He’s such a useless sack of cack.
Just another person escaping the X binfire. Left wing, and most of the assumptions you’ve just made about that are true. He/him. Otrovert.
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He’s such a useless sack of cack.
It saves time.
Block me too if this is your view.
“Well yes, they have provided material assistance to a genocide, impoverished the disabled, frozen the elderly, aided the persecution of trans folk, accelerated the privatisation of the NHS and stoked racial hatred, but they HAVE cracked down on SOME “ninja swords”. So fair enough!”
They attack my friends on a daily basis. This has the same energy as asking me to overlook the Holocaust because Hitler was a vegetarian.
I mean, it’s consistent to form.
Yikes. I hope nobody here voted @mothinali.bsky.social for deputy leader of the greens…
Hi @greenjennyjones.bsky.social , I don’t know how to tell you this but Douglas Carswell has always been a massive, evil, fascist, racist scumbag.
Sounds very well organised and functional.
No, I say four of them are not pro trans rights because they have said so. You’re the one with the (non) name of the party in your name, so I think you’re the obsessive one.
We’re still the least democratic country in Europe. The only other European country to use first past the post is Belarus, and they have a few more problems on top.
Yeah, have a mute.
You just know some of these lads are aching to add four extra lines to the ends of the cross.
What a worthless remark.
Ramsay would be more at home in the LDs, I think. Ironically, Sultana seems to have more in common with most greens.
MPs associated with “Your Party” have directly called for segregation of trans people and the removal of LGBTQ+ education from schools. One Green MP has said that if people in the Green Party expressed similar views then they would not be removed. Neither is good, but one is worse.
As a side note, Ramsay is such a disaster as co-leader that only 9% of *green voters* know who he is.
If, as I would expect, Ramsay and Chowns lose badly, I’d hope these two MPs recognise that their position is not one that will be tolerated by members.
It’s a fair point; Ramsay said things that indicated that transphobes would be tolerated in the party and failed to clarify or retract, and Chowns as his running mate has declined to contradict. So it crap but at the lower end of this nonsense, and why I voted for Zack.
🚨 Netanyahu WROTE the latest ceasefire plan. Hamas AGREED. Netanyahu killed it. @haaretzcom confirmed that Egypt took the plan that Netanyahu wrote, told Palestinians to agree to it word for word. They did. Netanyahu then REJECTED HIS OWN PLAN.
Burnham seems to be a decent person with an intact moral compass and a nice line in evidence based policy. I wouldn’t be against him as PM.
Not unreasonable.
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I think this all just comes from the habit of viewing politics through academic and media lenses rather than its effect on humans, but I know Institutions like Oxford and the BBC will do that to you. But maybe I’m just being kind due to the thoughtful, considered head tilt in his profile pic.
A very worthwhile read.
I mean, seriously, it’s right there. It’s called “Policy Exchange”. An Exchange is where you buy and sell stuff, and it’s where politicians go to sell their policy stance to the highest bidder. It should be illegal. Instead it’s a charity.
Just because folks don't want people who were not born white to not be allowed into the bathroom of their choice does not mean they are racist. It means they are just not comfortable with you being in there with their precious children as how do they know what you’re doing.
Great, so you only disagree with the straw man you attributed to me. Glad that’s sorted. 👍
On what? Do you think there’s an alternative reason why people on BlueSky don’t care much about PE premises being vandalised? People don’t care as much when bad things happen to bad people as they do when they happen to good people. Do you seriously disagree with that? Because that’s my point.
Do they have an offer on straw men in the middle of Lidl? I didn’t say this has merit. I said it was bad, as you pointed out, I’m just here to help you with your puzzlement as to why people on Blue Sky can’t bring themselves to care much when the stuff PE does harms them daily.
Because if this crap persists, we don’t actually have a functioning democracy, we just have the wealthy buying the laws that favour them.
With respect, that’s just waffle. Who do I vote for to end this policy purchase crap? Votes for women were won through violence. Stonewall was a riot. The poll tax wasn’t stopped through polite conversation. Apartheid didn’t end in SA because Mandela made a good speech. Come on, Ben, think.
Unless there is more info here that I’m not aware of, we don’t even know if any staff were present or directly affected. I do want to understand from Ben how he suggests we do protest these unaccountable organisations and the influence they are subsidised to have. This isn’t it, but what instead?
Two, in fact. Great observation.
People are struggling to be very upset about this, Ben, because of the absolute pile of excrement that PE is. It’s not that this is supported, it’s just that people don’t care as much when bad things happen to bad people, and you can’t make them.
Yeah, but at least he won’t be leader in a couple of days.
At least two of the others are essentially pro Section 28. The party is DOA. It only exists because Corbyn is too sure of his status as the one true socialist and too prideful to join the Greens.
Of the four less well known MPs associated with the party, he was the one I held out most hope for. But no. Disappointing, but not surprising.
That is a truly amazing fact. Truly incredible and unbelievable.
I’m clinging on to the moniker of “Xennial” having been born mid ‘79. Mainly because it sounds cool…
No, I’m sure a much thinner piece of Kevlar would work just as well, and be much easier to wear.
Fair, I had always understood 1980 as being the start, but it seems that’s not convention.
Also Kemi Badenoch, just.
Also Jo Swinson.
Happy skynet becomes self-aware day to all who celebrate!
Yes. The patriot says “my country is brilliant - you should come and see” The nationalist says “my country is better and stronger than your country - go away or we’ll prove it!”
Yes, it’s difficult to ascribe a modern nationality to him. The bit of land we believe him to be from has changed hands so many times.
Yes, pro-deportation posts showing only black people. Over on X. Go look, if you can bear it.
Wow. He’s unhinged. Not a single one of his 446 followers seems to be offering him any support at all.
