Matt Seymour @realmattseymour@qoto.org

@techbolt
:( Indeed.... Though, again that's recent behaviour. There's always been self seeking idiots in parliament but some really strong, socially beneficial reforms have come through the Torys. Little chance of that now.
@freemo

@freemo
Interesting stuff... Yes what these labels mean and how they're applied is pretty variable. I also agree the temptation to call someone one thing and assume that predicts their behaviour/beliefs/ideology on everything is nonsense. I find it fascinating that the Republican party, for example, are almost entirely the opposite of what they used to be yet claim the same conservative basis. Much the same for the Conservative party in the UK.
@techbolt

@freemo
True. but regarding the Americans I'd love to agree but for the state of things here in the UK where it's much the same.

@williamlweaver
I'm not sure I follow... In my experience those who say they're conservative politically espouse quite modern ideas, such as neo-liberal economics, that would be quite alien to members of their party 40 years ago. Religous conservatives again seem to seek to protect an identity construct that's say no older than the 1950s but they seem completely unaware of this. So for me many conservatives are not seeking to conserve something of age and value.

I love the all too rare conversations with my friend Stu. Talking about populism, liberalism and Conservatism and how most people who call themselves conservatives aren’t conservative at all, but taking a particular set of ideas and behaviours as an identity and then applying a populist approach. The term conservative ought to be reclaimed.

@mooselwhipes that’s a good point. This could be movie based but it feels more like the hand picked playlist of a 50something woman with poor musical taste.... I say that, because I happen to know that’s what this particular playlist is.

So I understand that every decent person at least claims to dislike nickelback but how do they end up on so many playlists alongside celine Dion and ABBA? They’re really quite shouty rock.

@kaniini did you fail to buy dark fibre from the mob?

North coast of Northern Ireland.

Limavady maize maze “I’m not goin’ to lie, it’s muddy in there so it is.” Understatement of the day.

@sampo neither am I ;) all fair points.

@sampo I’m not convinced there’s quite the mental health issue at play. Though tough to define, these people are clearly messed up, would they be defined as mentally unwell before the event? Referencing mental health allows gun ownership proponents to blame something/someone else.

@sampo I’m not convinced there’s quite the mental health issue at play. Though tough to define, these people are clearly messed up, would they be defined as mentally unwell before the event? Referencing mental health allows gun ownership proponents to blame something/someone else.

Every time it rains (often today) my wife comments on the forecast saying there’s no rain today. The forecast here is almost constantly wrong to the point of completely useless, yet she persists with it.