The gov really are just saying calls for violence against certain demographics are okay actually, more than okay, reasonable and maybe even policy ideas
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The gov really are just saying calls for violence against certain demographics are okay actually, more than okay, reasonable and maybe even policy ideas
What the election of Polanski as Green Party leader does, fundamentally, is create a pull factor to the left of Labour just as Reform has acted as a pull factor to (ostensibly) the Right. Unfortunately I doubt that Labour in its current state will respond to it the same way.
Would be incredibly funny if everyone hitching their wagons to Graham Linehan's free-falling faceplant of a career trajectory and mental stability is what finally gets people to realise how absolutely vile the entire anti-trans movement is.
This is exactly the same thing that happened when translation companies started hiring people to fix machine translations instead of doing the translating. It took exactly the same amount of work and skill from the human worker, but paid half as much.
watching Children of Men with some Labour MPs and they keep whispering stuff like "sound policy" and "measured response." a couple of em got uncomfortable at the images of caged refugees but their colleagues calmed them down by saying they'd probably have a different facility for the trans cages
I forgot GCs runnning the media
So many people supremely relaxed about inciting people to violence - and strangely none of them with a skin colour or gender or immigration status which makes them routine targets of violent people.
i constantly think about this post
Nothing to see here, just a Labour Home Secretary being warned not to get carried away with the xenophobic crusade they're on by a previous Tory Home Secretary. "It'll get better under Labour" they said though, right? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Bluesky is an echo chamber. We need to expand our minds by creating an elite underwater city only for specific people who we like. It's the only way
theyâre so close
So far JK Rowling, Gays Against Groomers and Kier Starmer have come to the defence of Graham Linehan over his arrest. Ignoring that the three tweets are the tip of the iceberg with him. Heâs encouraged doxxing, abused people online, libelled people, harassed them also has a court case for assault.
He said people should attack trans women on sight They won't quote him, they won't post what he actually said, some are even lying about it and making up a fake quote. He said, to assault trans women on sight That's not freedom of speech
The UK media will defend you on their front pages if you encourage people to set fire to hotels full of asylum seekers, or if you encourage violence against women because some trans women might get hurt but they will call for your imprisonment if you protest genocide or the destruction of the planet
Theres a reason establishment media stooges like Rentoul are worried about the direction Zack is going to take the Greens. Because at some point, all eyes are going to be on how the UK press & media aided and abetted the rise of the far right in the UK. The press & media *are* the problem.
scared, are you?
I mean this was ten years ago and Starmer two days ago agreed that people should be concerned about their daughters walking near hotels housing refugees.
I came for the frog saunas, and stayed for the dick-punch to capitalism:
Worth it for the bit where Polanksi calls out Labours entitlement over people voting for them and Ed Balls pulls this face.
To reiterate; This is how the Guardian describes a tweet that advocates assaulting trans women; âPosts on transgender issuesâ
I can tell you exactly which conspiracy theory / disinformation campaign the assholes who passed this nonsense have chosen to believe. It's an American narrative about "welfare recipients buying steak and lobster." So that's who is inspiring them: right-wing American conspiracy theories
We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.
I can help them out with that one actually
I'm deeply sorry you are the way that you are and I hope one day you are able to be better
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
Newsom's centrist positioning between full trans liberation and full trans extermination has him siding with the fascists on issues that he (and you) are simply factually incorrect on, hence: bsky.app/profile/pahw...
no, I didn't say that, try again
had to conclude anything other than huge chunks of mainstream media like donald trump and want him to be dictator
agreeing with fascists about trans people participating in sport is exactly the problem with your centrism
When I started tracking the anti-trans stuff in the papers, it was hard to imagine how they could get any more detached from reality, but over the last 17 months, they've found a way.
so why are you defending centrists like Newsom who don't hold that position?
if I hold the far left position of "I should be allowed to live my life as a trans person in peace" and the far right think I should be put in a death camp, what's the centre position?
Dear God! Linehan was NOT arrested for âgender criticalâ tweets, or tweets about âtrans issuesâ! He was arrested for tweets calling on people to violently attack trans people in public bathrooms, or (cos heâs a feminist đ) if the police wonât help to find the nearest âbig strapping blokeâ to do it
Increasingly in favour of age verification for social media, so as to ensure nobody over 19 uses it without teenage supervision.
I looked at the actual survey summary and lol. seems like there might be another article to write here
I think the disconnect between the far left and centrists right now is that the far right's least popular dreams swiftly became the dominant political reality so "you're outside the mainstream and no one agrees with you" isn't the deterrent it might have been.
this would be unhinged home decor even if it wasn't for the sickening nationalism of it all
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
Fellow âBluesky Eldersâ will remember that the site was set up to pivot away from quote-tweets and dunks, but unfortunately Iâve found the perfect image to quote-tweet dunk someone with.
it kind of has, that's why the tories fell apart last election and labour are probably going to do similar next time
If keeping transphobes in âyour partyâ is more important than solidarity with a minority being attacked then the whole exercise is DoA. Itâs not a real alternative to the same parties we already have: across the board transphobia with different levels of politeness.
He was telling people to physically assault trans people
Zack as leader of the Greens AND this đ twat arrested? I'm feeling very spoilt today. đ¤Łđ
Safe and legal routes to enable people to seek asylum. Right to work so people seeking asylum to live dignified lives while their claims are determined. And a high quality claim determination system that has the goal of getting as many claims as possible right first time. Another world is possible.
I can diagnose people incorrectly even faster, give me billions in VC funding
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
She's only gone and acknowledged him!
