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Heartening seeing Italian videos of the Dock Worker trade unions in Genoa, the second busiest port in Italy, saying if their comrades on the flotilla to Gaza don't make it there safely or if the goods don't get through, that they'll shut Europe down.
Once again I remember getting yelled at all the way back in 2021 for correctly saying Keir Starmer was a right wing culture warrior. This was all so, so obvious.
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
catholics love to be like "crossdressing is a sin!" and then their priest is literally wearing a cross dress
Another huge scoop from "best adorable baby," only on Threads
“i’m an ally, but only if you’re sufficiently deferential and nice to me” is one of the most embarrassing statements imaginable, yet so many people feel perfectly comfortable shouting it from the rooftops absolutely mortifying
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
WH aide: Uhh has anyone seen the president Other aide who just threw out what he thought was a sack of old mashed potatoes: No
I truly believe that before long councils will be putting these flags up themselves, in order to hold on to local votes from the far right. And when that happens, it's game over. Can you imagine any politician arguing to take them down after that? Proper nazi vibes.
Most of the drive home tonight was down flag-lined streets and tbh it's spooking the shit out of me. It feels very much like a frog-in-hot-water moment where a small minority of bigots are pushing the boundaries to see how much they can dominate public space and without pushback they will go further
Can you imagine how hard he's going to go in on poppies this year. He's going to have such a big poppy.
Starmer inviting photographers to see the flag and pitbull he bought to impress the median voter, but oh no, the pitbull has pooed all over the flag and run away, and as Starmer runs to catch it his trousers have fallen down, and hes spilled thick white glue onto his crotch then fallen onto the flag
my working theory of "there absolutely is some kind of Death of Stalin style escapade on the go" has not yet been disproven
It's remarkable how ~2017-2019 was an all-hands existential struggle to eradicate the unacceptable scourge of bigotry and racism from British politics forever, and now it's this, all day, every day, and not a single one of our commentariat has noticed nor has anything to say about it.
I'm sorry I assumed that you would know answers to this kind of basic stuff because you came in with an opinion explaining why I was wrong.
Can you explain why this graph tells us that there is no money left? Do you think the UK can only spend money under conditions of zero percent interest rates?
Do you think the "black hole" is real?
always interesting to see a party engaged, along with everyone else, in a rapidly intensifying existential struggle against the far right continue to govern as if its primary enemy were Jeremy Corbyn
always Interesting to see whose discomfort deserves snapping to attention, making strongly worded statements and announcing policies, and whose emphatically does not
absolutely rotten stuff. horrible. fuck off
And pointedly - it was justified on the basis that there was no money left. Do you think George Osborne had no money left? Do you think Rachel Reeves has no money left?
George Osborne's plan wasn't no investment ever, was it? It was cutting services and benefits, especially those delivered by local authorities. It was the slow grinding attrition of the public sector. The transfer of wealth from the very poorest to the richest.
Every few weeks it’ll cycle round to a different vegetable or green being heinously bad and you just have to be like “Ah okay, guess we’re getting mugged off on peppers this week. Cool. But at least my shitty passport is blue.”
Hands down funniest consequence of Brexit has to be how all fresh produce in UK supermarkets is now just dog shit. Phenomenal. Rule Britannia. Please send us all your least desirable crap for sovereignty purposes. Dumbest fucking country on the planet.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
Millennials are middle aged now but not me. I stayed young somehow
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
The fun thing about Kieth going full, mask-off fascist is that the people he's trying to appeal to all fucking hate him anyway. Obviously, the only conclusion is that he sincerely believes in fascism, which is terrifying. But it's also very funny
Learning more about the Kindertransport made me want to kill Churchill et al. with hammers. Now look where we are. This is an evil government
Oh so they’re doing Kindertransport all over again: refusing to accept family members tout court, requiring absurd amounts of money, and running it as a private partnership. In fifty years they’ll have built up such a mythology they’ll claim they were the heroes that rescued the poor refugees
A lot of smart commentary types went real quiet with that horseshoe theory bullshit, didn’t they
Everyone who got exactly what they wanted can shut the fuck up forever about all of this. Go die quietly and leave us alone.
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
September reminder.
Sorry to sound like a stuck record here but the answer is incredibly simple: *bc Labour don't want to*
*Today* You have prominent liberals agreeing with James Ball that for Bluesky to survive everyone has to stop criticising fascists and bigots. They don't like the outcome of their choices but they enthusiastically keep making those choices.
The fundamental problem with all the British liberals complaining about the Labour government implementing far right policies is that over the last decade they've shown when given a choice between barbarism and mild social democracy they *aggressively* choose barbarism.
There's a reason that the people who complain that Bluesky isn't welcoming never explicitly say WHO isn't being welcomed. Who should we be nicer too? Be specific about the kind of people you want here. I'd've quote posted this. But he turned replies and quotes off. Making me feel very unwelcome.
The papers really can make this guy say anything.
As an aside: do we think it’s a coincidence mainstream politicians and media outlets - rather than Facebook - began pushing “migrants are sexually rapacious satyrs hungering for white flesh” after a series of horrifying sexual abuse scandals badly implicating the media, the police and politicians.
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
What the fuck are you talking about?
I might start frontloading posts with words to the effect of "This will bring out the haters, but..." and then say the stupidest shit on the internet.
It is though. It is a staple restaurant food invented in Britain by Bangladeshi immigrants for the British palate and is part of British life.
