By the way, when the UK/EU issue statements anticipating/warning of a Russian attack, it means: “If we were in Russia’s position, we’d attack us for the provocations we’re either planning to conduct or are already conducting but aren’t telling you about.”

anyone with a working brain is skeptical of the idea

I don't actually think you need to be in any way supportive of the Tories to think, you know, if you can get the hacks to report "a cabinet minister said this" when it's the opposition team stirring shit, this is monumentally fucked about eight different ways.

The post-WW2 Labour government was perhaps the greatest peacetime government in the history of this country. It rebuilt the nation, built vast numbers of homes and created the NHS. To suggest that was the point at which Labour 'lost its way' is insanely ignorant.

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I am also interested in how, after at least a half-decade of our media and politicians deriding tone policing, trigger warnings, inclusive language and other concepts, they have pivoted on a dime to debating whether certain utterances should be made criminal offences without a moment's hestitation.

Just sitting at home and thinking of the hunger strikers. Sending love and best wishes

I’ll post this again, because this is where we’re at. And they’ve been packing away the tables and chairs for a while now.

NATO believes in peace through dominance - hugely expensive & hugely dangerous when trying to dominate a nuclear armed power We could have an indivisible pan European security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok Cheaper and fewer people die Military Industrial Complex won’t like this

I invite you to ask yourself why the language of protestors has been a terrifying daily concern, but e.g. successive governments giving the US unlimited use of our airbases to fly a gajillion dollars of weapons of destruction into Israel for use on huge numbers of civilians is not concerning at all.

Make no mistake, this means even more unprecedented attacks against free speech. It will be considered an act of sedition/treason for speaking up against or questioning all this madness. All speech will be monitored for thought transgressions. I am in no way exaggerating.

The vibes are not improving, are they

The elites preparation of the masses for war is relentless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Read the runes The west is preparing for more war & the masses are being conditioned in readiness www.bbc.com/news/article...

More discussion of war with Russia from BBC’s arch neocon Frank Gardener The war messaging is relentless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More preparation of the masses for war A war that the elites and their children are unlikely to take part in www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am not here to watch Labour eat shit in by-elections, council elections and commons defeats so that they will change course, genuflect to the left and invite their erstwhile mortal enemies back into the shell game. I am here to watch them lose, lose, lose again, and die. Expect nothing less.

Bondi hero who disarmed gunman identified as local father Ahmed al Ahmed... Would anyone (by which I mean fear-filled racist white immigrants with an irony bypass) care to argue that Ahmed al Ahmed's community is not enriched by his presence? www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/bon...

I see Wendy Carlos. I post Wendy Carlos.

Inoffensive?!? This cunt fraudulently shithoused his way into power breaking every promise he every made on the way, purged Jews in the name of ‘fighting antisemitism’, is facilitating a genocide, persecuting trans and disabled people, locked up protestors and is going full Enoch Powell on refugees!

These people are fucking insane. And no actual journalism. No questioning of assumptions, no historical analysis, no challenging of official narratives/assertions, no reckoning with outcomes (WW3) and absolutely no pushback. This is what propaganda; an entirely ossified & captured media looks like.

The only thing that can stop the end of the world is the organised working-class. No conscription! Mass draft dodging! General strike to stop nuclear war!

One of the few things enabling comfortable middle classs centrist dads to feel truly alive & virile is the sexual thrill they get as armchair generals fantasising about a Grand War against The Big Baddie & the scores of working class children they'll conscript to be shipped off to the meat grinder

These people are fucking insane. And no actual journalism. No questioning of assumptions, no historical analysis, no challenging of official narratives/assertions, no reckoning with outcomes (WW3) and absolutely no pushback. This is what propaganda; an entirely ossified & captured media looks like.

Nice one Grace 😃

Jack Matlock, a statesman During the Cuban Missile Crisis there were statesmen in the USA & USSR that knew the risks of war & managed to avoid it by crisis management, dispute resolution, negotiation & a dose of luck Where are the Nikita Khrushchev's Adlai Stevenson's, & John F Kennedy's today?

The largest 10 US foreign policy think tanks are funded by the armaments companies Politicians are not experts in geopolitics & seek advice from foreign policy think tanks. Think tanks, funded by armament companies recommend aggressive foreign policy & arms spending & hostility to diplomacy

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

A must watch documentary from @declassifieduk.org on the role of British spy flights in Israel's Gaza genocide.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g... Very interesting interview @shakethescales.bsky.social and @clempm.bsky.social For those who don’t know, Jack F. Matlock, Jr, was the U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1987–1991, and had a key role in negotiating an end to the Cold War.

Someone should do a study that correlates the necessity of increasing liberal propaganda covering for imperial brutality with the increase of communication speed, from the industrial age through to the modern Internet.

"The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must" Thucydides 416 BC Little has fundamentally changed in realist International Politics in 2500 years except the growth of liberal propaganda used to cloak the reality of power politics

The left needs to spring from the womb fully formed with perfect politics and have never changed their mind on any topic, whilst the right and centre are just smol baby boys learning the world and have endless opportunities to rebrand

Let me state a fundamental democratic problem as starkly as possible: if you want to build a career in political journalism you can't meaningfully describe what's actually happening in the political system.

via Campbell Finnie

It is completely unworthy of ‘us’, but we’re not in charge, ‘they’ are. And it’s completely in keeping with their modus operandi. All we’ll get is force fed more consent manufacturing in the hopes that eventually ‘we’ arrive at their level of detached psychopathy.

The biggest singular, most positive and most achievable press reform would be the banning of BBC "paper reviews". The likes of the telegraph, mail and sun would be nothing without the BBC pushing their fringe bullshit to tens of millions, nearly every single hour of every single day. #r4today

I think this is exactly correct. And the same goes for recent draconian anti-protest laws, such as the police, crime and sentencing act. Was designed with future climate unrest in mind, but happily used to crack the heads of people who take exception to genocide.

Agreed - and the logical conclusion to this, as hundreds of millions are forced to move, is a genocide that will dwarf all others.

I reckon our ruling class going in a few short years from 1) Screaming in united petrified terror at Facebook likes and protestors’ placards as harbingers of extermination, to 2) LOL come on, everyone has a Hitlerian phase, shows you they do not at all fear the public or even seek our good opinion.

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But but but didn’t we just have *years* of politicians and media outlets furiously insisting even traces of racism were utterly unacceptable in public life, and the perpetrators had to be hounded and removed? Yes, I’m afraid that was a cruel and deeply insulting fraud, a giant Fuck You to the public

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