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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖞 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍 @probablydrunk.bsky.social · 2d

Part one is here

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The Only Party Left - Part One

Notes From An Observer At The Green Party Conference

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𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖞 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍 @probablydrunk.bsky.social · 2d

Part two of my adventure at the #greenparty conference is now live. Consider subscribing and even choosing a paid subscription. Or not. Just reading and sharing would help a lot.

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The Only Party Left - Part Two

Notes From An Observer At The Green Party Conference

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𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖞 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍 @probablydrunk.bsky.social · 5d

Part one of my Green Party adventure is up. Check it out. Consider supporting me. Or at least share this about a bit?

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The Only Party Left - Part One

Notes From An Observer At The Green Party Conference

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𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖞 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍 @probablydrunk.bsky.social · 5d

Part one of my Green Party adventure is up. Check it out. Consider supporting me. Or at least share this about a bit?

open.substack.com/pub/probably...

The Only Party Left - Part One

Notes From An Observer At The Green Party Conference

open.substack.com

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 12d

So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 13d

The Greens are currently the only party willing to say this; it's a lonely landscape out there.

Hellvetika @hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social · 14d

Oh look, it's that easy. 🤷🏼‍♀️

PN: If there was a Green government, would the Greens reverse the Tories, and subsequently Wes Streeting's, ban on puberty blockers for trans youth?

ZP: Absolutely.

It's really important that policy for trans people is informed by the National Health Service and is done in consultation with trans people. It seems like an abominable gap, particularly in the Cass review, that trans people were not included in the conversations.

It's a basic principle: nothing about us without us.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18d

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

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The Denali @the-dallas-denali.bsky.social · 19d

The “thin blue line” refers to the blue sharpie cops carry around to write left wing slogans on shell casings found near mass shootings.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Sep 14

‘I’m not far right but I went to a rally organised by Tommy Robinson’ is a pretty unconvincing position.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 12

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 12

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 11

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer.

New York Times tomorrow

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𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖞 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍 @probablydrunk.bsky.social · Sep 11

The real irony is the size of his head and the shooter got him in the neck

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Sep 10

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

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yura 🐶 ;; [COMMS OPEN] @gn4rpz-the-c4t.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life" with alt text.

- Gay people should be stoned to deathh
- Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane
- Taylor swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband
- No one should be allowed to retire
- Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
- British colonialism was what "made the world decent"
- The guy who assaulted thhe Pelosi's should be bailed out
- Religious freedom should be terminated
- Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots"
- MLK Jr was "an awful person"
- Thhe Great Replacement Theory is reality
- Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID
- Vaccine requirements are "medical apartheid"
- Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendmennt
- Womenn's natural place is under their husband's control
- Parennts should prevent their daughters from taking birth control
- George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't
- The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake"
- Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates
- Memdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11
- Muslims onnly come to American to destabilize Western Civilization
- Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Sep 11

if charlie kirk has taught us one thing, and let's be honest he's only taught us one thing, it's that modern liberals woulda written nice little eulogies for hitler.

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · Dec 5

Whether real-life or fiction, finding entertainment or humor in someone else's pain is intolerance, and it is NEVER okay.

In 'Settings', click the "Empathy" tab to turn on helpful alerts that will keep your schaudenfreude in check. We're all in this together. #DisneyCares

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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social · Sep 10

Without comment:

Oct 12, 2022 - Screen grab of a tweet from Jason Campbell:

Still from the Charlie Kirk show Charlie speaking. Underneath the quote from Charlie reads a quote from Charlie’s broadcast that day:

“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.”

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Mrs. Trav @mrstrav.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Sep 10

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Aug 30

I can

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Count “Spooky” Papa @cult-papa.com · Sep 7

dril from the top rope 💀

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i dont know if you heard but israel has been doing some pretty crazy stuff on the news ryo w japan

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+ The internet became a slightly worse place when we learned that dril is an old boring white guy who hates Jews

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hey did your favorite country kill every human shield on earth yet or do we need to send them another $200 billion

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Jim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · Sep 5

Angela Raynor voted in lockstep with every shitty continuity Tory policy of Starmer's government and it still wasn't enough for the right wing establishment not to gleefully rip her to shreds when they found out she had *checks notes* dabbled in significantly less tax avoidance than David Cameron

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Jon Bounds - we need action for Palestine 🇵🇸 @bounder.info · Sep 4

Going to confuse a few people.

England flag on a fence with ‘Free Palestine’ on it.

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