Unsurprisingly, a number of people asked me to look at this story doing the rounds on all the right-wing media 🧐 So let's take a look at who is exempt from the ban and why, and when this "two-tier" situation came about (spoiler - it's nothing new!) 1/20

Can we trade Sam for McConnell?

I really hope he got to see Montana.

Look at how people react to Sam Neill's passing. Look at how people react to Lindsay Graham's passing. It's a pretty easy object lesson. Live your life in a way that leads people to talk about you the way they're talking about Sam Neill right now. So much love. So much shared joy.

Sam Neill versus Lindsay Graham. Both remembered online for the men they were and the things they did. The Kiwi entirely positively, and whose death prompts sincere sadness, and the American as the bootlicking fuckscum he was.

"Not only should you not remember the truly awful things about a dead person, you should also say some nice things you don't really mean about them. Think of their family!" No, they should have lived their lives so that people would not remember them by their shitty deeds.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Yup. Live your life so that when people speak of you dead, there isn’t much ill to speak of.

And THAT, in a nutshell, is why so many reenactors (ESPECIALLY Confederate and Wehrmacht) are absolute garbage. So, the amazing education your granddaughter got about the Wehrmacht and WWII was...a picture with an MG42 and playing at dressing combat casualties. <chef's kiss>

Just wild stuff here.

Won't someone think of Ragnar Lothbrok?

And this kind of Clean Wehrmacht nonsense is precisely why these people should not be allowed to "educate" the public at these events.

An army that fought for the Nazis and to realize their genocidal worldview was a Nazi army. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

THese things are not...documentaries, Louise.

I almost forgot about WWII but then I went to my local fancy-dress event and remembered it!

Well, arguably you can't have a war reenactment without mass casualties, sucking chest wounds, existential fear, sustained artillery barrages, either. Also, you can't really reenact war.

No, Kevin, you do not have to hand it to the NAzis for starting WWII so you could have a cosplay weekend 80 years later.

🧵. 1940s weekend was "fabulous despite German military outfits being banned" lol DESPITE? Friends, let's take a journey into the comments and see what people relly think about dressing up like a Nazi in public 👇

How a real reporter asks a question.

“go cry to your mummies” here is such an S-tier burn, instant follow for sheer intellectual savagery

haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago

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The Chief Executive of the Tank Museum should maybe reflect that the easiest way of not gaining a reputation of pandering to Wehraboos is to not actively market and stock stuff that can really only appeal to Wehraboos. This is about their questionable choices and careful reflection is important.

To be clear I DON'T want to buy the plushy toy panzerfaust from the tank museum but I DO want to know if there's a funny story about why the tank museum has now stopped selling it

I have no idea how the Tank Museum came to have such a reputation!

I had a message this morning from the CEO of the Tank Museum to inform me the below product has now been removed from sale. He has advised me to ‘reflect carefully on whether it is responsible to make claims publicly‘ about the Tank Museum having a reputation for pandering to Wehraboos.…

German politician Kat Gebel is my new hero. During a speech on women's policy she was interrupted by a member of their far-Right party, b/c ofc she was, and this was her response: “The cl**oris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you are still more sensitive. To get to that point is quite something!" 💀💀

Do you know why the Germans don’t slap a swastika over all their ‘heritage’ items? Because they’re fucking ashamed of it, that’s why. Any state with any decency would be mortified by its regretful association with this morally disgusting symbol of the past.

The Brexit vote was ten years ago, was it? Well, the results of that have been shit. No redeeming features at all. Just shit. Shame on everyone involved.

What is it about white people that makes them so violent? Should we tolerate white culture in the UK? Is the fact he was arrested without violence evidence of two-tier policing? Should white people still be given housing when non-whites remain homeless? Will white leaders condemn this? etc.

How's this for metaphor for the state of England - ancient and amazing, but fucked about with to keep it looking as it did in 1900, which meant it couldn't protect itself from climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Any government body, organization, commercial enterprise and so on that chooses to remain on Twitter is complicit in supporting this fascist, narcissist, overly racist assh**e and his spread of hateful rhetoric and lies

Your family are quite perceptive.

Now the nieces and nephews are banned from the socials we can finally go and play in the old quarry by the railway like I keep suggesting.

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

The fear was that someone might be elected who didn’t have the best interests of the country at heart. Well friends, I’m sorry to tell you that that’s already happened.

If the US was a healthy democracy Mamdani would be eligible to be President. The restriction on non-native born citizens is a xenophobic embarrassment which should have been repealed a century ago.

I'd love for these two to go over to Belfast and tell the Protestant gangs setting fire to people's houses that they want to be Irish.

Elon Musk is a despicable fascist who has been almost ludicrously overt with his racism and Nazi-esque views for years now. You can’t solve any of the problems that he’s causing unless you very obviously recognise this central fact and call it out.

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Russia is openly waging a form of hybrid warfare against us and this is part of it.

Musk fomenting violent race riots in Northern Ireland should have everyone to the left of Reagan fleeing the platform he owns and directly controls but they've already excused so much more, they've abdicated their capacity for moral indignation and disgust

Boris Johnson: "We didn't have a plan for what to do next because we didn't think it was our job to have a plan." And we are all paying the price for that folly.

‘When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression’

Daily Mirror 7th June 1944 Take that, fascists

Wars, especially total wars of nation states, are not won on points. The other side does not take a look at the scoreboard, see they’re hopelessly behind, and just call it a day. You have to literally enact their defeat. By doing things like invading.