Again: the entire plan is to lock the cabin door and fly the plane into the mountain again, hoping that when the wreckage slides to a halt, it’ll be one of them still sitting in the pilot’s seat. It’s already worked wonders for them once, so they think they can do it again.

Not even surprised

Damn we couldn't even get an anonyvoter scandal out of this.

There is a name for the type of democracy this is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_...

Again, this stuff regularly happening is not at all compatible with liberal democracy. Bad enough if it was minor stuff but this was a joint heist by party insiders and media outlets to completely remake the opposition party and then install its new leadership in government.

The key part of all this: they were running secret orchestrated campaigns with the papers *and also* running fake fact-checking organisations that told the same papers the very idea there was a secret campaign was a terrifying racist conspiracy theory, that showed how racist the party was.

It’s wild: they were secretly passing Facebook posts by members of the public to the Times for front page articles about “Labour’s Hate Factory”, *while also* creating and managing sock-puppet fact-checking campaigns that told the press any suggestion this was happening was dangerous disinformation.

US government rn

@flyingrodent.bsky.social I know you often say they’d rather fly the plane into the mountain than give up power and it seems hyperbole and yet….

labour are doing so much damage to this country in multiple different areas. they're actually so much worse than the tories.

every time the government or an institution like the bbc want to do something transphobic they claim they have evidence or research backing it up but they refuse to release the evidence or research backing it up.

White liberals cannot claim to truly be in opposition to Trump whilst leaning into the London Has Fallen rhetoric pushed by the United States and Israel.

Every major politician in the UK, apart from @zackpolanski.bsky.social , who actually happens to be Jewish seems to be in agreement that the core of Jewish identity that must be preserved for Western civilisation is a Trumpian Islamophobic fascism. They agree with Trump on the merits, not the tone.

This probably makes no sense to a lot of people but at root, the explanation is that racists, supremacists, fascists and various forms of fucknut crank all talk to each other on social media, and they borrow and pool each other’s most needlessly annoying vexatious bullshit.

This drivel about how actually, the real villains are the local residents who don’t want a bunch of fascist scumbags marching through the streets hassling folk and shouting abuse, should be tiresomely familiar to people who live in quite specific areas of the country.

Working hard now on “If it works for the Orange Order, we can make it work for us”. God knows what equivalent they’ll come up with for “The O’Ffended” or whatever, but I expect this triumphalist fash march drivel to intensify with angry media backing.

A shutdown in this context is a propaganda war, just like the one they did over ACA subsidies. Except this time instead of saying "We did this because they won't fund health care" you say "We did this because they're killing you in the streets with impunity"

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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I cannot get past what it must feel like, as a parent, to watch your child be murdered

If you are a game developer working on a modern military shooter and want to speak to me about Call of Duty being mentioned during this most recent ICE shooting, please reach out at gita at aftermath dot site. I am happy to keep you anonymous.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Free them all

He was directing traffic when ICE grabbed him, clearly someone who took initiative to help others. And it appears that’s how he lived his life: in the service of those who needed help.

there is some level of gleeful participation in state-sponsored brutality at which i think people forfeit their humanity. this isn't banality of evil stuff, people "just doing their jobs." they enjoy it. they only understand and respect physical violence and terror

You: It can’t happen to me. The state: we looked into this white guy we killed and we do feel a need to bring up these parking tickets

hey remember the starmer faction completely destroyed the chances of labour winning the election bcos they didn't want jeremy corbyn to win? it's the same here. they just don't give a fuck about democracy. they're responsible for johnson, truss, and sunak. they let nigel farage win in clacton ffs

hey remember when keir starmer's goons completely destroyed their candidates chance in clacton bcos he was more popular with the press and on socials and keir starmer got angry about it? nigel farage is literally a member of parliament bcos labour basically threw the election for him.

That’s the thing that’s so horrifying: no consequences. We can all see the Thatcherite consensus is fucked and burning, the postwar consensus is dead, NATO is a cruel joke and we’re all slaves to one mad emperor. But nothing changes, because *nothing can change* in this most perfect of all systems.

I remember coming back from that march when it was cold as fuck, and Mrs R saying the next day: Tony Blair was on TV. He said he was glad we can protest, because the Iraqis can’t. Anyway, Tony is on Donald Trump’s freedom board now, and life for the average Iraqi is as shit as you would expect.

I remember this from the anti-Iraq war marches. Then Tony Blair went on TV and said he was glad people in Britain could protest, because people in Iraq couldn’t. This was said to be a crushing response at the time, even though everyone could see very clearly that it was desperately fucked and wrong.

If you reward people for wrecking and destroying, what do you think we will get from them? If you forever destroy the possibility of a better future, what kind of future do you think we will get instead.

Trans people are all just victims of a conspiracy you see, we're all just temporarily hoodwinked cis people in waiting to them, so of course when the day comes and the spell is broken, we'll all be joining them in litigious glory and filing class action lawsuits against the conspirators... Any day!

The GC cult always had this idea that being trans is something external to us, an idea that started somewhere else that was imposed upon us, back in the day before "social contagion" it was psychologists and doctors tricking us into believing we're trans and creating lifelong patients for profit.

Back when I was silly enough to try and argue with them, I straight up asked what they expected me to do if they got their way and being trans was criminalised, and the answers I always got were "sue your doctors for lying to you!" or "sue whoever told you you were trans"

And that 1,000 families suing thing? They believed that *ALL* trans people who had been treated by the tavistock would want to sue, for being lied to that they could be trans in the first place. They're genuinely that up their own ass, but they fervently believe that this is coming... Any day now.

They believe this with a kind of religious fervour, and that it's going to happen any day now. I've compared them to an endtimes cult that are anticipating someone else's end times, and that gets at the kind of zealotry at play here, they're anticipating the day when all trans people cease to be.

If you're not familiar with just how unhinged the "Gender Critical" movement is, this thousand strong class action thing might just seem like a random ass-pull, but what it is is that they believe there's going to be some moment where all trans people will just suddenly stop being trans all at once.

This account stuck my comic through an ugly AI filter, removed my @ from the bottom and blocked me when I called them out.

ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.

great job to everyone who had a moral panic about kids seeing what was really happening in Gaza you got what you wanted

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7 democrats made this bill pass. If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.

The Centrist-Fascist alliance. Primaring these folk won't be enough. It will be The Hague or a new Nuremberg

Wow

Tom Watson has shares in Palantir. Of course he does. 🥀

Turns out that the second act of Wicked is nowhere near as popular or beloved as the first act, something nobody in Hollywood could have possibly predicted.

We don't need a liberal version of Trump. We don't need a liberal version of Musk. We don't need a liberal version of Rogan. If your political instincts aren't any better than "the shittiest people alive, but with a different color tie", go jump in a lake.