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Do you chase married people round insisting they use their family name?
Or do you only feel entitled to be this pointlessly obnoxious to trans people?
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This is outrageous. The Sun knew on Friday the #BBCscandal story was nonsense but ran it anyway - slimed every BBC presenter to deflect from George Osborne & ‘The Email’, presumably.
That trash tabloid needs consigning to the dustbin of history, immediately.
The lawyer for the young person in the Sun story about the BBC presenter says they sent a denial to the paper on Friday evening saying there was "no truth to it" but the paper still went ahead with the story bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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I’m talking to you, for some reason, so how is that relevant?
Answer my question or sling your hook. Do you berate married people for changing their name?
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Get this racist off the airwaves & back to the 1800s, all @JuliaHB1 spreads is hateful bile. @talkRADIO - do you think dog whistling like this is fine & dandy?
Especially when the reason she blocked me was because I shared footage of her saying words on her own radio show.
i.e. Literally because she doesn't want to be held to account for her actions.
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Katy’s Cartoons are like a form of divination for this repulsive, genocidal crap. & all being pushed by people who don’t care about anyone who isn’t rich. It’s devastating - but also a huge, amoral distraction.
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Protest is legal.
Assault is not.
Justifying violence over political disagreement is part of the slippery slope to authoritarianism.
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He didn’t promote it, you’ve cherry picked a few words from @GeorgeMonbiot’s article arguing the purpose of the war wasn’t solely removing Saddam, & as such was unjust.
This stuff isn’t hard to check, John. Unless your purpose is bad faith clickbait.
theguardian.com/politics/200…
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That’s not what that says, unless you’re very hard of reading.
We have five years to stop using fossil fuels or we severely risk climate change making this planet uninhabitable in future. Which would wipe out humanity.
But sure. Poke fun for clicks. #dontlookup
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‘Rejected from the left’ - like it’s a gym and she’s had her membership cancelled by an overzealous receptionist.
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Anyone pretending that’s remotely comparable to (B)Rogan’s supremely casual N-bombing is arguing in the worst sort of bad faith. Keep fighting the good fight, Ana - TYT makes our day, we’re in the UK and stay up until 1am every day to watch the main show live. 👍👍
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@AnaKasparian you literally said it yourself. So why is it not bad faith when… you do it?
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Come now, Peter - you’ve got to do better than this. It’s a step away from being an apologist. They had ‘god is with us’ on their belts, the backing of the Catholic church - and butchered communists. ‘War taxes aren’t neoliberal’ ≠ left wing.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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“I am determined to improve… access to healthcare for all trans people”
Whilst banning puberty blockers from trans kids. Restricting access to healthcare for trans people.
What a culture war dirtbag. I hope there are 500 trans people in his constituency who can unseat him.
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Because it was racist as f*ck. She called a group of brown people holding a flag relating to Pakistani politics ‘Jew Haters’.
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I’m in favour of treating kids approaching puberty like young adults and giving them information which doesn’t pretend their feelings are weird. Treating them like china dolls achieves nothing - except opening them up to abuse, pregnancy & learning bad ideas about sex from porn.
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At 18, I’d never taken any drugs and genuinely didn’t have a clue what this poster was about - or why having it in my university dorm seemed to upset my family. I took it completely literally, and thought it meant ‘have a cigarette and fly a plane’. Now I know much better! 🤣
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James Acaster had that bellend sussed a couple of years ago.
piped.video/watch?v=adh0KGmg…
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I suppose it’s a few months since they soiled themselves over the Olympics, time for another round.
I feel I will never stop pointing out how irredeemably foolish bigotry makes people.
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Not precisely right wing in the way you’d like to describe right wing politics doesn’t mean ‘left wing progressives’. Utterly ridiculous and supremely selective.
Why is ‘turning children against parents / indoctrinating them’ ‘left’? You’ve presumably heard of Turning Point…
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Very well written. Especially the part about not getting bogged down in their bad faith nonsense.
My husband didn’t know the word for or concept of being gay when he was growing up in deepest darkest Toryville, that part really resonates.
Solidarity 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊
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GC reaction to blatant homophobia / misogyny from people like Stick (I swear @KatysCartoons is like cue cards for this circular crap)
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He reckons he’s trying to “start a run on the banks” over Farage.
Of course, it’s completely performative, as usual. ‘But don’t close my accounts!!’
He’s seemingly advertising all his worldly money will be in his possession in cash as of tmrw. Seems smart.
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GC = fascist. The cult is part of a hard right religious-nationalist surge, & is using the language and methods of the KKK. Call it what it is.
“The Women’s KKK… courted members through an insincere “empowerment feminism.” daily.jstor.org/a-brief-hist…
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The English literature GCSE reading list hasn’t changed in 25 years?! Wow.
