The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
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And deeply Trumpish.
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And a president who doesn’t understand the word ‘Asylum’.
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I would rather have asylum seekers for all my neighbors than MAGA members
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Really doesn't look like (unfortunately) the media and politicians are going to stop this dividing hateful agenda ☹️, and not just in UK it's widespread 🥺
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And at the same they’ve been importing and replacing millions of domestic jobs in tech industries. They’re not calling those “illegals” or kidnapping them from Google, Facebook or Tesla offices.
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Absolutely 💯
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The time, money and effort spent on making us afraid of them should go towards ensuring these countries the asylum seekers are coming from stop causing their people to flee their country in the 1st place. Or come up with better “integration policies & systems”!
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As a society we’re worrying about the wrong people in the wrong boats.
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Very dangerous plans they devised, disappointing too. You have nice eyes 😊👍🏻
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The root cause of our problems is the administration pitting us against each other. Trump needs a distraction, and the Left responds by trying to correct his behavior, with MAGA supporting him. A never-ending cycle. 🤷🏽♂️
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How are we supposed to find a Them who we can pin everything bad on without some cynical whipping-up?
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I say we redirect our ire to the Uber rich and the Corporately Owned politicians and MSM.
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Blaming societal problems on a minority group and then spending billions to victimize that minority group seems like a really weird way to solve societal problems, especially when those problems are still there while the victimization is happening.
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These people will not stop they need to be stopped.
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The Rs have become deranged. Does noone remember how to behave?
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It is also from politicians arresting hundreds of people for a peaceful protest and calling them terrorists, while the right intimidate migrants in hotels, unimpeded.
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Conservatives have been running this same game for generations. Nazi-loving Republican Congressmen spread Nazi fear-mongering propaganda in the 30s & 40s and had the taxpayers pay for it!!!
Nye, Fish, Lundeen and more. -
The threat to our society can be found by looking in a mirror. Preferably, an emotional one.
Billionaires and genocides don't happen in vacuums. They are supported and enabled by our global species, and citizens of corrupt countries.
We can #Unite for civil #SocialReform now.
#PeritionForParity
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Ever thought the politicians and media are funded by the very people funding the migration of immigrants?
People need to start asking the right questions, like who really is being the people smuggling, and are those same people indirectly profiteering from them being in this country.
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What's next? The last person to have concentration camps was in 1939-1945. We call know how that turned out.
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Well yeah, they've been doing this since at least the 90s.
Rodney King was great ratings for the 24 hour news cycle so all of a sudden racism was back in and all over the place despite previously being on a steep downward trend.
Then it was "the gays"
No it is "illegals".
Nothing new.
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It is to be expected, unfortunately. We won’t “return to normal” any time soon. We need a new game play, built around resilient communities (vs. individuals) which are insensitive to the hate pushing gaslighters. #Opposition and #Resistance are the keywords
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The tacit sanctioning of vigilante gangs who seem to have little reason to fear arrest as peaceful protest for any reason is criminalised, over policed and subjected to heavy handed action should concern us all. Meanwhile the people are ignored as the oligarchs are appeased.
WTF has happened?
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Not the raping of little girls then?
OK, got the empathy.
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Most people voted for an end to this decade-old hate when they voted Labour. Only to discover they'd voted for the Enoch Powell tribute act called Blue Labour. You can't fight fascism by embracing fascism! Unless the party changes leadership, narrative and direction, things will only get worse.
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Exactly😒
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It’s worrying and frightening. Why is there so much hate?
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A woman once told me, on line. She loved Dump, because he gave her permission to hate. DUH~
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Let’s do some maths:
In 2024 the UK population was about 69 million, and there were about 37,000 asylum seekers arriving in small boats.
37,000/69,000,000 x 100 =0.0536
The small boat people represent 0.054 percent of the UK population.
But they are the main cause of trouble?
Yeah, right.
