General rule: Any time you are offered a “surprisingly simple solution” to a longstanding societal issue you can be pretty damn sure it’s going to be nonsense.
please stop making them into genders please I am begging we don't need to make them genders they can just be descriptors of sexual preferences they don't have to be genders they really don't we don't need to do gender again please
you're 19 years old, you're at a party, your mate was born in December 2008 and you were born in January 2009, your mate lights up a cig in front of you and goes "do you want one mate, oh wait" everyone starts laughing at you
if you want to get the bus from my mums house you have to call the bus company hours in advance and request that they change the route to go past the stop
The "poor people don't drive" narrative is such a London bubble thing.
The pink areas on this map are where people use public transport more than driving.
🚨 JORDAN HENDERSON SPEAKS 🚨
◾️ “Did not feel wanted” at Liverpool
◾️ Saudi move “not money motivated”
◾️ “Sorry” for LGBTQ+ hurt
◾️ Wants to “respect religion/culture”
◾️ Feels can make “positive change”
🤝 W/
@AdamCrafton_
@TheAthleticFC
#SPL
#LFC
#ENG
anyone else: the uk sucks and is full of losers
me: lmao yeh we fucking suck
Americans: the uk sucks and is full of losers
me: fucking yank never speak in public again
"no you can't just fundamentally alter the economic landscape by banning a bad thing, it's never that simple" there are so many examples in relatively recent history of society doing that and it being fine and in fact good
liberal hegemony is crazy man like none of this is true but every 20 year old twink who thinks they're smarter than they are comes up with this take organically. it's like everything becoming crabs
Trans acceptance has stagnated or reversed in polling.
Gays fought with “we’re normal, just like you” and *won*. Compared to that, 🏳️⚧️ has really awful PR. A tactical retreat towards “we just want to assimilate” and away from, you know, pronoun circles would be good, I think
@jamesrbuk
I think the solution to landlords rinsing everyone for 50% of their paychecks is to ban landlords, I don't think that's surprising I think it's awkward for you politically, which is different to it being surprising
if you are the only customer left at somewhere with service workers, it is your solemn duty to leave and apologise the moment you realize you are extending their shift
"at least the SS weren't muslims" probably is the most succinct summation of far right opinion in this country. absolutely abhorrent and the jewish chronicle running it is obscene
🚨 Placards ripped up and banners snatched away, as peaceful supporters of Just Stop Oil face aggression this morning.
🛢️ We march in civil resistance against our genocidal government. If our government halted all new oil, gas and coal licences, we wouldn't have to do this.
pitiful seeing wannabe edgelords saying "no one has heard of Frankie Boyle" he was your king and now you pretend you've never heard of him for the guy from the office. pathetic
Galloway is like a kind of vengeful folk devil of british politics, a malevolent figure who appears when the moral vacuum is so great that he can rise again to tenuously try to claim the high ground
"the greens aren't a viable left vehicle because they aren't socialist and don't have a strong connection to the rank and file of the british labour movement"
so true, relatedly, I have some bad news for you about the contemporary labour party
cogent and sharp or not biden funded the genocide in gaza and the suffering of palestinians. tahseens house has been completely destroyed. if you can, please donate to help him and his family escape the hell that bidens policies have wrought.
Keir Starmer is asked about recent protests in the UK.
"... we've lost parliamentary colleagues in the past, and so this isn't just some idle discussion. It is a very serious issue"
Sorry if you had JK Rowling money you could legit like, make sure no kid ever went hungry in Scotland or something, must be a hell of a psychological toll to know that you could do that and are instead choosing to make life worse for trans people
when did the media become incapable of directly calling nazis from ukraine nazis. it does not seem impossible to oppose a revanchist war and also recognise the existence of nazis in ukraine both historically and now. why does everyone have a baby brain
The British left: a new tech solution that is made up of proprietary solutions rather than open source is going to lock the nhs into expensive private contracts in perpetuity and expose data to a company run by peter thiel
you: omg it's so stupid to oppose progress
@natashaloder
The British left: the NHS is under immense pressure please someone help
The NHS: okay we’re adopting new technology that doctors have been calling for for years which will make their jobs easier and improve patient outcomes
The British left: no not like that
sorry so the labour party position is that Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott are behind the pale to be in the party but the opportunistic dregs of the party that's looted the country and incited hate are welcome recruits
my hot take is i don’t think anybody should be dating until their shit is together. eating healthy, working out regularly, having a morning routine, a spiritual practice, a therapist, financial discipline. things like that have to come first.
I feel like sometimes you lot need reminding that other people aren't just resources to be mined for content, they are fully other human beings as well
I am begging people who are tagging Olly Alexander asking him to withdraw, to come offline for 2mins and think about how the real world works.
Can’t just say to one of the biggest b’casters globally, and your top label “I don’t wanna do that now actually” and walk away Scot free
there's a non negligible portion of people in the UK who see a Muslim on TV and start frantically searching for any tenuous reason to call them antisemitic. most of the people who've developed this habit are not jewish
the trick here is that a whole generation of people were raised on warm and fuzzies about society trending towards acceptance and marriage as the culmination, rather than the actual reality of what gay marriage meant politically both internally and externally to ThE CoMmUnItY
The greatest tragedy in life is to be 125-135 IQ: Smart enough to see what you’re missing, but not smart enough to grasp that which is just out of reach.
