Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Yn gobeithio am fywyd hapus i bawb! || Dem/Market Socialist and @plaidifanc secretary || burgeoning live music addict || 19 || He/They || views my own ||

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

Equally, the attitude demonstrated by Ian and most of those responding to the call makes it pretty clear that we're still much further away from being a civilised society than most think.

Any society that 'punishes' is not civil.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

https://t.co/CgAlnUR80I

Everything that is wrong with the justice system demonstrated in one call.

It does seem that the man in question didn't deserve punishment, but equally he probably shouldn't have been let off without any protective measures.

[Jorge of the Wired @saturnine_grace]

Bedrotting is aristocratic. Taking a walk is communist. Hiking is reactionary. Riding the bus is social democrat. Jogging is neoliberal.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

The issue for these lot is that those histories aren't exclusively white and male, and that they don't involve fighting people who aren't white and men.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

Actually there's plenty of white male history and culture to be proud of, you just don't know or care about it *because* you're right wing.

Your ancestors aren't crusaders, they're miners and factory workers.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

White guy options;

- Be right wing
- Hate yourself, your culture, your history

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

Are these histories exclusively white and male? No

But if as a white man you want to look into history and find people like you that you can be proud of, there are no shortage of examples on the left.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

So the damage control begins

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

At the start of polling day, I thought that we would get 12,000 votes and we did. I thought that number would be enough, but it wasn’t.

The total collapse of the Labour vote to Plaid was to a party that people know well and to a popular local politician.

The Senedd elections next year are a two-horse race between Reform UK and Plaid Cymru.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

@semioticWaters The same thing that makes defacing someone's car or house or anything else antisocial

You're modifying something that isn't yours in a way that hasn't been consented to.

Public property is everyone's and that means it's not an individual's to deface

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

Yeah

Antisocial behaviour is not based and leftpilled

[Brendan Fraser Crane @bf_crane]

My most reactionary but also most leftist opinion is graffiti sucks. This land was made for you AND me, what gives you the right to deface my park bench

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

@Davey2028 It's clearly not about confusion, that's just something they've thrown in so it's not less blatant that it's just for farmers

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

Libertarians finally starting to admit that their ideology is watching the lion brutalise its prey and going "yes! Society should work exactly like that!"

[Creatrix @creatrix_ttv]

“Why don’t libertarian ideas ever catch on?”

The answer is: most people are stupid.

In a libertarian society, stupidity is punished at the individual level. Under statism, stupidity is cushioned & the costs are redistributed collectively.

Bad loan? Bailout. Bad diet? Regulate the food. Bad investment? Print more money. In other words, the state rewards the stupid, and because the state makes stupidity less costly, people indulge in more of it.

Lbertarianism is a hard sell because it offends the fundamental instinct of most people: the desire to be protected from their own retardation.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

The fact that he has to put those brackets there is itself the reason his point is stupid.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is so rare as to be shocking in recent years to see a straight White man as the hero!

(Not counting movies based on comic books created last century or made by Tom Cruise)

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

@ArcadeValentine It shows a complete misunderstanding of the way the benefits system is a mess. You can have a diagnosis, yet the DWP decide you are fine, and evidently vice versa.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

I know the mask has been off for quite a while at this point but like still lmao

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

It's not the liberal position on rights, it (or at least, the idea that those should be the only rights) is the classical liberal position on rights. Those are the guys that thought workhouses were great

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Simple. ID cards are a statist position.

The ECHR invents moronic ‘rights’ that are actually government powers. The very opposite of natural rights.

The liberal position on rights is that they are negative: restrictions on government power.

See the US Bill of Rights (based on our own) that ‘the government shall not infringe’.

In the ECHR, too often, it is instead that ‘the government must provide’.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

@ArcadeValentine To be fair, I don't think it makes sense to expect that to satisfy people like Owen, both in a strategic sense or a more normative one.

Like, if change is happening, then it makes sense to keep up pressure

And recognition really doesn't change much materially.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

@SevendersOTW @gavhaynes @herandrews The uni doesn't just do this for non white students, white students from marginalised backgrounds (EG working class/low income) also get consideration and support in a similar way.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

@SevendersOTW @gavhaynes @herandrews The grade requirements usually aren't lowered at Oxford, the university gives out offers before people do their exams. His offer and grades aren't related. He probably missed his offer slightly and was given what the uni calls 'clemency'

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

@gavhaynes @herandrews Point is: his offer cannot be connected to his grades at all, unless it could somehow be proven that he wasn't tracking at AAA or more, which he probably was.

[Adam Griffiths 🚩🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Adam_Caerdydd]

@gavhaynes @herandrews Again, he would have had his interview and offer before he received his grades. Maybe he was given a slightly reduced offer (although I've heard it's not really Oxford's thing), but most likely he missed it and was offered clemency, which does happen, if rarely.