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Consider this fact: how many criminals do you think would actually walk over thousands of miles of dangerous, difficult terrane carrying babies, food and water, to enter the United States ? 🥴
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Well said Sarah it’s very disturbing to me.
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Das ist ein interessantes Nachbarschaftsprojekt, oder? Asylsuchende als Nachbarn, MAGA-Anhänger als Nachbarn... Ich denke, ich würde mich eher für die Asylsuchenden entscheiden, aber ich frage mich, ob sie dann auch meine politischen Meinungen teilen würden?
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Goes for us here in the US as well. Always has. No matter what the idiots in power at the moment do.
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At best it's a disgusting attempt to deflect and distract people's attention and at worst it's purposefully inciting violence against vulnerable people.
I'm appalled by how blatantly some seem to want riots.
And they're somehow not at all embarrassed in themselves. Totally shameless.
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The Russian Ambassador to the UK stated after Brexit that his country’s collaboration with Farage and co had put the UK on its knees where it would stay for a long time. He was not wrong.
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Not that I (a yank) have any standing to mention this, but the same Tory trash who hate immigrants are the similar to the ones that colonized and destabilized the countries the immigrants are coming from.
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Want my America back!! Craziest Country Takeover/ Hijacking ever. Putin is smiling. GOP have been Well Paid. For Aiding and Abetting TRAITOR Trump.
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Like Farage , currently under investigation for hiding funds from MAGA donors likecSteve Bannon.
They are actually being paid to cause disorder .
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While they are blaming the small boat people, you are not looking or bothered at what they are doing elsewhere. Its all part of the plan....
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The Media keeps the lie going every time they say trump slapped a Tariff on country XYZ
Americans pay the Tariffs That's how Tariffs work the consumer takes the hit
That's why the Bostonians threw the Tea in Boston Harbor
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Illegal immigrants are…illegal. It is a crime.
There are legal pathways and many immigrants chose them, put in the work and earned their citizenship.
How is it fair to them if others skip the line?
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The prophet/the projection “The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer”…J. McCarthy, 1950
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What happened to the fairly recent research showing happiness comes from helping others? I’m trying to tone down my utter loathing of Farage & focus on volunteering in my community instead. Currently still despise Reform, Trump, Vince, Netanyahu…so a WIP but hey ho
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Indeed. Goebbels handbook. Brainwashing and indoctrination works.
The BBC is extremely biased and complict in spreading propaganda.
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Yeah, I’m so sick of it too.
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It's both
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Exactly
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Absolutely. AMEN!
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Looks like the only option right now is the midterms. Just because you are a republican doesn't mean you have to vote republican. Look at the platform of the people running in your area and can they be trusted to do what they promise. Would you be better off voting republican or democrat.
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Every good dictator needs a scapegoat.
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Don't for her the super billionaires!!!
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When illegal aliens who claim asylum wash up on shore of the country of their choosing or walk through the border of a nation illegally to commit any and all crimes, how else are politicians and their nations' citizens supposed to react?
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How do we stop it?
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"deeply sinister" is spot on!
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We're living in a fascist idiocracy, so it's not just sinister, it reality.
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You know where this is going don't you? Nigel Farage, 4 years time: "Only I can solve it"
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Asylum seekers = ILLEGALS. Do the math!
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Well said.
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Psychiatrist Dr Russell Razzaque comments on Trump and MAGA but his comments apply equally to the Starmer regime and Tory/Reform et al.
Middle class insecurity and spite may help explain the social climbing Starmer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T8j...
What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains
YouTube video by Dr Russell Razzaque
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Using the "otherness" of some people to stoke fear is nothing new - look at the Daily Mail in the 1930s and Enoch Powell in the 1960s. What has changed is the range of media involvement in peddling these messages, and a failure of supposedly sensible people to challenge them. That is worrying.
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What about the cost to taxpayers, the loss of our culture and traditions and the fact that they broke federal laws
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No, it's from #Skrilla, who is completely untalented.
