Fuck me, is there nothing these days that isn’t a crisis? I’m sick and tired of being told that everything is a crisis.
Latest bullshit is the concrete crisis. It’s not a crisis, it a genuine problem that needs addressing but it’s not a fucking crisis.

We’ve had the lot lately haven’t we? I’m sure I’ve missed a few but here’s a list :

The cost of living crisis. Nothing compared to the 1980s but we didn’t have snowflakes in those days.

The climate crisis. Nothing compared to the crisis we’ll actually have when the electricity runs out running all those heat pumps and cars.

The obesity crisis. Eat decent food you cunts. Take some exercise. Take some responsibility.

The NHS funding crisis. Sack the fucking managers and diversity consultants.

The mental health crisis. No wonder the way we’re talking up the other crises!

FFS stop calling everything a crisis! There’s going to be a general election soon and if Starmer and his cronies get in then there really will be a fucking crisis. You heard it here first…

Rt. Hon. Dioclese (still alive and kicking).

The world cheered as Nelson Mandela was freed from prison to rule over South Africa, in what now seems a one party state.

Now the world would see what the majority race of people in South Africa would be capable of.

Well, today I’ve read another story of this country’s demise. It seems Johannesburg is a big crumbling mess of a city, with criminal gangs taking over derelict buildings and illegally renting rooms out. Mostly to illegal immigrants from other African countries, whom the natives want out of the country according to this article (Diversity is a strength…just in honky countries though).

Because of some daft housing laws brought in by the ANC, they can’t do much about it.

Let’s have it right…South Africa has gone to shit since the ANC took over and it gets worse every year.

Can’t think why though. It’s a mystery to me, I can tell you.

Bbc news

Nominated by Cuntybollocks.

Ministers want to grant themselves “unlimited” powers to create new criminal offences and civil penalties against home owners, landlords and businesses as part of its commitment to sustainable Net Zero targets by 2050.

To do this they’re seeking amendments to the Energy Bill, which includes tightening up on Energy Performance Certificates, which most homes and businesses must have when it comes to selling a property. (The EPC rates a home’s energy efficiency between A and G, with A being the most desirable.)

Ministers want all properties to be set to at least Band C by 2035, meaning the compliance costs will fall on the owner. And now they want additional “enforcement” powers to make sure people don’t fall foul of these tough new rules with the threat of anything up to a year in prison or a fine running into the thousands!

Fortunately, there is a Tory Backbench backlash against such heavy-handed, Orwellian-like plans, and the Department of Energy Security denies any such rulings exist.

However, we are living in a different world now, and I wouldn’t put it past these cunts, or a future Labour government to put such proposals forward in its efforts to look as if its complying with the globalists net-zero dogma, even if means sending people to prison for it!

Link below is behind a paywall, but here’s a snippet

“Property owners who fail to comply with new energy efficiency rules could face prison under government plans that have sparked a backlash from Tory MPs.

Ministers want to grant themselves powers to create new criminal offences and increase civil penalties as part of efforts to hit net zero targets. Under the proposals, people who fall foul of regulations to reduce their energy consumption could face up to a year in prison and fines of up to £15,000.

Tory backbenchers are set to rebel against the plans, which they fear would lead to the criminalisation of homeowners, landlords and businesses.”

telegraph

gb news

Nominated by Technocunt.

Be they on the desk of a GP surgery or hospital department, they seem to be completely unable in performing the most basic tasks, especially passing on important clinical information to relevant medical staff, and are one of the reasons the service is so inefficient. Pen pushers soaking up taxpayers money and none of them have a clue of what is happening or don’t give doctors what they need to know.

In my own case, in the past two months receptionists haven’t told doctors of clinical details they needed to know, leading to wasted journeys, and now a possible abandoned procedure, despite me informing these daft bints well ahead of time. It’s left to a nurse specialist to email the doctor/department directly when the admin staff can’t be fucked to communicate. too busy on fucking Facebook, perhaps? Half sound as if they’ve been on Mogadon; dopey, slow-witted, clueless fuckwits. The other half sound distracted and glib, as if what you’re saying is entering one ear and exiting the other, without sparking any neurons on it’s way through.