What a starched mausoleum of a society.
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If that selfie is on his social media somewhere, maybe, possibly… but anyone with experience on gay dating apps will tell you it is far from uncommon to meet guys who are a horny mess & talk like bad erotica.
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I can see why you’d do it. After wading into that Guardian post they hijacked, I’m acutely reminded the cult all seem to run at least 20 alts. Do you recall that investigation finding most of the U.K. GC noise on Twitter is all from a small number of IP addresses?
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Well if it was legal you wouldn’t be woken up in the night by dealers - so that’d be half your problem sorted.
Also if it were legal we might well have a cannabis cafe culture like Amsterdam, so there’d likely be less smell in neighbourhoods.
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‘What to right’ 😆 definitely ask chat gta to do it.
I used to *write* 500 word essays every fortnight for subject blocks in international political economy - they were genuinely harder than 2,000+ word ones, staying in a low word count is rough when you’re actually interested.
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What a gem. How much better a world might it be if more of us were willing to say ‘I got that wrong’?
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In response to your last call, @mrjamesob @lbc - from Carl Sagan, on the power of the bamboozle:
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He’s going to be caught in some sort of dungeon, isn’t he? Out of his mind on coke, being gangbanged by everyone he insists is immoral.
Spreading LGBTQ phobia & hate is so often a cover for repressed desires & a salve for self-loathing.
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This is your life and here you are dead naming a trans person.
Once again: do you do that to married people who change their names, or only feel entitled to be an obnoxious asshole to trans people?
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#MaajidNawaz knowingly lied about his own brother being a suicide bomber in his fantastical autobiography. bylinetimes.com/2021/05/11/t… 👈 this investigative piece by @BylineTimes is incredible journalism.
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What stuck out to me was the reporting that the passengers view the ocean depths via external cameras. On screens.
So besides the risk & expense, you may as well lock yourself in a broom cupboard & watch Titanic wreck footage on YouTube.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I would be far more worried about being IDF ‘collateral damage’ than I would be about Hamas’s supposed committed homophobia if I visited Gaza. Like Hamas don’t have bigger problems. These endlessly repeated lines are so stupid.
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Have you always been this needlessly obnoxious to trans people or did you pick it up when it started trending?
Maybe you could nip down to Great Ormond Street and make fun of some bald kids for your next bit of pointless unpleasantness.
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Or by these 335,000 excess deaths:
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/m…
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I definitely wouldn’t want to be on the payroll full time, but do think it’s worthwhile when people like, say, Michael Walker occasionally go on and make a complete fool of the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg on his own show.
The GBeebies audience, such as it is, need to hear that.
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Right. It’s a coin, but it’s no longer money. This is what’s being (very patiently) explained to you.
Try and buy a coffee with a Roman coin and you’ll perhaps understand the difference.
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The links between the evangelical hard right and grifting, hateful transphobes are plain as day at this point - and go back to the start of this nasty culture war: xtramagazine.com/power/far-r…
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You spend literally all day tweeting about nothing else. Trans people are a tiny fraction of the population. It’s clearly an unhealthy obsession.
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This person has reached the bottom of the moral panic rabbit hole.
xtramagazine.com/power/far-r…
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This type of cross examination boils down to ‘but you’re a slag, right?’
It’s outrageous misogyny - even the police investigation process in the U.K. is horrific for victims. Drawn out. Disconnected. Frustrating. Humiliating.
Massive reform is needed urgently.
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We all know. The TERs all want the orange authoritarian - despite him being a rapist and responsible for a lethal rollback of abortion care. Being anti-trans is more important to these people than the rights they claim to fight for. They’ll trample women’s progress out of spite.
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Hey, GC crowd! Tell the group, in your own words, what ‘women’s rights’ you’re actually *for*. Go ahead.
(We already know the answer. Zero. Anything they say will solely be about excluding trans people from daily life by maliciously defaming them as dangerous predators).
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It’s not about you, Paul.
If being straight had been punishable by prison and brutal medical experiments within living memory, and still meant a much heightened chance of being attacked for holding your partner’s hand in public, maybe you could begin to understand.
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Nobody does that.
Diagrams and cartoons aren’t porn.
I had a book called ‘it’s perfectly normal’ aged 9 - and it was really helpful. Could read on my own time without feeling awkward asking parents questions.
If parents aren’t comfortable, tough, kids need to know life.
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From the way people like Eamon Holmes & Dan Wootton were talking, you’d think he was… worse than Prince Andrew. You know, the rapist Prince these ghouls did victim blaming for.
Schofield is seemingly no saint but this reeks of gay-bashing & hypocrisy.
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The 1980s called, they want their Section 28 noises back.
