Call me anti-democratic, but a party whose premise is 'we can be bigots if you join in enough numbers. YOU get to decide whether the party is evil!' doesn't sound like a great sales pitch to me.

The Trump authoritarian crackdown builds on the assault on individuals and organisations opposing Israel's genocide. That crackdown began under the Democrats. Yet many "centrists" stayed silent, or actively cheered it on. You paved the way for what happens now.

I'm not expecting a reply to this, but I'll say it anyway. If she had truly cared about beating Trump, she would have called for Biden to step down months in advance and called for a robust primary season. The Democrats fed you to the lions, and now you want to praise them for it. They had the polls

If GTA 6 requires me to put in my ID to play it, then I am not buying it. This is a practice that will continue if we give in and decide to just go along with it. Passivity will always make things worse. Boycott it.

People are now being arrested for sending non threatening emails about the genocide in Gaza to their MP’s in England. It is not safe to express your disapproval of genocide in a fundamentally genocidal country. These people will use state violence to silence you.

when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day www.404media.co/steam-itchio...

It is not over. It is a slow, creeping encroachment. The government will not be satisfied until it can watch everything you do online. The Patriot Act already did this in America, to an extent, but there were certain ways around it. Each government will continue its quest until no privacy exists.

I know they think they may be, because they hated the Tories and insist they are ‘woke’, but would all Starmer fans on here stop calling themselves left wing and referring to Labour as the left? It’s embarrassing to shit yourself in public

The UK is going in the right direction but not nearly far enough. I propose the wanking loicence. It is clear that we cannot trust people in the UK to wank responsibly, so I propose that in order to get a licence to wank, a microchip must be inserted into your brain.

Free speech is inherently tied to freedom of artistic expression. Media isn't only made to be privately enjoyed, it's made to be talked about, analysed, learned from, and iterated upon.

The Grooming Gangs story that the right perpetuates never rang true to me. They argue that the police are so afraid of being called racist that they let that go on unabated. When have the police ever been afraid of being called racist? Now, the truth has come out, and it's far more believable.

I'm spitballing alternatives to the Online Safety Act. If anyone familiar with cybersecurity follows me, let me know what you think of this.

I suspect the techbroligarchs are behind it - the Dark Enlightenment bunch, Thiel, Andreessen et al. They apparently want to break our society down, wipe the slate clean, then rebuild it as a kind of New Feudalism - independent city-states ruled by the ultrarich, the rest of us being serfs, etc.

Things are just getting worse and worse. Rampant censorship, far-right nationalism, supposedly left-wing parties parroting the right, trans and women's healthcare stripped, and this isn't even mentioning the long-term problems like wage stagnation and corporate profit records.

After 9/11, almost all my liberal friends were ok with the creation of the Patriot Act and DHS. I couldn't convince a damn one of them that this is how fascism starts. I was appalled at how easily people were convinced to trade their freedom, privacy and autonomy for a false promise of safety. 🫤

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

I’m usually against capital punishment…. Usually.

Our lawmakers passed that stupid crypto bill, I'm sure they'll push something like this soon too

The British are utterly fucking supine. They fucking love the boot on their neck. Fucking LOVE IT.

Watching the UK public react to age verification there feels a lot like rewatching them realize what Brexit actually was. Yes, the leopards are going to eat your face US lawmakers… take note

He's a bastard, Starmer.

To me, the alternative to the Online Safety Act should be obvious. Do it on the ISP's end. ISPs already have adult content off by default when you set up the internet in the UK. Have each router have two connection points, one for adults, one for kids, each with a different password.

German cops arresting someone for displaying a pink triangle because it can be "mistaken" for a red triangle in support of Palestine is such an encapsulation of the liberal order everyone is desperate to maintain.

Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

As a society, we are devolving back to satanic panic levels of censorship. It is being argued that, for our own safety, we shouldn't be able to play the games we want to on Steam, and we shouldn't be allowed to see adult content on social media sites without giving out private information.

I said this is not a debate. Go get some mental help, you monster.

Keep telling the truth Owen, those who don’t will pay!

"How they justify increased authoritarianism! Don't stand for it! Stand against it!!!..." via Dave Taylor

It’s funny how those ‘left wing’ cases for immigration control never mention how mobility of labour is also a historic left wing cause. The ability of the worker to take their work elsewhere has been a crucial lever.

Every time a straight cis person complains that something like this causes "division", they mean between themselves and anti-LGBT activists.

They will know this yet have done it anyway. That they are willing to make that personal sacrifice shows their strength and bravery as forces for good amidst the cruelty. May there be more.

Heroes ✊👏

It is YOUR fault for encouraging this state of affairs, not ours. YOU are (part of) the reason your guy is losing

Even more ridiculous is relying on people you're actively harming on voting for you on the grounds that someone else might harm them, or other people, more. That is so, so stupid. You have to give people something to vote for, if you don't you only have yourself to blame

They actively want "we're 1% less evil than the other guy!" to be their whole thing, the entire spectrum of political experience a choice between two slightly different types of villainy. It's been the case since the Blair project took over Labour like a crackdown Cordyceps

I'm so glad we've got another influential person making this point.

The people who are annoyed at LGBT people saying they'd never vote for Gavin Newsome or Kier Starmer are so ridiculous. They accuse us of being the reason why the "center left" is losing whilst actively opposing those trying to hold their guy to account, encouraging them to pursue worse policies

Given how many GOP controlled states have refused to outlaw child marriage… I think we can guess

So now, not only is TERF Island oppressing trans people and women domestically, they are exporting it on a world stage. UN Special Rapporteur, Reem Alsalem, has taken inspiration from the UK's sexist and transphobic policies and recommeneded they be implemented on a world stage.

The phrasing on > ... relevant for all pupils, including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or gender questioning. So pubils can be lesbian, gay, bi, but they can't be trans: only gender questioning. They can't know their gender, only their sexuality. Of course.

Start preparing now for the next banking crash. Banks will be fine, they will get bailed out, again!! It's the rest of us that need to worry.

Liberalism is the embryo of fascism.

Just got told that the adhd medication assessment I had due for this week will be delayed by up to 7 and a half months.

The difference between genocide supporters and flat earthers...

forcing women to undergo invasive reproductive testing to play football good work jk rowling.