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Why is there a strain of leftist who seems to think that if the West pulls out of Ukraine and lets it fall, lets Russia have that great swathe of land, that they'd just stop? Did they stop after Georgia? No, they hit Crimea. After Crimea? Nope, that's how we got here. They won't stop.

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I live in a classic Blue Labour constituency and can confidently say it's never really about immigration. It's scarcity of resources, people struggling, and a zero sum mentality. This rhetoric and mythmaking about immigrants getting favourable treatment is the foundation of it.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

submitted 20 days ago • 294 comments

Slight delay on the 16:20 to Alicante due to a flat battery. Benny from maintenance is on the case and reckons with a good shove, if he drops the clutch in third gear it should bump start no bother.

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

Speaking of Comms as communication and accessibility, @katymontgomerie.com's shit cartoons are an amazing way of communicating simple messages that help humanise trans people's struggles.

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

Immediately counters his own previous point by remarking that they were never getting Republicans anyway - the vast majority of the right. So how is it the left's fault that Harris prioritised those impossible votes, losing rather than gaining overall?

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

So if she moved left and lost a few right wing votes (when 95% of Repubs already voted Trump anyway), that would be the fault of the left, but when she moved right and lost an actual tangible number from the left that's... Somehow also the fault of the left, is it?

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

what’s stunning to me is the reaction from rightwingers experiencing actual moderation on bsky. they don’t seem to realize how aggressively extreme their own rhetoric has gotten. these are like, facebook grampas posting memes that a decade ago you’d only find in the nazi edgelord parts of 4chan.

submitted 101 days ago • 149 comments

Institutions need policies to protect staff from these kind of reputational attacks, of which Gamergate was a prototype. If you’re a marginalised academic, for example, does your uni have a plan for the day you wake up to 200 emails calling you a nonce for being “woke”?

submitted 101 days ago • 51 comments

Perfectly executed www.thebeaverton.com/2024/11/opin...

submitted 101 days ago • 43 comments

This "impartial" EHRC? www.vice.com/en/article/e...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Literally can't imagine an article like this getting published in a UK paper of the NYT's standing

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Morning y'all, this gator fan wishes you all a happy Flat Fuck Friday. Roll the clip.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

It’s okay to be rude to people who want you to die

submitted 103 days ago • 164 comments

Making the lede "Bluesky CEO misspeaks in interview" is rather hostile BBC, especially when #Bluesky is safer for 13-18 year olds than Twitter/X for sure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

disney exec: it’s about a guy who thinks he’s a monkey lol. probably don’t need anything too crazy for the soundtrack. phil collins: [eyes glowing white, levitating above the ground] no

submitted 103 days ago • 230 comments

I’ve been invited to take part in two “public debates” in London in the last two weeks, and like… guys I don’t care? I’m an actor, I’ve got better things to do than prop up Baroness Terfina Warrcrimes’ columnist career by letting her yell at me about porn for an evening

submitted 103 days ago • 78 comments

But why does this chocolate bar look like the bottom of a foot

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

one thing i was entirely wrong about over the last few years was in my consistent belief that, while not good, a Labour government would be meaningfully better for trans people than Tories had been

submitted 104 days ago • 6 comments

there’s a lot of hand-wringing about the possibility of Reform winning MSPs in 2026, but IMO it’s worth noting that the Scottish Tories are effectively on-par with them in practice at this point

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Every once in a while I see some chud complaining I was a perfectly good writer until I started writing about politics and I'm all, motherfucker, I had a newspaper column where I wrote about politics long before I wrote novels, I was never NOT writing about politics, where the hell have YOU been

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submitted 108 days ago • 91 comments

Hey I should probably start actually posting here right, and not just reposting other people's stuff. So here is my Rook. #DragonAgeVeilguard

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Dems already did this on immigration and got painted as open border communist globalists anyway. This simply does not work. Dems need to have a back bone and actually argue from their differences with conservatives rather than bending over and adopting conservative lite positions because of polls.

submitted 106 days ago • 259 comments

A trans woman simply appears in public and even people who would consider themselves trans allies refer to her as an 'activist': a loaded word. Whereas transphobic cis women who spend their lives campaigning against trans rights are never called 'activists' by the same people. Language matters.

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 110 days ago • 30 comments

One day later

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

Labour is turning a big dial that says 'Transphobia' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Making fun of the people on Bluesky for being theater kids or whatever is hilarious, because I'd rather interact with a person who can sing every song in Cats than a literal Nazi

submitted 111 days ago • 79 comments

submitted 113 days ago • 140 comments

'I consider him like Hitler. But I voted for the man' What.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

When I was at school we were taught how successfully Germany had responsibly learned from and moved on from its fascist past. As the German far right flourishes and the government throws its support behind a state ethnic cleansing neighbouring territories... it was all just bollocks, wasn't it?

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

The Emerging Bipartisan Consensus

submitted 114 days ago • 22 comments

If you think Chris Rufo, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump give a quantum shit about the integrity of women's sports, you should be legally prohibited from commenting on US politics. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 113 days ago • 129 comments

Labour’s ban on puberty blockers for trans kids has been extended again, to 31/12/24. The ban means that trans people and their families are not allowed to make their own medical decisions. The government has provided no evidence supporting this decision.

submitted 115 days ago • 18 comments

This is, again, the influence of right-wing propaganda. "Men aren't allowed to flirt with women anymore!" is a universal truism in male-dominated spaces and something I've never heard a straight woman say.

submitted 115 days ago • 36 comments

I just want to point out that Colorado went above and beyond to pass laws protecting trans kids this year and the result was them holding the House supermajority and keeping the Senate majority while losing zero seats (flipping one, and losing the one that was the guy who changed parties)

submitted 115 days ago • 51 comments

The NHS continue their campaign of employing anti trans activist clinicians who mislead the public about conversion therapy to set the training agenda on trans healthcare for children and young people.

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sure all those who really care about women's sport and changing rooms are furious about this right? Right? I'm sure they're also angry at Arsenal women's Champions League match being moved from the Emirates Stadium to a different ground because the men need the stadium that night now. Right?

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments