DeActivate
September 5, 2017 1:13 PM Subscribe
Following on from the success of the left wing pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum, young Tories have tried to launch a similar campaigning group called Activate.... it's not gone terribly well so far.
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look i made half a forward conservative youth arrow
posted by lalochezia at 1:33 PM on September 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
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look i made half a forward conservative youth arrow
posted by lalochezia at 1:33 PM on September 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
I'm still having trouble believing Activate is a real thing, especially since the first context I heard of it in was this.
posted by phooky at 1:35 PM on September 5, 2017
posted by phooky at 1:35 PM on September 5, 2017
from the comments "Conservative attempts at humour are located deep within the uncanny valley."
posted by lalochezia at 1:35 PM on September 5, 2017 [20 favorites]
posted by lalochezia at 1:35 PM on September 5, 2017 [20 favorites]
I don't know whether VicTory is real or not, but i enjoyed this random appearance from Kryten.
I'm desperate to know how high up these groups are emanating from.
posted by threetwentytwo at 1:42 PM on September 5, 2017
I'm desperate to know how high up these groups are emanating from.
posted by threetwentytwo at 1:42 PM on September 5, 2017
I'm still having trouble believing Activate is a real thing, especially since the first context I heard of it in was this.
It's basically impossible to tell the spoof accounts from the real thing... it didn't help that the first things I saw were from the spoof accounts
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:50 PM on September 5, 2017
It's basically impossible to tell the spoof accounts from the real thing... it didn't help that the first things I saw were from the spoof accounts
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:50 PM on September 5, 2017
Am I the only one seeing a recycled old school Activision logo? It's practically identical except for the colors.
posted by loquacious at 2:02 PM on September 5, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by loquacious at 2:02 PM on September 5, 2017 [6 favorites]
loquacious, yes, that was my first thought as well. IS NOTHING SACRED
posted by LMGM at 2:27 PM on September 5, 2017
posted by LMGM at 2:27 PM on September 5, 2017
"Two Words: Jacob Rees-Mogg"
I'm dying.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 2:31 PM on September 5, 2017 [9 favorites]
I'm dying.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 2:31 PM on September 5, 2017 [9 favorites]
I'm still having trouble believing Activate is a real thing, especially since the first context I heard of it in was this.
That's amazing!
Brass Eye is playing a much longer game than anyone ever anticipated.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 2:36 PM on September 5, 2017 [10 favorites]
That's amazing!
Brass Eye is playing a much longer game than anyone ever anticipated.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 2:36 PM on September 5, 2017 [10 favorites]
Now let's turn to our Young People on Social Media correspondent, Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan.
posted by radicalawyer at 2:38 PM on September 5, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by radicalawyer at 2:38 PM on September 5, 2017 [5 favorites]
Well, that's embarrassing. #comment #onmetafilter
posted by Panjandrum at 2:52 PM on September 5, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by Panjandrum at 2:52 PM on September 5, 2017 [6 favorites]
Weirdly, I sort of wish this would turn out to be a hoax, just because it is so entirely believable. The details of the two slightly but deniably contradictory claims about the WhatsApp group, for example, seem so perfectly plausible that it would be hard the fabricate them. So, if it is made up, it seems fairly likely to be the discovery of a major comic talent.
posted by howfar at 2:59 PM on September 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by howfar at 2:59 PM on September 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
It's a party for frightened old people and young nazis, basically.
posted by Artw at 3:03 PM on September 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw at 3:03 PM on September 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
wait is Jacob Rees-Mogg a real person this is all so confusing
posted by ckape at 4:46 PM on September 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by ckape at 4:46 PM on September 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
Jacob Rees-Mogg is real. He's the MP for North East Somerset. Whether he qualifies as a "person" or not is debatable.
Just look at the names of his children for goodness sakes
posted by auntie-matter at 5:01 PM on September 5, 2017 [5 favorites]
Just look at the names of his children for goodness sakes
posted by auntie-matter at 5:01 PM on September 5, 2017 [5 favorites]
Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
posted by schmod at 5:06 PM on September 5, 2017 [6 favorites]
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
posted by schmod at 5:06 PM on September 5, 2017 [6 favorites]
A Møøse once bit my sister...
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 5:25 PM on September 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 5:25 PM on September 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
We apologise again for the fault in the Conservative Party. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
posted by Rock Steady at 8:26 PM on September 5, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by Rock Steady at 8:26 PM on September 5, 2017 [6 favorites]
Just look at the names of his children for goodness sakes
They're fantastic! I particularly like the commitment to the premise that 'Rees-Mogg' should be the least remarkable and upper-crusty part of any of their children's name, and that it should be a salty bouillabase of mythic names, poets and shires, and all but indistinguishable from any satirical name created for Python's Upper Class Twit Of The Year, e.g. Alexander Wiltshire Milton Homer Fitzstanarckton Devon Rees-Mogg.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 11:16 PM on September 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
They're fantastic! I particularly like the commitment to the premise that 'Rees-Mogg' should be the least remarkable and upper-crusty part of any of their children's name, and that it should be a salty bouillabase of mythic names, poets and shires, and all but indistinguishable from any satirical name created for Python's Upper Class Twit Of The Year, e.g. Alexander Wiltshire Milton Homer Fitzstanarckton Devon Rees-Mogg.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 11:16 PM on September 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
The whole Moggmentum thing over here is so bizarre and out-of-touch. The Tories must really be desperate if, after the Maybot, any of them are seriously considering this joker.
posted by nonmerci at 1:21 AM on September 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by nonmerci at 1:21 AM on September 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Now let's turn to our Young People on Social Media correspondent, Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan.
