Dianne Abbott

[Metal Biker]

I said I thought both him and Edmund were. Not sure though, I’d have to google it.

Edmund refused to covert to Norse Paganism so the Vikingr turned him into a pincushion.

Died 200 years before Edward.

 

[mackenzie]

Complex and interesting is fine and different opinions great, it’s the bile and scorn that wears you down all the time.

I agree. It wears me out

 

[bluenova]

I'm a "leftie"....always have been and always will be.
Union activist, with a Grandfather shop steward, who then read "The ragged trousered Philanthropists" years ago. Loved it, and it changed how I looked at things in a profound way.
Yet there's something "different" now, and it saddens me because there seems to be so many divides drawn, and woe betide anyone who crosses.
Yet isn't that what people are really like? Complex, interesting, multi faceted and HUMAN

Social media has really fucked things up.

It was easier thirty, forty, fifty years ago to have a broad church - but now it's much easier to find an echo chamber, and pop yourself in a box that's not big enough for anyone with different views.

 

[meltonblue]

Edmund refused to covert to Norse Paganism so the Vikingr turned him into a pincushion.

Died 200 years before Edward.

Right but I thought they were both patron saints up to George was what I was saying.

 

[mackenzie]

Social media has really fucked things up.

It was easier thirty, forty, fifty years ago to have a broad church - but now it's much easier to find an echo chamber, and pop yourself in a box that's not big enough for anyone with different views.

Couldn't agree more, well said.

 

[Metal Biker]

Right but I thought they were both patron saints up to George was what I was saying.

Ah right. Yeah, they were. Edmund was the OG.

 

[blueinsa]

Social media has really fucked things up.

It was easier thirty, forty, fifty years ago to have a broad church - but now it's much easier to find an echo chamber, and pop yourself in a box that's not big enough for anyone with different views.

Nailed it.

 

[meltonblue]

Social media has really fucked things up.

It was easier thirty, forty, fifty years ago to have a broad church - but now it's much easier to find an echo chamber, and pop yourself in a box that's not big enough for anyone with different views.

Yup. It’s not only on social media either, it’s forced the more traditional media to be more entrenched too. You don’t get the difference in opinion in editorial sections anywhere near as much nowadays.

 

[meltonblue]

Ah right. Yeah, they were. Edmund was the OG.

Cheers, I thought so, I read a really good book a few years ago about Edward. Might have to do Edmund next, don’t know much about him.

 

[blueinsa]

Yup. It’s not only on social media either, it’s forced the more traditional media to be more entrenched too. You don’t get the difference in opinion in editorial sections anywhere near as much nowadays.

I can’t read a newspaper anymore and watching the news on tv is becoming a struggle, such is the bias in show dependant on what it is you are watching.