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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

5) Press panic and social media manipulation to raise saliency 6) Secure elite support for your demand (fewer minorities in public life and less legal support for them)

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

This is exactly what happened with trans people first. 1) Take a settled matter of human rights 2) Portray it as "a debate" 3) Invite the minority group to debate - either they validate the debate or self-exclude <- we are here 4) Require that discussions of minority human rights are "balanced"

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To be clear it was me who was blind to men, not my daughters

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As a father of two daughters who spent far too long blind to how men are, I am terrified of the World my teenage girls will have to live in.

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They’re going to keep saying it was terrorists until a lot of people will remember it that way. The combination of shameless liars and uninformed public is very dangerous

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not gonna read the article cos life’s too short but I assume their argument is “only rich people have childcare” and they can’t see that that’s precisely the issue they’re trying to fix

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Political conservatives used to ( at least pretend) believe that they were pushing policies that made things better for all/most. Now the Right openly state that their policies are intended for their own enrichment. It’s sad that so many people hate brown people enough to vote for these ghouls

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As far as I can tell he had a moderate table tennis career, then wrote a couple of knock-off Malcolm Gladwell books and suddenly started being treated as an intellectual. That probably does mess with your ego

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These rich people are so boringly predictable. Their solution to every problem is for everyone else to get poorer so that they can accumulate more wealth They have nothing more sophisticated to say than “I don’t like paying tax” usually with a side order of racism

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m yet to see why China beating the US at AI is bad for anyone other than American tech billionaires. How is a Chinese company leading at AI worse for me than Musk or Altman getting ahead?

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

TBF transphobia is pretty universal in the UK and Farage is supported in Wales pretty Much as in England

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I get that and sympathise but you didn’t make that clear in your original post We are talking past each other here

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m sympathetic to your plight but that’s wasnt the topic of conversation here The post was tarring all English as Farage supporters and all US citizens as Trumpists which irrespective of prevailing transphobia simply isn’t accurate

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The UK is awful with transphobia now but that’s an epic goal posts shift from the original claim

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s not. And even less so with Farage who has only about 25% at his most popular and is loathed by a majority in this country

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nobody’s ever mistaken Kemi for a deep thinker, she just repeats right wing buzzwords so of course she believes in the Laffer nonsense

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Now I think about the idea of British Sugar does seem a bit fanciful

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The British sugar industry and my mate Dan beg to differ

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

People in white cars (thought that was what strangers were) Answering the telephone Cream on top of milk Walking past the farmyard next door after dark

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love maths, I did a PhD in it, I do a job where I use maths everyday. But I also love history, music, literature, and they are as important as maths. And I studied maths because I like it, not because it "offers most value to the nation". We need all subjects in universities.

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Gotta love the logic of “they hate us when we’re oppressing them so they’d hate us even more if we didn’t “. These guys really aren’t thick as

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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Finding it really telling right now we CAN arrest people holding signs peacefully about their political views. But we CAN'T arrest men beating women with literal sticks at Reform UK for expressing their views. So freedom of speech includes violence now for certain groups?

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This image is so bad that I don’t even know where to start with it

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You shouldn't say "y'all" unless you're from the area covered by the Tennessee Valley Authority. That's because it's an Appalachian Controlée

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’ve never seen the politics of the right described so accurately and pithily before

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I like Dmitry but he has, to be generous, put this very clumsily. I don’t condone killing health executives but it isn’t conspiracist to say that they are predatory and their actions kill people

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Minor point but it was Kinnock rather than Benn. I agree with your point though

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We’re not a f’ing republic you genocidal twat

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’m amazed by how many people seem to be defining maintaining the status quo as seeking endless change. It’s really weird

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In Newtonian physics, yes. In politics continuous change, even if it were at a constant pace (it wasn’t) is not what anybody understands as the status quo How would even measure the velocity of change in politics to establish it was constant. This reasoning is just silly

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Fine. “voting for the status quo” means repeatedly voting for an enacting regressive changes. Apparently words have no meaning.

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My whole point is that heat has been being applied for a long time so the temperature has been rising. I am arguing that we have not seen a policy of seeking to maintain the status quo from the republicans but one of applying ever more heat - to torture your analogy

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

That thought had occurred to me too 😉 I don’t think political “momentum” is really equivalent to physical inertia in that way though

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s not pedantic. It’s important to really understand the ways in which this republican admin is different and worse than prior iterations as well as how it’s the natural conclusion of previous trends. You can’t combat this if you don’t understand what it is

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“Heightening and accelerating” the status quo makes no sense at all. If you change it, it’s not the status quo I suspect that my politics are not that dissimilar to yours. I just differ in understanding that this regime is exceptionally bad whereas you seem to want to concede that it is normal

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

That is both linguistically and politically illiterate. If you want to defeat the republicans it is more sensible to acknowledge how radical they are rather than paint them as the “status quo” 2/2

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Dear god man. Reading comprehension isn’t your thing is it? I’ve neither denied that the Republicans are fascist nor defended establishment Dems. I just object to you ceding the idea that the Republicans are simply defending the status quo 1/2

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Definitionally moving in any direction is not the status quo no matter how many capital letters you use

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Except that the republicans haven’t voted for the status quo. Since Reagan they’ve moved further and further to the right and taken the establishment Dems trotting along in their wake

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We’re just on a steady march back to the days when only straight, white, cis, neurotypical men were considered “normal” and everyone had to conform to their norms. It’s fucking terrifying

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Where did this come from? I doubt More in Common would be misspelt twice on a genuine article Some very weird stuff like Tim Farron’s seat being dark red, locked-in Labour and SNP on 9 seats Colour me skeptical

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It’s the smug little grin he always has on his face when he thinks he’s being funny or clever that is so infuriating. He thinks this will play well with his fan boys and sadly he’s probably right

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In her case? Preventing it. She’s a true believer in a Reform-esque immigration policy

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Leo Messi is clearly the GOAT but can we acknowledge that he had a terrible final. He was just as much of a dead weight as CR7 earlier. He’s had some great moments this World Cup but not today

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Wapping Bloke @wappingbloke.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

He gets a lot of credit for being a less shitty human being than CR which is hardly difficult

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