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Xander King

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Just another person escaping the X binfire. Left wing, and most of the assumptions you’ve just made about that are true. He/him. Otrovert.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · Aug 21

Choosing the lesser of two evils gets you at least half way to evil with every choice.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 15h

The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage

And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 2h

This is an extremely long article to say “because I am a grasping moral vacuum without a decent booking in ages”

He says David Chapelle can’t be doing this for the money because he’s already rich. Rich people are famous for not chasing yet more money, of course. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 11h

Billy. Stop this. You’re now just tarring the entire “white working class” (whatever that is these days) as intransigent wankers, incapable of reasoning and changing their views.

And an opinion about a flag is not immutable. FFS.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 16h

a man is holding a microphone and making a funny face .

ALT: a man is holding a microphone and making a funny face .

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 21h

Unpopular parties do this…

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 21h

It’s not an election communication, so those rules don’t apply, and the green is House of Commons green, which all MPs are allowed to use, but it’s still dishonourable.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 22h

This isn’t as bad as some. Last election the Tories mimicked the colour, layout and typeface of Green Party leaflets, and doing the tiny print minimum disclosure of who it actually was from on the back. Shady AF.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 22h

Please do. And we’ll be ready and waiting when you are.😊

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 22h

It is a live issue in the party right now, and you would find others who support your position too. When we say it’s a democratic party, we mean it.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 22h

So be part of the party addressing the issue. Don’t leave it to others to do it for you. I suspect what you’re getting at is the Green opposition to NATO

I happen to agree with you (I suspect) that the UK should remain in NATO but should push for far-reaching reform, including scrapping GDP targets

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think the Express has ever had any relationship with journalism.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 23h

It’s rather disappointing from him.

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