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I’ve been Labour all my voting life but they’ve lost it big style
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Not forgetting Lord Anthony Bamford’s £500,000,000( yes! you read it right - half billion) unpaid tax bill
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You imported thousands of unscreened Afghans, who house the Taliban. Stop supporting the demise of your own country.
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You’ve been invaded. Stop siding with the invaders.
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You’re at 9. Wake tf up woman.
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This is absolutely a threat. And if you’re overrun by terrorists then you become a nation led by terrorists. We are not allies with terrorists.
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This is what you’re supporting.
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The threat is definitely invasive immigrants.
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What troubles me most is that we have millions of Americans dumb & bigoted enough to believe that rhetoric. Americans have become very disappointing ppl. Epic fail.
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There is a cancer on the body politic. It is Malignant. Sadistic. and Narcissistic. It has a name. And that name is trump.
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trump has no original material. His maga rallying cry has been that they're opening their prisons & mental asylums & sending murders & rapists. The worst of the worse! He took that from near the beginning of Scarface. Fidel Castro did that in Cuba. They were the "boat people" in the 70's.
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What's really worrying is the breadth of platforms now available to these ghouls to spout their cynically inflammatory bile.
This Mail hate rag piece is basically a re-hash of the disgraceful, largely unchallenged rant Nick Robinson gifted Jenrick on #R4Today on Monday.
Legitimised racist hate.
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It’s on the people now to resolve the racism, bigotry and misogyny of this regime, our forefathers gave us insight this could happen, and it’s the people who must stand united and hold the domestic terrorist accountable, or accept our fate under authoritarian rule.
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Is this how you kill racism ? I thought it was not to teach your spawn this in the first place..but maybe the DNA in MAGAts Is different. They don't know how to run the govt and that leads to not knowing how to parent!
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Absolutly
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Exactly
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There is a political agenda behind it. The sooner people understand this, the better.
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MPs have damaged society via a series of harmful policies. From the Brexit scam to the UC fiasco; the 2 child cap to a sudden rise in pension age above 65; a decade and a half of austerity to wasting fortunes demonising, detaining and failing to return asylum seekers.
They must be held to account.
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Are u accepting any Middle Eastern Male Muslim Migrants of military age into your home? #THE5Ms
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we blame everyone but ourselves for voting them in
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100 💯 agree the heritage foundation world members are on a crusade
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It's more like a sadistic cult frenzy against the poor an humble !!
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They know this. That's why they're doing it.
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It’s exhausting. I wish I didn’t care so much, I would have more inner peace that’s for sure. But I will never be quiet seeing a UKIP leader do the Seig Heil on the streets of England in 2025. This needs to always be called out. So I’ll continue. Let’s keep fighting the good fight ✌🏻
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#ChristiansDidThis
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Yes and would e so nice to see when the people have had enough!
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The real threat.Gaslit & distracted by certain people focusing on just 4% of total UK immigration remember: £232M to Michelle Mone £1.6 Bn for a barge £21 Bn in covid fraudsters £37Bn lost on Test and Trace £8.7Bn duff PPE £471M paid to destroy PPE in storage =£69b of taxpayers cash
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We have to rehumanize our politics and governments.
Before it’s too late.
Unfortunately time is flying.
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The seeds of mindless fascism! Just look around the world and see the results today let alone history! Organised Criminals & so called western civilised corrupt fraudulent neo 'libertarian' capitalism is causing this directly & indirectly because it's failing the majority due to design & thus system
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You need to make a distinction between people who criticize the asylum seekers for being foreign and the ones who criticize them for trying to turn every country into the one they fled from.
Why flee a caliphate if you then want to build a new one where you landed?
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They won't though. It worked for Brexit in the same manner. Remember Gove and Turkey?
