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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 8h

It’s just like that story in the Twilight Zone movie, where there’s that fucking dumb child in charge of life-and-death everything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 8h

It’s just like that story in the Twilight Zone movie, where there is that fucking dumb child in charge of life-and-death everything

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 10h

I spoke to a brexiter a couple of weeks ago who acknowledged all the economic and immigration problems it had caused and still thought it was brilliant thing to have done.

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 10h

You can completely lie about being an undercover cop and even father a child with the woman you are deceiving and that is fine.

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 10h

Ivory towers

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 12h

Could never get hold of the saltpeter. Probably for the best

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 14h

A valid criticism of communism (IMO) is that central planning is more brittle and prone to devastating mistakes, rather than many individuals making smaller economic decisions. But we seem to be at a similar place with insane, and insanely powerful, billionaires www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to charity.

www.reuters.com

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 14h

This effortlessly catchy track popped into my Spotify feed the other day and then I see they’re playing round here next month - what a win! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe this will be a ‘holding on for Christmas’ like thing, where he’s been hanging in there to get this…

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 14h

Haha brilliant - and thanks for the gift of new music!

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 14h

Feels like they have whole heartedly bought into the post Trump centrist messaging about saying nothing to upset people on the right and are now utterly anodyne.

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 15h

‘Music to hobble to’

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 15h

Because it’s impossible to buy back everything she sold off, or cast off, to give us that fleeting feeling of wealth.

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 15h

I hope it’s a lot more exciting than reading that piece (sorry Zoe)

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 15h

As you get older you realise there are a frightening amount of people who genuinely think nothing they do is ever wrong.

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 15h

Same for trans people Dan?

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 19h

Spelling those 2 words differently is doing my head in.

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 19h

Nope. Next.

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been shown time and time again that barely any super rich move because of tax.

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 1d

We have an ivory tower media class, entirely immune to the impact of their pronouncements on policy, on everything from business to social care.

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 1d

Cass said this a month later

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 2d

‘While we were mono focused on indulging bigots whipping up a morale panic, China built five nuclear reactors’

minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 2d

Do aggressive integration policies prevent white people fleeing when an someone of another ethnicity moves next door?

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 2d

Because the media love it when she trashes trans people - look

New statesman article Kemi Badenoch and the legal definition of sex
The presumptive front-runner for the next Conservative leadership contest has been unfairly vilified.

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 2d

Mate - May ruled out Single Market membership in her Lancaster House speech in Jan 2017. Labour adopted the 2nd ref policy in June 2019. You’ve got this all arse around tit and Corbyn did nothing to persuade the Tories in those 2.5 years

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