my condolences go out to cancer, which has unfortunately been tasked with the unpleasant mission of living inside margarita simonyan

simonyan's doctor, facing murder charges: well the cancer did say she wanted to be treated

Conceptually a simple thing, though, right? Like what they're trying to legitimise is the idea that the president can't be considered a criminal even if he is.

stephen miller fascinates me on a technical level because you have to admit it's somewhat unusual for a jewish person to be such an open and unapologetic nazi, in a very white, very gentile way. at least radical zionism has an explicitly /jewish/ affect to its fascism, but not so with miller

i do wonder if ceasing all road repair would have a net positive effect on congestion. even if through a rather blunt method

I personally find the concept of protests, petitions or even just generic anger against road closures or diversions fundamentally very comical. People don't just divert roads as a joke. It's usually done for very obvious and quite good infrastructural reasons.

Literally no one in this story is actually named, and I to say the least find it peculiar because I know quite a few people from around Thurso and Dornoch and if there's one thing they fucking hate it's the NC500 tourists.

The annoying leftie posters were right, 'Dubai is just a normal fun holiday destination' really was a warning sign of fascism all along

Unionism's fundamental flaw is that in order to make a progressive case for Britain you have to ignore almost everything about Britain that actually exists. I genuinely don't respect /any/ of its arguments anymore beyond identity (I am not gonna start arguing with other people about their identity)

Some people want to establish a new state, some people want to deport my wife. I am meant to be equally angry at these people for some vague reason.

by the way this is total insanity to anyone with a cursory knowledge of eastern european history because if you think that getting lithuanians to accept the idea that even more poles can live in lithuania without visas was a small feat you are a moron

Remember to listen to Make Cancel Culture Real (As It Has Never Been Before). Sound of the summer

this is a nice abstract consideration but in practice the negative side effects of this could have been avoided by simply not ceasing to import us from europe

I feel like a madman pointing this out but the plausible, real world explanation for the marked uptick in work visas after 2019 is quite simply that in the previous year, the UK blew up its entire labour market by getting rid of FOM, on which it was intrinsically and inherently dependent.

Sure, some people would call it a political witch-hunt against the right, but would a movement carrying out a political witch-hunt against the right really lock up 80% of the New Statesman's writers?

One thing we've learned from the past decade is that cancel culture was not in fact real at elite levels and you could get away with saying what you liked without consequences. If we're going to deal with the current wave of racism, that needs to change.

does anyone have hard reliable stats on how many people /left/ the UK since 2019

Headcanoning that Mol from BG3 is a Brimstone Angel

As an aside, the buried lede that they also plan to ban dual nationality will, I'm sure, go down GREAT in Northern Ireland.

I don’t care if people understand sexuality or gender if everyone involved is consenting it’s a bodily autonomy issue and I don’t give a shit if it makes you squeamish.

If you really "believe in the two state solution", there's no reason for you to object to international recognition of a Palestinian state. But you don't really, do you.

What does one even say anymore

ladies and gentlemen: we got her

One of the weirder things about the fact that Americans regularly call the Irish language "Gaelic" is actually that no one else really does, even historically. If you look at Hansard for instance almost all records of the word Gaelic in the 19th century mean Scottish Gaelic.

I enjoy how sometimes you see left of center people talk about "the excesses of peak woke" like they're talking about the Great Terror or Stalin's Purges

Holy shit lads, why didn't you tell me about Songs of Conquest.

Honestly can I also just say that as a demsoc i kinda wanna send a love letter to the anarchists here, with whom a lot of the time my disagreements are essentially symbolic in that they describe things I like and say that's not the state but I say that that is a state

Maurice Glasman cannot have sex with his wife, because we banned it

Yeah that's a reflection on you because you are a bam

i like to think that as a firefighter paul embery refuses to put out fires until he has confirmed the victim's ethnicity and class status (identified entirely by whether or not you listen to chappell roan)

Sorry I can't be there. I'm on duty as Woke Guard for Lord Glasman's wife

Anyway the idea that Vietnam is an orthodox Leninist state tends to crash into the reality that it simply isn't.

the kibbutz is an obviously socialist precept. it being run by a settler colonial state that drove indigenes off the land is not in any way contradictory and if anything quite akin to a lot of the projects you shill for

this is some spectacular fanfic

Naw but if seriously guys if Reform gets in they will deport Europeans with settled status too. That will 100% happen.

It's easy to now forget this but part of why say anti-Polish or anti-Romanian sentiment isnt visible as much now in the UK is quite simply that Brexit did in fact destroy hundreds of thriving Eastern European communities across this island and send hundreds of thousands of us home.

This is canonically untrue and not a helpful summary of how racism works in Europe.

The other aspect you touch upon here is both the Sturgeon and Trudeau projects are based around ID’ing women aged 25-55 as the core constituency for progressive politics and treating them as an important social, economic and political demographic and that too is beneath a lot of socialists

This is hopefully the last thing I'll ever need to say about Jeremy Corbyn

The most successful centre-left electoral projects in the English-speaking world of the last 10-15 years have been the SNP and the Canadian Liberals under Trudeau

Coincidentally self-proclaimed 'socialists' approached both with snobbery and incuriosity, usually not for any substantive reason, but because they cared more about reducing child poverty and speaking to the things ordinary people like about their country than red flags and smokestack factories

I'm telling my kids this was the Orange Order

I see people identifying as communists roughly the same as I see people identifying as Zionists, which is to say, I dont assume they're bad people but I do look at them hard and think "really, even now?"

People feel indifferent bordering on hostile when they hear the name “Lenin”. They feel better when they hear “Luke skywalker” so a better entry point would be “hey Luke was in a resistance against a powerful government, isn’t that cool. And here are some similarities between trump and Vader”

I also regret (I do not) to inform you all that literally billions more people are closer to the politics of Andor than the politics of Lenin.

and given that my people continue to lack sovereignty in no small part thanks to the british, sir james can go fuck himself with one of his stick vacuums.

The word "independence" cannot be used this way. It simply cannot. That is morally offensive to those of us who come from lands where people have died for it.

People who are pro-EU but essentially anti-immigration make me murderously angry because if you won't defend the literally best thing about the EU what is it you actually like about it. The vibes?

What do you want people to say. "Thanks for all the feminism" to people who constantly call our friends paedos-in-waiting for being a different gender than the one they were born?

Oh, don't be fucking daft, that was the clear insinuation of her post because there is absolutely no way in which people of Zarah's persuasion "cut themselves off" from previous waves of feminism otherwise. You don't have to be a Yorp to see this is innuendoey shite.