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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2h

Of all the times and contexts to discuss prison safety 😆sure, an important issue. But this ends up seeming 1% about that and 99% that you're sad about a famous nonce dying.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think it's just about being easiest. I think it's a very strategic attempt to weaken and sow division in LGBTQI+. And this is just the first step. Christian nationalists have made that overly clear.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2h

It'd be good to just have people respond with why are you asking this shit that you never would have asked ten years ago. A bigger audience need to know why they're having the topic thrown at them every day, and the harm it's doing.

Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2h

It's so true. Almost all cries of virtue signalling are a total giveaway of someone being a massive bigot and secretly hoping others are too. They can't seem to grasp anyone genuinely caring.

The only actual virtue signalling it turns out, was tech companies on diversity.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2h

Are we sure he even existed? Seemed like a lazily written caricature.

Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2h

Guessing Israel will just turn up to the world cup anyway.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 3h

They're never worried about running out of other people's money for wars or for themselves.

At some point they'll have to accept running out of other people's money for capitalism as the majority won't have any.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 7h

There's little point arguing with takes like that. They know it's nonsense and they don't remotely believe it.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just their hoarding wealth. It's how much money that money makes. The sums involved are so vast you can't stop it growing and growing. And in a world of finite resources, that suffocates everyone else.

So the problem isn't just their money now. It's their money tomorrow.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Most of them don't even live here, they just own the assets. If they want to throw a tantrum at being a fraction less rich and sell off those assets at a far bigger discount than the tax they'd pay, then fine.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2d

Problem there is that those still backing Labour would rather Reform win that any actually left wing party.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2d

I think they can get to 20-22% in an election. Which could well come second. Can't see reform dipping below 30% with all the help the media and labour are giving them though.

Still, half their MPs won't turn up or will get suspended within weeks.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2d

Those votes would go to independents otherwise. No one is voting Labour when their priorities are so close to Reform.

Many already did a "vote for the shit option to get the Tories out" and they just got more Tories. It's not a sustainable tactic.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2d

Well it was decided that was happening quite some time ago now. The only escape would be a Reform implosion and a coalition. But Labour would rather Reform than join forces with the Greens.

Even when Reform are in power I bet labour spend more time attacking the left.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 2d

Who cares what he believes. We want good tournaments. They need to regularly be held in major footballing nations, where the infrastructure and weather can ensure a half decent tournament.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

Shame for them really as Putin and the Express have a shitload in common and could be great mates.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

Saw this one earlier. Of all the ways to get that message out there

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

He's not the only one either. Don't these people realise that whatever you write on a flag, most will still just see the flag, so you're adding to the fucking flags.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

Feel like it's every industry now. Bigger and bigger money at the top. But impossible for the majority to get by, leaving us missing out on huge amounts of diverse art. Many will just never start now given the money it takes.

But I don't want all art to just be rich people's kids.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 4d

As if bullying ever went away. This stuff is always written by people who haven't been at school in many decades.

I was badly bullied. A) it didn't have any benefits. B) it'd be so much worse in the age of social media and camera films.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 4d

Think you're massively overstating her talent there.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 4d

There's no zen on any social media without doing something about the growing and dangerously comfortable bigotry. Whether it's racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia.

Let's at least start with not amplifying it, defending it or drowning it in false equivalence.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 5d

Does he ever explain exactly what fascist traits Farage is lacking?

Feels like centrism is built around only calling out fascism or genocide or any human rights abuses retrospectively. Ideally when mainstream enough to be profitable as a journalist.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 5d

Always find it ironic that such sweeping statements on lack of curiosity often lack the curiosity to consider different childhoods, income groups, access to education, disability and neurodiversity.

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Ade @adereynolds.bsky.social · 6d

Another daft racist helping out more racist racists who'll turn on them.

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