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Liverpool Comrade ☭

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Anti-rev ML. Vegan. She/her. Lives on Fashy Island. "The crisis consists in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." - Antonio Gramsci

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 8d

Wake up babe. New #zackwave banger just dropped.

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 2m

a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him

ALT: a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 34m

He'd like to join you, but unfortunately, his legs couldn't make it.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h

In the month since I was elected leader of the Green Party, we have gained a new member equivalent of every single minute. 24/7.

We're all smiling. But we've also got a big job to do.

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Visibly enthusiastic, incredibly articulate and with a winning smile that never left his face, Zack seemed entirely at home

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

Ask them how socialist countries had full employment with zero billionaires.

Comrade Em ☭🩵🌱🍉🎮 @comradeem.bsky.social · 1h

"Without billionaires there'd be no jobs and everyone would be poorer"

I've genuinely been told that today.

Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

The current slogan is "Make Hope Normal Again".

Also, gen AI images aren't very popular on bsky, for lots of reasons.

Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

UK Labour are doing more to pump Reform that anyone else by stealing their agenda.

Electorally, that has been a disaster for everyone, apart from Reform, of course.

Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

A lightning bolt PFP on bluesky. Holy dogwhistles!

Bio for bsky user @sapiens365.bsky.social with a lightning bolt PFP.

Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

Note the decimal point error in the graph. All parties are listed as having 100 times as many members as they do in actuality. Whoops!

Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

How ironic that Sultana is complaining about the lack of whips in the GPEW.

Her and Corbyn fell foul of that exact system in UK Labour!

Also, Zack is both anti-zionist and wants to withdraw from NATO.

Graph of UK political party membership from "The New Statesman" with the following text below it :

This has clearly rattled Your Party and Sultana in particular.

The Independent MP has been keen to assert the differences between Your Party and the Greens on issues such as the latter’s lack of a whipping system and on Sultana’s anti-Nato, anti-Zionist credentials.

However, Your Party insiders point out that none of the party’s policies have been decided yet. They will be set by members at the party’s conference in Liverpool at the end of next month.

The Greens’ response to this is mainly founded on the fact that unlike Your Party, the Green Party has been a force in British politics for more than 40 years.

“The Greens are the only real opposition on the left in British politics,” Polanski said, “standing up for fair taxes, a liveable planet and a future where compassion and courage matter more than corporate interests.”

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

Paywall free link to the article : archive.ph/zG6gP

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

In Liverpool, the sense of local solidarity is largely due to decades of managed decline?

Hence "not English, not Irish, just Scouse".

Very similar to Glasgow and Newcastle in that respect? Or so I've been told.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 3h

The Green Party want to Abolish Landlords and the media are losing their minds about it!

Anyone can see this policy is desperately needed.
We need to build millions of council houses, cap rents, make homes fit for the future and we need the end landlord profiteering.
@elliechowns.bsky.social

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think the racism is accidental though?

Its kind of the point for the racists?

They will couch it in terms of culture, religion or birthright, but it always boils down to racism and/or xenophobia.

Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 3h

Isn't civic nationalism the status quo?

If the left and right can agree on one thing its that we don't want the status quo any more.

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 4h

✅️ We'll overtake the Tories AND we'll replace Labour.

Help us do it 》 Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 4h

I think they like having you on the show as the perfect foil for Malone?

Keep up the good work Zack. You're winning hearts and minds!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

Legalise *and* regulate drugs.

This morning on @jeremyvine.bsky.social:

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Should we legalise all drugs? feat. Zack Polanski & Carole Malone | Jeremy Vine

YouTube video by Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 4h

I know that Apple is evil in many ways, but I'm on Apple Music.

Its about the same price as Spotify. I have it set up to synch the music on my mac mini with my iphone. Wired earbuds on the iphone though cos fuck air-pods.

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Jack @jhol95.bsky.social · 6h

Genuinely impressive the degree to which Jez and Zarah had a space and opportunity and just completely and utterly fucked it

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 6h

Following the announcement of YourParty, support for 'Others' in opinion polls increased from 3.7% to 6.0%. It has since dropped back to 3.7%, with the Greens seemingly gaining, reaching a peak of 10.7%.

electionmaps.uk/polling/vi

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 4h

Lol what puzzles me most about them is the way they ignore real world couples.

Incels : "A man has to be over six feet tall, earn six figures and have a six pack to even stand a chance"

Meanwhile, plenty of short, cash strapped, chubby men seem to have wives and gfs? 😆

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 8h

[cultivates no interests beyond worshipping grifting misogynist youtubers] aaaahhhh why can’t i get a girlfriend

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 4h

I asked an LLM how DOM manipulation works in JavaScript and then it started acting like a bratty submissive.

That's not what I meant 😮

Even Spookier Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 9h

Trying to explain to my manager that this months figures are late because the Excel sheet is a sex pest and keeps calling me “big boy”

The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 5h

Completely agree.

He keeps his cool and still manages to get his point across. I think its down to practice?

He talks to so many people. Both allies and opponents. Media talking heads and people on the street.

Gar_eth @garmobile.bsky.social · 5h

I love the way Zack keeps his cool and just bats the balls effectively meanwhile the paid RW talking head Malone dissolves into a hissy fit 😂

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 5h

Well done. This is great!