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🦋. Left, not tribal. The words ‘woke’, ‘leftist’ and ‘virtue signalling’ get you blocked.

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@samwetherell @mehdirhasan I’m sorry, but Fuck the Far Right.
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@Acyn Should someone tell them Santa’s not real?
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@MichaelTakeMP This is because, unlike some left wing rags I could mention, the Daily Mail conducts proper investigative journalism, rather than simply trawl Twitter for random, unverified quotes.
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@charleshymas @PoliceInspForum @NotThatBigIan @CEGroupUK @FightExtremism @Telegraph @TerrorismPolice @DefeatExtremism @UK_CAGE @PoliceChiefs @the_police_fdn Ok, well I think Britain is being turned into a nasty, authoritarian little failing state by intolerant right wingers. Is someone going to refer me to Prevent now?
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@NatConTalk @DouglasKMurray I’m not sure that ‘you can trust our nationalism because it’s better than all those nasty foreign nationalisms’ is quite the reassuring line that you think it is.
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@billybassett68 @MichaelTakeMP Oh Simon, Dear dear Simon, just try to remember this is a parody reply to a parody account.
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@DashDobrofsky Nasty little man with a nasty little temper.
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@jessicaelgot @PaulBrandITV Even if the Met have seen it and even if, by some unfathomable logic, they have determined the PM was not himself breaking the rules, where does that leave the PM’s claim that no rules were broken? He can no longer claim ignorance.
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@RotaryCup @AOC Changing the subject seems to be a favourite right wing pastime at the moment. I wonder why.
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@mikegalsworthy @NadineDorries An apt commentary on the last 12 years of Tory rule. Try again.
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@atrupar I’m sure I read somewhere that they have ways of making people turn up in court even when they don’t feel like it.
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@PJTheEconomist @GuardianHeather If it can no longer raise people’s living standards, then what does free market capitalism have left left to offer in return for obscene inequality, environmental destruction and failing public services?
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@UrbanAchievr @davidfrum Even if his judgment were correct (which it obviously isn’t) what kind of president would admit in public that he didn’t trust his own intelligence services?
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@DMinghella I’ve never understood how they can experience ‘a higher volume of calls than usual’ every day.
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@RonFilipkowski I’m not sure locking himself in a dark room and talking to himself is the election winner he thinks it is.
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@1tenthAngel @elonmusk Rascists have a problem with dark ones.
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@ByronYork Interesting theory but he still tried to pay off a porn star to deceive the voters.
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@Linda71082464 @DashDobrofsky Typical of all fascists.
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@crystalandqueue @TheChiefNerd @joerogan The claims linking vaccines to autism have all been comprehensively disproved. Vaccines have saved millions of lives.
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@CeliaRichards0n @Otto_English It reminds that these are not just innocent eccentrics having a moan. They are part of co-ordinated, well funded, well organised movement that goes far wider than the NT. They don’t give up. Repeating the same lies over and over again is a calculated part of the strategy.
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@THR And they aren’t ‘blackmailing’ him. They’re just trying to protect their brand.
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@meiselasb @MeidasTouch We are not in a normal political discourse here. He’s the enemy. Any weapon available should be used, including - especially - ridicule and humiliation.
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@atrupar Billionaire media owners are actively destroying democracy.
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@SaulStaniforth @SamanthaAsumadu @schneiderhome And he rather neglects the fact that many basic rights at work were won by unions but have since been extended to millions of workers, union and non union alike.
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@JMPSimor It was foretold
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@JolyonMaugham There needs to be criminal accountability for all of these PPE scandals. This Tory govt has been a kleptocracy, treating public money as if it was their own and the state as a tool to enrich themselves.
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@stephenpollard @davidfrum It’s convenient for you to dismiss support for Palestine as a ‘carnival of hate’ as it absolves you from having to address their claim to statehood or to acknowledge the complicit nature of the Israeli govt. There’ll be no peace while each side tries to delegitimise the other.
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@OurShallowState His pause may or may not be noteworthy - I remain to be convinced - but surely it shouldn’t be too much to ask that the press at least applies the same standards to Trump as they do to Biden.
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@MuellerSheWrote Biden may be old and he may have some more bad days to come, but this whole ‘replace Biden’ thing looks more and more like a Murdoch inspired media storm to me.
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@D_Blanchflower @trussliz At least when there were Sterling crises under Labour it’s was because they were trying to spend money on public services that people need. Truss has done it just to give tax cuts to people who are already stinking rich. It’s beyond belief.
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@JMPSimor And even if any of them were ‘false footballers’, they were still young women escaping a horrendous regime. Why would that be a cause for criticism?
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@ollysmithtravel @Otto_English They should be made to pay for it to be rebuilt exactly as it was before - and then sent to jail for arson and insurance fraud.
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@carolvorders @JeremyClarkson Apparently we can only be disgusted by one thing at a time. I choose Jeremy Clarkson.
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@Networkinvegas Please explain the motive for pretending COVID is worse than it really is? They want everyone to be locked up at home? They would like to crash the economy? I’m puzzled.
