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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 43m

I think the idea of what "working class" means to Labourites and Billy Bragg is a petit bourgeois builder with an English lion tattoo on his leg who thinks building control isn't real and doesn't know what a barista is

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 55m

If I had 210,000 in cash today, the BEST market rates for an ISA will get you... £775pm.

If I had a (spare) house valued at £210,000 where I live, there would be a line down the street if it was let out at anything below £1000pm

Even factoring in estate agents etc. that's fucking NUTS.

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 1h

Or, say, the rate of sexual harassment comitted by trans people

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 1h

I'd like to see him disappear too tbf

🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 10h

The Kurds also have their own ethno-nationalist government that serves the interests of the American empire. you're not doing yourself any favours with the geography here dude.

🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 10h

Your body lived through it, but clearly your empathy didn't.

The genocide denial may earn you a few (temporary) allies, but there's a reason the Zionists proudly parade the queer aesthetic to market their genocidal state abroad but barely uphold your rights above the average "Arab-Israeli".

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 13h

Love how COVID was this brilliant big [REDACTED] marker over millions of statistical documents that lets anyone make up whatever bullshit they like after the fact.

Did Knife crime programs have amazing success? No! COVID bollocks!

Did fewer emissions clean our air? No! COVID bollocks! etc. etc.

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 13h

Also, worth noting this is what killed the last ceasefire. Hamas returned the body of a captive that the IOF killed, but the IOF claimed they returned the wrong corpse.

Not long before or after, they drive a lorry packed with palestinian corpses, unfrozen and unseparated, into Rafah in return.

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 13h

I know the point is cruelty, but "A-Level English" doesn't test for your proficiency in spoken and written English beyond what's necessary to analyse some poetry???

There are actual exams for language proficiency and this isnt one of em lmao

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 13h

I had an English guy ask me what a barista was the other day; he was twice my age.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

I will bet my bike that close to zero of the British racists that this law is pandering to could pass A-level English.

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 13h

Spoken like the countless heterosexual ghouls who once gleefully declared there was no genocide taking place against gay men during the AIDS pandemic.

Tell me, do the bodies of frail and decaying Gazans not speak to you like the images of gay men subjected to an equally cruel fate?

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder how many of the dead captives were doubletapped by IOF airstrikes with this in mind

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 1d

Any phenomenon wherein women are "won over" to a certain political affiliation that openly denigrates their existence, is often due to male partners being abusive and controlling rather than any organic attraction to fascism.

Many of the latter exist, too, but I've known many more of the former.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 1d

You're getting luxury designer vaginas? is there some kind of a vagina... Costco?

🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 1d

one of the things I think gives the so-called third world Maoists their most convincing arguments, is how people act as if it is justice for them to enjoy the fruits of colonial exploitation.
Like with chocolate, we could just have less of it, and high quality. Instead, we demand blood for cheap.

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

not the first white guy with a drug addiction to suggest a "solution" to all the people he finds revolting

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

and besides, no Palestinian ever voted to have their families and friends culled in droves. they voted for dignity and resistance.

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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 2d

STALINIST LITTERPICKERS BACK AT IT AGAIN

This weekend, WUN members walked up the popular walking route from Pontypridd to Egwylsilan, after locals told us it is notorious for fly tipping.

We’re keeping Cymru tidy in more ways than one, by using a ripped down butchers apron as a bin bag 🇬🇧🗑️

6 figures holding litter-pickers with a long banner which reads: “For A Socialist Republic of Wales” on the left and “Dros Weriniaeth Sosialaedd I Gymru” on the right, with “Welsh Underground Network” at the bottom.

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

the yo momma joke guy,,, welcome to the resistance

Brody Foxx twitter

@BrodyFoxx 8/13/25

Someone said "drop the T from LGBTQ"

I say drop the Nazi onto the floor.

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Brody foxx's muscular white guy persona is holding a pride flag in one arm whist upper cutting Hitler with his free arm

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

No they dont tell you any of this up front. no one knows the rules. but boy oh boy is it a bureaucratic nightmare if you mess it up!

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

"hey this building work isnt up to building regs you should redo it"

ah chill bro

*months pass*

hey when do i call building control

"dw do it at the end"

*work done*

"oh you didnt call the building control so now its not up to building regs and you gotta wait to regularise it"

a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt .

ALT: a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt .

media.tenor.com

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

I'll hand it to Margaret Thatcher, and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say, my piss

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

...this slow repeat of 2019 makes some authoritative declaration on what is or isn't "the left". There's so much of socialist organising that will never engage with YP because most if not all socialism in this country is practiced by folks who don't care when the election comes, they're just doing.

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

I'm personally more convinced that Greens have more potential for changing its positions towards more radical ends than YP changing towards anything Zarah claims it will be (and so far, w/o evidence).

While I'm not too interested in how the parties squabble for seats, I'm just pissed whenever...

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🔻 Punished Wobbler @merthyr1831.bsky.social · 2d

It's wrecker behaviour. Demanding total control of the political climate they don't even inhabit. Transphobes aren't "the left" yet she's gone VERY quiet on that front aye?

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