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7 May

The biggest disconnect between the politically engaged and those who don't care about politics is the former think the latter have evaluated all the facts (e.g. absorbed all the Tories' wrongdoing) before deciding to vote the way they did.

But they're not remotely that informed.

Disinterest is not malice.

Disinterest is not stupidity.

Disinterest is not lack of education.

Disinterest is not a weak moral code.

Disinterest is disinterest, nothing more. They're just not enthused enough about politics to drill down into the detail.

If you treat the disinterested as exhibiting malice, or imply they're stupid, uneducated, or lacking morals, they'll push back (and rightly so). "How very dare you!"

The only way to win them over is to break through that apathy. Easier said than done, of course.

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7 May

How to Understand the Tory Surge

If none of your family/friends succumbed to covid, then your recent experience of the Tories is likely to be:
- They brought you the vaccine (not true, but...)
- They paid your furlough/supported your business (not true, but...)

Yes, they're arsonists turned firefighters when it comes to the pandemic and the vaccine.

Yes, all that support came via record new debt. Someone will have to pay for it at some point.

But to the average person who doesn't care about politics, Tories wrongly look like saviours.

(Remember, if you're reading this thread, you're already more engaged in politics than 90%+ of people. And that makes you atypical. In a good way, but it still means that your understanding of the situation will be different from that of the proverbial person in the street.)

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3 May

The Daily Mail is creaking at the seams with articles screaming for an early end to lockdown on the basis the stats show the pandemic is no longer a major threat.

None of these pieces ever connect the crucial dots, that it's BECAUSE of lockdown that things have got much better.

It's like complaining about the fire sprinklers in a still smouldering building, without acknowledging that it's no longer a raging inferno because they've been spraying water 24/7 for months.

Turn them off, and what happens? Doesn't take a genius to work that out, and yet...

The most whackdoodle opinion pieces call for the end of lockdowns, social distancing, mask wearing and all other preventive measures... while pretending that the pandemic just melted away by magic.

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3 May

"The social distancing rule will be scrapped but masks will remain under government plans for the final easing of restrictions on June 21, it has been claimed."

In what universe will people go back to crowded situations, but all masked? So irresponsible!
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

So far, the road out of lockdown has been stepped. Some steps may have felt too uncomfortably large, or not big enough, but there was a vague logic. But 21 June appears to be dive-off-a-cliff-and-hope.

Get it wrong, and tens or hundreds of thousands more will die.

On the plus side: the vaccine. And that's a huge plus.

On the minus side: Since the first lockdown, there hasn't been a single day of unsocially distanced "normal" life. And yet over 120,000 people still died despite varying levels of precaution. Add in stronger variants, and...

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29 Apr

"Boris Johnson’s phone number ‘listed online for last 15 years’

PM’s contact details were listed at the bottom of a 2006 press release as officials reportedly told him to change it"

Makes amoeba look like geniuses. theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

And of course, although the offending article now seems to have been excised from Google, the internet never forgets. So his phone number is freely available here on Twitter, for example, thanks to people screenshotting the now deleted release.

Actually, the information is still available online as well. But it's a bit harder to find now than I suspect it was 24H ago. The press release itself is a PDF, and it looks like Google has de-indexed the text.

(No, I'm not going to link to it.)

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19 Apr

"Facebook encryption plans will hit fight against child abuse, warns Patel"

Politicians shamelessly exploit "think of the children", and a lack of tech savvy in the general public.

Start putting back doors into encrypted systems and ecommerce is at risk! theguardian.com/society/2021/a…

Why? Because no back door is 100% secure - especially one designed to potentially be used by tens of thousands of "authorised" people!

And if encrypted systems are forced to be much less secure by law, then banks, other payment systems and merchants won't dare shoulder the risk.

Imagine a bank vault which a very large number of people have been given a skeleton key to. (You have no idea *who* has been granted keys - and you'll never know - but you do know a *lot* of folk can get in.)

Would you dare leave anything of value in that vault?

No chance!

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