Sweary. He/Him. Green Party's #RevolutionaryDadJokeCaucus . May contain traces of #mcfc. Literal granddad and yes I have had the same profile pic for 20 years.
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After around 40 years as a stalwart Groucho Marxist (Any party that would have me as a member I wouldn't want to join), I have today relented and joined @TheGreenParty.
Watched the new episodes of the LOTR #RingsOfPower last night & there’s a line in it where Lord Sauron says something like “Evil? There is no such thing as evil. There is only power, the power to bend others’ will to our own.”
Pretty solid anarchist POV, for the record.
If only Hannah Arendt had made some helpful observations about the nature of “evil”, at the administrative level
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For anyone who doesn't know about Britain, basically there's an openly pro-paedophile publication and it hosts annual parties for all the top politicians and journalists
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Anyone, *anyone* who uses the term "suicidal empathy" sincerely is a fascist, and should be treated as such, without exception.
'Some will contribute. But categorically some will not, and they will bring with them a very radical vendetta against groups already living peacefully in this country.'
Noa Hoffman explains suicidal empathy, and why she thinks Labour MPs will never accept the term.
Watch in full | youtu.be/7BPcuAOUWbc
@hoffman_noa @GadSaad
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Unfortunately, scientific consensus still around.
Andy Burnham tells COP31 summit that climate consensus has "gone" but pledges new era of "leadership" bbc.in/3Vm2YEI
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Low ambition here, should’ve held out for a post as a Tory councillor or an antiracism adviser
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Well said by @Thelma_DWalker.
@TheGreenParty punch like they've got 72 MPs, while @LibDems act like they've got 6.
And that tells you everything about the state of British politics.
The Greens are standing up for what actually matters. Climate justice. Peace. Human rights. Tackling obscene wealth inequality. Rebuilding our public services. And challenging an economic system that puts private wealth ahead of public good.
Maybe instead of asking Greens to defect, they should be asking themselves why the Greens are increasingly becoming the voice of genuine opposition.
We don't need more of the same politics in different colours.
We need fundamental change.
Join The Green Party:
join.greenparty.org.uk/
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It’s only getting started
When will it stop:
BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 69, appears in court charged with sex offences against teen girls.
mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-n…
People will hate me saying this, but if Pep is interested this is actually a really good fit. He loves US sporting culture, it's a talented squad that doesn't have a fixed footballing culture, so he could mould it to his vision.
🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: The US Soccer Federation wants Pep Guardiola to become the next USMNT head coach. 🇺🇸😯
[ via @TheAthletic ]
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Wow, so the people who had free education, steady employment, secure housing and a fully functional NHS were healthier in their 50s than the people who grew up immediately after all those things were abolished? Colour me astonished.
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“it’s illegal to be disabled until you’re 25” sounds like a mad Restore policy, but somehow they’ve attributed it to the Labour Party?
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There's always a quote and sometimes there's a video...
Props to @Unitedpplus for the compilation.
This isn't a dig at McCartney, but from a music history POV, that song was almost certainly not recounting a true story, it was borrowing really common tropes from Rock N Roll songs of the era: Sweet Little Sixteen; 16 Candles; Only 16; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl; etc etc.
