And Liz Truss is not actually in charge, she serves under Boris Johnson, who is one of the most cartoonishly regressive toxically masculine men to hold power in the world today -- it's only a matter of Hillary Clinton's emails doesn't hold the gold medal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @latsot and
I don't believe you when you say what you're about, and I don't even think it matters if I believe you You probably do believe what you're saying, but you're being used
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Replying to @arthur_affect @latsot and
I watched Christopher Hitchens and the whole "skeptic" "New Atheist" movement shed their lefty cred and go full neocon Cheering the cluster-bombing of Afghans for reason, democracy and progress Dragging feminism into it too -- "Do you know how the Taliban treat women?!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @latsot and
It happened again with the reactionary backlash in the solid-blue state of California from "lifelong Democrats" who voted in droves for Obama at the same time they voted to ban gay marriage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @latsot and
Like Phil Ochs said, "ten degrees left-of-center at the best of times, ten degrees right-of-center when it affects them personally"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I've noticed a particular uptick in people arguing TERFs are left wing (e.g. left devouring left arguments) since Rowling.
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Replying to @Mr_Indigo
Rowling has a completely unearned image as an icon of "progressivism" in the UK, despite her politics being honestly awful Like her working with Emma Nicholson seems to have rehabilitated Nicholson's reputation among UK liberals rather than harming Rowling's as it should have
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mr_Indigo
Her anti-Corbyn tirades -- which, however you feel about Corbyn, were a fullthroated defense of the Blair era as saving the NHS and saving the Labour Party and Blair as a left-wing hero -- were awful Her sabotage of Scottish independence was, in hindsight, awful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mr_Indigo
Her influence on UK politics as the "most influential woman has been awful" and people like me observing from afar only fully realized we shouldn't have been giving her the benefit of the doubt when she went full TERF Her influence will continue to be awful Dark days ahead
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mr_Indigo
And it's all based in her worming her way into the consciousness of young children who didn't know any better as a role model and leveraging that into hundreds of millions of pounds and a reputation as everyone's beloved surrogate mother figure It's fucked up
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If I were Graham Linehan I'd just go ahead and call it "grooming" Then -- because if I were Graham Linehan I'd be subject to UK libel laws -- I'd have to publicly apologize and sell my house and give her the proceeds
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