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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 8h

The *only* way to build a n anti-racist working-class movement that encompasses all workers regardless of racial identity is by organising around shared cross-cultural class experiences: exploitative bosses, shitty landlords, brutal cops.

Not being drawn into a slack-jawed flag waving competition.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 8h

The 'white working class' does not exist.

The British working class:
1. Was always far more diverse than portrayed, even back into its medieval roots, and
2. Has always existed in direct communion with non-white workers all over the world.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 9h

The fact that you dismiss the white working class as racists I find really troubling. Those gammons on X are a tiny but noisy minority. Most are fair-minded people who struggle to make ends meet. If our politics is not about making their lives better, what is it for?

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 11h

Wait a second...

Convicted harasser and leader of Britain First, Paul Golding.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 11h

This is still the most batshit argument.

Sad to report that if we had to pay for everything we stole, it would kill my critically important Selling Things Off The Back Of A Wagon business.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 12h

Six months ago, the fancy autocorrect told me to put glue on my pizza. Now it's telling me I'm in the Matrix and to shoot my grandma's dog and kill myself.

How is this gonna do shit beyond give shitty bosses the excuse to fire people and degrade their services to unusable junk?

The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 15h

The idea that a handful of penniless refugees who cannot even vote are somehow more responsible for the country's ills than actual multi-billionaires who literally wine and dine Cabinet members is so absurd that it barely merits rational address. Sort yourself out, for goodness sake.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 17h

What price is an incremental improvement in a narrow band of workers - worth trading for a pogrom against trans people, televised deportations of migrants, arming a genocide against Palestinians?

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 17h

Haha oh boy wouldn't it be a thing if the government had mortgaged the whole economic fortunes of the country on these obviously overinflated penny stocks

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 18h

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 17h

The working-class has only one flag, the world over - the red flag of international socialism.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 18h

It has never been 'our' flag - the flag of the British or English working-class. It has only ever been draped over the swords of our oppressors at home and over the coffins of our dead sons abroad.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 18h

The Butcher's Apron & the flag of St George were flown by regiments of Redcoats slaughtering unarmed indigenous people. By ships transporting human beings for sale halfway across the world. They have flown over steaming piles of corpses the world over, an irredeemable symbol of war and imperialism.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Broke: Two state solution

Woke: One state solution

Bespoke: No state solution

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

The degree of casual contempt that Reeves shows for the environment - and which is clearly a cynical attempt to fit in with the finance bros she's trying in vain to court - is truly breathtaking.

Capitalism is necessarily anti-ecological. We cannot undo climate change without socialism.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Just a staggering political achievement. The two Parties of Capital, both of which are more than a century old, barely scraping a third of the electorate between them.

Now Is The Time Of Monsters.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New YouGov Westminster poll:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

So JKR claiming that anti-genocide protesters want to 'kill Jews in Manchester' is wholly consistent with:
1. Extreme end-of-life toxic mould syndrome
2. Transphobia being a gateway to literal fascist white nationalism.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Wherever fascism has achieved actual power, it was encouraged, enabled and ultimately *placed into power* by 'moderate right wingers' who believed they could hitch their interests to the fascist bandwagon. The entity of history disagrees with you.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

The 'mainstream right' has largely always only ever been a motley collection of shy Nazis and working-class rubes outside the aristocratic tent. They've been *itching* for a chance to do actual fascism, and their demise is merely because they've been beaten to the punch.

Goodbye.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

Alternatively: lol, lmao.

The Tory Party has been historically responsible for some of the worst crimes of empire, including genocides and massacres at home and abroad: the Bengal Famine, the Irish Potato Famine, the Peterloo Massacre... Their demise is a fundamental step towards universal justice.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 1d

When IS the right time to protest against a government intimately involved in genocide?

Of course such a government would never accept the legitimacy of any such protest. The weaponising of murdered innocents is simply using British Jews as the vilest possible human shield.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 2d

Am I a neo-Luddite?

Do I see the necessity of targeted property damage to defend communities that are being ravaged by callous plutocrats wielding new technologies that serve only to centralise wealth and power in their hands?

Absolutely. Any less is a failure of social duty.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 2d

*Charles X intensifies*

Will he appoint Another Polignac?

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

France’s new prime minister resigns after less than a month in the job

www.independent.co.uk

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 3d

Literally the only thing that Labour has is a hollow mantra of 'growth growth growth' backed up by endless doubling down on self-defeating authoritarianism.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 3d

Could AIs theoretically have personhood? Yes.

Should we be bigoted against such non-human persons? No.

Is the jumped-up autocorrect that tells you to kill yourself such a non-human person? Don't be fucking ridiculous.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 3d

Liberals are not on the Left, criticising them is not 'sowing division', hope this helps x

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 3d

Strange how the libs have gone from writing inspirational children's books about Great Thunberg when she was making moral arguments against climate change, to ignoring her now that she's logically progressed to an anti-capitalist activist determined to stop a genocide.

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