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Creeping British authoritarianism continues under Labour. Expect AI tech to be integrated and it to continually be found to mis-identify criminals with intense racial bias.

When they announce this think - what will a Reform Government do with this in a top-5 most surveilled country in the world.

Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.

Keir Starmer celebrating Burns Night with a can of Irn Bru and assorted Tunnocks products.

I do not say this lightly when I tell you, as a proud Scot, that this is the funniest thing Keir Starmer has ever done.

Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

Coates is always worth reading.

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Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US

George Woke Bush was bad enough, I absolutely refuse to deal with Enlightened Blatter www.theguardian.com/football/202...

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

3/ Second, the cause and scope of your awakening is relevant.

Are you here because the leopards eat your face?

Are you still on board with the leopards eating all of the other faces?

Has this experience given you any empathy for the faces you were cheering the leopards to eat last week?

1/ Thoughts:

It's good when people who didn't agree with me change their minds.

However, exactly how much grace I offer them post-revelation depends on a range of factors.

My tent is big and so has room for many people.

It's also large enough that I can let someone in but not sit with them.

Anyway between Burnham and Braverman it's been a phenomenal 48 hours for "British Politics is English Politics", genuinely watching this stuff unfold with a level of detachment that isn't as removed as US politics but still feels fundamentally like it's happening in another country (which it is)

My daughter used to be in Rainbows, like the girl in this story.

She coloured in. She iced some biscuits. Did some games.

She was welcomed.

She played, laughed and joined in.

The cruelty is entirely the point. When did bullying little girls become the norm. 1/2

Finding it increasingly hard to be sympathetic to her, to be honest

🌈 She Just Wanted to Wear the Uniform — How a Six-Year-Old Trans Girl Was Left Behind An impact story of a 6 year old trans girl.

Reading how the UK Girl Guides has treated a 6 year old child is beyond heartbreaking. This story should be published everywhere except we know the mainstream news would never dare.

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Expert says trans children's rights are not being respected Following the publication of new research, Dr Ruth Pearce says that the government and public bodies must 'genuinely consult' with trans young…

An expert academic says that trans' children's rights are not being respected in Scotland, and that the government must confront the "eliminationist" campaign against them.

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7yo gave me an unpleasant shock y’day by chiming in on Greenland saying “Donald Trump didn’t actually use violence and he only wants to protect it from Russia & China” - after I’d calmed down I tried to work out where he’s been hearing this bullshit. Turns out it’s bloody BBC Newsround!

*This*. It cannot be said often enough that Trump's 5th column in the UK is planning precisely the same fascist makeover. In broad daylight, and with "democratic" politicians being silent onlookers. And I wonder if Brits will have the courage of Minnesotans when it comes down to it.

Which makes concerned about a path to authoritarianism in the UK mimicking what is happening in Minnesota.

The news reporting what is happening, without fear or favour, is an important part of democracy.

Evil cannot comprehend good is not just a trope of fiction, turns out.

I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

There's a man on telly saying the problem is political polarisation

I mean, I thought the problem was people being executed in the street by an authoritarian government's goons, but no, apparently the problem is people having strong opinions on whether fascism is good

The BBC is lost

on the issue of “who scored more goals, bournemouth or liverpool”, differing perspectives are emerging; on the one hand, video evidence suggests that bournemouth did. however, sources inside anfield say these images “lack context”, and it seems to be becoming a footballing litmus test

Appears this is also true for fascism.

I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."
Ernest Hemingway

It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.