Ne'er get thee stitched til Booris be ditched: UK General Election 2019

What's a melt? Sounds like something out of a 90s Guy Ritchie film, 'Shut it you MELT!'

no time to split hairs here, it you i'm afraid, DL.

*shrug emoji*

Riley and Linehan as real-time examples of radicalisation online is grimly fascinating.

Graham Linehan? What's he saying?

What's a melt? Sounds like something out of a 90s Guy Ritchie film, 'Shut it you MELT!'

I've wondered this myself, not really sure, but my guess is something along lines of

"I agree with Labour policies on just about everything but I can't in good conscience bring myself to support them for ___"

(where as soon as ___ is resolved, there will be another ___)

xp just went on Twitter for the first time in fucking years.. jesus

DL have you been in a cave these past two years?

xp oh good you can catch up

no wait, is it

"I didn't leave Labour, Labour left me"

that seems to be more of an American one though, "I didn't leave the left, the left left me"

or "Labour isn't recognisable to me anymore", "The left of today isn't the left I grew up with"

xxxp so 'round here you have to agree with everything Labour say or you're a 'melt'. love it

*DL next year as the Tories decimate whatever is left* Lab was alright actually.

*sigh*

it's all about you isn't it?

did i say it was?

xxxp so 'round here you have to agree with everything Labour say or you're a 'melt'. love it

close, but not quite, try this

MELT

i) "Agrees with everything think Labour says except for reason x", which means they will vote for someone else. Labour everywhere except ballot box

NOT A MELT

i) disagrees with some Labour things, including some publicly, but makes a choice to vote Labour
ii) A Lib Democrat voter who has never pretended otherwise
iii) A Conservative
iv) A non voter

Anyway I dislike the term, im just going off what they were saying in online lefty spheres which shall remain unidentified for obvious reasons

xp that seems very prescriptivist. possibly bullying... surely the idea of democracy is we can make our own choices without being called names?

I agree with A 98% and B 2%, therefore despite being a lifelong A I will be voting B this time as I cannot in good conscience vote for A. Rinse and repeat

Wrong, try again. xp

of UK democracy is tribal and adversarial, deal wid it melt!

of course

surely the idea of democracy is we can make our own choices without being called names?

no no this was the idea of the internet

This is correct I am bullying you right now, it is part of a wider program to see if we can suppress potential Labour votes through a concerted online bullying campaign. I take no pleasure in this but I have just put £50 on a Conservative/LibDem coalition at 40-1 and every vote counts

I agree with A 98% and B 2%, therefore despite being a lifelong A I will be voting B this time as I cannot in good conscience vote for A. Rinse and repeat

― anvil, Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:28 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

None of this is the case though.

exactly (they don't really believe in the 98% at all that's just for public consumption)

does this person really even exist?

chairman alph wrong i think calling r!ley a melt = we need a clearer shorthand for bad-faith single-issue campaigner radicalised on-line into leveraging a minor sleb platform for bigoted ends

(by same token l!neh4n also very much not a melt)

Which of you actually invented this use of the word "melt"? I have never seen it used anywhere other than this thread and its antecedents, and I speak as somebody who is on Twitter quite often!

it's common as dogshit on lefty twitter

ah the lefty sphere

it arrived in the discourse via bastani i believe

it possibly has long-established scouse antecedents, i live in hackney and cannot confirm this

See this is why we're gonna need re-education camps

They exist, just down the street from online lefty spheres. Number 27a, Internet. We must never name names though, we must be as vague as possible,

Yeah she isn't, but RR was v much on DL's "I am not supporting Boris but Corbyn is terrible because of something" schtick. Where they depart is DL has all of sorts *v serious bullshit concerns* whereas RR is single issue. xps to mark

the thoughtcrime that sent me to the camp: i was prematurely very online

Admittedly I had a bruising encounter with a momentum thug in an online lefty sphere yesterday so even a bully such as myself can come a cropper in the discourse from time to time

3 weeks to D Day and we're gonna refight the Corbyn He Bad Man wars, classic.

We have talked about the origins of melt in another politics thread. It's quite obscure online left twitter accounts (one of which is long gone) then iirc Dawn Forster wrote it up.

Friday the 13th is the day I will shit post like never before

Nuke Twitter.

Don't like the word 'melt' and hate how everything itt revolves around Twitter tbh.

I think “melt” is very much part football twitter? I associate it more with Matt Zarb-Cousin, but I don’t think you see it as much in its natural habitat anymore since it’s more mainstream. See also “gammon”.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/slugs-melts-inside-language-culture-corbynite-left-523364

xp point taken tbh but it’s where a lot of things are happening!

To avoid confusion, melts have no power. Slugs have power and hate it when the public salt them for it.

...and a lot of shite is happening.

Wee Eck up in court just in time to put a spoke in the SNP campaign and wipe the smirk off Sturgeon's coupon.

Rachel Riley's tunnel vision stalkery radicalism is sure something. I'm not sure she'll turn into K H0pkins like some are commenting, but her lack of awareness to filter out nazi/bigot content - as long as it is anti-Corbyn is what might finish her career off at some point.

Riley lives in an Essex Tory seat that got turned into a marginal two years ago with over double the Labour voters it had in 2010. It will probably have a very '97 style outcome there (when it was a new seat but Tories took it by a few thousand votes). Tough times for her though sure.

I saw a group of progressive activists virtue signalling recently and went over to ask for directions. They were friendly at first until one of them noticed a couple of legitimate concerns I had in my bag. They expressed annoyance that I had detoured from groupthink and was showing signs of independent thought. I fought back, "bro, I'm just here for the marketplace of ideas, I'm all about ideas" I said.

It did not go down well, the masks slipped, Momentum thugs began to arrive, I panicked, pushing my free speech down further into my bag in case they saw it and attempted to suppress it. I could maybe handle these momentum thugs, but surely it was only a matter of time before they called in Antifa, they could suppress independent thought in a flash, I was in serious danger of deselection. I couldn't believe it, a climate of fear began to emerge.

"The left eat their own, the left eat their own" I began to think about all the warnings I had been given, how wrong I had been to dismiss them so easily. They were going to cancel me, over this? a couple of legitamate concerns? I couldn't believe it...

This is the reality of life in an online lefty sphere. you may think I exaggerate but its serious out there