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I can't help but feel that the catastrophe that the Pandemic/WFH caused within the commercial property sector has caused a lot of old-school property landlords leeches to absolutely brick it.Originally posted by fishbowlhead View Post
Also, @Hirst is right about Linehan. It was just bizzarre. Did anyone here, back when forums were the main social thing on the internet circa 2003, ever see someone have a complete and utter meltdown? Like where they posted tons of stuff, quotes within quotes within quotes, seemed to double-triple-quadruple down on eveything...? He did that, but on Twitter, a couple of years ago. From a distance I wondered if he'd had a stroke or something.
The weirdest thing I saw was when someone put a point to him, and he said something like "Not gonna answer someone with a cartoon character avatar", when his own avatar was a cartoon version of himself.Last edited by Asura; 11-10-2022, 15:17.Comment
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I have a sick fascination with reading his Substack. It actually makes me really depressed because the views expressed within and the community that comments are so full of hatred, but sometime I like to make myself feel bad by doomscrolling it.Originally posted by Hirst View Post
He just fully went off the deep end. It's really bizarre. His entire life is centred around this crusade against trans people. It's demented.Comment
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I can only assume - I mean - I don't know the guy. But I've got to assume that he's always felt this way, and it's like the "cornered beast is most dangerous" thing; like he saw we were at the fulcrum shift where trans people went from being a bit of a joke and ostracised in society to starting become something more socially accepted, and in that moment he panicked. Given how he turned out, I've got to assume it's something like this.Originally posted by wakka View PostComment
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I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess at what is driving him to be honest. It's bonkers though.Comment
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He is not well. It has been like watching a slow descent into madness. It may have started somewhere rational, with some questions or whatever and, over time, it became an obsession. It took over his life and he has lost everything from it. It's sad. And he's dangerous. But it is still sad.Comment
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Most of the well-known Internet people who exist to court controversial opinions, you can see straight through them. It’s a grift, a get rich quick scheme, a way of faded/disgraced people clawing back some kind of relevance.
It is pretty obvious most of the time that they don’t genuinely care that much about most of the things they’re railing against. I’m sure it matches with their overall opinion on it, but you can tell they are exaggerating for effect, their heart isn’t in it that much. It’s just a job!
What makes Linehan morbidly interesting is that you can tell his fury is completely genuine, wherever it comes from. If you ever see him on video, he is spitting mad, eyebrows twitching, hands trembling, looks like he is genuinely about to have a heart attack. He has devoted his entire being to it. I genuinely think he would die for his beliefs.
All over something that never really seemed to have much to do with him, no clear history, no obvious experience, no real stakes other than winning a long-forgotten argument about an episode of a TV show he made over a decade ago. He truly is the king of the Internet hissy-fit.Comment
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I think somewhere deep down he knows he's gone far down the rabbit hole. He lost his career and his wife. But he also knows he can't back out now. He's all in.Comment
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It’s a sad situation. I enjoyed his stuff years ago. I liked him on Partridge. God knows why he had to go ‘all in’ on that topic.Comment
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One of the few positives about this is that even dyed in the wool Tory members seem to be horrified too. You don't have to be a dirty, lefty liberal like me to be disgusted how right wing and incompetent the current Tories have become; Totally subservient to the companies they’re working for. Well. that's what they thought they wanted...
As the Tories have always been viewed as the party for business, it says something when the banks and markets are pulling away from them, and the IMF are forced to ask them; What the **** are you doing?
Some say this is late-stage capitalism. I say this is extreme corruption combined with a party who are so tied to towing the lines they’ve attempted to align to since Brexit, they don’t know which way is up anymore.
Let’s hope this madness ends soon. With a general election or a civil war, it’s down to the Prime Minister.Comment
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Johnson was felled by his outright lies and Truss and Co. won't be making the same mistake. Instead they will rely on gaslighting the nation as Mogg attempts to steer blame on the current economic crashes on anything but the Government and its mini-budget
Meanwhile Economists inform the treasury that the Government was precisely to blame for the turmoil
Truss says the Government will ban no fault evictions
She also says they won't be cutting public spendingComment
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Trust Krishnan Guru-Murthy to make people crumble. They guy has a way of making politicians fold. No wonder the government want to sell channel 4.Comment
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Yep, that's precisely it and as others have said before the act 'cancelling' a career due to a wrongful act has always existed. There are obvious cases where someone evades it or comes back later but there in lies the grey area where exceptions and accounting for an individual's progression lies.
There's definitely an issue with cancel cultures weaponisation but the realities around that are very, very different from the arguments made by the likes of Cleese. It's one thing to have your life destroyed via an effective trial by social media, it's another entirely to simply object to not being allowed to spout all the racist and misogynistic bs you want toComment
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