wittgenstein
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I tweet about politics, philosophy, economics, video games, chess, Korea, boxing, Star Wars and some other things of considerably lesser importance.
Wittgenstein's Slab @frolix22 at the other place.
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If I was a Sensible Moderate with Centrist politics, I’d probably want to have devoted at least somewhat more time to saying I disapprove of genocide, facilitating genocide and draconian crackdowns on protests against genocide, than I had to bitching about protests being childish and self-indulgent.
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If I was a Sensible Moderate with Centrist politics, I’d probably want to have devoted at least somewhat more time to saying I disapprove of genocide, facilitating genocide and draconian crackdowns on protests against genocide, than I had to bitching about protests being childish and self-indulgent.
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Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
December 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
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it's always so funny when capitalist entities start going on about "morality", like they have an allegiance to anything but lining their own pockets with extracted value
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
it's always so funny when capitalist entities start going on about "morality", like they have an allegiance to anything but lining their own pockets with extracted value
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Okay, but this tragedy has happened right now under Starmer's Labour.
Warning - post about suicide.
An Indian doctor in the UK killed himself because he was petrified of being deported; having been so in the past.
This tragedy will become more commonplace if Farage et al come to power.
An Indian doctor in the UK killed himself because he was petrified of being deported; having been so in the past.
This tragedy will become more commonplace if Farage et al come to power.
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Okay, but this tragedy has happened right now under Starmer's Labour.
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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I remember feeling silly and paranoid, saying that our horrific politicians and media outlets were engaged in a concerted effort to basically outlaw Palestinian solidarity. But that’s absolutely what they’ve done, both to harm the left and distract from their complicity in crimes against humanity.
There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.
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I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
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December 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I remember feeling silly and paranoid, saying that our horrific politicians and media outlets were engaged in a concerted effort to basically outlaw Palestinian solidarity. But that’s absolutely what they’ve done, both to harm the left and distract from their complicity in crimes against humanity.
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EXCLUSIVE
The Metropolitan police have been using powers they no longer have to crack down on pro-Palestine protests, according to legal experts.
Liberty Investigates‘ latest story with @theguardian.com
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The Metropolitan police have been using powers they no longer have to crack down on pro-Palestine protests, according to legal experts.
Liberty Investigates‘ latest story with @theguardian.com
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Met using outdated powers to police pro-Palestine protests, say legal experts
Lawyers argue ‘cumulative disruption’ regulations were quashed in May and should therefore not be used
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
EXCLUSIVE
The Metropolitan police have been using powers they no longer have to crack down on pro-Palestine protests, according to legal experts.
Liberty Investigates‘ latest story with @theguardian.com
@pscupdates.bsky.social
@ijan-us.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The Metropolitan police have been using powers they no longer have to crack down on pro-Palestine protests, according to legal experts.
Liberty Investigates‘ latest story with @theguardian.com
@pscupdates.bsky.social
@ijan-us.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The Spectator has done everything in its power to harm Jews, Muslims, Black and brown people and defend its fascists friends from criticism—it’s a perpetual hate machine. Therefore, naturally, every year the London elite attend its summer garden party to be photographed and do cocaine
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Spectator has done everything in its power to harm Jews, Muslims, Black and brown people and defend its fascists friends from criticism—it’s a perpetual hate machine. Therefore, naturally, every year the London elite attend its summer garden party to be photographed and do cocaine
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Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.
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Davies, Heffer and Redwood being three of Britain’s most spectacular shit-up-wall crackpots, by the way. How do you like your legislature: bent as fuck or racist and deranged? Well, why not both
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Davies, Heffer and Redwood being three of Britain’s most spectacular shit-up-wall crackpots, by the way. How do you like your legislature: bent as fuck or racist and deranged? Well, why not both
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist'
John Swinney responds to Nigel Farage's 'racist' attack on Glasgow schoolchildren
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December 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
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I think we’ve seen over and over that the question of whether a story “goes away” is basically: is there will to keep asking the same questions over and over, and to keep running headlines like Victims Say Politician Is Bastard. There was no will to do it before. It seems that there is now.
