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Rorza8472

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disabled, geeky 36 year old muddling through life here in North East Somerset. politics nerd (Green Party member) football fan (Manchester United/Bath City) gamer (any genre if a game is fun/interesting) sci-fi lover, especially Star Trek.

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · Feb 28

if you don't want to care about "identity politics" then that's your decision of course, but don't pretend you can do that and still call yourself a socialist, because it means you are turning your back on the most vulnerable & discriminated against members of the working class.

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 10h

Because we live in a society/culture that tells us all regardless of our gender or sexuality that the most desirable traits in men are the traits that also trend towards more toxic masculinity and narcissistic tendencies. Masculinity or at least our current conception of it, is deeply flawed imo.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 22h

the problem, of course, is that most of that land is owned by rich people, big corporations and often, the aristocracy who refuse to allow it to be used for anything but their own profiteering.

property developers don't care about social utility comrades, I hate to break this to you!

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 22h

there is more than enough land in the UK that we can build the infrastructure and housing we need without decimating the environment or ecosystem that are also vitally important to the well being of the country (ecological collapse will hurt humans as well as plants and animals!)

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 22h

literally this is what the Green Party has been saying for years about property developers and people (on the Left and Right) write them off as "NIMBY's" when in reality most of us do want more things built, we just want those things to have social utility and take into account ecological concerns.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23h

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 22h

the newspapers love this kind of thing, it makes no real difference to 99% of people in the country but in Westminster it's a great distraction from the issues that really matter.

let's get back to the economy, cost of living, housing, NHS, social care, etc please.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 22h

like the media could talk about any number of other, far more salient issues to the general public, instead we have the two old guard parties quibbling over China which both of them happily work with when in power, it's all rather mundane and background noise to me at least.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 22h

anyone else think this whole China spy thing is just a storm in a teacup? like I really struggle to care about this story.

feels like typical tabloid fare, meaningless to anything that really matters, at best it's something for security services to deal with.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 2d

shock, horror, Israel broke the ceasefire almost immediately and blamed Hamas for the IDF killing civilians. what a bunch of *unts.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

The UN needs to move troops into Gaza and move Israel out.

Israel ARE the problem.

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 2d

Zionists are addicted to killing Palestinians, will Trump punish Israel for this? Will he hell.

Sparkle @serenesparkle.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 2d

What about people who don’t have wealth or wages?

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 2d

if Israel hadn't illegally colonised Palestine and committed ethnic cleansing then illegally occupied and systematically attacked and inflicted apartheid for 70 fucking years then Hamas wouldn't exist yet alone be attacking Israel.

all of this is 100% on Israel and Zionists.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 3d

Reform UK want to take public spending down to 35% of GDP — that’s a £275 billion cut, the equivalent of shutting down the NHS.

The Green Party knows the only way to rebuild our communities is by investing in our public services, not running them down and flogging them off to the private sector.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Today on mainstream Media you saw the faces and heard the names and stories of Israelis held hostage.

But you didn't see or hear the Palestinians held hostage by Israel, except maybe to mention them as terrorists.

Do you see how biased the Media is?

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 3d

While Israelis are celebrating wildly the release of their hostages, Palestinian families are terrorised that, if they dare celebrate the release of their own, hell will be visited upon them. This is not Peace breaking out. This is Apartheid at its worst! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 3d

telling Zionists to GTFO then blocking them is kinda cathartic ngl.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 3d

how does it feel to be a cuckold for a regime committing genocide? do you feel big or proud about it? like do you think your dick or vagina get enhanced by it? hate to break it to you but you are just a shithead.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 3d

You’re an evil scumbag

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 3d

Guinness time for me, can’t beat it.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Nigel Farage has finally admitted to it.

But now there's lots more questions especially considering Rupert Lowes intervention....

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...

Nigel Farage finally admits to knowing Nathan Gill after senior Reform figure repeatedly claimed he didn’t

Farage has admitted he knew Gill for 'a very long time' but claims he didn't know anything about his pro-Russia activities...

leftfootforward.org

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 3d

England in Autumn is peak England, it's damp, dreary and cool, perfect weather for warming up inside watching telly or going for a few drinks in a pub.

I'll take this over the buggering heatwaves anyday of the year.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train.

But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.

Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 3d

Aren’t you an utterly rancid creature.