The desire to protect people fleeing atrocities & to live in a society of equality and respect are, I’m pleased to inform you, STILL VERY MAINSTREAM VIEWS.

I'm basically entering the third act of my life and I fucking hate the extent to which it is and will continue to be defined by donald fucking trump.

Print and send this chart (from your newsletter on Tuesday) to every household in the country.

Think about this a lot. My most hippy-dippy belief is this: constant, expensive, powerful right-wing hate campaigns do a lot of damage, but properly packaged decency sells quicker, and for a lot less, cf. my 77yo dad is solid on trans issues cos of a single sympathetic Corrie plotline from 20yrs ago

When presented economy vs immigration trade-offs, Britons typically opt for economic benefit over lower migration

Those who support requiring large nos of migrants to leave would pick fully staffing NHS over reducing immigration, but economic arguments hold less sway

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

I declare this National Brotherhood Week in memoriam Tom Lehrer
youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?...

Like maybe if you want people with different views to unify with you and be more open, model that yourself?

This goes for a lot of people of different stripes on here.

Civil disagreement is a dying art!

It's Siderea's Two Moral Modes again (siderea.dreamwidth.org/1249694.html, if you've never read it)

From part three: "all three of the big Abrahamic monotheisms look like Mode 1 attempts to channel, subvert, and generally manage Mode 2 morality" [Mode 1 is universalism, Mode 2 is tribalism]