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Obvious spelling errors are to filter 'marks' for further shenanigans. It's a handy way to find gullible people, a trick first discovered by the Nigerian 419 email scammers, (named after the Nigerian legal code). People who respond to it with likes and reposts will be bombarded with similar crap.
So much eye leak 🥲 that's the nicest thing I've read in oh, quite a long time. We are good people. We are.
Honestly their own MPs are in despair. I do know they made Starmer apologise for his Enoch Powell impersonation a couple of months ago. It's def worth emailing your Labour MP and complaining about divisive, right wing rhetoric. It *will* help. Decent voters need to speak up to empower their MPs.
Sadly, I can't link to the story b/c of Globe & Mail paywalls. But I feel that I have to share big news from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. It has bought at auction the plaid shirt & the Mountie costumes used in the Monty Python skit in which all sing "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay." 👀
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Harridan, dictionary def, is accurate in the context shown. For balance, the male seems like a venomous curmudgeon. More pertinent though is what looks like active racism, haranguing people of a different skin colour in public. UK law does not hand out a free senior's bus pass to commit hate crimes.
Widening Participation
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
He has an upcoming, unprecedented second royal state visit (we've never invited a US President twice) in the UK, including a massive white tie banquet. My money is on that's never happening now, with a manufactured emergency as cover.
Those days are long gone. His recent Scotland visit? That was one last golf cart ride around his assets. Nostalgia tour. Meanwhile JD was in UK (dates overlapping) hosting and chatting up any right wingers would accept his invites. Building his networks. God save us.
Wish we could all stop referring to these places as 'hotels.' They might once have been, now they're temporary asylum housing. Or any other name you fancy, but they are not hotels. The home office could insist on removing old branding in awarding contracts, and honestly, that'd be helpful.
Also true but not graphed -- those without guns don't do mass shootings, but some also have MH issues.
Yeah! But with low rent slebs like Rylan and some gobby hotel shouters and roundabout painters. Channel 4 version far to upmarket.
Came on here to say this. Get Ryan plus some local gobby FB racists shown directly how migrants live in these places. Great tv, I'd def watch.
This is how the average Brit feels, not the image promoted by the BBC.
I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂
Anyone done an FOI request on how many complaints about the over promotion and platforming of Farage the BBC has received in last 3 years? If tens if thousands of licens payers have actually complained, that's a story.
Good point and not spoken about nearly enough--how slippery he is on comms, and so one group genuinely didn't hear or see him say certain things. It's wild stuff, really.
Posting this once again. Funny but very on point.
WHAT A SHOCK
Genuinely hope this is a weird glitch in the US's search to develop an encompassing, better functioning democracy. Keep telling stories of how to turn this around, bigger and better for everyone. Flaws are being exposed--brilliant! They can be fixed. Vision beats any other narrative. 🙏🏻
At the factory gate in China, solar panels are now cheaper than window glass. People are using them to build fences or instead of roof tiles.
I think I'm sorta not agreeing, this was fiery stuff today, it did need a response and it wasn't necessarily Starmer who ought to have been called by a comms junior bod. He really doesn't need what you're suggesting to run better comms. You simply need people to be picking up phones.
Seems there were no adults in number 10 today wise enough to pick up a phone and make a call, to get a take. There ought to have been. Whatever happened is a comms fail, not entirely a Starmer fail, though of course bucks stops with him on who he employs.
His comms office need a severe talking to. The reason for this wimpy shit today is poor holiday cover bod didn't have authorisation to say anything. Parliament is in recess and everybody is away on holiday. It's pathetic and unprofessional.
I've heard (don't know if true) BBC reform was year 2 + in Labour plans, immediate priority was economic. So, hopefully they'll come up with something. There was a recent big consultation, I responded v fiercely on platforming Farage.
Or somehow shoehorn citizen oversight into it's governance. Something has to change about both its editorial management structure and its political guidelines and use of unweighted 'both sideism'. And that might be a better way to effect change than simply sacking people. Though do that as well! 🤣
A considered review though events in the US have shifted gears, with armed troops now entering cities on pretexts and eg government 'taking stakes' in private business. Not seeing how this diverges from our knowledge of 20th century fascism?
Dunno what your VP was up to recently in the UK but that was a working holiday--all the politicians and sympathisers/funders he was meeting with. Bit alarming to us, tbh looked like he was building his own networks. Thought I'd mention, not sure if it got reported much in the US.
Don’t engage with their frame except to quickly refute and shift to your own. Every minute, article, and post spent talking about crime rates strengthens Miller’s strategic framing. I’d be running clips of dictators saying similar things.
Someone asked me what they could do to stop this wave of hate sweeping the country at the moment, and the answer is very simple: use your voice. Call out that racist on Facebook Write to your local paper/MP/ decrying flagshit vandalism and asylum accommodation hate. Don't just be a bystander.
