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I think I would trust Jacob Rees-fucking-Mogg with my personal liberty more than I trust Starmer and co. Totally through the looking glass.
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I think those of us outside the industry may have a clearer memory of what it was like in the lead up to Iraq and, well...
youtu.be/r3BO6GP9NMY?...
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I think those of us outside the industry may have a clearer memory of what it was like in the lead up to Iraq and, well...
youtu.be/r3BO6GP9NMY?...
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This same shit happening all over Europe and the response from every centrist party is to double down. Check out how Labour are polling in the UK right now to see how that's going.
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I don't know how many times centrist parties need to learn the lesson that "we are the lesser evil" is no longer going to work.
It's not the fault of progressive or leftist voters if make it impossible to vote for you for, I dunno, facilitating genocide for 18 months.
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"Shared values"
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England really needs to see itself in the same position as the rest of us: squashed beneath a colonial era establishment that refuses to die.
England has by far the most to gain from independence in my view :)
Also: please point to wear that "influence" has worked :/
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Amazes me they can't understand this.
To the left of Farage does not mean centre left, especially when every actual policy position is to the right of Cameron/Osborne government and many are to the right of Johnson's!
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Fishook theory is your way to understand what has actually been happening for the past few decades.
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This is Iran’s statement. You don’t need to like anything about the Iranian regime to recognise that these are just facts.
Again: Iran never left the negotiating table. Israel bombed them unilaterally. And the US just joined.
The official UK and EU statements are simply lies.
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Exhibit A: the former editor of The Guardian.
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This is the only way Starmer wins next time in my view: if Farage can't keep his loyalties hidden out of fear the money taps will be turned off, the folk inclined to vote for him may stay home and we get a Labour gov on a thin majority with some ludicrously low % of the lowest turnout election ever
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Break up the UK. Can't happen fast enough.
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Climate change and mental health are hugely interrelated on every level from the neurobiological to the social. People's denial, grief and anxiety is standing in the way of action and we can't solve climate change without dealing w/ it. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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It almost always comes down to projection.
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I cannot think of a single policy area where Starmer and his government are to the left of David Cameron, and I can point to many where they are to the right of Johnson.
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Absolutely determined to believe they are the most discerning thinkers in every room despite every single day of their lives proving this belief to be wrong.
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When you point a finger, three fingers point back at you.
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Pure vibes, isn't it. Exactly the same instinct that made them think Johnson absolutely must be Churchillian because *gestures vaguely at body shape, alcoholism, racism and misogyny*
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Wonderful tell in that post as well. The idea that knowing lots about something = having some values loosely associated with that body of knowledge.
Same level of credulousness that allows them to think Farage speaks for the working class because he poses with a pint whenever he can.
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I can recite Suzy Eddie Izzard's show Glorious from memory. That does not mean if I believe in anything it's, action transvestite comedy, does it.
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*Starmer* may believe that if he believes in anything it's international human rights law.
That doesn't mean you, or we, have to believe that it is true, especially when it is demonstrably false.
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How do you square this with his full throated defence of Israel's right to commit war crimes?
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Fun idea for a stocking filler book, the Centrist Dictionary.
Performative - things that make me feel embarrassed for caring only about my own status as one of the lads
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The big problem does very much seem to be the Sensibles being afraid of upsetting racists as opposed to police officers being "afraid of appearing racist".
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Thank you for explaining your position.
What do you propose?
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*not all business
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It's horrendous