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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 1m

True, but I hate the way our politicians represent this as the only solution when it would only present a very temporary change. A lot of the value of houses is based on what landlords are prepared to pay for them, and they'll quickly smash prices into the ceiling again unless there's a firm stop.

Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 1h

And heavy, heavy controls on rents, not to merely cap but to bring them down. House prices will follow consequently, and it would reduce the "benefit burden" they love to talk about in a way that actually makes people's lives better.

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 20h

"Founders of antifascism" *does not* include racist imperialists like Winston Churchill. The original antifascists were primarily anarchists, along with Marxists. A large share of the blame for every rise of fascism goes to libs and cons who persistently demonised them and dismissed their politics.

Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 21h

youtu.be/RovWMlcf1GY Is this torture?

Survivor of Israel state torture and sex assault is charged by UK police!

YouTube video by The Crispin Flintoff Show

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 1d

You're right to mistrust politicians. We shouldn't lionise them. It's the policies we should vote for, and the members decide those. One policy is for a 10:1 pay ratio, and there are many more that you might appreciate (4-day week, Workers' Rights Charter, etc) greenparty.org.uk/about/our-ma...

Our 2024 General Election Manifesto - Green Party

Real hope.Real change. Millions of people in our country are feeling insecure and deeply worried about the future. We live in one of the richest countries on the planet, yet nurses are using food bank...

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 2d

Men would rather lose access to nuclear secrets than go to therapy

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 2d

I love all the insistence that wealth taxes won't work. Well, let's do it then; surely they will relish the opportunity to score such a huge point against the left? No? 🤔

Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 3d

You should see what my political opponents deem to be good or bad

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like he mass-blocked everyone who follows Cait

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 4d

Your followers: "I drinks my Huel and I likes it"

Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 4d

Someone thought they were drawing scary cats, and actually drew best cats

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 5d

It's not a deli, it's a restaurant that mainly serves roast meat, potatoes and gravy

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, sorry for arguing pointlessly in your mentions. I'll shut up now

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 5d

*his

Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 5d

Not for him name, no. I can see why he'd hate it. There's a laundry list of important things to knock him for

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 5d

If he did, you'd still pick at him for it, let's be honest. I know several people who changed their names for reasons other than marriage or the stage, and I've never thought, "Well, you're not to be trusted"

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 5d

You could Google this? Wikipedia: "He also changed his first name, selecting Zack in homage to a Jewish character from the novel Goodnight Mister Tom, and to differentiate himself from his stepfather, also named David." It's wild that you think it's suspect to change your name just because, too

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 6d

How is it not his real name? It's his family name which he has restored, and which his family had only changed a few generations before to an Anglicised form to avoid anti-semitism on moving to the UK.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 7d

Please drop 50 im so close let my family survive

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Coastal Elites® @coastalelites.bsky.social · 8d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... And there it is: the "Labour" Party seeking to criminalise Arabic words, and one that means "revolution"/"uprising" at that. I can only hope that this fails in courtrooms, and maybe that's the game they're playing: to say, "Oh well, we tried" to fucking Nazis