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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 8h

Adding to this, I’ve found the scrambling towards trumps positions by so many politicians, organisations, and companies, so bizarre because he uhhh never won by that much. Dude scraped a victory and it was treated as a landslide just because he actually won the popular vote for the first time

Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 10h

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 11h

electoral reasons and they will create a straw man to fight if you won’t

And if you surrender, the other side wins by default. You don’t protect people from hatred by trying to keep the argument quiet. It just means the only headlines are the hateful ones

Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 11h

Part of the reasoning lab gave for no longer defending trans rights was that they believed it was a trap to drag them into the culture war.

Well no; because these people either genuinely believe it and will continue it regardless, or there are those that don’t but want to use it for their

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 11h

Is much more deserving of coming second, at least he appears to have something resembling a backbone and basic respect for voters.

Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 11h

That would be the ideal result for me, even if polling suggests it’s unlikely. Leaving aside his reprehensible actions (which should exclude him all by themselves) Cuomos arrogance and entitlement is just beyond belief. Whilst I don’t agree with him on a lot, and wouldn’t vote for him, Sliwa

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 11h

Obviously with NYCs electorate it is beneficial for Sliwa to be a more moderate republican, but his absolute disdain for Cuomo seems genuine, he does seem to have a deep seated hatred of Cuomo and his lack of a moral compass

Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 11h

I will say I do appreciate that Sliwa is sticking in it seemingly just to fuck over Cuomo and literally no other reason. Dude seems to actually hate the guy

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 11h

If I l was eligible to vote in New York I would not be thrilled voting for Mamdani. The concerns of his policies’ actual viability and his lack of experience are both very valid criticisms.

But goddamn are the alternatives worse.

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 11h

Thankfully despite some loud voices it hasn’t filtered through to being the norm, but if the dems think throwing trans people under the bus is a good idea they should look to the UK, where lab is on its way to obliteration and their abandonment of trans rights has caused hatred to spiral

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 23h

Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 12h

Having spent the last few days stoking racism it’s not surprising that reform have said *nothing* about the man who jumped in front of the offender to physically shield a young child from him - because he’s Arabic and that wouldn’t fit their narrative

Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 12h

I’ll never understand the hate for London (ok I mean I do it’s generally racism or a feeling the capital gets everything, even though it subsidises the rest of the country) it remains the best city I’ve ever been to (trailed v closely by Bath and Hong Kong).

And I’m not even from London

Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve realised this sounds very odd without context…
I grew up near Pilton…
It hosts Glastonbury festival

Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

First item I bought after I moved out from my parents was a 2nd hand ps2, still going and love having it for when I want a chill night

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

Though every year we did have 200,000 people show up to get very drunk and very high

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

Oh fuck off - I lit grew up in a small town of about 1000, he’s totally divorced from reality

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah nuclear (much like air travel) is exceedingly safe, but wrongly perceived as being dangerous because when it goes wrong it can go very wrong

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord my grammar there was bad please ignore how I seemingly can’t write

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

Funnily enough Nuclear is also safer than wind (presumably because of accidents due from turbine maintenance - esp offshore - and nuclear comparatively absurd energy generation meaning per w the handful of rly bad incidents have a minimal impact

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

I find it grimly hilarious that the british far right thing an appropriate response to a sharp object being swung around in a confined space with 60+ people is to give half of them an aerosol that causes panic

Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

any chance of success or popular support)

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

(I do find it v funny that these people are so terminally online in an American social media bubble that they think legalising pepper spray in a country that once had a politician calling for attaching a GPS to every knife in the country - not that it was ever seriously considered by anyone - has

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

I for one think to defend against stabbings we need to legalise our own knives, cooler knives, knives based on those seen in horror movies with undead villains, something like a knife for zombies.

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

Left of centre ones.

I also find it funny that the Tories are much friendlier with reform than lab are with the greens considering reform has explicitly made it clear many times now they hope to erase the conservatives en masse - whereas with the greens it’s more a vague ambition to replace lab

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Rose @rosewasnthere.bsky.social · 1d

As much as these polls look v silly in a FPTP system, and they likely do reflect public sentiment, I expect come election time people will coalesce around their respective blocs.

Though (greens views of lab aside perhaps) there’s a lot more antagonism between the two right wing parties than the

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 8d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (+1)
LAB: 17% (-3)
CON: 17% (=)
GRN: 16% (+1)
LDM: 15% (=)
SNP: 3% (-1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 26-27 Oct.
Changes w/ 19-20 Oct.

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