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Disaster socialism and disaster capitalism - opposite sides of the same coin

Steven is obsessed about the traditional newspaper press. Has anybody told him nobody reads them these days?

Erm... If they did, "anybody" would be wrong. Much as I'd like it to be otherwise, enough people in the UK still read the tabloid newspapers and the drivel they print to have some influence. OK, many of them make a loss in financial terms. But getting a cash profit from them is not the main reason many of their 'offshore owners' keep them going. Sometimes being able to bullsh1t just 5- 10% of the population is sufficient for their purposes.

Alternatively, maybe you were calling their readers "nobodies". Rather harsh, despite their poor judgement in reading matter. :)
 
Erm... If they did, "anybody" would be wrong. Much as I'd like it to be otherwise, enough people in the UK still read the tabloid newspapers and the drivel they print to have some influence. OK, many of them make a loss in financial terms. But getting a cash profit from them is not the main reason many of their 'offshore owners' keep them going. Sometimes being able to bullsh1t just 5- 10% of the population is sufficient for their purposes.

Alternatively, maybe you were calling their readers "nobodies". Rather harsh, despite their poor judgement in reading matter. :)

Just 5 - 10% is sufficient. With the UK population so evenly divided there is everything to play for.

Without having seen any research I would wager that printed paper readership rises with age and peaks in the 60 to 85-year age group, the baby boomers.

The only time I read a printed copy is when I've spent enough in Waitrose to get a free one. It is usually the Times because it is behind a paywall online.

I am aware that it has the same owner as the Sun but he uses the Sun as his political platform because its readership.is much wider.
 
What I don't understand is how people who profess to be genuinely religious can be so mean.

There's a sort of joke meme with lottery winners where a winner inevitably runs through a million dollars and winds up broke again, and someone says the obvious - they weren't good with money. Which of course should go without saying because if they were good with money they wouldn't have been playing the lottery in the first place.

People who profess genuine religiosity are quite similar. If they were genuinely adept with existence they wouldn't have thrown in with religion.
 
There's a sort of joke meme with lottery winners where a winner inevitably runs through a million dollars and winds up broke again, and someone says the obvious - they weren't good with money. Which of course should go without saying because if they were good with money they wouldn't have been playing the lottery in the first place.

People who profess genuine religiosity are quite similar. If they were genuinely adept with existence they wouldn't have thrown in with religion.

Perhaps but what I was getting at (all Republicans cover ears now) was Jesus was a socialist, or possibly even a communist.
 


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