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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 19m

The Aporia -> UnHerd -> Times pipeline is getting quicker and quicker

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 3h

It is worth reiterating that Tom Jones - a Tory Councillor and regular contributor to The Critic and CapX - regularly engages on good terms with known fascist Raw Egg Nationalist

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 3h

People are mates with this guy too

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 14h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 4h

If we had internet gatekeepers, guys who wrote for Nazi sites wouldn't be writing about the need for internet gatekeepers.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 4h

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 5h

I'm old enough to remember when anything other than getting the flag of Europe tattooed on your arse made you a traitor to the Labour Party

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 5h

You'd think an ostensibly left wing party's underlying strategy would be winning votes by improving lives with a progressive programme, but no priority #1 is five more years' free tickets, even if that means giving the far-right a chance by becoming more right wing yourself

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 10h

I think the McSweeney strategy is the right one, because most marginal seats are Labour-Reform contests

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 22h

A visual illustration

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 22h

Well I didn't know Half-Life 2 hate was a thing (well, not hate, but saying it's not GOAT tier). Ocarina of Time I can kind of get and have seen expressed before, but Half-Life 2 for me has always been a ridiculous achievement for the time that to be honest didn't get enough recognition at the time

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23h

Damn yo what if the United States empire was collapsing. Just imploding & losing all its function because its white supremacist history culminated in a dictator. That would be crazy, yo. Nah that would never happen.

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 1d

I assume this is American, but we're getting like this over here too, what with the "Smile! You're on CCTV" signs on people's houses, and security gates like something off fucking Scarface. Doesn't exactly say "Let's have a chat and a brew sometime"

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Aberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social · 1d

The insane ramblings of the mad c**t we sell our data to.
Mad man.
We really need to stop giving them money and power. Give them therapy instead. Therapy in a nice secure hospital.

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

The Critic?? Never!

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

Even though outside of academia they're telling everyone to read the work of those who do

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking hell. Cambridge is one that seems dodgy too, most obviously with Nathan Cofnas, but also with Rob Henderson

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

I think it would implicate too many important people, from those who are deeply involved in it (e.g., Steven Pinker, Michael Gove), to those amplifying it from the edges (e.g., Ed West, Sam Bowman), to those who are previous or current allies (e.g., Sam Freedman, Rob Ford)

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha, I forgot about that article. I used to subscribe to their magazine - so many handy tips for taking over all the institutions!

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

This is why the people who point to some left-leaning policy report published by the likes of the Fabians or the IPPR as proof that Labour isn't as right wing as some say can do one. Those people have no power, Labour's rightmost factions are in charge

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking hell this is good. Can't remember a British politician ever speaking like this on a mainstream news & current affairs programme. Or anywhere, for that matter

The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 2d

Zack Polanski used the ‘F’ word twice on BBCQT last night… and the audience applauded him for it 👇

"You actually are a fascist from a far right party… this is racism, this is facism and we should call it out"

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

Torsten Bell's going to be too left wing for these lot at this rate

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM is reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control • UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has been accused of pushing some of his last remaining progressive allies out of government, as he embarks on another shake-up of his Downing Street operation designed to empower his chief secretary, Darren Jones. The prime minister is overseeing a reorganisation of several key parts of his government, including the delivery and policy units, to refocus the policy work and give Jones more direct control of the machinery of government. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2d

Quite remarkable how the completely wishy-washy, vague, let's-all-be-nice "progressive" label is now marking people out as too hardline for the leadership of the Labour Party.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM is reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control • UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has been accused of pushing some of his last remaining progressive allies out of government, as he embarks on another shake-up of his Downing Street operation designed to empower his chief secretary, Darren Jones. The prime minister is overseeing a reorganisation of several key parts of his government, including the delivery and policy units, to refocus the policy work and give Jones more direct control of the machinery of government. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

"How can we have infinite growth on a finite planet?" is something we could do with politicians being asked more regularly

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3d

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed (and it's amazing how many of them have links to Noah Carl). I reckon he means it because even the less full-on ones in his tribe have flirted with this stuff, like Eric Kaufmann and Jonathan Haidt (see below)

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · Mar 7

Reminder that Jonathan Haidt is a bad egg too

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 3d

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry for your loss, Phil. They're incredible animals, and it looks like she had the great kind of life she deserved

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