Yeah, same. My onion from Corbyn country is that we lost here because he personally is an awful candidate figure, useless at leadership, and unwilling to face up to MODERN socialist issues. I am deeply concerned that Bernie would command a similar dynamic, which makes me worry about the outcome you describe. I think…

They’re not the same, circumstances aren’t the same, systems aren’t the same, bla bla bla, but fork me if the Corbyn bros are not spitting fucking images of Bernie bros just now. I am so goddamn done with all of them. The degree to which they think every song is about them is astounding.

This is such a Corbynist self-own.

Some of the reactions on my Facebook page have been eerily butthurt Bernie bro about Corbyn. I really hope this is it for his entire genre and playbook; roll on Keir Starmer for now.

An article about a decline in feminist blogging surrendering itself to clickbait tactics? Too ironic to support.

Yeah, that’s a good point too. I get burnout because so much of the discourse is samey not because it’s unoriginal, but because we haven’t solved the fucking IRL problems (or we’ve been going backwards) so we have to keep banging on about the same things.

“feminism is dead” as a thing is completely news to me, but maybe I’m not as Extremely Online as I used to be.

Sorry to be the person who criticises the headline, but I did read the article first, and then I went away for an hour and came back after thinking about it, so I feel okay about criticising the headline.

Telling women they're whores is being a good guy, and funny? When's your show, can I buy a ticket?

I’m not even sure GWB has these policies in truth, oa least not anymore. So many of them were cynical spin to drive rightwing turnout. Not that that gets him any credit, obviously; he doesn't get to be rehabilitated for SHIT in my book.

For me it’s not the good guys/bad guys thing, it’s that the good guys so often seem to win via deus ex machina plot maneuvering. It’s not universal and I get that some of the genre has actually been used to say something (Luke Cage, JJ) but like... they seem like not the norm. I think reading CS Lewis put me off that…

oof he triggered

That’s been the strategy, but, well, one misses out on some aspects of pop culture, and one can only catch up by watching stuff that seems awfully absurd. But, as pointed out in the thread, not like the endless medlaw dramas are a lot better, of course. My essential issue with the superhero genre is that they seem…

yeah, you’re not wrong about that.

YES

ya defo exceptions there.

Thank you, yes, this, Christ.

Anyone else over here grumpily waiting for superhero media to run its course? Sorry not sorry.

Perfect response is perfect.

Labour is (a) currently incompetent, and (b) hamstrung by the fact that loads of their voters bought the brexit propaganda. There’s a major realignment required around here, around the fact that Labour is mostly for white guys but socialist, Tory is for white guys but fuck the poors, and the actually progressive…