I generally expect important clinical information to be passed to the relevant doctors as it does have an effect of how clinic visits and procedures are planned, but this doesn’t seem to happen anymore. Doctors are also now not aware of their departments’ correspondence with GPs, despite the GP sending texts to patients saying the hospital would like blood tests for X, Y and Z done.

This is not that new though, severe -even life-threatening- incompetence seems to be a pat of the criteria for the NHS receptionist. Back in 2008 I had chemo for bollock cancer. Chemo can fuck with your immunity and I developed neutropenic sepsis. I phoned the chemo ward as I had been instructed, and the receptionist/administrator said they had no beds and I should go to my local hospital.
According to my consultant this should never have happened, and he was livid.

They could all be replaced with some sort of Chat bot and the NHS would run far more efficiently, although if developed under government contract at eyewatering expense, might not work at all.

Metro

Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.

A cunting for the arrogance of ‘progressives’ and sinister phrase ‘The right side of history’, or rather, telling others they are on the ‘wrong side of history’.

There is a chilling certainty about it, an arrogance from the dogmas of Marxism and fascism, seeing history as a ‘project’. Those who use the term see themselves as progressive and enlightened. There is a threatening edge to it, as if history itself is a war to be won.

Conservatives don’t usually use this terminology, it always seems to be the demented utopian left, the justice warriors, the racial obsessives (black and white), the Islamists and their apologists, who forget the numerous attacks and bombings, and are more worried about ‘islamophobia’. Don’t be on the wrong side of history, they say, wagging their fingers at those whose children and loved ones keep getting maimed. it’s not progressive to criticise a religion that pretends it is peaceful, but also says it shall have the last word.

I suspect a lot of people in government and the public sector are believers in history as a progressive project; it’s why many of them became civil servants. Remember in the late nineties when Blairites wanted to rub the right’s nose in diversity? What was the aim? Diversity for its own sake?
Look at the mess that has created, not especially for the right, but for all in the UK, creating more division and economic inequality, as well as stretching services beyond capacity. Are these architects of unhappiness and cultural anxiety on the right side of history?

This arrogance and self-delusion is not just the preserve of the left. Political philosopher Francis Fukuyama declared there would be an ‘end’ to history, its finale being a world of liberal democracy, global trade, Disney animation, MTV and McDonalds in every land. He wrote about this in 1992 at the end of the cold war. It was probably a lot easier to believe back then, as America became the world police. However, It took less than a decade for his theory to be proven false, with the rise of Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, and the more recent rise of China.

This worldview still seems to be prominent in the western world; there is still little acknowledgement of pluralism; the world of liberal democracy and globalised neo-liberal economics must win out. Transnational organisations like the UN, WTO and EU are the inevitable future. this is why the managerial elite of the west and their sycophants in the media were so outraged by Brexit and Trump. The most unhinged reactions were from the supposedly enlightened; barristers, academics, politicians, peers, senior civil servants, authors, artists and scientists. Their progressive project had been sabotaged. ‘They didn’t know they what they were voting for’ is as insufferable as telling people they’re on ‘the wrong side of history’.

There is no great surprise that Fukuyama’s work drew on Marxism and Hegel, seeing history as ‘progressive’. It is pure dogma and wishful thinking, not based on a realistic view of human history; humans are too chaotic and mercurial to be effectively modelled, marshalled and shunted into a single system that progresses along and can predict some end point. It’s the same sort of ‘rationalist’ thinking that asserts there should be universal human rights.
Good luck applying that in the real world.
Greater geniuses than Marx and Hegel (namely John von Neumann) have created theories and strategies such as Game theory to try to anticipate human behaviour, mainly in the economic sphere, but have had the wisdom to not try to turn that into a long-term forecasts related to history.

Both Bertrand Russell and later Jacob Bronowski, both champions of empiricism, labelled Hegel a con artist, and it was Jacob Bronowski, while filming his series The Ascent of Man, who cautioned against certainty, for the march of ‘progress’ guided by pure dogma leads to the horrors of not only the Holocaust, but of the Soviet gulag and the Terror of the French Revolution. Note that none of these horrors were motivated by a belief in God, but the belief in political projects and the supremacy of ideology over others without ever testing them.

Bronowski famously quoted Cromwell, ‘I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you might be mistaken’.

I wonder how many people who accuse others of being on the wrong side of history, and believe they are on the right side, ever wonder if they might have been mistaken.

the Atlantic

Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.