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[Tom Pride1648 @pride1648]

@DavidofEnglish Why not consider the effect that immigration from Ireland had in major Scottish cities?

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@inthecountry72 @AllisonPearson Other than Ann's nephew, who is this "family" you talk about?
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[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

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[Tom Pride1648 @pride1648]

@DPJHodges And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.
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[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:

Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie

Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.

This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.

Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.

The Words We’re Missing

The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.

These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.

And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.

The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism

What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.

That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.

This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.

The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.

Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It

People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.

The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.

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[Tom Pride1648 @pride1648]

@DPJHodges The hope not hate advisor applying the manual:
"That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. . .

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@SueHalstead11 @SBarrettBar Temporarily otherwise engaged as he turned his venom on Starmer in order to get Burnham in to save Labour. Now back to normal.

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@StephenBigBut @narindertweets @Keir_Starmer The French call it Mers-el-Kébir. Starmmer just thinks it's being friendly.

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@StealthQE4 After 2 episodes you go back for more? What is it about explosive diarrhoea that you like ?

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@LozzaFox The Streisand effect - sort of.

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@SBarrettBar Odd. All these years to realise the Birthday of England and the Battle of the Boyne are the same day.

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@narindertweets @policylaila What do you think when you open the covers of a book?

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@Edwina_Currie No, no no.That's the problem with youblind Tories. You can't see the changes which youlet happen. There is anew establishment notbased on your pathetically outdated ideas of class. It's Starmer, Hermer, lady Hale, those Chief Constables who wrote the procedures that let Nowak die

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@KTHopkins @DC_Police @DC_PCC Completely lost on this one, dear. Don't get this Shag a Banana stuff. What you on about?

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@BurnsideWasTosh Falklands followed by Gib? A lot at stake here.

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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Yes. Just in time to have the UK government pay it off. Also notice the Freudian Slip by Crick? Extremist views. Not qqfunny after Ann. You're a good man but the way things are moving, the way the Left are behaving, this might be times for hard men.

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@_SeanOGrady @DavidGauke The PM who advanced Barwell? Who made the crazy commitments to net zero? Who went to country and almost lost her majority? The nasty party? Who tried a deceitful Brexit deal which was not Brexit? Her stupid modern slavery claptrap? The sooner she's gone the better.

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@AndrewBoff @LusbyNigel My righ as an individual to expect my Government to protect the borders of the country and to determine who should enter.

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@toadmeister Brilliant move then! As PM he pays it off by taxes on the South.

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@SBarrettBar It's a wonder is hasn't toyed with the idea that it was a Reform set up. Or, maybe he has and is just waiting his time.

[Tom Pride1648 @pride1648]

@Mike_Fabricant It was Barwell's behaviour in this debate that was the final confirmation for me. Obnoxious. And Mercer was not much better. Phone gazing and so dismissive. Just a start.https://t.co/7BNhuGKeBs

[Tom Pride1648 @pride1648]

@DanielJHannan And what good has that done us? Crimea, two world wars and now deliberately allowing an invasion of England. If they were true friends they would allow immediate same day returns like they do for Jersey and Guernsey. But no, their elites hate us. Sentimental clap trap, Daniel.