Everybody blames Farage, yet - It isn’t Farage who is deporting him. It isn’t Farage who has introduced the policies that allows his deportation. It isn’t Farage who could stop it We all agree Farage is despicable. That he set the agenda. But this government willingly chose to follow it

"I'm pro Israel but act sad about it" is a very strange and very common phenomena on here

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Not MUCH of a change of policy on Gaza then..,

Totally this. A performance of an apology, not a real apology, no IDF soldiers will be held accountable. Elbit will still export weapons, grannies in wheelchairs with signs will still be arrested, people campaigning against genocide will still be political prisoners for years…

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This is infuriating crap. He says: “There's increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.” He knows Israel has committed war crimes on an industrial scale. He’s refusing to say so because it would impose legal obligations on him to actually act.

It's notable that Burnham's "apology" for Labour's stance on Gaza is really non-specific and is basically just centre-left melt boilerplate. Any real apology would start with repealing the proscription of Palestine Action and end with shipping half the PLP to The Hague.

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Credit to Bluesky, “Nazi tattoo bad” managed to nail the litmus test on the first go-round.

Every once in a while you just stumble on the Cold War in graph form

Neil the one-tonne elephant seal causing traffic jams in rural Tasmania has returned to sea – for now

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We talk about “the Overton Window” and I do not think you will find a time in living memory when the goalposts of political acceptability were quite so forcefully yanked up, dragged rightwards and rammed back into the earth *by our political and media elite, in their own interest*, than our own era.

England *cannot keep its rivers clean of human shit* because the government sold off water treatment - a prerequisite for life - as part of a deliberate project of putting as much capacity as possible into private hands and thus outside democratic control. But sure, it’s a big laugh and a joke.

At this point, ‘didn’t get it right’ is just a horrendously insulting way of not admitting complicity in war crimes, sitting on hands while masses of innocents were slaughtered and then remaining steadfastly allied with the state government perpetrating it all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

Feel like Bonnie Tyler dying should be bigger news

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me

You know why it’s not, and shouldn’t be, a concern? Because it’s not spiralling.

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Like if you make them talk as if everyone else in the country is actually real and not just a backdrop for their prattling on, they get *real* fucking shirty about it.

Fundamentally, much of the clique around Westminster are "politics nerds" who find actual politics cringey and uncomfortable. They love court politics, scandal, intrigue, but not the whole business of "who has power and how does the application of said power help or harm people?"

Binface fits into their worldview of politics as entertainment. People like Polanski and Spencer break the kayfabe. It's like someone turning up to WWE and actually wrestling to win. It's not on. It's just not cricket. Sorry for all the sports metaphors.

One of our weapons against the transphobes who are implementing all this transphobic hate-legislation is memory. Streeting, Starmer and Phillipson need to be remembered for State Transphobia in the same way Thatcher is remembered for Section 28.

US official making shit up on the fly because the entire federal government is run by fewer than 50 people, all of whom are fucking morons, enthralled to an old man who twice today referred to the islamic empire of japan

so let me get this straight, your step-father is jewish, your step-brother is not merely jewish but a major figure in the jewish community, and you got a nazi tattoo, and somehow YOU HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS, NO ONE EVER TOLD YOU

how the fuck did i miss this? absolutely incredible. frantzman wrote an editorial for jpost once trying to get me banished from jewish communal life, falsely claiming i threatened him and his colleagues by saying if their offices burned down and they all got cancer, it would be too good for them.

Yeah but remember when he gave that epic speech

Remember that everyone who is having Epic Lols over Binface was having a collective freakout about whether Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer were dangerous extremists a few months ago.

The man turns everything into a gross overflowing toilet, metaphorically and literally

Note to self

It is NOT a “loophole” that Commonwealth citizens who have been permanent UK residents since before 1973 cannot be deported. It was Parliament’s deliberate decision in the 1971 Immigration Act. It is based on hundreds of years of free movement between the Commonwealth/Empire, abolished in 1973.

Fun fact: she could’ve texted Platner that she wants him to fuck her brains out, and then once he came over, told him no, AND IT WOULD STILL BE RAPE BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT CONSENT

I never had a teacher believe in me like this.

Feel like "ah, but people in Clacton still like me" is an essentially irrelevant answer to "are you corrupt?"

Asking about people's genitals isn't normal. Denormalise this.

Worth noting: 8 out of 11 members of the Women and Equalities Select Committee have signed the motion to reject the EHRC guidance and fix it.

The main purpose of the Oct. 8 rallies was to oppose a disproportionate response to the attacks, something that *did happen.* People who saw this coming shouldn't have to apologize for expressing solidarity with the civilians who continue to be massacred.

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Helen Lewis right now.

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

This is why the "people who hate AI also hated the advent of the internet" argument falls flat. We bought a whole new computer in order to get online. We WANTED to use the internet. AI is shoved down our throats so much I'm having to actively avoid it everywhere I turn!