Of course, refusing to work with extremists is much more likely to bolster, legitimise and spread their views than working with them in a way that bolsters, legitimises and spreads their views

The word ‘laws’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting

They are just trying to get us used to the idea that the military can just enter states and do what they are ordered to - normalizing it!

Pronouns in your bio = bigot repellent

If you believe a world is possible in which everyone is doing more or less ok, you’re an unrealistic dreamer. Because people are conditioned to believe that mass human suffering is inevitable, and it’s just a question of who (so just make sure it ain’t you)

People are saying the policies are more important but the reason this is so scary is it encapsulates the point we’ve reached: where the US government know they can Nazi salute without consequence, and global leaders adopt a policy of appeasement

English is an EU language

I suppose so. The official reports I’ve seen say there are so few trans prisoners that such data is statistically insignificant, so they don’t provide it

Do you know where the official data is? I can’t find the source

He doesn’t care if it’s true and neither does the Telegraph. It’s about creating a narrative to manipulate people. It’s the repetition that’s effective, not the credibility of the lies

They want to make sure GPs are too scared to prescribe (the few who haven’t already been scared off). It doesn’t matter that they don’t have a case; no GP wants to risk being taken to court over this

One of my favs

Because UK billionaires are benign influences on our democracy and it’s just those pesky foreign ones we need to stop

I don’t want billionaire Brits buying our democracy either. Let’s just fund political parties centrally

Their contempt for the working classes is visceral