Snowflakes

[sabotabby]

Someone fetch the smelling salts, the Tories have got the vapours! Quick, to the fainting couch!

Ardent defender of FREEZED PEACH Doug Ford, a former hash dealer whose family has been involved in violent crimes and even linked to a murder or two, is shocked, shocked, I tell you, that protesters would erect a pretend guillotine on the lawn of the Legislature, where he has enacted murderous policies targeting children, teachers, nurses, patients, poor people, indigenous peoples, people who get sick, people who like to not die of preventable diseases, people who breathe oxygen, and cute animals. So much so that he is asking his buddies in the OPP to investigate.

I guess his feelings got hurt or something. Gosh. That's so terrible. I hope no one decides to follow him around with said prop-guillotine at every public appearance, or put it on a sign and take it to protests, or post this song to Twitter and tag him in it:

"The Coup - "The Guillotine"" (Watch on YouTube)

I wonder if PC stands for Progressive Conservative or Political Correctness? Or, I guess, FREEZED PEACH is only for rich white racist dudes.

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

Oh noez!

I'm impressed by whoever made the prop guillotine.

[sabotabby]

Can you believed that some comrade on the internet complained? That it looked fake. I'm like, I can't make a guillotine that good.

(I may have some idea of some of the people involved and they are v. talented.)

[minoanmiss]

I hope they know random Americans are in awe.

[sabotabby]

In fairness most people are like, "that's a really good guillotine, well done lads, ladies, and lots." But you will always find goddamned art critics complaining about historical accuracy and authentic materials and the fact that the blade doesn't go down.

[ironed_orchid]

There's a line between making Ng prop guillotines and getting arrested for executing people.

[sabotabby]

But there's a distinction. If everyone dies of E. coli because Ford cuts public health inspections, that's just the cost of making Ontario open for business. If neo-Nazis call for the death of Muslims or send death threats to Trudeau, it's free speech. But if someone hurts the feelings of the premier, it's a criminal offence.

[ironed_orchid]

fuckers

[kore]

you know, after right wing frothing maniacs BROUGHT ACTUAL FUCKING GUNS to liberal rallies and within a few hundred yards of the White House when Obama was in it and have posted the personal info of people they disagree with online with targets over their faces and and and --

I find it that hard to get worked up over a FAKE GUILLOTINE, revoke my Librul card

[sabotabby]

I think we should INCREASE THE FAKE GUILLOTINES

I may have just ordered more guillotine-themed jewellery.

but there's no such thing as an innocent millionaire

[kore]

ALSO for listening enjoyment, "You Say Millionaire Like It's a Good Thing"

Re: but there's no such thing as an innocent millionaire

[sabotabby]

Nice.

Did someone say vapors?

[franklanguage]

The Vapors - Turning Japanese 1980 Top of The Pops https://youtu.be/RLQeb5NGt3E via youtube
[wasn't able to find an embed code that worked]

Re: Did someone say vapors?

[sabotabby]

It's 2019 but you wouldn't know t from the state of embed codes.

[notasupervillain]

If you would like some happiness, the Tories results in local UK elections can bring you some joy. They lost over 1000 local councillors. To paraphrase the New Statement, we all thought that the Tory talking heads who said they might lose 1000 were cleverly managing expectations. Not accurately forecasting.

The whole thing is a more complex story, both good and bad, that I'm unlikely to have the energy to write up before it's overtaken by events (eg the UK votes for the European Parliament on May 23). But the top line numbers are enough to put a smile on anyone's face.

Conservative -1330
Labour -84
LiberalDemocrat +704
Green +194
UKIP -145
Others +661

[sabotabby]

That does make me smile! Unless the Others are, like, the BNP or something. But in my head it's the Monster Raving Lunatic Party.

[notasupervillain]

I have no proof of this, and I'm not an expert on British politics, but the sense I get is they're local parties, "North Heaton Fix The Goddamn Potholes Party". Because the parties are linked to their national versions, you might be in a riding where the only party that can win is Labour (for national party affiliation reasons), but the local Labour councillor candidates are really terrible. So you vote for "Other".

A rise in the vote for "Other" is just more rejection of Labour and Tory, which I approve of.

And did you see that Green and UKIP basically swished places!

[sabotabby]

I'm all for "North Heaton Fix The Goddamn Potholes Party" based on the name alone.

I'm glad to see that people are giving a shit about the environment and giving less of a shit over racial animus.

[notasupervillain]

I should've gone into politics.

I mean, it's more complicated than that, of course, but at broad strokes it's very encouraging.