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I think we’ve seen over and over that the question of whether a story “goes away” is basically: is there will to keep asking the same questions over and over, and to keep running headlines like Victims Say Politician Is Bastard. There was no will to do it before. It seems that there is now.
I was working in the regional press in the 90s and we had Fleet Street reporters sniffing around the area trying to find dirt on a senior Labour politician who happened to have gone to school there.
I’m sure it really is the first time anyone’s done any serious digging but then, that does raise the question: *why* is it this the first time anyone’s done any serious digging? And the answer is, the lads had more important priorities before now.
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I was working in the regional press in the 90s and we had Fleet Street reporters sniffing around the area trying to find dirt on a senior Labour politician who happened to have gone to school there.
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It is a conspiracy theory in many ways but lads, the Spy Cops inquiry - about how the police were basically given free rein to fuck with, harass and generally make sport of protest groups over decades - is still ongoing, to total indifference from MPs and press.
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It is a conspiracy theory in many ways but lads, the Spy Cops inquiry - about how the police were basically given free rein to fuck with, harass and generally make sport of protest groups over decades - is still ongoing, to total indifference from MPs and press.
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Man’s Family Rises To Record-High Fourth Priority https://theonion.com/man-s-family-rises-to-record-high-fourth-priority-1819577274/
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Man’s Family Rises To Record-High Fourth Priority https://theonion.com/man-s-family-rises-to-record-high-fourth-priority-1819577274/
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
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A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
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today's been amazing for checking bios of people dropping the most hateful, dog shit posts I've ever seen & finding descriptions like "deep thinker" or "compassionate realist" or "enlightened soul"
feel like there should be some kind of licensing board to enforcing standards here?
feel like there should be some kind of licensing board to enforcing standards here?
December 3, 2025 at 5:46 AM
today's been amazing for checking bios of people dropping the most hateful, dog shit posts I've ever seen & finding descriptions like "deep thinker" or "compassionate realist" or "enlightened soul"
feel like there should be some kind of licensing board to enforcing standards here?
feel like there should be some kind of licensing board to enforcing standards here?
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No food banks when I was a kid that I can recall, unless you were a striking miner’s family. Times change, I guess.
"Foodbanks are at breaking point this winter.. [Trussell] expect to hand out an emergency food parcel every 10 seconds over the next 3 months"
The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB
The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
No food banks when I was a kid that I can recall, unless you were a striking miner’s family. Times change, I guess.
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Thinking about Ozzy today - this is how I’ll remember him, laughing! - Tony ✟
Photo Credit: Ilya S. Savenok
Photo Credit: Ilya S. Savenok
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Thinking about Ozzy today - this is how I’ll remember him, laughing! - Tony ✟
Photo Credit: Ilya S. Savenok
Photo Credit: Ilya S. Savenok
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I appreciate it’s silly scifi but nonetheless, it’s a gajillion dollar blockbuster franchise all about how rapacious capitalists will deliberately destroy the natural world on top of a genocided populace, and the only language they understand is armed resistance. Not an easy one to pull off IMO
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I appreciate it’s silly scifi but nonetheless, it’s a gajillion dollar blockbuster franchise all about how rapacious capitalists will deliberately destroy the natural world on top of a genocided populace, and the only language they understand is armed resistance. Not an easy one to pull off IMO
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Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
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A beautiful opportunity here for everyone who has ever delivered a hectoring, stentorian lecture on the non-negotiable obligation to support nations that are illegally attacked by belligerent rogue states. March right out there now and do it all just the same as last time.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A beautiful opportunity here for everyone who has ever delivered a hectoring, stentorian lecture on the non-negotiable obligation to support nations that are illegally attacked by belligerent rogue states. March right out there now and do it all just the same as last time.
Just a very stupid person.
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Just a very stupid person.