, you see Trump getting to where he is now, and the Conservatives pivoting back towards a more xenophobic place, to appease that extreme, for the sake of hanging onto political power. I just think that our leaders are representing the worst of us now.

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Dr Kank
10/10/2016 06:24:48 pm

I don't understand how people can accuse Corbyn of being inflexible. I mean, he's started wearing ties now, what more do you people want?!!

Humblebee
10/10/2016 02:03:38 pm

To paraphrase: you tried to mock what you thought was a loony right wing article on the internet, and got mocked yourself (mock mock-a-mocked) when it turned out to be a joke. Fair enough, I'd have thought.

And you can hardly blame people for assuming you're on the left when you tweet the equivalent of 'oh my god, look at the nonsense these right wing loons think! I cannot even comprehend their stupidity'. Louise Mensch only knows you from that one misguided tweet, so that's what she's going to react to.



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Mr Biffo
10/10/2016 02:10:45 pm

Well, yeah. My intention with this article wasn't to complain about it. In fact, what you just said was more or less the entire point of the article in a nutshell.

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Keith
10/10/2016 02:09:11 pm

That final point is the best summing up of the situation I've heard - absolutely spot on. Rather than giving just enough to the extremists to keep them on board, the extremists are setting the agenda. Nuance seems to be a crime.
And it's not just in politics - it seems that politics is a victim of a wider trend. I post on a Star Wars forum, and you will find that opinions there are divided between people who give ep VII a 1 star or people who give it a 5 star review, with no real search for common ground, or willingness to think about how much of their baggage they bring to a situation.

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Spiney O'Sullivan
10/10/2016 03:11:25 pm

In a brief fit of post-Digifest enthusiasm from having been reminded that the Internet has many nice and decent people brought together by shared love for something, and not just squabbling tribes throwing hashtags, accusations and bans at each other, I found myself thinking "maybe should really get on Twitter".

One week on, I'm quite glad I didn't.

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John
10/10/2016 03:18:26 pm

Nice piece. Two things stand out to me - one, that it's very difficult to read something in isolation and understand where it's coming from. So I saw your tweet and thought 'huh?' and figured I ought to come back to it to see if I understood it. Pure luck that I had to drag myself out of bed, which made me spot I had little time to even read what was there, let alone why - with a little more time I'd have read it and figured exactly what you did. More context, we always need.

And a hopeful point, on the hell in a handcart (my paraphrasing, may not quite reflect your view) we and the US have. I've travelled a lot since 2013, and everywhere I've been, people get by, laugh, love their kids, if they're poorer, they want something more, at least for the next generation. Beyond that, they're not moving right, or getting less tolerant, or putting up barriers to the world. The US is a world leader, and the atmosphere there affects a lot of people. The UK much less so. So, maybe shit for us, but not so shit for others - they'll ignore us. I guess my point is, this is just our context, not 'the world'. I mean that entirely as a 'don't give up hope!' idea rather than a 'you daftee, you're just viewing it through your own lense!'.

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Kara Van Park link
10/10/2016 05:44:07 pm

Some politician said gays were responsible for floods, and actual leaders of countries tell us seriously that they believe in the man that lives in the sky, so I'm not surprised you took the article at face value.

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Kelvin Green link
10/10/2016 06:45:38 pm

Martin Luther King considered himself a citizen of the world. He wasn't perfect, but I'll side with him rather than Theresa May.

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Chris Wyatt
10/10/2016 08:05:30 pm

Beautiful. A lot of what you say is stuff that lingers in my subconscious, but I'm too illiterate and unarticulate to express it the way you do, and I am pretty much repeating a similar comment I read here before, but it's worth repeating.

It does feel like we're going backwards. I had a more optimistic view of the world as a child and felt like we were coming out of the narrow-minded bigotry of the past, but it doesn't seem like we've progressed much. I naïvely thought that easier access to information would make us all smarter and broader minded, but it's just opened up new avenues for people to be manipulated.