Who benefits from this? Honestly, imo nobody!
Landlords will sell up and the number of properties on the market will decrease. The number of empty properties will also increase. Personally, I’d rather leave the place empty.
Conservatives are now an Anti-landlord party 👎🏾
parents of a 20 year old sending a story to the sun directly against their explicit wishes and in the face of their outright denial of the story is fucking gross isn't it
I genuinely would love these types to explain to me, explicitly, without reverting to second order arguments, the value of listening to someone saying things that I know aren't true in service of values utterly opposite to my own
"Warning, in a general election campaign you 𝘢𝘳𝘦 going to hear from political figures that you don't like."
@lewis_goodall
and
@jonsopel
on a journalist's job to scrutinise all viewpoints to help people form a judgement.
👉
begging people to stop doing ridiculous fucking threads about this instead of talking about settler colonialism as a structure and settler as a social position
@Georgeoftheday1
they dropped the service from every half hour to every 2, then people stopped using it and they instituted this because of "lack of demand"
British politics has whipped right so fast that "Sadiq Khan is way to the right of the labour leader, to the extent hes in conflict with him" and "Sadiq Khan is way to the left of the labour leader, to the extent hes in conflict with him" have both been true over a 5 year period
New - Starmer to come out against any more ULEZ zones while cost of living crisis hitting families, part of wider effort to blunt pre-election Tory attacks. “You want to make the target for your opponent as small as possible — that’s what we are doing.”
"ULEZ is not as good as the left thinks" thats right, instead of ULEZ there should be an outright ban on cars in London except for people with valid permits (disability, necessity for work, etc etc)
I love when yanis does the media rounds cos everything in UK media is so surface level the stuff he's wrong about never comes up and you just get to enjoy his vibe
I dunno man we had 45 year old men chasing 18 year olds calling them antisemites simply for canvassing for corbyns labour and this lot were absolutely buzzing about that. I don't think they actually care that someone was posted to twitter
look if the tories start saying they'll sell off the land for HS2 and you are 20 points ahead (wahey!) you can just say "we will re-seize any land for HS2 that is resold upon election" and then no one will buy that land
no because the comics lady is so right to be mad. the looming possibility that one of the NATO twink accounts decides to demand you be accountable to them is the scariest part of post lockdown twitter
Wes Streeting has decided to ensure more deaths of children. This is a policy decision he has made because he thinks it will get him short term political gain.
the dregs of a dying corbynism in opposition, and McDonnell's COVID white paper specifically, were a substantial part of the reason we got furlough when we did. don't fucking tell me he would have been worse
if you're 25-30 and your main circle isn't discussing:
- building a secret network of tunnels
- how to hide your tunnel network
- who to trust with access into your tunnels
- how to smoothly escape the tunnels through a hole in a grate
then it's time to evaluate your circle
turns out that if you campaign against a genocide without having the baggage of being George Galloway, you can win seats outside of by-elections, maybe we should keep trying people who aren't George Galloway
he's clearly talking about the fact we are seeing death numbers normally associated with a year of a conflict over the course of a month, I don't know why people are pretending this is a ridiculous claim
“We are witnessing a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since I have been Secretary General”- UN chief
@antonioguterres
After seeing everything on the news, I decided to go and see for myself what is happening at UCLA. I went in with the intention of having honest conversations to try and truly understand each others pain and suffering . However, no one would speak to me . The only thing they
Britain has so much potential to grow.
But we are falling behind on the global stage, while mortgages, food and energy costs all go up and up.
What Britain needs to see today are fairer choices for working people.
And a proper plan for growth.
That is what Labour will bring.
"His values are like our rivers, which bend into the folds of a landscape."
Starmer biographer Tom Baldwin explains to
@amolrajan
and
@bbcnickrobinson
why the Labour leader's values can’t be easily defined.
🎙️ The Today Podcast - What does Keir Starmer really believe in? ⤵️
>"Do you think Napoleon was historically progressive?"
>"Hell Yeah!"
>"Do you think he was effectively historically progressive when trying to crush the Haitian revolution and reinstate slavery"
"average podcaster responsible for 3 deaths" factoid actualy (sic) statistical error. Social Murder Georg who was responsible for austerity and caused 350'000 deaths was an outlier adn should not have been counted
slashing up the painting of a colonial administrator dickhead is good, completely uncomplicatedly good. this country is incapable of having the relationship with its past that is morally necessary
figure here was reached in half by the value of a property that was bought for £4k and is now worth £1.3m. The level of inflation of house prices is absolutely ridiculous and going with "lol hypocritical communists" is A Choice
As Lizz Truss reflects on what went wrong, it’s worth noting the mini-budget wasn’t just an economic miscalculation, it was a big political misstep too.
She positioned the party *way* to the right of not only the average British voter, but also the vast majority of Tory voters.
fundamentally like, when you listen to this (don't it's awful) you can tell this is not something she's doing to improve the welfare of men, or indeed to make men less harmful in society, it's an exercise in like weird fucking self-aggrandizement
How easily does your husband or son open up? 🫶
After years of empowering women and girls,
@caitlinmoran
is now asking us to think about the men and boys, suggesting they actually might have it harder these days...
#Lorraine