Glasman's made a few wild statements recently that could be worrying to his family--is this a health issue? This ECHR flub is another example. I'm genuinely asking, has he forgotten who ratified the ECHR? His blog eg is revisionist on UK history, but not this provably, factually wrong.
Read that line too and thought actually, he might have some insight. 👌🏻
Genuinely don't think everyone goes into it thinking that way, but it def churns them in all directions. Parliament needs a total refresh. Maybe in my lifetime, we can only hope.
I want citizen involvement. Parliament under first past the post has lost the link to how most people think, and it struggles with moral authority. Sortition might be a way.
It's not good enough, is it? Elected reps need a tighter code of conduct.
I think she ought to be more worried about hers, tbh.
She deleted her first post...the rest remains and are just as bad imho. Wittering on about depressed wages as if that excuses punching down on asylum seekers. It's disgraceful behaviour from an MP. And it very much is her responsibility to counter fascist tropes.
What you're doing is encouraging punching down on the very poorest and weakest in society and serving up scapegoats to your voters. Their own predicaments are *not* linked to asylum seekers, and you know it. If wages are depressed, go hound the profit takers, the landlords and corporate greed. 🤦♀️
These young people--do they not have parents or friends explaining no, this isn't the move you think it is? Or explaining the concept of patsy's and fall guys?
You welcome, they deliver them weekly too, but someone has to be there to accept. Hope you get it sorted.
Blister packs. Ask pharmacist, we got them for dad and way easier.
Been waiting for this! I'm hoping it makes a real difference, not just for price, but choice. And being less regularly upset seeing those empty shelves with pictures of food where actual food used to be 😢
I'm an ass hat? He's an anon account and nobody you know in real life. He doom bots anyone with a more optimistic outlook on renewables he finds trawling. He posts crap that sounds v high techy so people buy his legitimacy. So who exactly is the ass hat here? Dial up your own radar.
I think he's not well. And I think his family need to take him to a GP. His comment is wildly inappropriate, and people around him have got to have concerns.
The poster blocked me, I was getting to close lol. Was posting this back, also I didn't know Ford already have a mustang did 570 miles on one charge, tested in the UK! 🤣: www.forbes.com/sites/peterl...
Appears I Bothered? Bothered? You want to correct that to something more polite? You want to address that you seek & comment on random posts on renewables and shill for oil?
Toyota.
Your account looks doombot--you're searching for renewables posts and commenting to pull down. Are you a shill for oil? Def seems so. Ev charge points isn't on track. SS and other tech with higher range is already here.
Oh. Seems he's needing an appointment at the GP. A massively inappropriate comment, surely his family can see that?
There is that. Maybe they need to be a bit more Gavin Newsom 🤣
Building out EV charge points all over will look like putting up a million horse posts as society changed to internal combustion engines. That's why it's not being done. A 10 min charge to 80% *620 mile* range is coming in a year or two via solid state battery tech.
Think it'd be useful if someone wrote a piece for the public on how much renewables infrastructure is being built in UK right now. I'm only aware due to a friend in the industry, it is A LOT 👀 Massive interconnectors, battery storage, cabling, you name it. On EV cars too, tech is leaping forward.
The rage-clicks money model needs torn down, imho. Perhaps the only way is to tax billionaire owned media out of existence. Advertisers who withdrew from the nastiness of X got sued for not advertising. Even if its a winnable case, advertisers can't get into litigation with Musk, it costs too much.
It's the engagement stats, as basic as the media figured out a long time ago anger and outrage online drives more clicks. More clicks = more advertising revenue. It's become a rage factory, demanding ever more clickbait to feed it.
If you start blocking the first ones on a post who make ad hominem attacks it might clean up. It's agitation bots, there's more and more on here, it's not you. Someone is paying to create them, it's not real people. The good thing on BS when you block as the poster, none of us can see it either.
Oh you're a agi-bot. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you are so reported, please delete yourself before it gets more embarrassing for you. What's your first language? Russian by chance? 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 now that is funny, the idea of you reading and not simply copypasting antivax moronic garbage. Had you actually read it, you wouldn't be coming back at me. It was a test & you failed 🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻
If research gets dull, this is not a commonly known story of how we ended up being able to pay securely online, it's also a bit wild west tbh: www.amazon.com/Players-Ball...
This 👆🏻 is bollox from antivax propaganda. Here is a link to actual scientists discussing 19th century trends for scarlet fever, and how historical data collection impacts understanding. Fascinating, proves who the experts are. It's def not you. Or RFK Jr. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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I'm hoping so, though no evidence so far, maybe he needs a while to settle in.
I do think HMRC could have set up a row of booths at the farmer's protests. I hate to say it but Labour does have a comms issue. I heard (sources) they're terrified to stand up and say anything to counter the red top rubbish, they'd actually rather let it rumble on.
Brian, that's a no. Where's the protest? Are you organising petitions / in person thingy's? Or who is organising all that? My point is : I'd do my bit, because having lived down south, chalk streams are a beautiful wonder. So tell me how. And never post stuff without actions. Tx.
