There’s no going back now because the lying and fearmongering has been so total, so pervasive, repeated by everyone who matters, that nobody can ever admit any of it was wrong or misleading. Because that would be tantamount to admitting almost all of it was malicious bullshit.

What changed? Well, a shit ton of money was ploughed into propaganda and in the mid-2010s, British wingnuts realised that all-channels terrified screeching about Palestinian solidarity would protect their horrible political projects from the left. And cranks all over the world were watching closely.

Prestige British TV drama in 2011. Try to imagine what would happen to anyone who tried to put a drama about the creation of Israel on TV now, with scenes showing soldiers committing atrocities. The US President would sanction Channel Four www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Front page of the Independent in July 2006 here, and this was by no means unusual: standard normie opinion then was that Tony was a dangerously crazy true believer who was embroiling Britain in more war crimes.

There won’t be any Netflix dramas about the British politics press collectively shitehousing the Labour Party into a weird and very nasty Norsefire flagsex criminal enterprise, with catastrophic consequences, but maybe there should be.

like, why would any democrat compromise with the GOP right now? you have a once in a millennium upper hand. every member of trump’s admin who opened that file is complicit. go after them. open investigations. have hearings. say it on the news every night. do something other than roll over for once.