Years of dealing with racists has taught me that all racists are also misogynists, so when they say “protect our women and girls”, they are only speaking half the sentence out loud. The full sentence is “protect our women and girls because they are OUR prey”.
How many people voted for a Labour Government last year in order to keep torture survivors separated from their families?
Watching terrible people fighting each other is a low pleasure, but a reliable one.
So you're hearing the exact message that George Osborne came up with and the Tories kept up from 2009-24. How did that go? Was George Osborne correct?
Obviously we urgently need a united front v the far right, but if your plan depends on Labour being more radical & ready to co-operate with the left, it’s not happening, is it - so this stuff is the 2025 equivalent of those Fantasy Centrist Cabinets popular in certain quarters at the time of Brexit
It's Rachel Reeves' plan too.
It is. That message is "fuck you scum, you get crackdowns and racism, I get to have my picture taken at the White House and VIP Taylor Swift tickets." Not sure what's unclear about this?
Still on the EHCR are we? British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.
These are intelligent people, so they certainly see there is no upper limit to the level of cruelty the voters they’re chasing want and that there’s no way to win their approval. And yet they continue regardless, knowing it’s disastrous, because the alternative is admitting that they’ve fucked it.
If correctly written: "Ministers are to announce a tightening of migration rules as the government hands over the political agenda to Nigel Farage" Both immoral and politically inept. Well done Yvette Cooper.
Probably the most pointlessly bonkers idea for “reform” of the asylum system I’ve heard in decades
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absolutely loving the idea of the woke cracker barrel tip line
There was a time not long ago, when the idea of a Labour government deliberately acting to keep families of recognised refugees apart, would have been unthinkable. The same week masked men tried to break in to asylum seeker accommodation, presumably with violent intent #r4today
It has taken a lot of work from Greens, trade unions and regular rail users to get to this point. We need to build on it with a focus on more and better connections and the best possible services across our country if we are to encourage people out of their cars and onto rail.
Everytime I think about the fact that ten years ago I could have lived and worked in any EU country and that now I am absolutely stuck in this one it makes me feel trapped. So much taken away and the absolute shower of racists still aren't finished or happy.
He should be played by James Corden but in his Cats costume
The special envoy role is transparently 100% an Israel war crime protection racket, but still crazy you wouldn't bump out a token two-line statement saying it is also bad when neo-nazis lead marches and violently assault women
If you have managed to ascribe 'legitimate concerns' to people who will march with nazis and think we have too many Indians nowadays, but offered no such extension to people seeking a little less genocide, congratulations you are officially a fucking disgrace
always been the stupidest shit in the world to me because the only time i even SLIGHTLY care about a magic system is if it's a Game that i am Playing not a Book that i am Reading!!!!!!!
Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
Israel murders journalists. Keep their voices alive. #JournalismIsNotACrime
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
We really need to get payment processors regulated into the ground, make those bastards have no right to decide what you buy, you just get to process the payment and shut the fuck up Paypal.
Hey Firefox users.
You seem like the absolute dullest person on this web site.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
It actually makes me so infuriated that so many peoples analysis of violent eugenicists is to go "they're crazy" like you get that their goal is killing mentally ill people right? You get that thats an ahistorical and antiintellectual analysis that throws away actualyl examining them and their views
“Are you ok dear? You’ve barely touched your John Carpenter’s The Thing”
Fixed it.
“The most important thing about the Issues page on Teixeira's campaign website is that it doesn't matter, or that nothing on it matters below ‘in Congress, Mark will champion President Trump’s America First agenda,’ which are the first words on the page.” @davidjroth.bsky.social
Oh you want people to be able to afford to use public transit? So you support the USSR???? You want to turn us into Cuba????
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Quite so.
If you admit that this is what it looks like - these people are just stupid arseholes hurting people for fun - then you might get people asking questions like "why did we have to take them seriously for the last 35 years?" It's why they're also desperate to make Trump an isolated case.
this is canon
What would it take for bill maher to just… not anymore, ever again? Is it more money? Is it a private island? Is it his father finally telling him he's proud of him? What is it, and how do we, collectively, make it happen so that this man just fully shuts his griftpipe and goes away?
Related to this I think, anyone who spent much time on the international Internet in the early 00s remembers the Creationists.
I mean, what are you gonna do, admit you've been stealing a living for the last twenty years and absolutely none of this stuff is real?
Weird how what you can and can't do seems to line up so very precisely with what the right wing press does and doesn't want you to do, isn't it? How are those guys so gosh darned correct about everything??
So he doesn't believe in anything then?
The best way is to not engage in the first place - "I am sorry but I am honestly not even gonna consider this case until it has been raised by someone who is not operating in obvious bad faith. Does it not strike you as suspicious that nothing like this happened in the first 50 years of the ECHR?"
Luckily we have the tried and tested model of "keep on acknowledging concerns and demanding reform, in the hope people who want to abolish the whole thing cannot invent any new causes celebres, then when the leave or remain battle comes, remind everyone of the importance of the institution"
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
Having the kids out on fash marches instead of preparing for the new school year… no wonder the Black and Asian kids are beating their asses in the GCSEs
I know super-rich CEOs have always had an asshole streak, but I really do believe we're dealing with the new genetic strain here, one that doesn't even pretend to be a normal human
Losing my fucking mind at this lmao
Labour is a far right political party now. Racist, transphobic, anti-migrant, anti-worker and opposed to human rights.
