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A.V. Deggar
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The Fourth Estate should not be the Fifth Column. Some analysis on @bylinetimes.bsky.social linktr.ee/avdeggar
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 16h
That would be par for the course.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 16h
But with the AI bubble set to go boom, possibly on his watch, and having bet the house and donkey sanctuary on force-feeding the British public with digital magic beans, even the post-politics big tech boondoggle is a gamble now.

OH WELL.
Syyarmer wants to mainline AI into the British public
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 16h
It's gotta suck sofa-sized ass, but for Sir Keir it's now just a question of riding out the ignominy and humiliation rituals until you can take that senior advisor role in big tech.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 16h
The pangs of realisation that although big global events and standing next to whoever the US president is at the time, is why you are in politics, but you'll always just be a peon on the world stage and this downward-pointing line at home.
Starmer popularity nosedive
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 17h
How it started -> How it's going
Starmer elated Starmer dejected
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 17h
Del Bosque OOOF.gif
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d
To remind everyone that the genocide in Gaza was most definitely a bipartisan endeavour from the US perspective, here's somebody from Joe Biden's Pentagon who went on to work for the PR org representing the mercenary extermination crew.
The Gaza genocide is a bipartisan effort
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d
One of the most despicable organs of this entire extermination.

Joining the GHF, you were doing so to shoot innocent people with the smallest possible chance of retaliation—because they were kettled into pens & starving to death.

An act of demonic cruelty for which nobody will ever face justice.
GHF is disbanded. Nobody will ever face justice.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d
No, she's there, a tagless vertical line.
The Truss Line
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d
Btw to all those saying that Mary Elizabeth Truss doesn't feature on this timeline—here she is.

A vertical line there for such a short amount of time that marking it with a name would fuck up the rest of the graphic.
Mary Elizabeth Truss in the orange ovoid.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d
Everything is America Now latest
Unis will have their funding cut because of protests
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d
It's almost as bad as Truss's straight line down FFS
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d
The only one that breaks into the Detestables Club is Thatcher—the most destructive, twisted psychopath in the chart and the OG wrecker that napalmed and Agent Oranged the current political landscape into existence. This is not good company to be in.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d
The biggest takeaway from this graph is that six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we've had*

Does this look like the politics of a functional democracy?
Six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we have had*
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d
To be clear, the Labour Party under the learnèd Sir Keir & the Cork Richelieu are triangulating towards Reform's far right positions & not in the direction of their progressive base, because Reform & the Labour Right *broadly share the same values*.

Any Leftward turn would be anathema to them.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d
Too right
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d
As far as I've seen, there is absolutely zero evidence to believe in mass Labour to Reform defection. ZERO.

The Reform vote is coming from the total annihilation of the Tories, & their general election win will be bolstered by Labour voters opting for the couch vs. the polling station in disgust.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d
John is a very well remunerated Professional Opiner, a stalwart of the British Scrivener Class.

McSweeney is the Éminence Ginge behind the Forensic Throne, the architect of the Starmer landslide.

Wonderful exposition here of the maleficent cluelessness of both parts of our ruling pol-hackistoracy.
Labour, despite all the evidence, pandering to potential Reform defectors
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 4d
Cowardly, simpering toadies, eager for eye contact and a pat on the bonce from the Mad Orange Monarch. An international embarrassment.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 4d
Loads of Europeans eye-rolling and throwing their hands up in exhausation about Trump throwing his toys out of the pram over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Gee, I wonder where he got the idea he should be kowtowed to by everyone, always?
European leaders kowtowing to Trump Head of NATO calls Trump "Daddy" Starmer picks up Trump's trash
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 4d
Well, maybe not wife. Perhaps our noble reporter and Dick Tice would prefer to continue "living in sin", whilst simultaneously whining about the loss of Western, Christian values in today's society. That'd fit.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 4d
Decollectivising ants would be the crowning achievement of Von Hayek and Von Mises
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 4d
This bilious malefactor's weekly dose of thinly veiled race hate, spewed from an air-conditioned condo in the UAE.

A reminder that she is likely to be moving into 11 Downing Street as the wife of the future Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Oakeshott again with the thinly veiled race hate
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 4d
Yeah I was going for the whole ants things, but realise that's far too heroic
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 4d
It's been about 2 months since the scrivener class started catching up with @edzitron.com & calling out AI as digital snake oil.

The racket might've been rumbled, but the only big money left out there for political retirees is banking or big tech, & that's the bottom line

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · Aug 20
So, the hacks have realised in sync that AI is just plug‑in magic beans.

What could this mean for wildly unpopular political leaders who've staked their heretofore failing growth plans on the promise of planting a wildly expensive magic bean forest?
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