There's no such thing as good people and bad people. Just people. Messed up irrational emotional beings trying to make the right decisions based on the information and the options available to them.
Reform and reset are synonyms.
The establishment is desperate to return to the days when they enjoyed absolute impunity over the lower orders and none of us were permitted to talk back to them.
@RoryStewartUK Can't really blame people for thinking all their problems are caused by traitors and foreigners when the political establishment has spent years pushing that message as hard as it can.
You're still doing it as well.
I see the efforts to tackle misinformation are going great on here.
This isn't a real Musk tweet - but it came up as a recommendation in my notifications.
The more desperately they try and tighten their grip the more it all falls apart.
@PipGradgrind@OfSymbols Right wing authoritarianism hasn't won. You'll never be able to eliminate dissent and criticism entirely. It doesn't matter how hard you try and smash us into the ground. We will keep coming back.
'Folk politics' is a set of myths about The People as a monolithic reactionary lump who have an inherent immutable need for hierarchy and bigotry.
It takes a lot of privilege to find it appealing.
@michaeljswalker@TobyManning@leninology The mainstream establishment view is that all critics and dissenters are evil monsters. And you're part of that. Defending your class interests.
@Thomas092468063 @Tom_Gann They seem to be claiming membership of the class of people that speaks for The People. Rather than trying to change that dynamic.
I'm mostly on Bluesky these days and it's been incredible watching the flood of people leaving this place and arriving there recently.
The right is never satisfied with winning as long as they know that someone somewhere is still disagreeing with them.
@SangitaMyska As if anyone trying to talk about this is unaware of the level of bias in mainstream media ๐
It's not a helpful tip. It's an active threat.
@DanlDq07301 I'm not a fucking liberal lol.
It's the right who are turning up there now and throwing tantrums cos they can't force everyone else to lick their arses. Both liberals and classical liberals(/conservatives).