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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah i know, but fighting a protracted bureaucratic war with Karie Murphy et al. for control of a party that doesn't exist yet doesn't exactly fill me with enthusiasm as to it being a successful project

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 2h

Looking forward to seeing someone who believes that there are absolutely zero landlords in and amongst the 800 councillors the Green Party has get pissy with me about saying this

Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 2h

Tbh I don't really have the heart to battle these people over a party, but its good to see that the prospective membership/councillors involved in this party are not just gonna put up with having a bunch of fucking landlords and homophobes running it

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2h

Councillor says Your Party needs 'proper working-class people' running for office - not landlords

Your Party needs to be putting forward proper working-class candidates, whether they are nurses, or binmen, or teachers
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 2h

Tbh I don't really have the heart to battle these people over a party, but its good to see that the prospective membership/councillors involved in this party are not just gonna put up with having a bunch of fucking landlords and homophobes running it

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2h

Councillor says Your Party needs 'proper working-class people' running for office - not landlords

Your Party needs to be putting forward proper working-class candidates, whether they are nurses, or binmen, or teachers
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Councillor says Your Party needs 'proper working-class people' running for office - not landlords

Your Party needs to be putting forward proper working-class candidates, whether they are nurses, or binmen, or teachers

www.thecanary.co

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 4h

*is, not ID

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 4h

The continued silence about the escalating human rights abuses in the USA from the UK government ID shameful and we need to start pressuring the government on why it remains committed to allying with a state which is rapidly descending into outright tyranny.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 13h

This is a difficulty that needs to be overcome. There has to be some degree of co-operation between Greens and Socialists or else it becomes a problem for both.

Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 13h

I don't think Polanski is any kind of ideologically committed socialist, I think he's an opportunist who'll eventually let people down when the pressure gets turned on, and the Greens aren't a socialist party and there's a lot of right-wingers embedded deeply there especially at a local govt level

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 13h

This works both ways though? Like there's no way I would be interested in working in a subordinate role to the Green Party, cos I don't take them seriously as a left-wing party. I'm happy enough they're doing well and capitalising on things, but I think it's a temporary situation.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 14h

And I don't think the Greens will ever be in a position to dictate terms to the rest of the left, that we have to fall in line with them, even with Polanski as leader.

Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 14h

... some other vehicle for the left eventually emerge one way or another, and I don't really want a situation where it becomes Greens vs Socialists, standing against each other and so forth.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 14h

Respectfully, as shit they've been, there does have to be some degree of cross party work cos there's a chunk of people, myself being one, who just simply aren't going to get involved with the Green Party. Doesn't mean that it even has to be Your Party, cos I don't see that going well, but...

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 17h

Think a lot of the time he just uses chatGPT to reply to questions so I don't bother

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 17h

This guy is one of the weirdest accounts on here it'd like liberal posters madness elevated to performance art

Disco Brian Davis @discobriandavis.bsky.social · 19h

Do u also take issue w/ Coretta Scott King, Bernice King & her brother @officialmlk3.bsky.social, Harry Belafonte, Rev Jesse Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Muhammad Ali, & James Brown, all of whom regard(ed) Sharpton to be The Leader of the civil rights movement? bsky.app/profile/disc...

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19h

I don’t listen to music made by billionaires and I don’t believe in god. Thank you

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

Yup - NATO membership is still a sacred cow, and many on the left regurgitate stale arguments in defence of it that boil down to "we need NATO because are the ontologically good (ie white) guys, surrounded by swarthy Oriental Despotism and Savage Natives" and that's as far as the thinking goes

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

What a load of nonsense, here you are doing apologetics for Chicago PD, not a surprise when every Democrat spent years expanding ICE, giving them more money, caving in to the phony "Border Crisis" bullshit.

go and enjoy your next empty rhetorical grifter billionaire jangling keys for you

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ALT: a bald man in a blue and white striped shirt is looking at the camera

media.tenor.com

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

Your boy Pritzker says anti-ICE shit in his press conference then tells his goons in uniform to go out there and help ICE in the streets.

Rant all you like about Beria and whatever other bizarre incoherent nonsense you want, liberal moral bankruptcy is on display in Chicago for all to see.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

The only reason you're defending Pritzkers boys in blue beating up protestors is because liberals will always choose fascists and their cop mates over the basic civil rights of left-wingers.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

We have zero faith whatsoever that American liberals will do anything against fascism. When push comes to shove, you can be relied upon to ally with the fascists against the anti-fascists.

Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

“Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.”

Sounds like something you would post tbh.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

Mussolini later denounced his youthful socialism, derided the whole ideology as a "fraud" and then going on to violently attack socialist political parties and movements. He was a socialist, then became a die-hard propnent of capitalism - just like you.