People love saying Starmer is a human rights lawyer but they never talk about what side of human rights law he was on.

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Sat in a big sulk demanding that someone reverse the car up the cliff and put it back on the road.

I am so looking forward to the complete electoral obliteration of these fuckers.

No, not at all! As I said, I think you're right about the puritanism. I was going for a more general reflection on capitalism; apologies if that didn't get across.

A selection of YP & fellow travellers conspiracy theories about Zack Polanski:

I think you're right about the puritanism. On the other hand, supporting and respecting workers whle thinking the people they work for are gross is a pretty solid position most of the time.

Four too many.

got called clumsy at a McDonald's today

If you only fight censorship right up to the line where it becomes your definition of porn, refusing to have solidarity with pornographers, I can't find it in me to care about your problems. You've shown you don't care about mine and will bounce the moment you get what benefits you.

Historically speaking, the problem of the overwhelming power of royalty and aristocracy has been resolved by the wealthy agreeing to reduced influence. The alternative to that has traditionally been them accepting reduced stature, in the sense they are personally made about seven inches shorter.

As a matter of survival, our response must be to make it as costly as we can, as ugly and as reputationally damaging and as expensive as we are able to - to abandon and sacrifice trans people.

To keep it from being an easy, simple bottom line decision to drive us out of public life.

I want to be clear that I'm not trying to put Jess specifically on blast here - I'm trying to point out that, as a matter of tactics, there is no benefit to, and no reason for, trans people to attempt to understand how hard it would have been for an org to fight for us.

That avails us nothing.