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Paul Russell

@pwrussell.bsky.social

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Deeply disillusioned Labour voter in South London. “Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.” — Mahatma Gandhi I block bots, spammers and fascists on sight. #PAFC

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · Nov 6

Right now I don’t even know how to process this, but I do know that all decent people have to stick together, support each other and fight back

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 18m

Quite right. Complaining about the birth rate and immigration at the same time sounds contradictory, but they’re two sides of the same white supremacist coin.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 30m

Seems like a really fucking stupid time to be deporting immigrants then. 🤡

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1h

That’s right. They ‘rigged’ the system to make the election results vaguely reflect the will of the electorate. How dare they?

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve not seen anyone comment yet on how his obsessive repetitiveness is a clear sign of dementia. The same phrases, the same idiotic talking points over and over and over again, regardless of the occasion or the audience.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 10h

They’ll be doing the opposite. Dialling back the coverage in case they get too popular.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 10h

In the UK we executed our king for raising taxes while refusing to call parliament.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 10h

Sounds like a positive to me then.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 12h

Well they don’t do or say anything else in good faith so why should their ‘concern’ about children be any different?

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 12h

Dismissing half of your population as ‘the enemy’ puts you right in the ‘not fit to govern’ box.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 14h

Right wingers have always equated opposition with hatred of country

“They think they can criticize everything that is our country, and they do it, and they do it… They hate our country” - Thatcher

“They are not just wrong; they are the ones who would take this country down.” - Reagan

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 14h

Headlines cleverly designed to drain them of all meaning.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 14h

Eh? So Pelosi refused the national guard to help rioters keep Trump in power? Or was it to help the FBI agents in the crowd pretend to keep Trump in power? You only have to think about that question for a second to realise what a pile of stinking nonsense it is.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 14h

If this happens, it will no longer be possible to remove the fascists by winning elections. What’s the plan?

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 23h

I hope you checked the mother wasn’t behind you.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

As a humanist and progressive, I tend to the view that all human life is of value. However, I am prepared to make an exception for fascists.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

And yet JD said it was just a bit of harmless fun.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

Umm… then why was it pinned up in your office?

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

Now that they hold power, they’ve realised there’s no reason why their lies should be even slightly related to reality and they’re just letting themselves go.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that. Just like a mass of people trying to violently storm the Capitol isn’t an insurrection but a man in a frog suit is.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

See what he did there? ‘Hate Trump’ = ‘Hate America’.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

He was born with the empathy and compassion of a dried prune.

Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

Even if that were true, doesn’t he think we should we worried about a bunch of ‘kids’ talking to each other like that?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 1d

We can see the cowards and the collaborators but we can also clearly see the people who are rising to the moment.