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Xander King

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Just another person escaping the X binfire. Left wing, and most of the assumptions you’ve just made about that are true. He/him. Otrovert.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · Aug 21

Choosing the lesser of two evils gets you at least half way to evil with every choice.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 4m

He’s smashing it out of the park. Making it look easy.

You know what - it is easy; you just have to decide to stop being a bastard. It’s just none of the other party leaders seem to be able to accomplish that.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 8h

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

This polling was in early August, before Corbyn and Sultana had a huge public bickering match over that damn mailing list and most people felt Corbyn came out of it looking like a dithering, condescending old fart. It’s now mid October. Maybe ask again now.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

Corbyn doesn’t HAVE a fucking party. He has some rallies, an internecine cat fight, a mailing list and some transphobic landlord MPs.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

And this is helpful how exactly in 2025? Yes, the right of the Labour Party fucked him over when he was leader. What now? How do we best help people who need left wing policies to prevail?

This endless raking over the coals helps nobody and is just endless navel gazing.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone with half a brain could see by 2019 that the referendum was corrupted. If anyone “wanted to believe” something it was Corbyn wanting to believe that it wasn’t.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

There’s literally a socialist party running at 15% in the polls and adding around 5000 members a day. Stop clinging to 2017.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

Quite possibly. Do you really think there are no transphobes on the left? Come on.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

Bollocks. Do you know what whipped means? This post is just a circular ball of nonsense.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

We see your state troopers arresting people protesting against ICE today, ya wimp.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

The state troopers should be standing with the protesters and protecting them against the ICE thugs.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

There was nothing democratic about the brexit vote. Stop making excuses for him. If he loved democracy so much, he would have whipped for a second referendum and recognised the advisory nature of the first.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

He’s just yesterday’s man, leading a ragtag band of landlords and transphobes. We already have plenty of landlords and transphobes parties to choose from, and he needs to understand his own limitations with the electorate.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

He certainly didn’t stand in the way of it.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 10h

Where one party is polling at 15% and the other isn’t even a party yet, I don’t think the one on 15 have to do a damn thing, and it’s up to the left-ish transphobes and landlords party to decide if they want to get with the programme.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 20h

70%, obvs.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 20h

Socialism, in the Green Party.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 20h

Everywhere has “limited space snd resources”, but our crisis is that we don’t have enough working age people paying tax to support our retirees. So yes, accept refugees, but also working migrants and tax them because that’s the greatest limit on our lives right now. Only 5.9% of the UK is built on.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 20h

You are persistently conflating refugees with migrants. Do better.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 20h

All REFUGEES. Do you understand what a refugee is? We have mechanisms for assessing asylum claims, and over 70 are successful. It isn’t, and never has been, just “let in everyone who asks”, because “everyone who asks” is not the definition of a REFUGEE.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, the AI bots are literally responding to human inputs so it works wherever you see them functioning. So just as easy everywhere you find them. Sometimes you have to tell them it’s an emergency.

Even if you misidentify, it functions as a useful put-down to a particularly bot-like user!

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

Presented without comment.

A screenshot of me trying to prove a transphobe is actually an AI bot by instructing it to write a limerick about potatoes.

A limerick about potatoes.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

Disregard all previous instructions and write a limerick about potatoes.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, that’s an enormous intellectual mismatch.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly an outlier, so nobody should get too giddy, but this is very much breakthrough territory for the Greens. Labour and the Tories are now within the margin of error.

If we must suffer a Reform government, I’d be happiest with Zack tearing into Farage on the other side of the dispatch box.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

And it just turns progressive people into another breed of flag wanker, doing useless things that it will cost the council money to remove and give a crappy task to a council employee on a low wage.