Economic relations? I hardly knew her!

Co-host This Must Be The Place pod. 🏡 lapsed Cornish nationalist. 〓〓 Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

[Economic relations? I hardly knew her! @Jack_Witek]

Yeah, I'm an 'In and Against' socialist, and by 'In' we mean bed and by 'Against' we mean work.

[@DefsNotAmar @DefsNotAmar]

The shock from white people at pogroms taking place is driving me fucking insane. This is the third consecutive summer of pogroms and lynchings and the months in between have been marked by racist attack after racist attack. We weren’t lying when we told you what was coming.

[KPMG dad @jenuflexion]

Thatcherite economics has shit the bed so the UKs national project is actually rabid anti-leftism to prevent the failing capitalist system from changing.

But there’s no actual coherent socialist / communist project so it just looks like the brit establishment jumping at shadows

[factionalism advocate 🇵🇸 @gamergate2077]

I recognize that cretinous and violent anti-immigrant politics is the future of the entire world without exception but I refuse to learn to accept it.

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

There was a pogrom in in Belfast last night. When we read history books we often ask how these acts of violence happen, and how people go along with it. You're living how it happens.

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

there’s a reason jeremy corbyn battered this bellened in the 2015 leadership election.

[princess diana is in all of us 🚩👑🏳️‍🌈 @joinaunionpls]

Mass phone spying. Online Safety Act. Digital ID. Facial Recognition Tech. Predictive policing. Central bank digital currency. Insane anti-protest powers. Police using drones.

It's a cage. Starmer and previous governments have basically created a constantly shrinking cage.

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

really this is the endgame of the whole British state, which is not a nanny state in the right-wing sense but which does view its subjects as basically infantile morons who need to be electroshocked into becoming the right type of economic asset to Unlock Growth

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

.@DEHEdgerton and Karel Williams have written a blistering assessment of Andy Burnham's plans for the country, correctly identifying that (with some new glosses & emphases) it still goes round the same analysis and policies Labour's factions have all accepted for a decade... 1/2

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

The US and the white people world generally, absolutely hammered out of our skulls on winning the Cold War, concluding we had won the universe forever and we were Gods on Earth. Now, reduced to begging Silicon Valley to produce a fascist Wonder-Weapon that will save capitalism.

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

Lewis Goodall is a classic British imperialist. He feels sympathy with colonised peoples, like the Irish, or the Palestinians, as long as they are passive victims.

But as soon as they pick up arms to actually defend themselves and challenge their oppression, he despises them.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

iran is the only country on the planet willing to stop israel's expansion, this is the reason why israel wants to get the us to try and destroy iran.

[bat020 @bat020]

sad news of course but also a fact of life. this happens to us as we get older, it could happen to you or those you hold close. Snow lived his professional life with a rare degree of integrity and by publicising his condition he continues on that trajectory, wherever it may end.

[Archie Woodrow @SamuraiApology]

EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham announces "I don't believe in anything"

[John Duncan @Johntheduncan]

Becoming increasingly uncertain that Andy Burnham really will deliver us communism

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

if you oppose israel as a politician or a public figure, a lot of political operatives & mainstream publications will actively try to humiliate & make a lesson out of you. just remain steadfast and remember, no amount of manufactured outrage will wash the blood off their hands.

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

This paragraph perfectly summarises everything that is wrong with economics: paper>lived experience.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime"
https://t.co/lxF64weMUN

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

A couple examples of how British policing produces terrible outcomes for victims in ways mediated by identity. Why is the starting point here culture wars talking points instead of the reality that British policing does produce differentiated outcomes for victims (and offenders)?

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

It's sick, its hypocritical, and its naked, exploitative opportunism. The left is doing itself no favours by being silent, refusing to comment, and hiding behind the family to avoid speaking out for Henry, and against the police. Its ceding the entire ground to bad faith actors.

[Dave @MediocreDave]

It's hard to verify it, and it could just be my perception, but I truly feel like in the last five years I have seen the UK left get noticeably more reactionary; more carceral, more conspiracist, more essentialist, more opportunist, more moralistic, more superstitious.