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I didn’t even check to see if supertommyc was taken this time. That’s aging I guess. Build a rocket, join a union, there’s a world to save and we’re running out of time
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Class-based politics are vitally important, but they’re inextricable with racism and sexism — because these classifications are the three primary systems by which the infernal machine of this country runs. And there *are* a number of people who desperately want to avoid discussing the latter two
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This Stephen Pinker? Oh I’m so very shocked 🙄
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Cummings at that Parliamentary committee, explaining on live TV that during his time in Westminster Tory PRs could send literally anything, no matter how obviously idiotic, to politics correspondents and they would read it out to their audiences on air, deadpan.
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When the lads squeal in terror about Unacceptable Extremism, it’s worth looking at who and what they were just fine with for years and years, from the right sort of chaps.
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when Labour is inevitably turfed out, we're going to discover that the billions spent on AI shite has disappeared with nothing to show for it
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Not enough critical thinking skills to track causality between a recent past and possible futures; just enough to descriptively assess the present situation as bad; not enough to think how it could be made different, other than to assure you that any left or progressive approaches are, yes, bad.
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You can see here that the threat of the far and extreme right is clearly not taken seriously
It's a spectacle. It has no impact on them or the people they know. It's thrilling but they know they'll be just fine and it doesn't matter if others are not
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Miranda, an esteemed liberal commentator who’s on 2-3 big podcasts a week despite not seeming to have any idea what’s going on, explains that voters are outraged about low-level crime going unpunished, such as “masked gangs going into Iceland and stealing all the bread”. 🧐
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If you can handle *the editor of the Spectator magazine* pretending to suddenly notice that *Nigel Farage* might be a bit racist and divisive in *the editorial section of the fucking Times*, and you enjoy being treated like a confused child by hamfisted bullshit artists, then you may like this.
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I would literally rather just chuck some chicken in the air fryer at home as a pre-theatre meal than go to Côte or Pizza Express. Dining out is now Popeye’s or Michelin stars, the mid market is dead to me!