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@OurShallowState I don’t think people have even begun to price in the impact of a criminal trial on the public attitude towards him. Just seeing him sitting in the dock will send jaws dropping, never mind a possible guilty verdict and sentencing at the end of it all.
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@StayinMountains @Politics_Polls @ActiVoteUS A very informative take. I’m particularly impressed with the way you’ve backed it up with evidence and data.
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@MrHarryCole @lukemcgee Another day, another sign of stinking, rotten, corruption, running from the top to bottom of government.
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@AntiToxicPeople This is not just the tweet of someone who can’t write. It’s the tweet of someone who is unable to organise their thoughts.
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@justin_hart @MuellerSheWrote @Timcast @bennyjohnson @RubinReport They are terrified. ‘Don’t talk to law enforcement without a lawyer’, ‘Don’t talk to the Feds’, ‘Be careful who you email’. Why would they say any of that, if they didn’t all know they were guilty as hell and about to be exposed?
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@boxingbrief @mrjamesob Of course, because a wealthy, Eton educated prime minister with the full backing of most of the UK media is really vulnerable to bullying.
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@IanDunt Chilling and yet, even while they try to bypass the sovereign elected body, they still claim to be enacting the will of the people. Smells very like fascism even if they haven’t got there yet.
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@Dominic2306 A couple of tips for you: 1) Constantly using the term ‘NPCs’ makes you sound like an arrogant prick 2) If you post in English (instead of whatever the fuck that is) it will be easier for your followers to understand you.
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@MuellerSheWrote @AntiToxicPeople @glennkirschner2 @MeidasTouch He should be locked up. Not just for a day or two as a slap on the wrist, but until the trial is over.
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@brokenbottleboy The Met clearly don’t think their reputation has sunk far enough, but they’ve working hard to rectify that today.
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@Dominic2306 You’ve done enough damage for one lifetime. We don’t want to hear from you any more.
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@AinsworthKeith @RCamposDuffy @LinseyDavis Actually that’s untrue. What happens is that MAGA don’t know how to lose and then claim that everything rigged. Try and be an adult.
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@MrHarryCole @Femi_Sorry Ah yes. It’s such a laugh this Brexit thing, isn’t it? Have you been bantering like this with the farmers too? Or the small business owners? Or the fishermen? Or the lorry drivers? Or the care home residents?
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@OurShallowState It would also not be hyperbole to call him the worst, most morally corrupt human being ever to stand for the presidency.
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@SpiroAgnewGhost I wonder if it ever occurs to any of his cult followers that when they actually look out of the window they can see with their eyes that nothing of the sort is going on around them.
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@Stealthfs @GNev2 They did nothing of the sort. Not even remotely similar.
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@Sandancer1977 @GNev2 No one tried to overturn it. They wanted a second referendum to agree what kind of Brexit it would be and there’s an awful of Leavers too who now wish they’d been successful.
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@scook2003 @mrjamesob They love describing the British, and by extension themselves, as firm, calm, dignified etc etc, whereas in reality they are bunch of lying, morally bankrupt fanatics.
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@kyledcheney Show me a far right politician and I’ll show you a rapist, or a paedophile.
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@JMPSimor Where was the bit in their 2019 manifesto that they would fundamentally change the relationship between the government and the courts?
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@Femi_Sorry That’s not bias. That’s deliberate deceit.
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@katfan4eva @jimmy_wales He said he was a ‘free speech absolutist’. Turns out his absolutism is the conditional kind.
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@AvaSantina Why aren’t youths allowed to spend time in parks? Everyone else is.
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@Trickyjabs @RhonddaBryant @LBC Is that really what’s *most* upsetting you right now?
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@JonathanPieNews That’s right, and there was nothing much they could have done about walking away from our closest trading partners, removing our rights to protest and to vote, allowing our public services to collapse or poisoning our rivers and coastline. It’s just been that sort of a decade.
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@itvpeston @jessphillips She’s spot on. The Tories have decided that they can’t conduct politics without stirring up hatred or turning one group against another. They really seem not to care about the consequences, which will be felt for a long time after they’ve gone.
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@PpollingNumbers @MeidasTouch I’m getting a faint smell of MAGA panic in these comments.
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@amyspitalnick @mehdirhasan Serious question - why do witnesses have treat her with an even ounce of respect or politeness when confronted with aggression and rudeness like that?
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@FraserNelson No we really aren’t. They remain a proto-fascist, intolerant, authoritarian movement that spreads lies and threatens violence as a matter of course. We are not MAGA. We are the very opposite.
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@lisaocarroll Good grief! Is that their considered response to the cost of living crisis? The sum total of what they’ve got to offer us?
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@Otto_English People seem to be treating it with mild amusement. I don’t think it’s amusing at all. It’s deeply sinister and pernicious. It’s obscene that one of our ‘mainstream’ political parties should be circulating filth like this and bodes very badly for the general election.
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@sturdyAlex In what alternative universe do screenshots magically change the time shown on the tweet itself to the time of the screenshot? This excuse is even flimsier than the original one about the gif. She’s just another right winger who has a difficult relationship with the truth.
