The Daily Mail continues to threaten us with a good time.

@Nickiquote Bloody Polanski! Wanting people to have a decent life! Thank goodness the staunch, crusty old troughers in Westminster are on the case!

@Nickiquote British, red, cross - a typical Daily Mail reader ( can't remember who said this).

@Nickiquote furious at them working AND using the NHS? Pick a lane!

@Nickiquote so the green party want to treat drugs as a medical issue and the DM call that pro-drugs

What are they calling pro-porn ?

@Nickiquote oh fuck right off daily mail. And the donkey you rode in on.

@sean @Nickiquote Anti-age verification (i.e. ID checks), maybe?

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Doesn't it ever make people feel small to be this easy to rile up?

Like this is so ham handed. It's that "he might take your cookie, mate!" meme.

Maybe I have too much faith in people, but even if they have ideas about immigration I don't agree with ... shouldn't it feel bad to see people being so obvious in their manipulation. IDK.

I suppose it might be easier to see with the distance of an ocean between myself and this paper. We do of course have it over here too.

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I've seen variants of this trope circulating in various European countries since the 90s.

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@futurebird @Nickiquote I wonder the same thing all the time! And this paper has been doing it for *decades.* The entire time I lived in London, you couldn't get in a black cab without the driving immediately reeling off Daily Heil headlines at you, and then preening themselves on their quality cockney cab banter

@Nickiquote but imagine having such a void skull between the ears! The lightness! The peace, the limitless self-esteem, never to be interrupted by doubt... I envy them SO much.

@Nickiquote the weird thing is how views have diverged so far that people take opposite meanings from the same thing

Their article includes a video of Zack being perfectly normal and reasonable in a way that presumably gets DM readers riled up in anger

@capnthommo @Nickiquote I'm really not sure they've thought through the impact of tagging the Greens as pro porn and pro drugs, I suspect there's a strong segment of their readership who will respond with "how do I vote for the pro drugs pro porn party?"

@Nickiquote Surprised that the Daily Fail aren’t pro-porn because that “article” is a load of wank. 🤮