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Politics from politicians' point of view is just game theory or something.
They all adopt similar policies because they know those policies are 'popular' -- that is, they will yield the highest vote share.
Then the #media amplify these policies to sell those ideas to even more people.
That's why other parties have adopted #Reform policies, with Reform coming out on top for being the genuine article.
Their brand of bullshit has become normalised by the media and their two tribute acts #Labour and the #Tories.
The #GreenParty hasn't done as well as I expected them to. I'm betting the Green vote share has increased, but with FPTP this hasn't delivered many more council seats.
We seriously need a left opposition. It looks like the Greens might not be the answer, but let's face it, #YourParty won't be making a dent in the next general election. Maybe if they had got their shit together sooner they might have, but not now. Not without some major political campaigning.
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The original post was clearly about rejecting the Harry Plopper franchise in solidarity with trans folk.
While I am all ready to not watch the reboot, I think it is unwise to use the popularity of the show to gauge public levels of support for trans people.
Regardless of how much people care about trans issues, I'm expecting the show to be well received and to be watched by a large audience.
There are many influences in people's lives that encourage or even manipulate them to get them to buy into corporate crap.
You will probably get a few 'I support trans people but I still love Harry Potter' types, but I think many, many people just won't be aware of the issues with Harry Potter, like they don't know the issues with Amazon, or any of the other crap services they use.
I suppose what I'm saying is, don't be disheartened if it turns out to be a success, and don't use a fictional world's fandom as a gauge for how much people care about trans people.
Having said that, it would be delicious if it completely fell flat and people rejected it.
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#DeclassifiedUK | Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby?
https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-dont-uk-media-mention-the-israel-lobby/
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You know, I'm so fast at typing that often with hashtags, I have already typed the hashtag and hit the space bar before Mastodon realises it's a hashtag, and even though I've hit the space bar, Mastodon shows me a list of possible hashtag choices and I have to continue typing or hit the space bar again to make it go away.
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Internet archive is all well and good, but when you download torrents for TV shows and suchlike, the torrents are full of padding files and other unnecessary nonsense.
I mean, at least give me something nice and tidy to download.
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#DeclassifiedUK | UK knew Nato expansion could lead to war with Russia
https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-knew-nato-expansion-could-lead-to-war-with-russia/
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#JonathanCook | Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Rajiv Menon KC: "Obviously, if you agree with the judge’s opinion, you may adopt it. But the opposite is equally true. If you don’t agree with the judge’s opinion, you may reject it. That is your right. That is your privilege, as jurors, because I repeat, you are the sole judges of the facts. Nobody, not even His Lordship, can direct you to convict in this case. So that’s what I say about criminal damage."
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People discuss how Santa is able to deliver all the present in a single night, but they don't so much consider how he can fit all the presents of a single sleigh.
And if he doesn't have a shrink ray, that would mean there is a size limit for all the gifts and you will know when a gift isn't from Santa because it is over Santa's size limit.
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Coming soon to a Britain near you:
#MarkCurtis | How frightening would Nigel Farage’s foreign policy be?
"Farage has, of course, been one of Trump’s leading supporters in the UK and has regularly campaigned and fundraised for him. 'For 10 years I have stood up and defended President Trump,' Farage told parliament proudly, earlier this year."
"After two years of Israeli slaughter in Palestine, the party recently set up a Reform Friends of Israel, mirroring similar Labour and Conservative groups."
"... the recent extraordinary case of Reform politician Nathan Gill, who was close to Farage, being imprisoned for taking bribes from Russia, has revived claims that Farage and his entourage are close to Putin and Russia."
"In this light, it’s no surprise that Reform welcomes the AUKUS military agreement between the US, Britain and Australia – widely seen as directed at China – which to Farage signals 'the Anglosphere realigning to protect liberty and freedom in the world'."
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-frightening-would-nigel-farages-foreign-policy-be/
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You know, I do love Raymond Briggs' #FatherChristmas
They show it every year. I love it for the mundanity of him going on holiday and eating food at restaurants.
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I'm watching Bottom
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#DeclassifiedUK | Gaza reveals how Britain is run, and why we must change it
"This should be a pivotal moment in British history. Our political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide.
Rather, that system has allowed the British establishment to be complicit in one of the worst horrors of our time — Israel’s two-year offensive against Palestinians, complete with ethnic cleansing, systematic attacks on schools and hospitals, and crimes against humanity."
"There is little morality in British political and economic decision-making. But this doesn’t mean the system is 'broken'; it’s working as it’s intended to."
https://www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-reveals-how-britain-is-run-and-why-we-must-change-it/
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#DeclassifiedUK | The Israeli firm aiding the NHS and IDF
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-israeli-firm-aiding-the-nhs-and-idf/
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#DeclassifiedUK | UK aware of Israel’s ‘terror’ for over 20 years
'The files, released last year, contain an extraordinary report by an unnamed senior British army officer, who wrote that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were a “second rate, ill disciplined, swaggering and bullying force”.
“They routinely use excessive force such as firing at the ‘legs’ of stone throwers or at ‘car tyres’ with the inevitable stream of ambulances ferrying youths to hospital with fatal bullet wounds to the head and body”, he wrote.
He believed the IDF “look down on the Arabs and despise them… It needs to be said that the average Israeli does not value an Arab life as equal to a Jewish one.”'
https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-aware-of-israels-terror-for-over-20-years/
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#DeclassifiedUK | How government used media to claim Iran ‘link’ to Palestine Action
' #WeBelieveInIsrael had launched a campaign to ban Palestine Action earlier in June and the Guardian noted that “language from a report it published was similar to that used by Cooper in her statement” announcing the group’s proscription.'
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-government-used-media-to-claim-iran-link-to-palestine-action/
#PalestineAction #Iran #Media #Propaganda #Gaza #Genocide #Starmer #MarkCurtis
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#DeclassifiedUK | The BBC isn’t telling the truth about Israel’s nuclear arms
"Both Israel and the US claimed their attacks, which are widely seen as illegal, were to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability.
But the irony of two nuclear armed-states attacking a non-nuclear state to prevent it acquiring such weapons appears to have been lost on the BBC."
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt-telling-the-truth-about-israels-nuclear-arms/
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Just listening to some #Beefheart
I'm kinda obsessed with this song.
It's a masterpiece.
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#DeclassifiedUK | The Empire never died
"Just as acute is the culture of intervention that still pervades the corridors of Whitehall – a mentality in officialdom of high-minded superiority that sees it as perfectly normal for Britain to send warships or aircraft to bomb foreign countries – like Yemen last month – supported by jingoistic mass media."
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#DeclassifiedUK | UK leaders have betrayed those who fought in WW2
"Once the Nazis were defeated, the postwar world established a key principle. At the Nuremberg trials in 1945/46, the German leaders who were executed were convicted primarily of waging aggressive war. As the International Military Tribunal noted, aggression “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime.”
Since 1945, British leaders have dispensed with the notion that invasions constitute such a crime.
The UK has itself deployed its military forces for combat over 80 times in 47 countries since the end of WW2. These episodes include outright invasions – notably Egypt (1956), Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003) – and interventions to remove governments that were tantamount to invasions – such as British Guiana and Iran (both in 1953), Indonesia (1957), Libya and Syria (2011)."
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You know there are some accounts that post feeble jokes then say 'Donate to my Patreon!'
And I think: Hmm, does that work? I can post meaningless shit all day!