Owen Macdonald
@owenmacdonald.bsky.social
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Socialist (he/him) YouTube:
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Sooz Kempner
about 13 hours ago
Anti-fash counter-protests outnumber fash marches all the time and it would be cool if the press made a big deal about it.
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Marisa Kabas
4 days ago
people will make any excuse to stay and there isn’t a single good one left.
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Opinions like this sound convincing but fall apart under scrutiny - what self-governance? Democracy is mediated through capitalism, allowing capital to channel votes through two unpopular right wing parties (one being fascist). Millions are disenfranchised and FPTP doesn't require a majority...
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12 days ago
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"capitalism makes democracy possible"
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15 days ago
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Quite a good example of the actual function religion and nationalism serve for right wing politics; synthetic cultural artefacts to distract from the material harm their capitalist policies cause.
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18 days ago
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Capitalism working wonders for humanity again!
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20 days ago
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Why don't you pass a law making it a free-to-air event instead!!! This is liberal capitalism summed up, where politics is gestures and sentiment more than actually doing anything substantive to challenge the market. Life could be so much better than it is...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Starmer asks TNT Sports to make Champions League final free to view
Match between PM’s favourite Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain marks first time British fans will be unable to watch final free of charge
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/may/23/starmer-tnt-sports-champion-league-final-free-arsenal-paris-saint-germain
21 days ago
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Why don't you pass a law making it a free-to-air event instead, because you're the Prime Minister!!! This is liberal capitalism in a nutshell, where politics is gestures and sentiment more than actually doing anything substantive to challenge the market. Life could be so much better than it is...
21 days ago
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Women For Survival #GetOutTheMidtermVote
about 2 months ago
The City of Philadelphia just did something amazing: they passed a law restricting ICE activities in their city. They resisted trump in a flagrantly democratic manner.
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Capitalism is as evil as it is inefficient and wasteful.
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about 1 month ago
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"I didn't think the fascism would affect me!" Every single time with these articles, honestly...
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about 1 month ago
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Gets tough from memory after 10 or so! The Wire The Sopranos Deadwood Six Feet Under Oz Breaking Bad Better Call Saul Atlanta X Files 24 X Men Evolution Boardwalk Empire Mike F's Fall of the House of Usher Sons of Anarchy (begrudgingly) The Raccoons (childhood favourite)
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about 1 month ago
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Good example here of how fascists try to seize public discontent at economic justice and redirect it towards absurd lies about marginalised groups like immigrants, all whilst making embarrassing overtures towards violence. A left wing solution is right there, but her default is a far right lie. Sad
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about 1 month ago
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Simon McGarr
about 1 month ago
These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)
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Wouldn't be right wingers if they didn't want to subvert democracy somehow! They know they're deeply unpopular and they'll do anything to cling to power.
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about 1 month ago
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Conservatives fundamentally hate human life and will drive every group their insipid ideology marginalises out of existence if they're left to their own devices. When (not if!) MAGA and all other far right movements are depowered they must answer for every abuse they have inflicted upon society.
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about 2 months ago
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Fascism 101, spend your time policing academic interests and rewriting history to sustain the nationalist, chauvinist narrative desired and squash those with the knowledge to challenge it. Throw this deeply unpopular manifesto in the bin and let the whole far right follow it!
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about 2 months ago
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️
2 months ago
Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country. Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.
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However many million more viewers BlueSky supposedly lack aren't worth the daily experience on the cesspit that is Twitter under Musk. Don't miss waking up to random notifications from people I'd never follow in a hundred lifetimes advocating for my and all other non-white folks' deportation...
2 months ago
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Max Kennerly
2 months ago
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
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Cross-Posted News
3 months ago
University of
#Edinburgh
students have now taken two university buildings, which they’ve renamed Adnan Al-Bursh building and Jawad Abu Nassar Tower, to pressure the university to meet divestment demands. Lectures have been canceled.
#Palestine
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Reform - here, Richard Tice - really are terrible...
youtu.be/fqRwmNZ_2y8?...
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Reform UK - Still Risking Lincolnshire for £££
YouTube video by Owen Macdonald
https://youtu.be/fqRwmNZ_2y8?si=3QbGrAkVpuNzjocT
3 months ago
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What is fascism, but an attempt to protect capital? Arguably this woman captures better than most the truth about the American project - mass worker exploitation defended with social tools like racism and nationalism. As honest as it is repulsive.