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@EladNehorai @mehdirhasan It’s taken just a few short years for this type of comment to go from being completely taboo to entering the mainstream of public discussion. We are in a lot of trouble.
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@JerryYIMBY @thehistoryguy I don’t know who ‘we’ is in your case, but you’d better cling on to each other as you’re a rapidly diminishing number.
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@LouisJMarinelli @RepMTG Just going to leave this here. No particular reason.
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@D_Blanchflower No. You’ve actually been quite charitable. They have actually sought to harm ordinary working people and are an active danger to our health, safety and wellbeing.
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@D_Blanchflower They spend decades hacking away at employment rights and wages, making work an exhausting, soul destroying experience for many and then expect people to come running back into the jobs market to get them out of a hole. I don’t think so.
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@jessicaelgot @rowenamason “…management appeared to be worried about losing access to politicians and briefings from No 10 if they crossed the Downing Street operation.” Perhaps they should have thought about doing some journalism instead.
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@RonFilipkowski Said the man who deliberately appointed anti-abortion fanatics to the Supreme Court.
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@MarkJacob16 Turns out that in the one election that he apparently won (on paper anyway), he cheated. And still didn’t win the popular vote. Electoral poison.
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@Otto_English @RestoreTrustNT Weird for such an active, grass roots organisation with such obvious links to the wider community to go silent like that almost overnight.
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@JamesJWYork @tompeck They’ve openly said they intend to deprive a whole category of people of their human rights. How is that not at least vaguely reminiscent of fascist rhetoric? People have been saying ‘don’t use the F word’ for so long, they forgot that you are supposed to say it when you see it.
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@D_Blanchflower No wonder Labour always get accused of spending too much. Fixing the kind of wreckage the Tories invariably leave behind them doesn’t come cheap.
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@robfordmancs @GuardianHeather My joy is tempered by the thought of how much uglier and hateful our politics would become with even a handful of Reform MPs sitting in parliament.
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@KateEMcCann @mrjamesob @StigAbell @TimesRadio The reason so many of these inadequates reach the top of the Tory party, where they then fail abysmally, is because they are promoted and shielded from all normal scrutiny by our right wing client media until it’s too late.
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@UltraMagaThreat @StormyDaniels I see we’ve got a proper old fashioned gentleman here.
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@TrumpDailyPosts @RonFilipkowski Hello. Let me try and spell this out for you. They. Are. Not. Scientific. Polls. Hope that helps.
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@MeidasTouch In a properly functioning democracy Fox would not even have a broadcasting licence. Not as a ‘news’ channel anyway.
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@DavidGHFrost @SamCoatesSky @estwebber I would politely suggest that you should be disqualified from speaking on the subject of trust, ever again.
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@meiselasb @Acyn People are getting tired of relentless hatred and nastiness.
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@JKash000 @Acyn Is there any MAGA anywhere that can tell the truth? MGT is a foul mouthed, racist bully. She tried it on Jasmine and Jasmine taught the bully a much needed lesson.
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@rolandmcs And it’s all the fault of the Left, despite not being in power for most of the last 40 years. I suppose admitting that the ideology that you’ve parroted unquestioningly your whole life is an abject failure is a little hard.
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@James7Holland @BBCNewsnight You want people with absolutely no views on Brexit or just those in favour?
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@BeccaMeadowsNCM @Beltrew @maybulman If you ever needed to see ‘the banality of evil’ personified, then look no further than Priti Patel.
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@MuellerSheWrote Really quite a disturbing photo.
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@mrjamesob I think it didn’t quite go according to plan. She was hoping there would be clashes between the marchers and the far right thugs which she could blame on the marchers. Instead her rent a mob have kicked off at the cenotaph all by themselves. Not a good look.
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@Bubblebathgirl @JoeBiden They didn’t cheat. We know that because, despite all the cry baby whining and moaning, not a single shred of credible evidence has *ever* been presented and the claims were kicked out in 60 separate court cases. You need to find another way to cope now.
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@Otto_English How is this channel still allowed to broadcast? What does OFCOM actually do?
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@ChrisLe00857089 @AyoCaesar I think you just proved Ash’s point.
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@Shayan86 @akhmxt Yeah always makes a lot of sense to bring your body double with you to public appearances.
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@RichardJMurphy He helped ignite the Tory zeal for tax cutting and now, a few decades later, our infrastructure is collapsing and our public services barely functional. Anyone see a connection?
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@realbritainros @mrjamesob You can either be a unfiying, rational government or you can have Suella Braverman in the cabinet, but you can’t do both.
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@markjenkinsonmp @UKLabour Umm… it’s not a vision of anything. It’s a description of today’s Tory Britain. So are the lorry queues, the food banks, the ambulances outside A&E, the cancelled flights, the collapsing pound…
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@gtconway3d Trump’s appointments have tainted the US judicial system with corruption from top to bottom.
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@ProfRayWills God help us when we start to feel a twinge of nostalgia for Margaret Thatcher.
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@Miss_Snuffy @sturdyAlex Why on earth do you think we needed Jess Phillips to tell us that your tweet was a disgrace?
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