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Vote Leave embroiled in race row over Turkey security threat claims
Brexit group ‘appealing to prejudice’ with argument that Turkey’s accession to EU would put Britons at greater risk of crime
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#pedopotus
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The burden to our public services: NHS, Education, housing, Legal System, Social Care, Children's services etc, is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It's from Corporations & the wealthy, using weak tax law to evade paying 10's of Billions that could transform services we all depend upon.
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Yes, sinister. So are the arms sales and training for the countries supplying the migrants.
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We will have to get a ton more active and louder. Inches away from Article 5. Because then we will not be able to object.
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Why does this work? What does that say about human character? Nothing good!
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This can not be started enough! Our democracy is as much at risk as the now defunct USA. Canada is currently the only Nation truly standing up to the moronic Americans. Labour needs to communicate, British journalism needs to shape up and stop pandering to the facist promoting Reform Ltd
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You are EXACTLY correct! Nailed it, Sarah‼️
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Very well said.
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It’s distressing when our supposed liberal media is normalizing this idiot. Every day he posts or says something so insane you would think it would be headline news. But I can sure as shit tell you something- it would be running 24/7 if it were Biden. DO YOUR DAMN JOB MEDIA
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The threat is incentivizing criminality and drain of our resources, intended to weaken and destabilize our country. It’s not about race, fear or hate, it’s about preserving the reason our country has been so appealing to immigrants for two centuries.
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If there are riots and violence, it will have nothing to do with the asylum seekers themselves and everything to do with our right wing establishment, posing as patriots and ‘concerned citizens’. I include the BBC in that.
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They put us 37 trillion in debt. We should have figured this out decades ago. They're the worst people, constantly begging for your money. Now they figured out how to steal it.
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THESE FUCKINGGGG REPUBLICANS AND CORRUPT CORPORATE DEMOCRATS ARE THE SCUMMMM OF THE EARTH!!!!!
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If only the knuckle draggers and flag shagging folk could understand this we would all be much safer and better off generally.
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I popped back to see what’s happening on ‘X’ The hate and vitriol and open racism is terrifying. Ironic really,racism led to Brexit.Brexit failed and here we are much worse off than 2016 & the media blame immigration. What a sad and depressing downward cycle our country is in. Now deleted X.
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On the spot!
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Is there a term for these politicians and media and their cultists? Can we call them “hypoChristians”? Maybe there’s a very narrow gate into heaven that they use that’s permanently locked and and has an “exit only” sign posted on it!
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Overpopulation is "deeply sinister" and is the root cause of all maladies like global thermal rise, soil and aquifer depletion for the long term, chaos....
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www.youtube.com/shorts/DI5IJ...
Are Native Americans Really "Savages"? The Brutal Truth Behind Colonial Propaganda 😳
YouTube video by Historical Wisdom
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as i oft comment,, it's up to US to make the changes,,nearly HALF the voting public gave this criminal and his minions the power to F%$K the world! .. V O T E as if your freedom depends on it,,'cause it DOES!
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It’s all they’ve got ! It’s been a diversionary tactic since and before the election. There is no real immigration problem.
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The threat is not from without, but from within.
Take heed.
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Yep. Mostly trying to escape the debris of colonialism that denied their countries autonomy and self-determination after we left.
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Try telling that to the rape victims.
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Well Yeah.
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It's true. I have more in common with asylum seekers - more shared class interest - than I do with the upper echelons of the British ruling class. And I know who my real enemy is.
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right wing media and politicians won’t be satisfied until there are pogroms against anyone with dark skin. anything to distract the masses from the fact that they’ve stolen all the wealth for them and their friends
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Time for the @generalstrikeus.bsky.social
Sign your strike card so we can get to work. ❤️🔥✊️❤️🔥
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Its ALL they have. WE as a people MUST STOP THEM
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The threat to our society is from oligarchs, media and otherwise, who wish to turn us into Project2025's America.
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The same in Sweden sadly
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"It" won't stop until we, the people, stop it.
