Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.

She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

deeply unfunny premise, horrid response that also happens to be amazingly unfunny, just ? ? ?

and then it turned out that even the far right weirdos didn't actually care about Charlie Kirk

so funny watching this (batshit, awful) response on the TL, then again as people realize the person asking is Matt fucking Forde

I suppose there's a tacit bit of the social contract here. once you lose capacity to make decisions for yourself, people should just say they agree with you all the time. trump breaks that by wanting both.

in dementia care we talk about BANGS to diffuse arguments.

Breathe
Agree
Never argue
Go and let go
Say sorry

there is no point in arguing with someone with advanced dementia. it will make them upset. agree and move on. hard to apply this to the us president unfortunately

always find the lanyard class thing funny. probably the biggest lanyard wearers are healthcare workers. mine has lots of break points to stop patients strangling me with it. doubt Lord glasman has to worry about that kind of thing.

it's so typical that our braindead class politics makes politicians think scams are authentic

Whenever I hear that students should expect to be offended at university I always think of like an accountancy student.

“And now we’ve finished the cash flow statement onto the next section of the course: MEIN KAMPF!!!”

"McSweeney actually really good and successful but [details redacted]... sadly had to resign 18 months later" funny precis

think this is wise in theory (why not try to appease your opponents by finding common ground away from what you disagree on!) but in practice, gender critical campaigners just won't listen to what Stonewall has to say anyway so no real point in trying to reach out and alienate allies by doing so

Alex Branham X bio: National Rebirth Party Traditionalist Christian Stafford Branch Leader Family Values Remigration Free Speech DMs open

Does everyone remember Alex Bramham? The guy who was kicked out of a pride march cos he showed up in an LGB alliance t-shirt?

Transphobes in the press made a big deal about it at the time, about how it showed how intolerant the left is etc...

He's now a branch leader of the fascist NRP

there's some seriously dark humour in the IRGC coordinating antisemitic hate crimes around the globe & getting absolutely no credit because people are so keen to blame the victims

the absolute numbers are very low. especially considering things like education and location. the odds of me finding a young professional graduate man in London who supports a right wing party are tiny.

I've been dating across the divide anyway. last election I voted labour (I have poor political judgement and I will never forgive myself), fern voted lib dem. this time I'm voting lib dem, fern voting green.

for people like Seb Payne these questions are academic and abstract. no partner will be taking away his rights. that's not the case for everyone.

it's quite unlikely that I'd date someone who doesn't see me as equal! I don't think this is a problem

as I said last week Bread's core problem is that at some point she transitioned away from well meaning but largely quixotic investigative journalism into this kind of bad faith behaviour because she has an economic incentive to produce content that plays well with the algorithm

Exactly one year ago today:

The whole government loves milkshake duck, a lovely ambassador who is good at making friends with rapists!

*5 seconds later*

We regret to inform you the duck is friends with rapists

I believe the full quote is "to paraphrase Cormac McCarthy, you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from, if you are being dumb on purpose"

the 20000ft high story of UK politics in the last 50 years was we found a magic money tree. the tories used it to reward their voters. the magic money tree ran out and now things are harder.

if you want to dig 1 pint out of it rather than 2 then this woke lib will be very owned, but it won't impact energy prices

it's so funny how north sea oil has become such a meme for the online right. it doesn't matter either way, we already used it all! we spent it on tax cuts in the 80s.

the pope needs to make sure that 50% of the college of cardinals is maga, to avoid alienating conservatives and not have allegations of liberal bias

It’s funny that a decade and a half ago, all the discourse was about how social democracy was dying and now social democracy continues to look in poor health but mainstream conservatism has completely keeled over and died in the interim

funny that ofc they can't then admit voting for anyone else as that would get them kicked out, but wink wink nudge nudge I know that those of you who care about me won't actually be voting for those freaks!

find myself in the slightly odd position that I think it is acceptable to be a labour member, with the aim of shifting party policy, as long as you're not actually voting for them.

I know passionate supporters of LGBTQ+ equality in Labour who have felt increasingly marginalised in the party and unable to support the leadership's view.

But to see the manifesto include anti-trans policies rejected by their own party conference must surely be the last straw for many.

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]