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

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

There’s even a song about melts (RIP the original account which had a great video)

Have you heard ‘I Am A Melt’ by Reel Politik on #SoundCloud? #np https://t.co/RuE8HM3qYP

— TheRealJohnSeal (@TheRealJohnSeal) April 28, 2018

xp I’m afraaaaaaaaid that is the nature of the hard left

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

― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 21 November 2019 10:48 (thirteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol remember when some wasteman tried to make out that calling ppl 'slug' and 'melt' were incitements to genocide

twitter is useful for me bcz i do need to know roughly what's going on but i never read newspapers or watch TV (they're bad not good, way worse than twitter, quit them and end them*)

these threads used also to serve that purpose but now they're mainly filled with bits of twitter lol, deems on point it turns out, wow at that

i will never log off

Anvil if you want to write fiction this is the place to share your efforts:

ILB Writing Club

I think melt is fine. It cuts down the amount of guttermouthed sweary slurs I use against other people and politicians, it makes the discourse more refined and civil!

In July 2012 the only thing melting was our hearts as Guy Garvey gishgalloped over the austere sand to take Long Jump gold. Now look.

the golden age

twitter is useful for me bcz i do need to know roughly what's going on but i never read newspapers or watch TV (they're bad not good, way worse than twitter, quit them and end them*)

+1

Being called a melt is about as offensive as being called a wally.

"these threads used also to serve that purpose but now they're mainly filled with bits of twitter lol"

Funny you should say this a day after someone comes in saying "I don't know anything not been on twitter forever but this is why I think Corbyn is terrible"

Basically twitter is good.

Prefer gishgalloper to melt tbh.

ok boomer

You people.

Being called a melt is about as offensive as being called a wally.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 November 2019 10:55 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

sobering tbh. Will reconsider my usage of this term

twitter is useful for me bcz i do need to know roughly what's going on but i never read newspapers or watch TV (they're bad not good, way worse than twitter, quit them and end them*)

these threads used also to serve that purpose but now they're mainly filled with bits of twitter lol, deems on point it turns out, wow at that

i will never log off

I always assumed that if there were another hung parliament, the LibDems would swallow their pride and find a way to allow Corbyn into 10 Downing St. I may have been wrong. Here is why. https://t.co/wqzA5886jT

— Robert Peston (@Peston) November 21, 2019

I think it was, as Gyac said, Matt Zarb-Cousin who introduced this word to politics?

But I wasn't there at the time.