certified Guardian moment.
I did some further detective work too, that isn’t particularly shocking - it’s just how journalism works, but if you’ve never given it thought before, this might interest you:
click here for detective work
The ‘publication’ they source, until about an hour ago, didn’t lead anywhere. They report it’s contents, but don’t link to where it can be accessed. My first thought was that it was some very shoddy journalism. I went searching and found nothing initially. I tried again later and found it:
https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/closing-the-back-door/
I then inspected the webpage’s source code: “datePublished”:“2024-02-05T00:01:01+00:00”,“dateModified”:“2024-02-04T23:41:48+00:00”,
It was modified on the 4th at 23:41, and It was published on ‘05’ - today, at ‘00:01:01’.
The Guardian reported on it 9 hours ago. The Irish Times reported on it 8 hours ago.
Therefore, I can say without a doubt that The Guardian and The Irish Times colluded with the Policy Exchange think tank in advance, and these articles were probably lined up in advance of today. Perhaps those publications uploaded in advance in order to catch the Sinn Fein leader news cycle while it was hot, because they hadn’t anticipated new leadership happening in that moment (the day before).
The Mirror also published an article on it at the time the Policy Exchange website went up about an hour ago, but I can’t be arsed to check whether they’re just regurgitating second hand info from the Guardian and Irish Times, or whether they’re reproducing first hand info from the original publication.
Also, the think tanks leaders are ex secretaries of defence. The department of defense (offense, realistically) always has ties to top media publications.
“Irish backdoor” sounds like a euphemism an Anglo-American sex pest from the 1850s would use
Clearly, the solution is to return NI to Ireland.
Having no border is the best way to ensure there aren’t backdoors
Could this article have something to do with the new nationalist First Minister of Northern Ireland and the resulting insecurity from London?
Absolutely.
you think they have these kinds of stories at the ready or publications just scramble and say whatever? i’m confused because it seems like the same quality as their other content.
It’s hard to say what exactly goes on each time, but in general there’s a baseline capitalist ideology, and within that, the ideology is reactive to the worlds stimuli. They can’t predict everything that’s going to happen, but for the most part the world works the way it works. Events don’t just happen, they are precluded by trends and other events which are all closely monitored. For example, no one predicted the day or method that Hamas would attack Israel, but everyone knew that an eventuality like that was bound to happen, and the media was ready to pounce on the specifics, and interpret them with the usual ideology.
In this case, Ireland has been heading down the path of independence for a long time, and Sinn Fein taking power in Northern Ireland was not unimaginable. It was then announced, and now the media will react with their usual takes. The usual takes are ready at hand, because the ideology is the same every time. The think tank paper they cite is pretty long, and probably wouldn’t just appear overnight - if it did, then all the research (the ideology) was already to hand, and they mad dashed it out. But I don’t think that’s the case.
In this case, if you’ll trust my internet detective work, I deduce that this article was already in the works, and just happened to coincide with specific events (Sinn Fein taking leadership in Northern Ireland). They might have even published it earlier than they should’ve in order to catch that days Sinn Fein news cycle.
The ‘publication’ they source, until about an hour ago, didn’t lead anywhere. They report it’s contents, but don’t link to where it can be accessed. My first thought was that it was some very shoddy journalism. I went searching and found nothing initially. I tried again later and found it:
https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/closing-the-back-door/
I then inspected the webpage’s source code: “datePublished”:“2024-02-05T00:01:01+00:00”,“dateModified”:“2024-02-04T23:41:48+00:00”,
It was modified on the 4th at 23:41, and It was published on ‘05’ - today, at ‘00:01:01’.
The Guardian reported on it 9 hours ago. The Irish Times reported on it 8 hours ago.
Therefore, I can say without a doubt that The Guardian and The Irish Times colluded with the Policy Exchange think tank in advance, and these articles were probably lined up in advance of today. Perhaps those publications uploaded in advance in order to catch the Sinn Fein leader news cycle while it was hot, because they hadn’t anticipated new leadership happening in that moment (the day before).
The Mirror also published an article on it at the time the Policy Exchange website went up about an hour ago, but I can’t be arsed to check whether they’re just regurgitating second hand info from the Guardian and Irish Times, or whether they’re reproducing first hand info from the original publication.
Also, the think tanks leaders are ex secretaries of defence. The department of defense (offense, realistically) always has ties to top media publications. They ‘leak’ information, or report it first hand for the media to publish. These links are well documented.
Consent manufacturing goes brrrr
They pay these people at least six figures to come up with something I could have written after playing a session of HOI4! How wasteful.
I think the usual Guardian salary is between 28-70k (large range I know), but he probably gets underhand benefits from his connections to power, monetarily or otherwise.
I was speaking more to the think tank people that write the paper the columnist was referencing.
Ahh, true
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someone post that old picture with greta wearing the Chinese headpiece
it was gold
I didn’t have “the Irish have their white status revoked” on my 2024 bingo card
Sounds dangerous. I think the UK should surrender.
balkanize*
Time to bump up the timeline on the Irish strategic nuclear weapons program.
I wish someone would come in my backdoor…
I prefer to use the windows
I prefer to use the Linux
How would a call of duty set in britbong land work out? What’s the “Rameriz defend burger town” meme there?
Group of chinese-armed IRA soldiers walk into a Greggs
Remember - no sausage rolls
4 IRA soldiers absolutely let rip full auto on the gammon standing in line in front of them
(picture a raging boomer thumb screaming at a 16 year old boy) LEWIS, DEFEND CRUMDINGLYHAMSHIRE BY-THE-SEA!
there’s Thatcher’s Techbase, a Doom mod where you kill Margaret Thatcher, which Jeremy Corbyn was photographed playing: https://youtu.be/9dO5j9dHHO4?si=_m8PT_0O4i567Rgz
then there’s Duke Smoochem - a leftist Duke Nukem mod that’s a satire of Britain: https://youtu.be/4EGY-NfW4n4?si=AirQIFxlx_8kniTx
Then there’s Corbyn playing Techbase in Duke Smoochem: https://youtu.be/fl0E82Z72FE?si=464I8H8LPX23ysqs
There’s also a Fallout London mod coming out soon that looks pretty amazing. But yeah, our defend burgertown would probably be Captain Price in a Greggs or a Wetherspoons.
When COD actually did Britain they made the map Underground in MW3 (taking place in the London Underground).
rawi oh, oil geh on dat as sewn as yumanly possibel, buh fayest I goh uh enjawi me tiddly winks and smuggly mugglies befoh tha rashuns dun stop incloodin dem
Hyper degreed not a real job but gets showered with blood money
Ireland isn’t even part of NATO, and that’s a good thing.
the guardian? more like the goblin.
Did someone say “goblin”?
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And it wouldn’t be surprisin’ if there be another risin’
Said the man from the
Daily MailGuardianThis is pretty much the NATO go-to for any election or politician they don’t like. Tried the same shit in Colombia by accusing Petro of having Russian influence.