😄😄 My favourite game is pointing out to the roundabout painting dafties that St George would have approved of the Palestinian flag.
Sport is political.
My understanding is that he hailed from what is now the border region of Turkey and Syria. Ascribing him to any modern nation is false, really, but he certainly wasn’t English.
It stems from the idea of conflating England with the UK in the global consciousness. If it were seen as simply an equal partner with the other nations then the whole edifice will crumble. These silly buggers painting the roundabouts are unwitting allies to independence movements.
Yes and no. While the only official flag is the Union flag, the Ulster Banner is used in this capacity in some circumstances such as sporting events where NI competes separately, such as the commonwealth games.
I’ve watched the videos back, and it is curious how both the George flag and the NI flag are conspicuous by their absence when the UK, Scottish and Welsh flags are there. It may be as banal as them coming as a job lot then distributed for the photo op, and I don’t think it would have rehabed much.
Meanwhile, your leader is busy stoking anti-immigrant sentiment and making xenophobic tweets with racist imagery. Perhaps you could have a word?
Maybe because he’s the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, not of England.
It’s the flag of a Syrian who was also the patron saint of Palestinian christians.
Perfect. No notes.
Fuck sakes you Yankee pillock. Can you read? I have a party - the Green Party, that has been established for 35 years. If any party is splitting the left, it’s the new one which doesn’t actually exist yet and has a majority of its prospective MPs wanting to remove rights from minorities.
I prefer a great many people to any of those. But you’re presenting a false dichotomy.
…twice, leading a group of socially conservative Muslims who would reverse LGBTQ rights plus Sultana, who I have much time for but cannot carry the party by herself. It has no name and a clear policy on allotments but not on human rights, and is rapidly becoming farcical.
I’ll not be part of a party that throws my trans friends under a damn bus for the sake of “unity” or some other bullshit. I have a party that is pro trans rights. It has four MPs and will soon have a charismatic new leader. And a name. “Your Party” is lead by a man the electorate has rejected…
Corbyn has a bizarre blind spot that manifests itself as a kind of inverted racism where he is willing to overlook the faults of his colleagues *because* they are Muslim, and instead has suspicion of non-Muslims and Europeans, hence his euroscepticism.
It’s most of the prospective parliamentary party. Like I said, if you are unable to support LGBTQ rights, you were never on the left. If you want a genuinely left wing party, we already have one in the Greens. Corbyn’s just too prideful to admit it.
…blockers ban. Khan is a self-described social conservative who opposes same sex marriage. He’s difficult to pin down specifically on trans rights, but clearly finds it difficult to overtly support them. So I’d tend to say 60% of those MPs are either overtly transphobic or inclined that way.
I’m also gen X. The MPs attached to the party are Corbyn, Sultana, Shockat Adam, Adnan Hussein and Ayoub Khan. Adam and Khan are both members of a parliamentary group that helps parents lobby against inclusive LGBTQ education in schools, while Adam has also spoken in favour of the gov puberty…
World’s gone totally mad.
No, no you didn’t. Both of them were pro-Israel. Part of the same shitty liberal centrist tradition that only knows how to tack right.
It’s not a conspiracy. It’s people on the left sick to death of parties providing a home for bigots. There’d be nothing to divide if there was just a commitment to trans rights, but 50% of the MPs committed to the new party are overtly transphobic.
If you tolerate the persecution of a minority you are not on the left at all.
This is utterly tragic. Newsom fluffers are worse than Trump’s.
This is moronic. Aren’t we past cults of personality? Do we not see where this leads? If you can’t do better than Gavin, you deserve Donald.
It’s not the only other option though is it, you actual imbecile.
I think genuinely lots of people still psychologically live in 1999. And who can blame them.
Unrelated - just had a great idea for a Kickstarter. Gotta do it before the AI bubble bursts and while people can still afford bread.
How about this toaster in particular?
Okay but why the hell is the Guardian using a stock picture that is at least a quarter of a century old to illustrate this? (That shape of Ford Transit was only produced from 1986-2000)
GCs would happily employ corrective rape in order to impose their bigotry on women who disagree with them.
I’m beginning to think that democracy is a generally bad idea.
Except people who think genocide is bad, eh? That’s not allowed.
How about joining a party that actually would allow it instead of this bunch of Powelites?
Why did 99% Hitler promise not to kill the Romani? To get elected. What’s he going to do as soon as he’s elected and is done with slaughtering everyone else? Kill the Romani. Moron.
It wasn’t a thought experiment. It was your moral justification for being an asshole.
It isn’t. Because in the first one you are positively voting for some people to die. The reason everyone on here can see you’re stupid, is that there has never, is not, and never will be the binary choice that you portray. So your “thought experiment” is worthless. And idiotic.
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Trans rights are obviously correct and necessary by and of themselves, but in the world we live in they are the canary in the coalmine and why, even for the purely selfish, they should matter to everyone.
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln
I’m not American either, but I don’t think that means our opinions don’t count - in the UK we have our own unprincipled shitlib leader in Starmer, and you have your union-bashing authoritarian shitlib in Carney. We have experience of why this doesn’t work.
He says he aligns fully with Charlie Kirk on trans rights.
It’s not for backing Newsom. It’s for this, and it’s thoroughly deserved.
This isn’t an airport.
Yeah, you have zero evidence that Harris would have been any better. Even MTG is better on Gaza than most Dems.
This is a grim analogy that says everything we need to know about you and exactly why nobody should listen to anything you handmaidens to fascism say.
It works for me, but trust me, it ain’t worth it.
Excellent. You’re going to stop giving us second hand dumb takes now? Excellent.
You should be looking to the likes of Mamdani who actually enthuse a massive section of the electorate, rather than trying the same shitlib formula of edging ever closer to fascism and see how many people you can inspire to not vote at all.