Huge congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social elected as the next Leader of @greenparty.org.uk đđ Greens are on the up. We have already achieved so much, but there is more to be done offering a true alternative to this dire version of Labour. Letâs get to it! đ
Our media really arenât prepared for actual left wing politics are they
State of Your Party supporters
"The Greens are pursuing division through polarisation" says the party demonising and scapegoating refugees, trans people and the disabled, the party whose so-called "credible policy commitments" are commitments to segregation and genocide.
i spoke too soon apparently bsky.app/profile/ican...
one particularly funny thing about Graham Linehan being arrested is that Rowling hates him so much that thereâs no way sheâll cover his legal expenses
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
Starting the countdown for Graham Linehan to try and pass off a stalking arrest as political imprisonment.
this is the ur- falsehood of our political era and everything from "schools shouldn't have locked down during covid" to "trans women in sports is a national crisis" are downstream of it and the through line of all of them is national media's willfull ignorance and complicity
well thereâs hardly room on the governmentâs agenda, what with all the large chunks of Reformâs manifesto theyâre busy adopting
Huge congratulations to new @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social! It's been an honour to lead the party for the last 4 years and now I'm so excited to play my part in this next chapter, working with the new leadership team as they take the Green Party into an exciting new era.
Your leader was on the radio yesterday affirming the view that "migrants = pedos", so you can shut the fuck up about "polarisation" and "credibility" forever.
if the increasingly far right Labour are malding this hard over the Green leader we must have picked well, get absolutely fucked
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
The new (co-)deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk, everyone đđť
This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people theyâre entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
it's funny how often the most progressive policy is also the most effective, and less funny how no government will ever consider either
Okay, youâre trying to close the hotels â but there are only 3 ways for that to happen: 1) house asylum seekers somewhere that isnât technically a âhotelâ eg an ex barracks; 2) process all the backlog and process new claims so fast you donât need mass housing; 3) allow people to work during claims
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Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
HR Tiger
what does Labour think is actually bad about Nigel Farage
"an institutional position of accepting reality"
We remind students every time they log in that our product is defective and itâs up to them to keep that in mind.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodâs Handmaidâs Tale used to come to power.
The Left must always be more like The Right and The Right can continue to do whatever it wants. - mainstream political pundits for as long as Iâve been alive
âBlueskyismâ is the militant belief that Mr Blue Sky should only be listened to as part of ELOâs Concerto for a Rainy Day.
So, when a Democrat makes their only statement on trans issues about trans women in sports, they are saying that this is their priority on trans issues - not restoring our equality under the law but joining Republicans in eroding it.
I mean that literally - no one is discussing the massive loss of rights trans people have experienced throughout the country. When Dems talk about trans women in sports, they're not just giving ground on sports. They're giving ground on everything, bc sports bans were the big issue 3 years ago.
I think it's useful to unpack this. If Democrats agree with Republicans on excluding women's sports, what's the harm? Is it primarily harm to trans women who play sports, or is there something more to it? A reasonable person who doesn't know much about trans issues could ask these questions.
functionally everything, apparently
Trans people chalk on a statue? ⢠Home Secretary statement of outrage. Anti genocide in Gaza campaigners political action with red paint? ⢠âTerrorismâ. This? ⢠This is a national embarrassment and the Labour government is shoving it so far up itâs sticking out:
They're using the St George's cross like a socially acceptable swastika just like they use 'biological' as a socially acceptable discrimination.
The Guardian, in their write up of the reshuffle, completely omit mentioning that Tim Allen, new director of comms, was a Trustee for anti-trans hate group Sex Matters. Instead he gets "Allanâs past colleagues describe him as charming and collegiate". Yikes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is one of the most explicit examples you'll ever see of "the people who annoy me the most, personally, also happen to be the nation's biggest political problem." The quintessential reactionary centrist maneuver.
americans when a population doesn't bleach their teeth for a fake hollywood smile:
"Imagine if I said something racist" doesn't work on several counts. Willoughby has said plenty of racist things, and it's clearly resulted in diddly squat. Her pretense that transphobia is uniquely acceptable in British society is infuriating, given the global reactionary anti-immigrant panic.
Hey you know when I pointed out that there are a lot of toxic online spaces where vulnerable people mix with evil people and some of those vulnerable people are largely being groomed and exploited by the evil people, but everyone outside those online spaces assumes they're the same group?
You have to read a long way into the article before you get to the man who discovered the SRY gene saying that's not how any of this works
I am extremely confident that they won't kick him out. Cis leftists only give a shit about trans people when it's convenient to them. They'll mumble something about differences of opinion and democracy and carry on regardless.
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
Your Party should be considered DOA unless @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and @zarahsultana.bsky.social expel him. Homophobia orTransphobia is a red line.
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
I think most of the current crop of Labour MPs came into politics for the proximity to power. I don't think they've ever given much thought to human rights.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
a reminder that Robby here thinks Cracker Barrel's executives are woke DEI leftists who hate him because they changed their logo to a modern minimalist design
It's disappointing that the government's plan to get people moving is focused around "Go for a jog" rather than, as the evidence suggests, building environments that encourage everyday incidental exercise: the ability to walk to amenities liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/388...
Focusing on personal responsibility whilst ignoring systematic structural barriers is something of a hallmark of centre right thinking
"entirely groundless" This is how public discourse is being is being debased. The GFA expressly requires access to court in Northern Ireland for ECHR. But what Straw says is not tested, just repeated, and so a "both sides" "debate" is created. The actualitĂŠ drowns. Sad to watch in real time.
What human rights shall the labour government trample on this week