Tag: Stupidity
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Dumb video #23324
Stupid video idea I had that I decided needed to become a reality, and nobody stopped me.
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Brand names for COVID-19 vaccines, rated and ranked
By now, over 7 billion doses of the various COVID-19 vaccines have been given worldwide, and it’s proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are safe, effective and have a dramatic effect on COVID case rates, transmission, disease and mortality. They are arguably one of the greatest scientific success stories of our modern…
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The very real limits of Chris Leslie’s non-ideological ideology
If we’re to move entirely past the rather ideologically bankrupt centre-left consensus that emerged in the aftermath of 2008, we need to get into what the defining issues of that consensus are — its main tenets and its main flaws. A good case study of this is a pamphlet authored by former Shadow Chancellor and notable opponent…
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Performative remainerism
I’m neither surprised or shocked that the People’s Vote campaign, which aims to secure a second referendum on whatever deal Theresa May can rustle up in concert with the EU, has another completely unproductive idea for getting this; a protest march. Protest marches, obviously, are incredibly good mechanisms for obtaining change, particularly when it comes…
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Memes won’t make young people like the Tories
It has now been almost eight months since the 2017 general election knocked on the head Theresa May’s dreams of what she, along with most pundits, had thought would be a nailed-down massive majority; with Labour’s seat gains and Tory losses removing the majority David Cameron had won in 2015 entirely and thus forcing her…
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Some bullshit about dogs that played the piano in order to fight the USSR during the Cold War
Backstory: My partner was writing an essay, and I wanted to prove that 2000 words was a relatively small goal and that I could in fact write an essay about a concept that didn’t exist, which is doubtless harder than writing about something that verifiably exists in the real world. So I wrote this in…