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Just imagine if Native Americans had the capacity to do this to all the Whites fleeing persecution in Europe. Imagine them kidnapping Englishmen and shipping them to Spain, Germans to Russia, Frenchmen to Mongolia. What this Administration and GOP is doing is a violation of human rights. Christians?
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Until white people with money get out on the streets and start donating to mutual aid we are all going to die. This is no longer an exaggeration. If you all are seeing your yt boomer parents and your yt aunts uncles taking vacations and going shopping that is who you need to talk to.
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2025 republicans...."deeply sinister."
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Alrighty then...that outta do 'er!
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At the rate they're going, they'll have to mass-deport the asylum seekers so they can turn the hotels into prisons for the pro-Palestine protesters. And, hey - why not lock up trans women while they're at it. I'm sure Magic Joanne would sponsor a concentration camp for them. What a shit show.
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Find a way to reframe the abuse. Investigate the claims and find a way to reassemble them so the abuse becomes useless. It can be done.
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Dehumanizing people is always the first step toward justifying injustice.
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Fear is a powerful political tool and history shows it’s often turned on the most vulnerable. It’s easier to scapegoat than to address the complex causes of migration. When leaders trade compassion for political points, society as a whole loses.
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It's xenophobia being weaponised for political purposes to distract the hoi polloi.
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They won’t Stop— lies & disinformation about Democrats is how Republicans win.
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Fear and prejudice have always been the cheapest tools in politics — they cost nothing to spread, but the damage lasts generations. The real danger is when leaders stop solving problems and start manufacturing enemies.
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I’ve written to my Labour MP asking them to take action on the bias in broadcast media. There need to be an overt campaign against it. It takes 5 minutes to contact you MP nowadays. Just moaning on SM doesn’t get anywhere
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This fear they're whipping up is as baseless as that they were eating cats & dogs....and if you fall for their BS then you're an idiot, a racist, and a heartless, Godless fool
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It's almost as if they are patterning themselves after Hitler. The 'playbook' is exactly the same.
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I mean it's from MAGA vermin. Let's stop pussyfooting around and be real, ok?
For the first time in our lives, we have the worst segment of society WILLINGLY GROUPING ITSELF IN A READILY DEFINABLE AND VISIBLE WAY. this is a blessing because we can safely attribute every single issue to these rats.
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By this means they are enabling Farage. Stirring up fear and hatred to win votes for the far right. I thought it could never happen in Britain.
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Amen
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Then the oligarchs cash in Doge Cuts = No CFPB = Big Short - youtu.be/vgqG3ITMv1Q?.... Private Equity is ready to buy 🏠
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Just put mines in the Channel, easy
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what's pathetic is that there are so many in the states that are too hardcore ignorant to question anything
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Exactly
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How many more of your girls will be raped before you're not okay with it? What's the line for you? I mean the amount of rape right now seems to be okay with you but how many more?
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It also pains me to suggest it seems to be deeply effective. And that’s the bit which really troubles me. Today small boats, tomorrow….?
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Can you actually imagine meeting a group of people arriving on a board and telling them you want them out and can expect no help from you? I sure as he'll can't. It's inhuman. Who or what are these people?! They make me think of some mad little territorial cat screeching at a balloon in the hallway
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BINGO! You have covered the card…FEAR, PREJUDICE, IGNORANCE, LACK OF COMPASSION, and GREED are threats to our country! When we acknowledge that everyone has something to give to make our country better, we all benefit. Stop treating people as less than human or like animals! Heal the world!
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The press and MSM,even including the BBC, would rather see the country burn and descend into civil chaos than call out the lies, deceit and gaslighting of ReformUK and Tory MPs. The client "journos" are happy to pour fuel on the flames for their mates.
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Well said. And so painfully, heartbreakingly obvious.
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Well said
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Well said. 👍
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Today's news is definitely what I've been dreading since Moderates ignored the Mueller Report.
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So true Sarah.
Best wishes to you.