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3 months ago
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Owen Macdonald vs Luis - Christians, Capitalism, Socialism
YouTube video by Owen Macdonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLyd-wCedvY
3 months ago
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If fascism is capitalism in decay, and Trump is fascist-in-chief, government becomes not an instrument to best manage a nation's resources but a social network for profiteers to gain political capital (here, debased, unashamed loyalty to Trump) and increase the odds of making a fortune from it all
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3 months ago
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The Guardian
3 months ago
Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead
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Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead
Leader uses first major economic speech to prioritise public services and reduction of inequality over growth A government led by the Green party would not set targets for GDP growth but would instead focus on people’s mental health, social cohesion and community welfare, Zack Polanski has said in a major speech to set out his plans for the economy. In his first policy address since taking over as leader of the Greens in England and Wales six months ago, Polanski condemned what he called “rip-off Britain”, where a minority of asset owners benefited at the expense of people obliged to pay unaffordable sums for housing and other basics. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/18/zack-polanski-says-greens-would-ditch-gdp-targets-and-focus-on-wellbeing-instead?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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jess m.
3 months ago
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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You'll never see DOGE address this blatant waste of taxpayer money because austerity measures are for looting state assets for capitalist wealth, just like warfare in the global South is
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3 months ago
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A fascist openly boasting about making an already right wing media outlet lurch fully into fascist-mouthpiece mode via billionaire conglomerate acquisition...
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3 months ago
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Lupita Nihongo
5 months ago
IDK if people are talking about Kai Cenat's public reading journey, but he's using his power for good. A lot of people can't read. At least not at what we consider adequate levels. And it is not their fault. Society as a whole severely pulled away from literacy advocacy.
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Owen Macdonald vs Traditional Liberal - Are Words Violence?
YouTube video by Owen Macdonald
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3 months ago
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Owen Macdonald vs Andy Chandler - Left Wing Perspectives
YouTube video by Owen Macdonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IupanxkODpg
3 months ago
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"love thy neighbour" has never been more hollow than from the mouths of right wing religious people
3 months ago
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Fascists, nationalists, right wing demagogues, the idea these people have any affinity for "their nation" beyond the cheap political loyalty is may muster is farcical. For capital, no human cost is too high. What a disgrace that the Global South is the site of violence for some to realise this.
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Jake Grumbach
3 months ago
My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution
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Fascism intentionally surrounds itself in atrocity to cheapen the value of life - it's drive for power expands the commodification of capitalism and normalises the death that follows it. The murdered citizens following the military strikes Iran are the latest toll of a right wing society. Repulsive
4 months ago
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Owen Macdonald vs Ace - Capitalism, the US Government and more
YouTube video by Owen Macdonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC2PpAclnIw
4 months ago
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It's simultaneously true that - the regent military strikes continue America's constant warfare and international violence in the global South to generate revenue for its industrial military complex - the strikes distract from the Epstein trial and a dozen other disgraces the Trump admin has
4 months ago
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Sherry CD-ROM 🏳️⚧️
4 months ago
this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.
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Owen Macdonald vs The Young Centrist - Elections, Democracy, The Future
YouTube video by Owen Macdonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXA0J2tFP9s
4 months ago
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VƎX Werewolf
4 months ago
Still can't believe the latest Epstein Files release just casually confirmed the anti-SJW movement was planned by pedophiles. "The entire reactionary anti-woke backlash was masterminded by child traffickers" is the kinda shit I'd say as hyperbolic agitprop, but it was true the whole time.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈
4 months ago
btw this all started with
@maitlis.bsky.social
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@jonsopel1.bsky.social
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@lewisgoodall.com
treating EIGHT complaints about tavistock as a national scandal and a medical outrage more children have died as a result of the panic they created than ever complained are they now criticising cass? no
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Owen Macdonald vs Christian Connoisseur - Fascism, America, Religion
YouTube video by Owen Macdonald
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4LdqCgz3bIU
4 months ago
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Reincarnated! I'm a Star Gazer (aka David)
4 months ago
#FuckICE
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Owen Macdonald vs Liberal Cluck - ICE, Republicans, Capitalism and more
YouTube video by Owen Macdonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKq3RrJylEM
4 months ago
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Capitalists will trash the planet before they concede a penny of their wealth. Truly amongst the greatest failures of humanity...
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4 months ago
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Owen Macdonald vs Scott Huang - Helping Others, Religion and Politics
A chat with Scott, likely about a range of topics, inspired by this video of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUJ0QmKcLg 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get ...
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4 months ago
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The fascists will expect you to bend everything to make their authoritarianism. Do the opposite - never relent in identifying these people as far-right freaks - and the audacity of people walking around with reams of paperwork and ID cards reveals itself. What a racist farce America is
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4 months ago
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Critics are supposed to be critical, which is meant to mean analytical, intellectually rigorous and knowledgeable. This behaviour is so divorced from all of these tenets that it should signal to everyone how worthless any paid-for right wing opinion is in 2026. They are ignorant and wrong for $$$
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