The big problem of this type of defence of Starmer appointing Peter Mandelson because he's friends with nonces is that it's only pragmatism if it works.

Neither the UK or Starmer benefited from the appointment in any way. It was a failure even in your framing that associating with nonces is ok.

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Did you know there's a Windows accessibility feature that displays a yellow dot wherever you click?

Well thanks to Emma walking on my keyboard now I do.

I see some Sensibles are already leaping to Mahmood's defence on the grounds she was attempting a joke at a comedy event. Come the fuck on lxds

I mean, can you imagine if Diane Abbott had said this about a Jewish politician when she was shadow Home Secretary?

Interesting to note an instance of a British Muslim woman wanting to do violence to a Jewish person and declaring them not to be British that garners no uproar from outlets and pundits that are usually at a fever pitch about antisemitism.

Yet this isn't even declared a trope.

Fresh from telling voters yesterday to fuck off when they challenged her for imposing Reform style policies the Home Secretary has decided to out-fash herself today by joking about how she'd assault & deport her political rivals. Wild, wild stuff

A big chunk of people jumped into full-fledged reactionary politics because this was their preferred approach to COVID, and they were denied the opportunity to inflict it upon people poorer than them.

Appointing Peter Mandelson is the latest example of it's not pragmatism if it doesn't work

Libs can argue Starmer was being calculating by appointing the nonce friend but, all other valid criticisms aside, that appointment did not benefit the UK or Starmer in any way.

It was objectively not smart

The aim of the organised transphobic movement is to mandate trans people out of existence, they won't be happy until their targets are dead, it's a movement motivated by genocidal mania, and the cruel, vindictive, hateful bigotry extends from there.

I am stuck on the fact Muslim and Arab Americans were some of the most loyal voters Democrats had for the last twenty years. A majority of them voted Dem in 2024 even as the party genocided people like them.

But their loyalty meant absolutely nothing and they now count as non voters to be discarded

Al Jazeera news snippet: Israeli settlers kill 13-year-old student and man in attack on West Bank school Two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old schoolboy, have been killed and four others wounded by Israeli settler gunfire in the village of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, the Palestine Red Crescent Society told the Wafa news agency. The settlers opened fire during an attack on the Al-Mughayyir Boys' School this afternoon. The second victim was a 32-year-old man. Four others sustained gunshot wounds in the attack.

Regular Israelis carry out a new school shooting in Palestine, killing two, including a 13-year-old child.

Like, if a Barrister was cross examining me in court they'd probably take me apart because they know the ins and outs of all the rules and conventions of British courts and have loads of experience arguing that way.

That doesn't mean they'd win all arguments though, as we often see on social media.

I think, given my limited knowledge of other barristers, that it's a very specific skillset.

That skillset absolutely includes sucking up to the right people and also being adept at bending an arcane set of rules.

So Starmer *could*'ve been a good Barrister but this shows how little that means.

they're so angry about all allegations against her being thrown out that they are hounding her to another country with more false, vicious allegations. but they're definitely the good guys!

Very much enjoying Stephen Bush's pious declaration that you were childish, stupid and just plain wrong to think Mandelson's appointment had anything to do with the Epstein class hitting the brick wall of Mathew Doyle being the other candidate to be ambassador.

This really seems to be key to how Comfortables operate too.

When Camila Batmanghelidjh was forced to step down from Kid's Company on what turned out to be false charges so many prominent British libs were overjoyed. Like ecstatic.

They hate anyone who shows their own claims of decency to be false

Just fully fabricating vile shit to tell each other stories about how they’re such great & brave heroes for hounding off a woman who was doing her absolute best to help people facing genocide

I'll never get complaints about anonymous users on Bluesky.

You'll get anonymous randos adding clear alt text to an image of a duck that isn't to be allowed in but verified journalists at big outlets refusing to add alt text to a screenshot of text they wrote.

A duck waiting patiently outside a glass door featuring a sign saying, in all caps, "Do not let the duck in."

Snapchat Engineer: "We've added all features you requested to make the wearer look as much like a pervert as possible."

Snapchat CEO: "I still think we need the external speakers broadcasting 'Epstein was right' every 5 seconds."

If Starmer survives this it'll be a maximum of two weeks before the Michael Gove clones are voicing their incomprehension at Starmer's unpopularity.

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Why do you think restating you think Democrats are owed votes but the left must earn them repeatedly will make you look less hypocritical?

Kind of Biden Bitter Enders to remind us just how little Biden achieved all while failing to prosecture Trump's coup and dooming the Republic.

Looking really hard at that but not seeing prosecuting Trump for attempting a coup.

Thanks for reiterating you believe Democrats are *owed* votes while the left has to earn them I guess.

Blue Team Genocide = Very Good

Red Team Genocide = Very Bad.

If Harris had won these charmers would be insisting that Harris enabling Israeli genocide was fine and good because Democrats ~just don't have the votes~ and Trump would've been worse anyway.