Controversial opinion (which shouldn't be): Populism is not what brought Trump to power and in fact would help bring about a progressive alternative Anti-populism has fuelled Trump by lumping reactionary politics with progressive alternatives to the status quo

It's funny even something as innocent as guitar tuition on Youtube is framed with titles like 'the right hand secrets THEY won't tell you" like there's a government ministry of guitar with a conspiratorial plan to control the open mic circuit.

No more peace prizes. No more individual awards for anything. Definitely in my room 101.

You. Cannot. Make. This. Shit. Up.

There's something Brechtian about the "Thank you for your attention to this matter" at the end of each Trump statement.

After England fans rioted and chanted racist abuse in Dublin in 1995 there were no friendly matches between the two teams for 18 years. Compare and contrast! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansdow...

Charlie Kirk from The Charlie Kirk Show, Oct. 26, 2023:

The thing hated about Corbyn's 'and all forms of racism' add on (that Baddiel inexplicably compared to 'all lives matter') was that the preferred antidote to antisemitism is one that actually promotes other forms of racism.

It's very funny when you watch these light current affairs interviewers just a flip a switch and enter attack mode when NOT ALLOWED THOUGHT is uttered

The vast majority of straw in this world is used up on the left wing activist.

Hearing Maccabi Tel Aviv to be awarded FA Cup and ten minutes to do whatever they want in Bradford town centre as reparations

It's just a matter of time before "would you allow racist, fascist Israeli's to march through Birmingham?" becomes the media's standard test of good political character alongside "would you press the nuclear button?"

It seems remarkable to me that “the entire body politic” is absolutely unified on the right of foreign football thugs with a horrific reputation for violence and racism to visit Britain, and on the need to fire any senior policemen who defy instructions to permit it. It is IMO pretty astonishing.

The Home Office’s new TikTok account wants you to see migration through a negative lens. We refuse this toxic narrative. Migration is a positive force in this country.

"No, Yea, they're rubbish aren't they"

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

This is all brilliant from Jonathan Liew but the lexical analysis of two of Britain's most popular insults is going to occupy my thoughts for the rest of the day. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's good to see government action against dangerous pavement parking. However, it is deeply disappointing not to see a nationwide ban. Thanks to @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk for this illustration of why this is such a frustrating and dangerous problem for people walking, wheeling and cycling.

When this happens in another country, it’s easier to see how government-aligned media can turn the most harmless people into scary extremists; the most inoffensive behaviour into anarchist bomb-throwing and the most horrific regime behaviour into noble, patriotic self defence.

Sadly, we've built a society where this is what holds most of us back.

When you're obliged to admit that the US is an empire, you cannot continue to claim that Israel/Palestine is a complex issue of competing rights made tragic by intransingence on both sides. You are forced to admit that Israel is simply an anachronistic settler colony.

The US has always ruled its empire through fear, something that is well-understood in Latin America. What irks European centrists is that it no longer bothers to provide plausible cover for this, like the promotion of democracy or "liberal values". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months." Shameful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fascism we're moving toward, not just in the US, is a group think whereby if you are left wing you are fair game for the state to do as it pleases. This is what the whole anti 'woke' movement has been leading us toward and every so called liberal that engaged in it is culpable.

How low in the polls before Labour realise you can't triangulate with fascism?

Wild times for Labour.

On crucial issues the BBC now barely even tries to report facts, only the perspectives of particular political actors on the facts, & without helping anyone understand which perspectives might be worthy of belief. This helped lead to Brexit & now it‘s helping to normalise fascism internationally

Only 15% of Britons want the UK to be more like the US—that's just three out of every 20 people. Unfortunately, that group constitutes the entirety of the UK's ruling class, along with the bolus of fascists, nativists, dupes, and pensioners that our political parties prioritize above all else.

I just realized that the Disney-Star Wars series ANDOR is an instructional video.

If ICE style crack squads are introduced in the UK just remember to use the 'I'm sorry but we cannot and do not operate this way, sir' defence and there shouldn't be a problem.

My counter take on Bristol is that the street art/ graf scene is actually 90% crap. It's (lazy) quantity over quality and a lot people need to check their skill level and stay away from Halfords.

I hadn’t seen the crank in chief herself joined in but reiterate: these clowns are accusing the police of collaborating with radical Islamists to racistly exclude fascist football hooligans who have been sanctioned many times. This bullshit - all over the press - is straight up Tommy Robinson stuff.

If I had to choose between these three, I would definitely choose Zack Polanski.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I imagine a lot of notable people have noted: if these crackpot hacks can monster fuck out of a chief constable and get him fired over nothing, as part of their endless psycho struggle to secure maximum freedom for right wing racists and fascists, then they can probably do that to anyone now.

Not sure how long the Labour Party will be able to keep waxing mendacious liberal intent onto Trump's overt global militarism even though he's professing none of it himself..

At a govt. level it's even more absurd. But the notion that there is any benefit to countering arguments on X fails to see the blindingly obvious way the game is rigged - that absolutely everything is fuel.

Just revisited an old essay from my masters and it's jam full of Mamdani references.

Only just learnt that Mahmood Mamdani is Zohran's dad. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is brilliant.

If the President himself says it's all about oil you as as the media do not compromise any neutrality rules by stating that that is in fact what it is about.

The violent imperialism is overt now - Trump hasn't got the vocabulary for any liberal waxing - but the BBC reporting, still clinging to the the good guy West brand, sounds like they haven't got the memo.

As we see so regularly , it is always the teenage girls fault , mix that with political cowardice that is driven by “but what will the Daily Mail say if we do something humane” and we have a system desperate to appease the worst of us, and to utterly ignore those who dare to empathise

I saw a sticker on a lamp post yesterday with a picture of Starmer under 'don't trust Labour lies'. No context and no way of guessing where on the political spectrum it came from. That's a clue to the problem.

“Reform is not asking people to join its party so they can work together to build community spirit and support each other in response to the problems they face. But that is almost 100% of the Green message. It is so positive to be part of a growing band of active citizens like ours.”

Absolutely standard stuff here printed in the Times, which has been doing various versions of “human rights are a Bolshevik plot cooked up between Marxist intellectuals and Muslim terrorists” for decades now, at escalating volume and intensity archive.ph/6IWIw

Well, it’d be very Britain for this to be the country where she gets imprisoned for terrorism, and not anywhere else.

So the Labour party are going to crack down hard those that use chants like ‘globalise the intifada‘ while having just previously gone all out in defence of those using ‘death to Arabs‘.

White Christmas 1000/1. Being ill at Christmas all bets suspended.