There is a deep reluctance on the part of Western populations and their politicians to accept that "mass immigration" is just how the global economy unavoidably works now.

During Lib Dem Conference, I might add

The far right is slowly realizing the pure ethnostate would be doomed by demography, but they’ll settle for a slave underclass replacing free multiculturalism

I have a post here but I worry about violating ToS. Dm if you want to know the post

It's not his fault that everyone at the top is evil or not picking up the phone but I'm sick of seeing headlines like 'Farage pledges to shoot a man and watch him die every day' followed by 'Labour spokesman: we are already shooting every immigrant in the leg upon entry 🙂'. That is Labour voice now

Britain: we have foreign people doing jobs Britain: dont like it Britain: *bans all the people doing jobs without visas* Britain: *suddenly needs people to do jobs* Britain: *hands out work visas to people to do those jobs* also Britain: HOW in the HELL did the NUMBER of work visas JUMP so HIGH

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.

I believe people who are seeing this through the lens of domestic politics are at best naively parochial and at worst being quite unsubtly racist. It’s perfectly possible to criticise the decision without this.

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

Honestly part of my financial planning is saving up money to leave the country in May 2029. I just don’t know where to yet

FWIW I think the Lib Dems should be yellow because Blue, Red, and Yellow are the three primary colours and should be the three primary parties

Green Conf is at the start of October and I would not be surprised to see Zarah Sultana walk onstage

🗳️ Migrant Voting Rights in Local Elections with Migrant Democracy Project 📍 BIC, Westbourne Suite ⏰ Starts at 18:15 — 1 hour to go An important ALDC fringe at #LDConf.

"Oh Guy, this party was wonderful! We went all up and down the Seine! I had a spectacular time!" Guy Debord (haunted): "You did?"

"The pseudo-events that vie for attention in spectacular dramatizations have not been lived by those who are informed about them; and in any case they are soon forgotten due to their increasingly frenetic replacement at every pulsation of the spectacular machinery. "

A lot of this is about the press, which has not reported accurately about Europe for decades and finds the whole place boooring.

How is he writing a lucid critique of dating apps from 1957 He can't keep getting away with this!

SotS best line is when it says all labour in a Spectacular society has two ultimate goals: Power & Vacations

Some of the things Guy Debrd says about Qualitative Time vs Commodified Time are very similar to the ways Terry Pratchett explores themes about time, I wonder if Terry read Society of the Spectacle or it's convergent evolution

I honestly don’t think this impacts Israel’s decision making all that much but the fact that US allies are able to act in open opposition to stated US goals and positions shows US leadership on the international stage is basically nonexistent at this point.

So will we now be establishing a British Embassy in Ramallah? How long does that take to sort out?

Pity a thought for the seething rage of the terfs who spent all summer planning for their big moment and big speeches at conference, only to be reminded, yet again, that the rest of the party thinks they're a bunch of extreme weirdos and won't even give them the time of day to debate them. Tragic.

I lived by the most beautiful intersection in the world for a few weeks in Charlotte

Labour Left 🤝 Labour Right

every poster whose skeets get read in court should be required to have a username that is this funny, at bare minimum

Fwiw I still think the biggest long term political impact of AI will be reliable instant translation for all

I counted, and this shows a crowd of 12 people for a party with 72 MPs. Reform should thus be depicted in future as a crowd of 0.85 people

If Kemi had the juice her walk on song at Conference would be “Kneecap the Recap”, a song almost entirely about her

TIPSY (not DRUNK) ask me antythings

Glad to see that @libdems.org.uk Conference had no more patience for hate on the agenda than it did last time. We, and Conference, saw that amendment for what it was. Thank you to everyone who voted.

Seeing the anti-woke version of Carmen, all they did was make Carmen a catboy right wing streamer instead of a cigarette factory worker.

*now* we’re cooking

Pubs used to have a bottle of newkie brown in the fridge. And now they don’t anymore Decline

I told you the far right would move towards gulf state style slavery!! I said this would happen!

To expand, people in these positions thought it was like this post 9/11 mood that led them to make certain decisions that seem logical if you think that, but it wasn't and instead Jake Tapper when so hard on your your merger deals threatening free speech like it is Joe Bidens age.

Barry Lyndon (1975)

We’re finally establishing an armed wing of the party!

I told you the far right would move towards gulf state style slavery!! I said this would happen!

A big fan of these lamps in Southwark Cathedral

a fourth faction has hit yorp

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Jonny Mercer’s crying cheers www.bbc.com/news/article...

Monoculturalism is the anomaly, and most of the time it's not even real, it just pretends to be

it's not a question of whether it's a good idea. it /happens/, like by default, literally everywhere whenever it isn't artificially stopped and all the enforcers of the barriers designed to stop it are never particularly good at doing it

i really do hate how people enjoy basically starting from the position that multiculturalism is an anomaly, whether they enjoy it or not

Media Class solidarity remains one of the most powerful forces in politics

What, I have to buy this all again in Orange?? I am never going to financially recover from this