[Admirable Chrichton]

It does really piss me off the way (mostly those on the right) throw about terms such as "Kafkaesque" "Stalinist" and "Dictatorship". Especially when they've fucked up and been called out on the nasty shite that they get up to. I know such sorts have professional victimhood down to a fine art but I think it actively diminishes the suffering and struggles of those who have genuinely suffered and been persecuted by oppressive regimes.

Case in point with Alison Pearson when the cops went to her house on Remebrance day over that tweet. How her defenders claimed she was the victim of an Orwellian police state. Thousands of people over the world are likely suffering torture and suffering no sane person can imagine - under dictatorial regimes, as we speak; of which Pearson isn't one of them (and never will be.)

It's like when Tommeh Robinson is called a "martyr" when the only thing he's ever been a martyr to is being a cunt.

The most egregious example I can think of was when Jeremy Clarkson (around about 2003) in his Sun column claimed without irony that in Ken Livingstone's London you could substitute the term "Jews in 1930's Germany " with "motorists" because of (I think) the congestion charge. Yes. Clarkson claimed there was parity with the mechanised mass murder of Europe's Jews with having to pay to drive in the middle of London.

What an absolute prick.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

But in their minds (and I use the word cautiously) there is an equivalence, due to their narcissism.

[davidjay]

It does really piss me off the way (mostly those on the right) throw about terms such as "Kafkaesque" "Stalinist" and "Dictatorship". Especially when they've fucked up and been called out on the nasty shite that they get up to. I know such sorts have professional victimhood down to a fine art but I think it actively diminishes the suffering and struggles of those who have genuinely suffered and been persecuted by oppressive regimes.

Case in point with Alison Pearson when the cops went to her house on Remebrance day over that tweet. How her defenders claimed she was the victim of an Orwellian police state. Thousands of people over the world are likely suffering torture and suffering no sane person can imagine - under dictatorial regimes, as we speak; of which Pearson isn't one of them (and never will be.)

It's like when Tommeh Robinson is called a "martyr" when the only thing he's ever been a martyr to is being a cunt.

The most egregious example I can think of was when Jeremy Clarkson (around about 2003) in his Sun column claimed without irony that in Ken Livingstone's London you could substitute the term "Jews in 1930's Germany " with "motorists" because of (I think) the congestion charge. Yes. Clarkson claimed there was parity with the mechanised mass murder of Europe's Jews with having to pay to drive in the middle of London.

What an absolute prick.

They've had a thousand years of supremacy; being equal is going to take a bit of getting used to.

[Oboogie]

For the last few years genocide has been increasingly used as a synonym for mass killing (with mass defined by smaller and smaller numbers), but in the last few months I've seen it used for events in which nobody died eg locking up the Farage rioters and imposing inheritance tax on farmers.

Musk's description of Jess Phillips as a "Rape genocide apologist" adds another misuse of the word "genocide" to my list.

[Tubby Isaacs]

New York has belatedly brought in a congestion charge. It's having heart-rending effects like this.

Famously there's no mass transit in Manhattan. And by all accounts he can afford $9 anyway. Nor does it seem to be very far.

And toll roads are all over Red states in America- it's one thing they do better than we do here. What's the difference?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

For the last few years genocide has been increasingly used as a synonym for mass killing (with mass defined by smaller and smaller numbers), but in the last few months I've seen it used for events in which nobody died eg locking up the Farage rioters and imposing inheritance tax on farmers.

Musk's description of Jess Phillips as a "Rape genocide apologist" adds another misuse of the word "genocide" to my list.

Words have no actual meaning to a cunt like Musk, only their effect.

[Bones McCoy]

Seems like Giuliani is having problems in court.

[Bones McCoy]