I didn’t come out until my early 20s, & the delay wasn’t because school was too encouraging and made it seem so normal!
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Only silly reactionaries fuss about clinging to colonial possessions - be they islands thousands of miles away or stolen art. And they’re called the Parthenon Marbles. The British Museum is effectively an evidence store for the state’s historic malfeasance.
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So much venom in these comments. People really do repeat any old trash they read, especially if they read it often enough & written with enough venom.
Andrew sexually assaulted a trafficked teen, astonishing how many will set that aside to ‘ah but she…’ did *nothing wrong*.
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Seen them kinda saying it’s their children’s fault? As though if they didn’t take the free tickets there’s apparently no other way they could see Taylor Swift.
Funny, my mates managed it without corporate sponsorship. Some even took their kids! Sorcery, I tell you.
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Still dodging that question. Do you go around insisting married people be called by their ‘original’ name? Well?
Attempt to answer, go on, you can clearly read to some extent.
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A tiny minority of trans people seeking not to be ostracised and to live normal lives… being pilloried by a very small but hyper-focused online cult - who are pushing their transphobia to the point it’s damaging support services. Get a clue.
opendemocracy.net/en/5050/tr…
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So is this. And it’s what comes of a lack of education. 150,000 reports from over 100 schools. This is what comes of not educating.
amp.theguardian.com/society/…
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They say themselves her story is meant to be seen as a warning from history… which is exactly what that segment of his show is.
I suppose you’re missing a very unfortunate question to even think aloud: who runs the Anne Frank Trust?
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Hi Tom! Look up the Sun’s coverage of the Hillsborough Disaster - you will, it seems, be astonished.
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It’s not a hate movement though, just ‘reasonable concerns’. 🙄 🤦🏻♂️
This is why my husband & I avoid public affection. In 2023. And moved to Ireland.
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Terfs very much see this like the flap about sports - a thin end of the wedge issue they can use to get amoral centre right people like Streeting on side, then push for wider erasure.
Families with trans kids will probably start leaving the U.K., and that’s desperately sad.
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Shows how online this is - only people who have all day to spend on Twitter can get deep into transphobia & obsess like that, which is a tiny slither of the population - but journos think twitter = life so it gets a feedback loop, & right wing politicians & tabloids love it.
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‘How can you stay here? Why do you stay here?’ it’s virtually telling her to leave the country, very thinly veiled. He wouldn’t ask that of a white British person with the same critique.
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Jumping needlessly and instinctively to defend George Osborne from ‘inhumane’ confetti is both farcical and gross, given his history brutalising the U.K. and The Email circulating about his… activities.
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I spotted someone claiming ‘the media’ were ‘camped’ outside Starmer’s house.
I don’t recall once seeing his house. Unlike Corbyn, who literally had 4 years of constant siege from media.
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Nothing matters to these people as much as being transphobic - even if women have to die for want of abortion care, it’s worth it to “protect women” from imaginary trans goblins hiding in every toilet cistern.
How the Far Right is Turning Feminists into… xtramagazine.com/power/far-r…
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Looks like it. Done some searching, referenced on Reddit a couple of years ago. This account has been calling him out on it for a couple of years. Seems this one is, too. Yuck.
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The main difference is obvious: Ukrainians are white. Palestinians are Muslims, oppressing them is par for the course - and their resistance is ‘terrorism’.
If we treated the Ukraine invasion like the Palestinian occupation, we’d be sending money & weapons to Russia.
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"I mean, I think the idea that I was trying to pretend that it was my home is pretty farcical."
So… why put pictures of his family behind him? As if he was… pretending it was his home?
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Who does it say we’re open to business to? And for what?
Bankers getting richer will produce richer bankers, and nothing else.
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The people who inherit said assets didn’t pay taxes on them in their lifetime.
The person who died did.
And their kids get a million tax free.
Paying tax is patriotic, it’s the price of civilisation.
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They still pretending this is about safety in bathrooms? Most public loos have prominent ‘male and female staff clean these facilities’ signs - but you don’t see them getting upset about that. Presumably cleaners with a mop aren’t a threat. Wonder why.
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Daringly worked out that getting yourself expelled would probably earn you more from the culture war grift circuit than being a therapist. Industrious little bigot.
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That phrase ‘Corbyn’s complicity in Labour antisemitism’ is wrong in about 6 different ways and not exactly indicative of a good faith take.
In fact, that sounds like the standard anti-left media bubble gossip line underpinning the entire character assassination.
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The way Maitlis framed the questions is this interview is wild. She’s utterly committed to left bashing, pure Thatcherite - not an ounce of objectivity. In fairness, Abbott could have pushed back harder on Labour right sabotage and whipping up of the antisemitism bullshit.
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