Yup, my parents are Mail readers as well and are attracted to it for the same reasons as yours seem to be. If I showed them that cartoon outside of its context in TDM they would probably be appalled by it, but that kind of thing is easy to gloss over when you’re leisurely breezing through the paper on a Saturday afternoon reading about whatever Baby Cambridge has been up to this week. It’s incredibly dangerous, because you absorb that information on a sub-conscious level where it starts to permeate your own opinions and fears. Scary how much power the media has over us in terms of presenting opinion as fact - that’s why you see so many knuckle-draggers parroting stuff they’ve read or seen that they have next to no knowledge or experience of. I guess I can be guilty of falling into that category from time to time too…
Is every Daily Mail reader a potential knuckle dragger? Should we be deporting all DMR’s in case they lower our country’s average IQ? Do DMR’s have some sort of uniform so that I can easily spot them? #worriednow 
They predominantly reside in the South East, talk about house prices and Europe and wash their cars on Sunday.
Of all Daily Mail readers 87% are thought to live in the South Eastern area of England.
Like a big ghetto. Why can’t they integrate?
The Daily Mail is such an odd fucking paper. It has consistently shown itself to be capable of reaching new nadirs, today being a good example. It’s ruthlessly marketed to celebrity obsessed 25-40 year old women, who are apparently “voracious” consumers of this content. After doing my little “no comments” project last year, which measured press freedom by ability to comment on their articles, the Daily Mail came out on top. It was the most free, as judged by that metric, across pretty much every comparable category.
Much of the political content owes much to current editor Paul Dacre, who reportedly sees himself as a British right wing everyman and fashions his rag on the assertion that he’s correct.
I apologise for calling all DMRs cunts… I appreciate that there are those that may not buy into its headlines and editorials… certainly no ones parents… I hide my head in shame… unless they are facist bigots like my parents. (only kidding, my mum may be German but she never sang Horst Wessel songs as a child)
or so she tells me
Probably can’t or want to, too entrenched in their way of life to concede to progression and the thought of social equality for all.
Can I say that about Daily Mail readers or will they suffer from mock shock indignation and claim discrimination by the state?
But I work with some DMR’s and they seem ok to me. Do you think they are really that different? Do they secretly hate me coz I read broadsheets?
They secretly hate you because you can read
They probably hate the fact you are more enlightened than them, more open to change and new possibilities without being tied to the past.
Most Daily Mail readers I hear won’t let their wives out without a close female relative, to you or me its stone age and backward but to them its their life and cultural history.
This has to be protected regardless of whether its progressive or not, like when Samuel Pepys campaigned to keep the plague solely in South London.
I read that in the Mail so it must be true.
One for Bazza.
Originally posted by @pap
One for Bazza.
Your sweeping statement concerns me, a tad right wing that Pap, strange that the extreme left mirror their foes on the right. Why would I be concerned about a bint in Spain and where have I advocated the closures of borders? Tut tut, poor and fascist I may add, you are not a fascist are you Pap?
I can also recall very well on Saints web when no one knew what the extreme left was or is, thats another pearler.
Can you define that term for us please, Bazzington? I get extreme(ly confused) with your labels.
I used to travel up to London with blokes like this in the 70s. Good to see the breed still alive and kicking. I wonder if he is the original Angry of Tunbridge Wells?
The extreme left could be the right on mock shock indignation brigade who hate their own Country, strangely one of the most tolerant on the Planet, or they could be a bit like Stalin in their beliefs, the polar opposite of Hitler yet exactly the same. Most extreme left dont know they are as racist and fascist as the people they fight, they trample upon freedom of speech as they don’t like what they are hearing (what are your thoughts on anonymous on closing down ISIS twitter accounts?) and shout outrage for every underdog (right or wrong) story on the planet, conspiracy theorists who simply use it as a vehicle to display their hatred for their Country.
I feel sorry for them, the bellends at Dale farm are a classic example of this, absolute cocks who have no respect for a legitimate decision, the enemy within. Not the immigrant, not the refugee or the illegal people who skip through, the apologists who claim to love the causes when in fact they dont really care about that at all, its their hatred for the state and revolution thats lights their candle.
Pretty clear to me and hopefully to you Pap.
Politics is a circle, or the horseshoe theory, check it out and you’ll see Bazza in yet again bang on the money.
That sounds like something that someone on the extreme right would say.
Interview from Göring’s Nuremburg diary.
Göring : Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.