I feel out-of-touch with this country and many of the people, and I have toyed with the idea of starting fresh. Maybe it's nicer in Canada? Maybe there's less of a drink and drugs problem? Maybe people respect each other more? But maybe it's just a pipe dream I've made up, based on the feeling that other countries have got to be better than the UK?

We've also fallen into a similar trap to the US, where we harken back to glory days, and we're blinded by it. We like to feel we have some superiority to the Yanks; ah, stupid Yanks; they're all so fat and stupid. But yet we aren't that different, and we are faced with many of the same modern problems that the US faces, or at least well in our way to facing them.

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Will link
10/10/2016 08:29:36 pm

But... But... What is it even satirising?

Is Hurricane Matthew going to get home and say "Gee, honey. Work was great!" Only to be told by his wife that there was a sick burn about him on Heat Street?

Also, satire is supposed to be funny.

It strikes me that piece is simply clickbait. And it was written for no other reason than to "trick" people into taking it at face value and mocking it, so it gets more attention. Then there's the added bonus of being able to mock people for not getting it was super-cool satire.

It's like asking someone if they'd like a biscuit, and then, when they say yes, going "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! There isn't even a biscuit, you idiot. I can't believe you thought there was a biscuit. Don't you understand satire, like I do? God, you're thick, aren't you?"

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Kendall9000
10/10/2016 09:23:55 pm

I thought it was pretty obvious that it's satirising the climate change denying conspiracy nuts - plenty of people on the right think they're loonies too.

I'm not a Heatstreet reader, but glancing through the site I don't see a whole lot of conspiracy theory wackiness that'd make this piece look plausible. In fact, there are other articles poking fun at conspiracy nuts on their side, including climate change deniers: http://heatst.com/culture-wars/a-short-checklist-for-all-the-conspiracy-theorists-out-there/

I'm finding it pretty funny that people on both the right and left are taking this article seriously. The bit about rainbows being hurricane creating energy forcefields really didn't give the game away?

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Alastair
10/10/2016 08:51:41 pm

Well the article does hail from the part of the world where climate change is a political conspiracy, the military hopes to weaponise the weather using radio/radar waves, the government is controlling people by dusting them with chemicals daily and people can be allergic to WiFi...

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Kendall9000
10/10/2016 09:02:57 pm

I'm not sure if that's better or worse than linking to obvious satire then finding out that it's actually a serious opinion piece. I can usually spot Onion headlines for what they are, I just assume that the latest from Breitbart or the Guardian are a parody too.

Both the left and right wing press spew enough nonsense to make the obvious anything but. Of course their writers get caught out too - I've seen a few lazy Twitter-cribbed 'stories' based around tweets that were just someone taking the piss.

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colincidence link
10/10/2016 10:46:13 pm

If it helps, Louise Mensch Tweets 150 things per hour and they are all worthless.

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Gilbert
11/10/2016 01:31:01 am

Don't worry about the mensch - known to fail to catch the meaning of even entirely clear twits

https://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/09/former-mp-louise-mensch-confuses-tweets-on-fabric-club-closing-with-brexit-vote/


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Damon link
11/10/2016 03:49:29 am

It's OK. I thought Christwire (dot org) was some... not legitimate but at the least earnest and sincere thoughts of some people. Honestly because... I didn't get the joke. Because there are so many similar articles out there presented with sincerity-- if only for clicks. Mind I never thought it was "true" just the motives of the outlet were unclear. I say this is the hallmark of an under-experienced satirist but sometimes I wonder if I am just so fed up with everything a global nuclear Holocaust seems like an attractive option.

I still think the US should burn down the country and use the insurance money to start over.

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Simon
11/10/2016 02:18:55 pm

"Well, I didn't expect that. Saturday morning, I was reading up on the fallout from Donald Trump's latest faux pas, when I wanted to find out how the right-wing media was attempting to spin the revelation..."

I guarantee you will have a much more relaxed and enjoyable Saturday morning if you don't go searching the internet for news of any kind, especially news surrounding what is going on in America at the moment

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