5/n I notice the UK Labour Party doesn’t maintain a presence here. I suspect they’d get a significantly negative response too. Because people are legitimately upset with them.
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Kier Starmer was here briefly but couldn't take the heat.
may 26, 2025, 9:31 am • 4 0 • view
Really? Hah. I must have blinked and missed it.
may 26, 2025, 9:34 am • 5 0 • view
I and a bunch of others yelled at him for going fascist. Oops.
may 26, 2025, 9:47 am • 0 0 • view
*sulks* can’t believe I wasn’t invited :)
may 26, 2025, 9:49 am • 3 0 • view
hehehe See? You're fine!
may 26, 2025, 9:50 am • 1 0 • view
He was here for ages. Must have been the best part of an hour.
may 26, 2025, 9:50 am • 3 0 • view
Much more at home on Twitter, is he ? Funny that.
may 26, 2025, 11:58 am • 1 0 • view
It really shouldn't have taken a kicking in the local elections to tell a Labour Party in touch with its roots and core supporters that the Winter Fuel thing was a bad idea.
may 26, 2025, 9:32 am • 2 0 • view
Albanese, the Australian Labor PM and some other Government members post here. I'm not sure how often bc I only see when they're reposted by someone I follow. They do get a hard time, but it's mostly reasonable criticism, and deserved imo
may 26, 2025, 11:01 am • 0 0 • view
6/n We live in a scary moment. There is some very bad stuff happening and people are rightly afraid. If you’re in or near politics and you get anger directed at you because you’re perceived as not doing enough to help… hey. Maybe you are and your comms are bad. Or maybe you’re just not.
may 26, 2025, 9:35 am • 55 7 • view
I think there's also a lot of people who believe themselves to be "left" or "liberal" but have never meaningfully interrogated their views and are stunned when those positions are revealed to be at best conservative.
may 26, 2025, 9:42 am • 5 0 • view
7/n If you’re in politics right now I would advocate a lot of listening. I believe we’re in a genuinely dangerous political crisis. I think the ultra-rich are breaking the machine of advanced society for no better reason than to have more unspendable money then the next guy.
may 26, 2025, 9:43 am • 91 18 • view
I think the ultra-rich have decided that civilisation has one more lifetime before the climate collapses, and they're going to spend it being self-indulgent domineering assholes, because that's how they got to be the ultra-rich in the first place.
may 26, 2025, 9:46 am • 11 1 • view
God knows. Either works.
may 26, 2025, 9:47 am • 3 0 • view
I think in some cases (eg. Musk, Thiel) part of the problem is that they're genuinely accelerationist and believe the current structure of society is an obstacle to that goal. So burn it down to build their utopia. Never mind if most of us would think it was a dystopia, we're wrong.
may 26, 2025, 12:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Unspendable riches. Unlike a Sports Direct refund credit receipts, which theoretically can be exchanged for goods should you remember to bring it with you.
jun 7, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
Oh ALL of those things because I never redeem them. But also not because no one gives you a hundred million to spend at Sports Direct.
jun 7, 2025, 11:39 am • 0 0 • view
8/n I think we’re heading into a climate crisis of appalling proportions for which we are conceptually unready. We can prevent it in the present but seem unwilling. If you’re in politics, these things are yours to solve. Getting shouted at in ALL CAPS is frankly a minor challenge. /ends
may 26, 2025, 9:46 am • 91 17 • view
I’m of the mind that much of this [out here] is happening bc we cannot face the climate crisis. Even those of us with heads in sand know it’s coming, we know the summers are longer hotter etc., and yeah the longer we put off facing it the more of [this] we will get and the harder it’ll be to act
may 27, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
For our politicians to take route our media has taken—normalizing, lamely suggesting that people facing Medicaid cuts, loss of housing support, to “save $” by stocking up on pasta when it’s on sale—is extremely frightening, making us all feel unmoored, so of course people are going to lash out !
may 27, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for this.
may 27, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I appreciate you so much, Nick. Thanks for this.
may 27, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh! You’re very welcome, of course!
may 27, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
(That’s not quite right, is it? But you get what I mean.)
may 27, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought my cat doing this was adorbs, but this is truly mint.
may 27, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
this is the cutest thing ever omg
jul 3, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
As someone active in local politics for years I can understand a bit of their frustration, bc you never see those who yell at you online doing ANY real work on the streets or in groups. They never help organizing and they never have time to even come to protests.
may 26, 2025, 10:28 am • 0 0 • view
I mean do you really know the people you interact with online in real life? How do you know they aren’t active in their own communities? What evidence do you have? I think a lot of people just tell themselves the people who annoy them aren’t doing anything real, cause easier on the ‘ol ego.
may 27, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Experience. It ist a certain type you come across in Real Life too, either in work meetings or in volunteering, political or other, who has no original ideas, but can't stop talking, usually starting with 'as XY already said...' Ask any woman. But as soon as you would need them on the street. (2
may 27, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
2) or for organizing food for the crew or, beware, drive someone, they unfortunately can't, or they don't see a value in the action.
may 27, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay so you don’t actually have evidence that every given person who annoys you online isn’t doing anything real, you’re just projecting your own anecdotal experience onto the whole of humanity. Don’t assume things about people you don’t know :)
may 27, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
No, of course not. And I didn't say that, I only explained that I understand a bit of frustration. Just don't tell me what I lived during 47 years of work and 40 years of political volunteering for the Social Democrats.To be frank I don't see the American Left on the streets.
may 27, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
The actual American left has been on the streets all over the world continually protesting your country’s perpetration of genocide for the last two years. Maybe you’re looking in the wrong places for “the left”
may 27, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s a lot of answers to that. To some extent it’s just a sampling error. Sometimes people do other work - 3rd sector stuff, say. And sometimes, yeah, opinions are the extent of their engagement. Our systems aren’t very responsive and people get frustrated.
may 26, 2025, 10:44 am • 6 0 • view
My MP has an account but I don’t think he spends time here. I’m always startled to see ‘local’ pictures before I realise who posted them.
may 26, 2025, 9:47 am • 0 0 • view