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Mark McDougall

@mark-mcdougall.bsky.social

Highlander, living in Dundee, Scotland.

223 Followers  |  187 Following  |  40 Posts  |  Joined: 03.03.2025  |  2.0209

Latest posts by mark-mcdougall.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Great result for the Lib Dems but terrible to see so many nutters voting for Farage.

03.05.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

23.04.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 81070    πŸ” 6404    πŸ’¬ 2366    πŸ“Œ 436
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Is this the world we live in now? A world where it’s seemingly OK to pick out the most ostracised people in society and abuse them for no good reason? It’s time folk started speaking out against this bigotry. JK Rowling really is on the wrong side of history here. Sad times.

19.04.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

True

17.04.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The angry orange dictator promised to end the wars in Gaza & Ukraine with one phone call. 5 months later, the Ukraine war has escalated due to Trump's meddling & Netanyahu is still bombing Gaza. He is now crashing the global economy. Impeach this clown immediately.

27.03.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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He couldn’t even run a charity without breaking the lawβ€”Now he believes he’s in charge of the Supreme Court, Congress, our rights, and the U.S. justice system. Who’s going to stop him?!

18.03.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 30211    πŸ” 10182    πŸ’¬ 1042    πŸ“Œ 385

Every single disabled person I know either works very hard, is a productive member of society, or would love to work but can’t because they’re incapacitated by an illness or disability.

For Labour to punish cancer sufferers, wheelchair users or severely mentally ill people is Nazi bullshit.

17.03.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Britain has pretty low unemployment. In general, everyone who can work is working, and the ones who aren't working either can't work or aren't needed. So what the government is talking about here is performative punishment for not being needed. That's deeply inhuman and worthy of the far right.

16.03.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2
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What a sorry state of affairs!

Winning an election and morphing into the BNP!

16.03.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Labour β€˜to slash disability benefits for 1 million people’ as part of huge cuts Those who have difficulty washing, dressing or eating will be denied payments due to a tougher eligibility criteria

When I think of friends and family who would be quite literally lost without this support, Labour’s proposed disability benefits cuts are frankly beyond disgusting.

15.03.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The people who will suffer the most from this trade war are the working class Americans who voted for Trump. Now that’s the definition of irony right there. Enjoy!

14.03.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜I feel utter anger’: From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading Tesla sales are falling and apps and online groups are springing up to help consumers choose non-US items

β€˜I feel utter anger’: From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading

12.03.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 7341    πŸ” 2345    πŸ’¬ 376    πŸ“Œ 276

Labour politicians are going to start losing deposits in Scotland with this sort of nonsense.

12.03.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Had thousands of followers on Twitter / X.

But then Elon Musk took over and I started to criticise Donald Trump and my account seems to have become restricted. Went from 1000s of views/reacts to basically being invisible.

Did this happen to anyone else? X is basically unusable now in my opinion.

12.03.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So the UK Labour Party are about to cut benefits from the UK’s poorest and most vulnerable people - the disabled.

They’ve hammered the pensioners and now they’re going after people with disabilities.

Hate to say it but the Tories were way less cruel. The Labour Party has become the nasty party.

12.03.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tesla shares are down 41% so far this year. Who would have thought that nazi salutes don’t sell cars? 😳🫣

11.03.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

honestly wild to me that, at this late date, any ostensibly informed person would insist that we could ignore trump’s words as just bluster

08.03.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 11265    πŸ” 1179    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 53

The bill was ill thought out, and would have allowed young children to start transitioning with or without the parents consent. When the state becomes parent, this is a communist dictatorship. This bill actually harmed the trans community further.

08.03.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dudhope Castle, Dundee, Scotland.

06.03.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You don’t necessarily have to smack your child but the threat of the wrath of your parents didn’t do my generation any harm. In fact, it’s the reason we are civilised members of society, and the reason that society is crumbling is lack of any discipline whatsoever. Teens run riot as a result.

06.03.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How on earth does someone become President without knowing some geography? How on earth does someone so ill-mannered and uneducated become President? Only in America I suppose.

06.03.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Trump effect? The dollar has fallen sharply against the Euro, the Pound, Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, and more. The people of the USA are going to feel the effects of the Trumpcession very soon and I suspect that they won’t be very happy about it.

06.03.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Far from gaining any sort of advantage from his hateful antics, Trump has managed to alienate the entire world, which will harm his economy, his people and his country immeasurably. The Republican Party and the American people will turn on him when the dollar starts to sink.

06.03.2025 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could this be the beginning of the end for Reform? Their support of Trump could harm them massively given that most of their supporters don’t appear to be fans of the orange buffoon.

06.03.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In 2.5 weeks, Donald Trump has gone from a +38 net favourability rating among Reform UK voters to -8

All Britons
Favourable: 15% (-7 from 16-17 Feb)
Unfavourable: 80% (+7)

Reform UK voters
Favourable: 45% (-21)
Unfavourable: 53% (+25)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

05.03.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 351    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 71

Ah so you’re saying harassing innocent young women outside an abortion centre is not disgusting? You’re saying that it’s ok to do that? I think that tells us everything we need to know about you, Simon.

06.03.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Boycott X

Boycott X

I'll keep posting this, until we get all of our allies off of X

Boycott everything musk.
If resistance was easy, we wouldn't be in the hole we are in now.

Repost, if you will.

#TheAlliedForces

04.03.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you remind me where in my post I said you shouldn’t be allowed to protest? Exactly, I didn’t say that. Just said you’re a disgusting person if you’re harassing rape victims. Are you one of those people? Is this an admission?

05.03.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can believe in freedom of speech whilst also condemning nasty individuals who cause fear and alarm to rape victims outside abortion clinics.

05.03.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump is lying to you.

05.03.2025 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 22942    πŸ” 6215    πŸ’¬ 507    πŸ“Œ 657

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