Huh! You know I just assumed that was spelled "Owen."
posted by No-sword at 1:33 AM on September 6, 2017
Huh! You know I just assumed that was spelled "Owen."
posted by No-sword at 1:33 AM on September 6, 2017
I've had a look at Moggmentum and I'm sure it is a joke
posted by glasseyes at 2:08 AM on September 6, 2017
posted by glasseyes at 2:08 AM on September 6, 2017
By some accounts, the same swarms of Twitter bots that backed Brexit and Trump are now backing Rees-Mogg. Make of that what you will.
posted by acb at 2:46 AM on September 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by acb at 2:46 AM on September 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
If the Tories do actually select Rees-Mogg as leader, there's a possibility I might actually laugh my own head off.
posted by threetwentytwo at 5:10 AM on September 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by threetwentytwo at 5:10 AM on September 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
This is like that practical joke Spy Magazine pulled when they got all these GOP Congressmen to interview for the fake Republican Teen magazine.
posted by jonp72 at 7:05 AM on September 6, 2017
posted by jonp72 at 7:05 AM on September 6, 2017
His latest little boy is named Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Mogg.
Matilda, get your sword.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:13 AM on September 6, 2017 [6 favorites]
Matilda, get your sword.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:13 AM on September 6, 2017 [6 favorites]
Oh boy does he come across as a creepy Dickensian villain here:
Jacob Rees-Mogg opposed to gay marriage and abortion – even after rape
(trigger warning: Piers Morgan)
Wish they had followed up this up with 'would you try to change this law if PM?'
A bit back there was quite a good documentary series about how parliament works - Ress-Mogg came over better in that, but it was obvious he utterly loves all the old little c conservative minutia of the way things work - the committees, the rules, the traditions. Better he loved being at Eton too.
As well as being a ridiculous combination of Lord Snooty / Lord Haw Haw / A haunted ventriloquists dummy being a catholic will be really off-putting for the average voter.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:12 AM on September 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Jacob Rees-Mogg opposed to gay marriage and abortion – even after rape
(trigger warning: Piers Morgan)
Wish they had followed up this up with 'would you try to change this law if PM?'
A bit back there was quite a good documentary series about how parliament works - Ress-Mogg came over better in that, but it was obvious he utterly loves all the old little c conservative minutia of the way things work - the committees, the rules, the traditions. Better he loved being at Eton too.
As well as being a ridiculous combination of Lord Snooty / Lord Haw Haw / A haunted ventriloquists dummy being a catholic will be really off-putting for the average voter.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:12 AM on September 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
A little more colour on Rees-Mogg: Jacob Rees-Mogg isn’t old-fashioned, he’s a thoroughly modern bigot | Suzanne Moore | Opinion | The Guardian
posted by scruss at 8:14 AM on September 6, 2017
posted by scruss at 8:14 AM on September 6, 2017
> If the Tories do actually select Rees-Mogg as leader, there's a possibility I might actually laugh my own head off.
We said something similar in the US last year. It didn't go well.
posted by cirgue at 10:08 AM on September 6, 2017 [4 favorites]
We said something similar in the US last year. It didn't go well.
posted by cirgue at 10:08 AM on September 6, 2017 [4 favorites]
being a catholic will be really off-putting for the average voter.
Do you think so? I mean, I agree that anti-Catholicism is a real thing in Britain, but I don't think that religion made any noticeable difference to the electability of (for example) Iain Duncan Smith as Tory leader. Maybe that's just because the Tories were so unelectable at the time anyway, and it's apparent that Blair didn't want to "come out" as a Catholic during his parliamentary career, but I'm still not sure that what sort of mainstream Christian you are makes any real difference to voters. Given that even the anti-Semitism suffered by people like Michael Howard and Ed Miliband doesn't seem to have been a clear electoral factor, I don't know how much those prejudices factor into electoral maths. Maybe I'm underestimating though.
posted by howfar at 10:11 AM on September 6, 2017
Do you think so? I mean, I agree that anti-Catholicism is a real thing in Britain, but I don't think that religion made any noticeable difference to the electability of (for example) Iain Duncan Smith as Tory leader. Maybe that's just because the Tories were so unelectable at the time anyway, and it's apparent that Blair didn't want to "come out" as a Catholic during his parliamentary career, but I'm still not sure that what sort of mainstream Christian you are makes any real difference to voters. Given that even the anti-Semitism suffered by people like Michael Howard and Ed Miliband doesn't seem to have been a clear electoral factor, I don't know how much those prejudices factor into electoral maths. Maybe I'm underestimating though.
posted by howfar at 10:11 AM on September 6, 2017
In response to JRM's objection to gay marriage the #MoggMentum hashtag on twitter is all of a sudden much hotter. (and probably NSFW)
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 1:04 PM on September 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 1:04 PM on September 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
[Speaking for British MEfites, I hope ...]
If Jacob Rees-Mogg is the punch-line, the joke's on us.
posted by cstross at 4:06 AM on September 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
If Jacob Rees-Mogg is the punch-line, the joke's on us.
posted by cstross at 4:06 AM on September 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
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[After skimming the site] Um. Is nobody prepared to put their name to this?
posted by Leon at 1:32 PM on September 5, 2017 [1 favorite]