Naadir
@randomvariable.co.uk
Working on tech
He/Him
London, UK
Left non-statist
He/Him
London, UK
Left non-statist
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I mean it's a bit awkward but ultimately all this "aha gotcha" stuff has achieved over the last 30 years is pushing them more towards explicitly saying what they really mean.
When people like Lucy White thunder the explicit racism of "there should not be a single person born in Pakistan in the UK House of Commons", ask them whether Boris Johnson, who was born in America, should have been permitted to be the Mayor of London, an MP, and the PM.
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I mean it's a bit awkward but ultimately all this "aha gotcha" stuff has achieved over the last 30 years is pushing them more towards explicitly saying what they really mean.
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"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
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State of Journalism talk: These people with their sex stuff in public and absent ethics are vapid, venal freaks. Yes. But they are not the problem. The people who put them in those jobs - precisely because they're vapid, venal freaks - are the problem. And aint no one talking about them.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
State of Journalism talk: These people with their sex stuff in public and absent ethics are vapid, venal freaks. Yes. But they are not the problem. The people who put them in those jobs - precisely because they're vapid, venal freaks - are the problem. And aint no one talking about them.
Look at Britain, we barely have anything *other* than access journalists, and we've got harsh anti trans and anti migrant fascism being done by both parties, and economic suicide that cost 8% of GDP.
Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Look at Britain, we barely have anything *other* than access journalists, and we've got harsh anti trans and anti migrant fascism being done by both parties, and economic suicide that cost 8% of GDP.
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Brazil tried to warn us
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Brazil tried to warn us
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If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
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you don't have to pay attention to these people
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
you don't have to pay attention to these people
Reflect foreign influence of our greatest allies whose "values we share"
i've been saying this for a bit & it puts you on the very edge of acceptable opinion in the uk - saying our anti-immigrant crap reflect foreign influence (much less foreign fascist influence) is treated as basically a conspiracy theory in many quarters
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Reflect foreign influence of our greatest allies whose "values we share"
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modern fascism has global ambitions, example 578
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable in which Rubio orders diplomats in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to press for immigration limits and cite crime. They’re also told to report on governments that are pro-immigration. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
modern fascism has global ambitions, example 578
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With every outright racist things he says I think back to his former students and colleagues at a pretty diverse university who had to work with someone who clearly did not respect or value them.
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
With every outright racist things he says I think back to his former students and colleagues at a pretty diverse university who had to work with someone who clearly did not respect or value them.
US catching up with the UK here.
Anti-fascist groups newly listed as foreign terrorist organizations “barely exist and certainly aren’t terrorists,” says @heidibeirich.bsky.social — a move experts warn diverts attention from the real threat: escalating far-right violence at home and abroad.
Read more from @theguardian.com:
Read more from @theguardian.com:
Anti-fascist groups named as US terror threats ‘barely exist’, experts say
Designation of groups from Italy, Germany and Greece labelled ‘ridiculous’ as experts say no active threat posed
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
US catching up with the UK here.
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Imagine going through life like this
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Imagine going through life like this
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Heading into 2026 like this
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Heading into 2026 like this
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Ok, but starmer is a racist too
Starmer calls on Farage to apologise to his alleged victims of racial abuse at school
Starmer calls on Farage to apologise to his alleged victims of racial abuse at school
Prime minister says Reform leader’s explanations about alleged comments are ‘unconvincing to say the least’
Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to his school contemporaries who claim the Reform leader racially abused them while at Dulwich College.
The Guardian reported last week the testimony of Peter Ettedgui, who said a 13-year-old Farage “would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ok, but starmer is a racist too
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Opportunity to equalise rates of tax and eliminate cliff edges in marginal rates, missed. Opportunity to reform stamp duty, missed. Opportunity to shift tax burden away from workers, missed. Opportunity to incentivise investment, undermined. Opportunity to drive EV adoption, undermined...
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Opportunity to equalise rates of tax and eliminate cliff edges in marginal rates, missed. Opportunity to reform stamp duty, missed. Opportunity to shift tax burden away from workers, missed. Opportunity to incentivise investment, undermined. Opportunity to drive EV adoption, undermined...
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Overall, a good budget.
But: mostly small changes. End of two-child cap essential but overdue. Plenty of risks to headroom. Arguably not enough done on cost of living.
But: mostly small changes. End of two-child cap essential but overdue. Plenty of risks to headroom. Arguably not enough done on cost of living.
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Overall, a good budget.
But: mostly small changes. End of two-child cap essential but overdue. Plenty of risks to headroom. Arguably not enough done on cost of living.
But: mostly small changes. End of two-child cap essential but overdue. Plenty of risks to headroom. Arguably not enough done on cost of living.
Nigel Farage gets a free pass for being a Nazi at school 40+ years ago.
Do I get a free pass for being born 40+ years ago or am I forever a suspect subhuman?
Do I get a free pass for being born 40+ years ago or am I forever a suspect subhuman?
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nigel Farage gets a free pass for being a Nazi at school 40+ years ago.
Do I get a free pass for being born 40+ years ago or am I forever a suspect subhuman?
Do I get a free pass for being born 40+ years ago or am I forever a suspect subhuman?
And entirely predictable
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
And entirely predictable
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Won't somebody think of that poor marginalised group *checks notes* ...the racists
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Won't somebody think of that poor marginalised group *checks notes* ...the racists
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In other news, the fact Reeves is bringing up the stupid Zack stuff whilst having her ‘big moment’ shows how rattled and worried they are, keep it up
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
In other news, the fact Reeves is bringing up the stupid Zack stuff whilst having her ‘big moment’ shows how rattled and worried they are, keep it up
Never leave out Israel, the vanguard of the actually bipartisan postliberal fascist consensus.
3. We literally let Russia flood us with propaganda designed to undermine American cohesion, because far-right Republicans think it helps them politically. The Tories allowed Russian money to flood UK politics, and in return they committed great-power suicide via Brexit.
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Never leave out Israel, the vanguard of the actually bipartisan postliberal fascist consensus.
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1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
It sure seems like Vance leads a faction that is enamored of 🇷🇺's cultivated cultural conservative "soft power", reflexively anti-Atlanticist, and stupid enough to think that wedging 🇷🇺-🇨🇳 is a) realistic and b) worth trashing our relationship with the world's third largest economy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
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0.2% growth in productivity over five years from "AI".
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
Anyway, tech-wise, AI will have a "positive effect on productivity growth", the OBR say, with a 0.2 percentage point impact in five years
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
0.2% growth in productivity over five years from "AI".
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
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Look, I’m sure you can get GDP up a couple of .1’s if you increase the number of right wing media outlets
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Look, I’m sure you can get GDP up a couple of .1’s if you increase the number of right wing media outlets