Just incredible stuff all round really: all of these people had so much success brazenly lying to the public over the last ten years that there’s nothing now except lying and bullshit faked outrages over nothing. Almost every day of the year, it’s a new landslide of worthless rubbish.

🚨BREAKING🚨Tim Davie has been replaced as Director General of the BBC by Luke Akehurst.

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I note we are continuing to give the most wildly unpleasant & roaringly reactionary wingnuts whatever they're latest tantrum demands & I simply ask: have previous concessions to the fash placated them? Has giving them they incessantly bellow for chilled them out & gotten them to back off at all?

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

White English are so fragile. Yesterday I attended a protest for Sudan, organised by the local Sudanese community. I witnessed two examples of white passersby clearly getting the hump at seeing a large group of black people together and making spectacles of themselves.

Some truly epic condescention from smug chin-strokers & self-satisfied finger wingers on here today

The Labour Party - and Steve Reed - is completely out of touch with reality. Landlords don't build homes; they drive up prices and suck away our wages. Housing should be a right, not a commodity. Abolish landlords. House everyone.

The notion that we might start from the position of working toward denuclearisation rather than it being deemed impossible simply breaks Reasonable Moderates brains & that is very telling imo

UK CENTRISTS: Why would you want to throw away such a nice ring anyway? It's gold!

This has been the right wing game for *decades*. This is just "you're being racist against white people". The entire thing has been seeing anti-racism as some advantage that the oppressed have over them, because it's a boundary on their behaviour, and seeking to get it for themselves.

Every pathetic Sensible in the replies & quotes smugly sniggering away about the unfeasibility & naivety of Polanski's & congratulating themselves on their wordly realism are the same people that would have shrugged & said the Iraq War is inevitable or its impossible to stop Israel doing genocide

This attitude ⬇️ epitomises the lack of awareness and understanding some people have. Yes their are bots and trolls on SM, but some people have circumstances that mean they are unable to put their name and face all over social media. Should they be excluded because of it?

Hear that swine? The Adults have decreed better things aren't possible so sup it up & show some fucking appreciation you childish, foolish ingrates

Honestly the weirdest thing about America is that you are actively encouraged to self-ID as "pro life" and "Christian" while actively advocating for state-mandated murder.

Another excellent thread. I just wish Emma didn't need to write them...

Rememberance Sunday is when all the worst people who've learned all the wrong lessons about the horrors of war spend their time policing everyone else for not being as utterly awful & dangerously incorrect as they are

Deep dish et decorum est

Just watched Trevor Phillips trying his sneering, condescending best to put Zack Polanski down, and failing miserably. The standard of political 'journalism' in this country is woeful

This might have been true 20 years ago. Unfortunately it is no longer the case. As the people whose actual memories of war have died, we've replaced sombre remembrance with fascist purity tests and crass celebrations of violence.

"First growth, then investment..." i see no flaws with this plan

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

The relevant sentence, after seven paras of Sitwell pleasuring himself: ‘A survey by Meta AI has found that one in five people has lied about allergies to a dinner-party host in order to avoid eating food they don’t like.’ I spent five minutes looking it. No fucking idea what he’s talking about!

All it takes is one judge to be a bigoted cunt and the entire Equality Act becomes worthless, because *hating* a group due to an inate part of who they are becomes parallel under law for *being* part of that group with that inate characteristic.

Until 2016 there was a law in Turkey that allowed a man to escape prosecution if he married the woman he raped. Most rural women agreed this to protect their “reputation” That is what a two state solution for Palestine looks like now

Didn't see this at the time, but it definitely speaks to the social engineering bit of re-feudalisation. The monied classes will have functional, literate offspring with access to the High Arts, while the serfs will be socially & intellectually zombified via relentless, force-fed audiovisual slop.

As a Safety manager in the NHS, Labour is most likely making me redundant, and I could lose my house. Making NHS patients less safe in the process. How are Labour policies changing your life?

Yeah Marx & Engels wrote a course of history altering text before they were 30, but have you considered I've been posting typo strewn cringe on the internet that no one will remember for the last 20yrs? So whose the real winner here eh

DARVO is all the genitally-obsessed bigots know metro.co.uk/2020/06/13/g...

When you're polling at a record low, it always helps to further alienate the people who would have traditionally voted for you. What a mess www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Imagine founding a new left-wing political project and not immediately working out a way to keep the SWP out of it - never met a cause they didn't want to co-opt...

Rolling back civil liberties to protest & arresting pensioners opposing genocide, removing healthcare & human rights from trans people, making speeches with Enoch Powell imagery, monstering asylum seekers & pandering to racists, is what a progressive party of the future looks like, apparently

Another MP that has ignored his governments policies. The ones that are ~ • Creating inequality - disabled, benefit claimants, low paid workers etc • Killing the planet - planning bill, no net zero etc • Selling of public services to private companies - business growth partnerships anyone?

This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.

"Life changing policies" 1. You'll be poorer 2. Or destitute or dead, if you're disabled 3. If you're already poor, we're upping the likelihood that your kid will die 4. We're arresting your gran for terrorism, if she survived winter 5. Make Britain racist & queerphobic again! 6. Ban the trans

oh & another thing- the labour party had to be dragged kicking & screaming to the renters rights bill by campaigners. do they have any idea how much more good activists would be able to do if they didn't have to spend so much energy persuading a 'centre left' party that we need housing rights?

I would say attacking the disabled, stripping trans people of their rights & healthcare, nuking protest rights, freezing nanas, telling immigrants they've done enormous harm & the country risks becoming an island of strangers bcos of them, & aiding & abetting a genocide is pretty live changing, yeah

Thought this was a toilet for a fraction of a second

Sir Keir on Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. ultras:

The Biden administration was fully complicit in genocide, and anyone who served in it should be held accountable.

And if our day-to-day politics was anything more than a cavalcade of increasingly grim betrayals of stakeholders and the interest of humanity in general by Labour desperately pursuing short-term electoral or economic gain while refusing to waiver on its fundamental electoral or economic programme.

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It's so fucking funny because this isn't a hostile interview. This is, like, superfan sycophant hour. And this amazing genius is still undone by the incredible tactic of asking "can you give me an example of the thing you just said?"

Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed. Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going. Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not going to link it because screw the SWP, but it's fascinating that someone is leaking Your Party meeting transcripts to Socialist Worker already.