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Thread 16 Starmer - Mad World

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DuncinToffee · 21/01/2025 08:47

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5251589-thread-15-starmer-nolite-te-bastardes-carborundorum?page=40&reply=141533067

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bombastix · 27/01/2025 17:34

I've called some of Trump people melts

They don't like it like up em

takingcareofme2023 · 27/01/2025 17:40

BIWI · 27/01/2025 16:34

Please don't go! I would miss you all. I may not post a lot on these threads, but I very much value your contributions.

Me too xx

Elodie09 · 27/01/2025 17:40

Stay here and stay strong good people, please?

Have a lovely time with your friend @BIossomtoes .

prettybird · 27/01/2025 17:44

Enjoy your time with your best friend @bombastix Smile

RL friends (of both long and short standing) are much more important than attention seeking trolls, AI and assorted other weirdos contributors. Flowers

cardibach · 27/01/2025 17:44

DuncinToffee · 27/01/2025 17:21

I just started watching the Holocaust Memorial candle placing, sobering

I watched the end of that. The last comment that ‘hatred only begets hatred’ should be remembered by many people at the moment.

Notonthestairs · 27/01/2025 17:48

have a great time with your friend Blossom - a friendship of 40 years is worth spending time on.

Saucery · 27/01/2025 17:52

I will miss the posters who need a break, but fully understand. Flowers

My MO if I’m tempted to reply to the more purposefully incendiary threads is Post Measured And Hopefully Informative Reply, Give It 10 More Minutes, Hide Thread. Out of sight, out of mind, plus there is the small delight of knowing the twat who has glommed onto your posts has had their evening’s fun spoilt. I don’t have notifications to my normal email and I hardly ever check the one attached to my account here.
I also go down Active to Hide threads I can tell aren’t started in good faith. Bless them, they certainly make sure you know the content is going to be spiteful bilge by the titles, in the vast majority of cases.
I have been deleted <cough> on occasion but each time I have known as I typed that it was probably going to be delete worthy and judged it a fair decision.

bombastix · 27/01/2025 17:54

I am just taking the piss. It's all reminding me of Otto "Don't call me stupid" in a Fish called Wanda

SerendipityJane · 27/01/2025 17:56

bombastix · 27/01/2025 17:54

I am just taking the piss. It's all reminding me of Otto "Don't call me stupid" in a Fish called Wanda

Shall we mention the London Underground ?

bombastix · 27/01/2025 17:57

It's a political movement

Llttledrummergirl · 27/01/2025 18:07

Thank you for your kind thoughts. @BIossomtoes you can't leave, I'd miss you (and the rest of you).

It's so easy to sleepwalk into an environment where hate thrives that I'm happy to try to make people think about where things are leading.

Araminta1003 · 27/01/2025 18:13

So China Deep Seek just massively undermined Trump by making it open access. Some US stocks down massively. I do not really understand yet as I have not had time to read up on the details, but appears to be one big middle finger up to Trump.

itsgettingweird · 27/01/2025 18:13

Notonthestairs · 27/01/2025 17:48

have a great time with your friend Blossom - a friendship of 40 years is worth spending time on.

Absolutely second this. Or their it or wherever were up to now Grin

I don't think I've ever been deleted. Actually once I was - it was over the knife debarcle and some feta said something about me making a drama. I told them to fuck off until their child was a victim of knife crime and then they could judge - and I hoped they weren't a fatal victim.

I still by that to this day with what we've seen the past few days with AR. The authorities should have acted rather than downplayed it all as a image saving exercise. Angry

PickAChew · 27/01/2025 18:20

If I do click on the more inflammatory threads I have to stop myself from replying with something like "oh give your head a wobble, you get big numpty!"

That probably would get me banned, though.

I took a long mumsnet break last year because I was sick of all the made up bollocks. I just found myself reading the made up bollocks on Reddit, late at night, instead 🙄

I don't venture into FWR very often, any more. I am gender critical but it's become a right wing cesspit where only one women's issue seems to matter, now.

Llttledrummergirl · 27/01/2025 18:24

Have a great time with your friend Blossom. Flowers

bombastix · 27/01/2025 18:26

Araminta1003 · 27/01/2025 18:13

So China Deep Seek just massively undermined Trump by making it open access. Some US stocks down massively. I do not really understand yet as I have not had time to read up on the details, but appears to be one big middle finger up to Trump.

Importantly, much cheaper. Because Chinese AI just aims to absorb select sources.

The frothing that it doesn't engage with "free speech" is interesting

DuncinToffee · 27/01/2025 18:27

Sounds like a loveley break Blossom, hope the weather plays along

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Araminta1003 · 27/01/2025 18:27

“I’m going to have a break this week. I have my best friend of more than 40 years coming to stay so it’s the perfect opportunity to take some time out.”

Please come back to share with us! I do not think people or the world actually change much, fundamentally.

Araminta1003 · 27/01/2025 18:28

It is far greener @bombastix - less energy usage. So good news. Sounds like something to be celebrated.

bombastix · 27/01/2025 18:31

I think the scary thing is actually that Chinese AI, because it is selective, may be more useful to China (and anyone who uses it).

An odd thing of the West has made AI useless by polluting it with a load of nonsense. I suppose public AI will be for the proles. Rich people will have better versions

prettybird · 27/01/2025 18:35

That's pretty much how I feel about the FWR topic now @PickAChew Hmm I rarely bother venturing there now Sad

bombastix · 27/01/2025 18:38

Btw some of these right wingers are quite brittle. They really don't like having the piss taken out of them, even gently.

I think they like earnest lefties, not sarky ones. Let's face it, given the number of bots and supporters it seems not taking them seriously makes them very cross.

PandoraSox · 27/01/2025 18:39

Will there will be multiple MN threads about this horrific case?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dxj570n21o

Llttledrummergirl · 27/01/2025 18:41

I haven't been in FWR for years.

dontcallmelen · 27/01/2025 18:43

Christ that’s horrific, how does such evil flourish those poor children such unimaginable suffering