skells @skells@qoto.org
Joined Feb 2021
skells
boosted
Sometimes I wish there was a devolved government in England, one that could care about our culture and people. I do find it a bit insulting to assume the people in London care about England as a whole. That they are representing us. These days, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have their own devolved government. But nothing for England. Then again, I do wonder if we would at all be united if England had our own devolved government... but it's not fair that we must sacrifice for the union in this way. Either everyone gets a devolved government or the government must be united again.
@11112011 here's hoping
@11112011 and getting increasingly shrill/defensive
just lose short position in energy bro, it'll work wonders for your sanity
ivermectin is safe
mRNA vaccines are dangerous
deal.
@11112011 you are a fool
@11112011 don't want to live in Russia, China is a nightmare, both have been offering an off ramp for decades but nooo US,UK andEU want to go for the ropes and die to the last Ukrainian for the right to launder money with nukes on the Russian border
Russia and China are shitty systems and our "desire" to "improve" them is not worth a 3rd world war
@11112011 given a choice I would fight for multipolarity over hegemony
tried to say I don't think that's what Russia is fighting for but if you know the history it's a pretty bullshit case to make
skells
boosted
It’s Friday. I’m gonna drink, smoke and make merriment.
@sim may God have mercy on our souls
@sim what, on god's green earth, is a femboy
@barefootstache ah, then it's all about forging a good rack of guesses that still makes you look smart
@11112011 things are getting fun
@sim it's more of a general question about vice I guess, where one draws the line and it's a personal question I think
skells
boosted
"Yet, even so, I can hardly regret having escaped the appalling waste of time and spirit which would have been involved in reading the war news or taking more than an artificial and formal part in conversations about the war. T o read without military knowledge or good maps accounts of fighting which were distorted before they reached the Divisional general and further distorted before they left him and then "written up" out of all recognition by journalists, to strive to master what will be contradicted the next day, to fear and hope intensely on shaky evidence, is surely an ill use of the mind. Even in peacetime I think those are very wrong who say that school boys should be encouraged to read the newspapers. Nearly all that a boy reads there in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance. Most of what he remembers he will therefore have to unlearn; and he will probably have acquired an incurable taste for vulgarity and sensationalism and the fatal habit of fluttering from paragraph to paragraph to learn how an actress has been divorced in California, a train derailed in France, and quadruplets born in New Zealand."
@sim is fast food?
@noagendashownoteslinks pretty based all things considered
skells
boosted
Ukraine war: Putin treason move was about piercing 'bubble of propaganda' in Russia | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/14/putin-treason-move-was-about-piercing-bubble-of-propaganda
Joined Feb 2021