Tell him to come to the Edinburgh Festival! We'd all love this 🤩
He's so a working stand-up comedian, look fer Jerry Wayne Longmire coming to a city near you! And also check out all his other stuff n socials n whatnot.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Hmm not reposted...
Of course I meant blinking 🤣 And of course I switched off auto correct a while ago, and am entirely torn as to whether to put it back on again.
Well bling well give a link to the petition!!! Jeez 🤦♀️
Def. Far more radical approach is needed. We're at a who the hell are we? moment. Who do we want to be, as global custodians, or how can an individual live their best, healthiest life? How do families thrive? We need vision, to think bigger and better. Small mindedness is killing us.
It worries me these guys are habituating to this level of violence too. I don't think any of 'em were exactly Prince Charming to start with, but this, probs daily slamming women for their skin colour? How does the US ever pull that back?
Oh False Equivalence-- forgot that one! It's when they say bad situation/organisation or person is really ok, due to some other thing... It's v annoying because it gets your attention explaining it's not the same at all. Rabbit holes--block 'em.
No they did not. Can you source where the Greenham Common women planned violent attacks on uni's and civilians? No. People are conflating a peace movement with an organisation with leaders and cells and violent plans, it is false equivalence.
Re-pinning this, due to seeing even more troll behaviour on here. Block 'em, it works on many levels, as way more expensive effort is being put in to make these troll accounts look legit. It's costing fortunes. 😁
Never accept comments attacking your lived reality, your character or intelligence. They are trolls, potentially paid overseas, and getting better at disguise and ad hominum undermining. Block and move on. A debate is OK, providing knowledge is OK, calling you names is 100% troll playbook.
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Mike no fuckin idea what you're on about. I don't know the account you're tagging and I don't repost 'dozens of people with the same view' Why did you reply to me?
PA isn't a loose 'movement' or idea, it is a distinct organisation, caught with violent plans on people, not only property. (See Hansard.) The placard grannies 'bravely' getting arrested? -- Duped. It is/was never illegal to support Palestinians & denounce genocide. But it's a crazy mess now.
I think a lot of nice people need to be a more circumspect about wiki bollox and social media bollox, tbh. We are so easily led it's frightening, 500 got themselves arrested for basically being too trusting and getting worked up over the wrong thing. Crazy stuff.
Further up the thread someone clipped an actual govt doc. That's who they are and why proscribed.
There was early confusion and it was clarified--so no it is not illegal to say you support Palestine or are anti genocide. But explicit support for the PA group is. Decent, naive people have been duped into writing placards, they have no idea who PA are, how funded, what planned or how operated.
The MP deleted her post about "cleaning up the streets" of immigrant workers. It should never have been written.
Every time a Labour MP, inc. cabinet, pronounces on immigration using pejorative terms, you play to the right. Who will stand up and explain the big tax draw from immigrant workers, student spend shoring up uni's, the tiny numbers of boat asylum seekers? Anyone? It's so shameful. Do better.
Case for PR at Westminster strengthens by the day. 👍🏻
The brothels were roadside shacks... Luxury this was not. www.bloomberg.com/features/201...
That was all bad, I agree but I don't agree it is where it started. The 50's and 60's post war social housing boom was def the most stable time for housing for the working class, started going downhill in the 70's. Both pre war and from the 80's, bloody terrible.
Muting.
Meaningless.
It was a time limited emergency measure...I'm not bothering to explain it all but you're a landlord too I take it?
No I'm sorry this isn't correct.
That's not what happened, it's far more complex and Scotland is still working on bringing in permanent rent control legislation because it was effective. The current cap lift isn't forever.
Where? Rent controls and many other regulatory measures operate v nicely elsewhere eg Europe, this has all been brought to Labour and they don't really want to hear it. Landlords in the UK are a Dickensian curse on the poor and on our property stock, and MPs owning flats is part of that.
Oh it has. They've backed off measures that would properly regulate this sector and better protect tenants. Here's one recent article one one aspect not in Labour's proposals: www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...
False equivalence. You got my answer, suggest you also take a look at rentier capitalism. We wouldn't have this size of private rented sector if our elected MPs were prohibited from owning rental properties.
Because housing is a major UK issue and being a landlord while designing policy and legislating on housing is a major conflict of interest. I challenged an MSP on housing benefit paying for ex local authority flats to seriously deteriorate, and he stuck up for landlords because he is one.
Obviously - OBVIOUSLY - MPs should not be allowed to be landlords.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Quite right too. No MP or MSP should *ever* be a private landlord. There ought to be a rule, but because so many MPs and MSP's are landlords, they'll never act against themselves. Easily sorted, never will be. Shameful. 🤦♀️
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Quite right too. No MP or MSP should *ever* be a private landlord. There ought to be a rule, but because so many MPs and MSP's are landlords, they'll never act against themselves. Easily sorted, never will be. Shameful. 🤦♀️