I used to think that "not being transphobic" was a weird hack to find reasonable people, until I realised that Transphobia was just a Conspiracy Theory. It's not easy to reason with people who believe in Flat Earth either, but one of those ideas has traction with elites, so.
This is mental.
It is completely and utterly mental.
This should literally be illegal.
It is not unreasonable to ban politicians from being broadcast journalists FFS
.@ZackPolanski: "Andy Burnham.. needs to explain to communities their bins won't be collected, social services will collapse, libraries will be closed, because he's more worried about defending the genocide he's arming than working with Green councillors"
Well said Zack.
.@ZackPolanski "I support everyones right to self determination but not at the expense of another group because thats racist"
Spot on. If self-determination requires the dispossession/displacement of another people its not self determination, its ethnic cleansing/colonisation
Under Polanski, the Greens now have:
🟢 1,295 seats (+441) on local councils
🟢 Majority control of 6 councils (+5)
🟢 2 elected Mayors (+2)
🟢 2 seats in the Senedd (+2)
🟢 Estimated local election vote of 18% (+7)
All of these = their best results EVER in each category.
"Do you think Israel has a right to exist?"
@ZackPolanski is spot on. No state has a right to exist. Did Rhodesia? Does the UK?
And this was🎯"The status quo right now is a one state apartheid state where Palestinians do not have the same freedom as Israelis, & that's racist"
I think it's notable just how many regressive causes are like this - absolutely not-reasonable hard-liners - and absolutely dog-walk moderate/undecideds because the things they ask for are small focused changes to the status quo. Evil can wait for their ultimate aim.
I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to discussing the "Gender Critical" mob because I believe that facts are much more useful, so it is important to be clear: a lot of TERFs are just straight up genocidal fanatics. Warped, dangerous people for whom hate has become an obsession
Can we agree that that Zionism is Racism, in exposing that Labour has not changed on Palestine, and is willing to do everything to defend the genocide — including defaming thousands as “antisemites” — was a genius motion that completely exposed Burnham as no different to Starmer.
All of the “serious warfighters” who were clapping like seals now that “politics wasn’t going to interfere with the military” are silent now that the US is fighting the most openly political war in its history, with strikes ordered and canceled depending on polls from Texas
@Barnes_Joe@Telegraph 14/ As a result, Trump and Musk between them have effectively wrecked trust in US defence exports. They've shown how US military equipment can be weaponised in the most dramatic way possible, with complete disregard for the consequent loss of life.
@Barnes_Joe@Telegraph 9/ What Musk has demonstrated is that the Starlink kill switch is real, that he personally controls it, and that he's willing to use it for purely personal reasons, against the interests of his own company and country. This is utterly disastrous for SpaceX's credibility.
Every few years Elon unveils a new Mechanical Turk and I have to listen to the stupidest marks on planet earth incredulously demand that other people be suckers too lest they kill the fun
Most people roughly around 40 or younger have seen living standards get worse for their entire adult lives. Now the ruling class that inflicted that on them is badgering them to take part in World War III and wondering why there's no enthusiasm https://t.co/F2keUDhNWh