Jules

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Because liberalism doesn’t believe we are in an ideological war

oh my God, I love animals in clothes as a general rule but this coat is something special

WAIT THEY CAN FUCKING DRIVE NOW

Some of yall are getting a little too comfortable with your antisemitism that yall are trying to cloak around being anti-impearlist.

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

After sexual violence, it's victims who get punished the most. Victims who lose their jobs and have to leave their industries. Victims who lose their friends and support systems. Victims who lose their health and sanity. Perpetrators might lie low, sometimes, before being handed it all back.

It's perpetrators who people worry about losing everything, even as victims lose everything. People think perpetrators deserve a pathway to redemption—what about victims? What about their lost opportunities? What about their reputations?

And another thing: When examining the harsh reality of what happens to victims and perpetrators of sexual violence, it becomes clear how sexual violence is a tool of the patriarchy. It is a political weapon. It is a way to keep women out of "men's spaces." It is retaliation and punishment.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

This was one of Labour's safest seats.

If the Greens can replace Labour here, then the Greens can replace Labour everywhere.

It's worse for Labour than it looks.

Green canvassers yesterday reported voters - Muslim and non-Muslim - still voting Labour for fear of Reform.

This was a moment of total humiliation for Matt Goodwin.

A liberal academic turned hard right charlatan, the people of Manchester took a look at the politics of hatred he peddled - and told him to do one.

To the dustbin of history for you, Matt.

The Greens ran one of the most astonishing grassroots campaigns in history.

Thousands of activists from Gorton and Denton and beyond brought a message of hope.

Yesterday's canvass for the Greens may well have been the biggest in the history of this country.

If it wasn't for the tsunami of support that the Greens had, the Labour strategy of lies could have handed Reform the seat.

But Labour MPs kept briefing that they'd prefer Reform to win rather than the Greens.

That's what we're dealing with here.

The Labour party didn't just lie.

They ran a disgusting gutter campaign.

The sort of campaign you'd expect from far right hatemongers.

What they did in Gorton and Denton must never be forgotten. They must never get away with it.

The Starmer project was based on crushing the left into the dust.

That's all it had.

They could never have predicted that this strategy could end up risking the destruction of Labour as a political force.

The Starmer project never understood that millions of people want an alternative to a broken economic system and a foreign policy based on mass murder.

If you believed in that, the Starmer project told you to fuck off.

Well, we have fucked off. How do you like them apples

I think it boils down to the fact that they refuse to believe the Culture isn't a top down thing pushed by those in power. They have never been able to accept that people like or live in the ways they find abhorrent & so created a reason that means all you need is power

i think it’s beautiful that in this country, once you are no longer culturally relevant, you can just pivot to grifting conservatives

We must be running low on racists.

There’s a reason they spend so much time saying that AI is “inevitable.” They know it’s not. They live in fear of an understanding of the emperor’s nakedness.

The People vs. AI Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

Don’t believe them when they say it’s inevitable.

It’s amazing to see Gavin Newsom, Rahm Emanuel, etc running the same playbook that has Labour in shambles here and people refuse to see how it’ll play out just the same.

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

And two, in general, people in the center prefer preserving the status quo in which they are comfortable to making significant social changes like rights expansions. Any push toward major change upsets their comfortable sofa, and so they see all threats to that as equivalent.

Why? I can’t presume someone else’s heart and mind, but I have two theories. One, this argument is coming from people who used to be cautious but aren’t anymore and feel guilty and defensive about it. So making the people who haven’t quit seem nuts and extreme quells that feeling.

And I don’t think most of these people are obtuse enough to be genuinely confusing “THE VACCINES ARE EVIL” with “the vaccines are a good tool, but not sufficient to protect against Covid infections on their own. Layered mitigation is key.”

So I believe it is an intentional conflation.

I don’t think I have ever seen a remotely popular Covid activist say people should not get vaccinated, and i follow tons of them.

What I have seen is constant posts from the center saying this is happening, with no evidence and no follow up to the logical problem the claim presents.

One of the misinformation talking points from centrists on Covid is that Covid activists and anti-vaxxers are the same.

I want you to think of any other rights movement where the centrist position has been “ugh, these people on the far ends are both so noisy, they’re the same.”

Is it all of them?

Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country.

It's got to hurt