@owenjonesjourno To be fair to Owen and most youngsters nowadays, they'd be about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike in a war situation.
And I agree war is stupid. Just like most other human behaviour. But I also believe that being ruled by a dictator would make life worthless.
When the Republican outrage machine reaches its inevitable fever pitch over the shooting death of Charlie Kirk remind them that Democrats do not pose with guns on our Christmas Cards. We do not worship guns in our political ads. That is a wholly Republican phenomena
#DemVoice1 #DemsUnited
Today, news broke that Charlie Kirk was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University.
Let me be blunt: I will not pretend to feel sorry for Charlie Kirk. For years, he has profited off division, peddled conspiracy theories, and targeted marginalized groups with rhetoric so toxic it has made this country less safe. He has called for public executions, mocked trans people as “abominations,” treated politics like a holy war — and in 2023, he even said that gun deaths were an “unfortunate” but acceptable price to keep the Second Amendment.
Today, he became part of the very toll he once dismissed. That doesn’t make him a martyr — it makes him a cautionary tale about what happens when leaders treat human lives as expendable.
That doesn’t mean I condone what happened. Political violence is wrong — always. It poisons our democracy, no matter who the target is. If we go down that path, America as we know it collapses.
But here’s the truth: when you spend years throwing gasoline on the fire, you don’t get to act shocked when flames break out. Charlie Kirk built a career out of incitement. He’s not a victim of political violence so much as he is one of its architects.
This is a reminder that words have consequences. Leaders — real leaders — should be lowering the temperature, not raising it. They should be uniting people around solutions, not cashing in on fear and hate.
I ran for Congress because I’m sick of this cycle — sick of watching extremists on the right and performative purists on the left treat America like their personal stage show while working-class families get crushed. Enough.
Violence is not the answer. But neither is pretending that Charlie Kirk is some innocent casualty. He chose this path. He pushed this rhetoric. And now we’re all living in the world it created.
— William Kory Amyx
Democratic Candidate for U.S. Congress
Indiana’s 6th Congressional District
📍 For Hoosiers. For Accountability. For All.
🔗 #AmyxForCongress | #TogetherWeRise | #IN06
@elonmusk Good lord. One argument between mentor and loyal cult member and all the toys come flying out of their prams! Guys, you'll be hugging and kissing again soon. Chill. .... then again, this is Trump we're talking about. He holds grudges for a long time. Might be best to move, Elon.
@MarinaPurkiss The problem is not everyone does agree it is bad. Vast swathes of men really don't care about women and espouse the same views (views which are also common in the incel movement, such as 'women only want X' and 'i can't get a woman because they're all bitches').
It is rather curious that once #Ukraine’s armed forces entered #Kursk region of #Russia and started quickly capturing territory, the Russian officials immediately started talking about “international borders” and “sovereign territory”.
What a difference to February 2022!
Happy 4th of July to my American friends. Please know that should your republic experiment prove unsuccessful as it is already looking, we, the magnanimous citizens of Great Britain, will welcome you back into the realm provided you never defile our tea again you absolute plebs.
@ImtiazMadmood 2/2 help Islamic regimes repress people across Islamic world. The lefty twats do not help. The same way righty twats take away women's rights in USA or try to remove secular values from Western cultures. The twats of the world unite. It's up to us sane people to fight them all.
@ImtiazMadmood 1/2 One of my best friends is Iranian. She's very sympathetic towards the people (Jews/Christians/Muslims/non religious) of Israel. She lives in UK & despises the Iranian regime. She argues with lefty twats here who can't seem to grasp that their excessively liberal ways only...
🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉
Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.
In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.
For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.
It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.
If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.
#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland
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The word ‘transphobic’, as used here, does not mean an irrational fear or dislike of trans people. It means refusing to use gender identity ideology’s jargon, refusing to parrot its slogans, refusing to accept that sex doesn't matter when it comes to sport and single-sex spaces, refusing to believe a bearded heterosexual man becomes a lesbian when he declares himself one, and refusing to believe an abusive, misogynistic male is a woman because he likes to wear mini-dresses and pout in selfies.
Like every other gender critical person I know, I believe everyone should be free to express themselves however they wish, dress however they please, call themselves whatever they want, sleep with any consenting adult who wishes to sleep with them, and that trans-identified people should have the same protections regarding employment, housing, freedom of speech and personal safety every other citizen is entitled to.
But this isn’t nearly enough for the dominant strain of trans activism, which asserts that unless freedom of speech is removed from dissenters, unless trans-identified men are permitted to strip away women’s rights, with particular reference to single sex spaces like rape crisis centres, prison cells, hospital wards, changing rooms and public bathrooms, until we all bow down to their neo-religion, accept their pseudo-scientific claims and embrace their circular reasoning, trans people are more oppressed, and more at risk, than any other group in society.
This is nonsense. 99.9% of the world knows it's nonsense. The emperor is naked. He might be wearing lipstick, but his balls are swinging in plain sight.
@KonstantinKisin A miner would at least have some kind of dress sense. He looks more like he's wrongly ordered a large child's dress instead of a pair of jeans then combined it with a workout vest. Tbf, I think people dressing like prats is great. Genuinely. We need more of a laugh in world 🙂
@KonstantinKisin 2/2 dominant one (e.g., Islamic values vs British/Western values). She explains dozens of people prosecuted in France of FGM vs zero in UK. Even though mutilated African/Arabic girls known to authorities. Just like the victims of rape gangs.Yet, we refer to the French as 'wimps'.
@KonstantinKisin 1/2 In 2013 C4 documentary The Cruel Cut, Leyla Hussein talks to a French colleague (of African heritage). She says that in France they're baffled as to UK's lack of action on FGM. She says multiculturalism is a problem as it encourages multiple cultures competing with the
France deports imam who preached anti-French hate within 24 hours of arresting him.
It's possible and it's what we should be doing. Less talk, more action.
https://t.co/93mbKkwTa9