Trump’s hypocritical, macroscopic "diesel deal" with Putin exposes absolute geopolitical dissonance. It was Trump’s own unilateral, cataclysmic dissolution of the JCPOA that catalysed an existential, pointless war with Iran, fracturing global equilibrium only to grovel to a tyrant for oil.

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump is a goddamned coward and a traitor to his country

Today's *homo stupidus* represents human history's apex of cognitive regression, defined by an aggressive repudiation of a ten-millennium civilisational inheritance. Offered the riches of science, art & reason, they reject the entirety of human progress for the base gratification of tribal hatred.

The 'average person' today represents history’s apex of cognitive regression, a shameless entity actively repudiating a 10-millennium civilisational inheritance. Offered the riches of science, art, literature and reason, they choose to desecrate these gifts. They only want to hate. Somebody to hate.

Right-wing rhetoric faces an epistemic crisis: by weaponising post-truth hyperbole these politicians are cognitively trapped in their own discursive simulations. Escaping empirical reality for populist grievance has left them consumed by the very word salads they contrived to deceive the electorate.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d ago

Journalist, "You called Margaret Thatcher a genius. Was one of her biggest mistakes the privatisation of England's water networks?" Kemi Badenoch, "Privatisation was a success" She then explains exactly how privatisation was not a success - shameless gaslighting, utterly disgusting.

The mainstreaming of "remigration" exemplifies a classic Overton window shift, where a fringe ethno-nationalist concept is systematically laundered into acceptable political discourse. By swapping the overt reviled language of forced mass deportation for a clinical, pseudo-sociological euphemism ...

Vicente Valentim@valentimvicente.bsky.social · 6d ago

Harder to think of a clearer example of normalization of far-right discourse. The idea of remigration is now something that can be argued should be a priority of what might very well be the next Spanish government. elpais.com/espana/elecc... 1/2

The obsession with exiting the ECHR isn't about reclaiming sovereignty; it's a deliberate strategy to dismantle institutional guardrails that protect minority rights, eliminate judicial accountability and enable unchecked majoritarian rule.

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7d ago

This intensely stupid right wing idea is an extension of Brexit ignorance and prejudice. It represents the failure of our politics and our media to act in our best interests and to inform voters properly. Brexit is more than enough idiocy. Leaving the ECHR shouldn’t even be on the radar.

IMHO evicting Palantir from British infrastructure is essential for democratic digital sovereignty. Subcontracting our strategic data architectures—most critically the NHS Federated Data Platform—to a surveillance-capitalist monopoly creates indelible state dependence & compromises citizen privacy.

More than 44,000 file legal objections to Palantir NHS platform handling their data

Exclusive: Campaign comes amid backlash against tech company’s involvement with Israeli military and Trump’s ICE crackdown

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(from)The Second Coming By WB Yeats “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."

I’m beginning to realise that in the Rupert Lowe worldview how "British" you are is entirely dependent on your capacity to sustain a hyper-vigilant, 24/7 performative liturgy of pathological xenophobia and manufactured division. Citizenship as a perpetual anxiety attack, if you like.

Today we witnessed Tice, Jenrick and Farage exploit the RAF Fairford counter-terror probe to stoke small-boat hysteria. By reflexively blaming "Iranian agents" these Reform populists bypassed empirical verification to feed a pre-exisiting xenophobic narrative The rhetoric used exposed a desperate...

Musk operates within an accelerationist framework that views traditional Western liberal democracies as obsolete, decaying structures. By amplifying far-right grievances, he attempts to validate his self-styled persona as an unconstrained, transcendent historic actor. In his calculation, the ...

By replying to an account championing a far-right mob besieging the Basingstoke police station where “Danny Tommo” was detained, Musk is utilizing his position as an algorithmic gatekeeper to validate domestic militancy, weaponize white grievance & undermine the British state's judicial sovereignty.

By euphemistically designating an individual who sabotaged a humanitarian vessel with a blade while a responder was onboard as an "anti-migrant activist," the BBC engages in grotesque semantic laundering. This is not activism; it is the sanitisation of life-endangering thuggery.

This maritime sabotage by Daniel Thomas, the self-appointed guardian of the nation, exposes the far right's abysmal ethical vacuum. Slashing a rescue vessel with a first responder onboard is a feral capitulation to atavistic malice. It is not activism; it is unadulterated, life-endangering thuggery.

Ireland against Fascism@irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 3w ago

Danny Tommo slashes a RNLI rescue dinghy with a volunteer onboard who was completing final checks on the boat. This was in the English Channel this evening. I don't know anything about maritime law, but surely that's still criminal damage and unlawful use of a knife. I hope he gets done for this.

Weaponising existential pathologies to odiously subjugate an emergency worker is a sublime piece of ideological self-parody. The cognitive contortion required to proclaim yourself the defender of Britain while attacking the very people tasked with protecting it is spectacularly grotesque.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 3w ago

11. Hampshire Police say six people who took part in the protest in Gosport have been arrested, including for assaulting an emergency worker. The force is making inquiries into what happened at sea and hasn't confirmed identity of the arrests.

Sabotaging a vessel mid-channel w/ someone aboard is not "border protection" but an instantiation of primitive sadism. Stripping away the veneer of patriotism exposes the core truth: an ideological void so profound it requires the performative construct of human drowning to secure digital capital.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 3w ago

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

When the aggressively nationalistic, "pro-sovereignty" Reform UK proposes to outsource the core sovereign function of border control to an external actor, we see how it's populist framework yet again prioritizes performative ideological alignment over actual constitutional governance.

Farage says he wants to ‘hijack’ Trump’s ICE czar to help secure UK border

Reform leader also tells US event Europe should have ‘more sensible view’ of president’s administration

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Reform Cllr George Madgwick's X post from yesterday commits a profound epistemic reductionism by conflating the absence of localised post-hoc criminal indictments with the absence of a pervasive culture of structural intimidation. By isolating the Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station as a ...

Few contrasts could more perfectly anatomise the moral inversion now taking place in Britain. It is a profound perversion of civic ethics: the humanitarian impulse is recoded as betrayal while thuggery acquires the vocabulary of patriotism, and presents itself as the politics of legitimate concern.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action

The contrast exposes a remarkable inversion of civic virtue: humanitarian rescue is recast as ideological transgression, while racist antagonism towards the rescuers is dignified as political dissent.

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · last mo.

🎯 by @ellabaron.bsky.social The abuse directed towards RNLI volunteers is horrendous. Solidarity with RNLI volunteers. They are doing incredible work.

A politics of mass expulsion redraws the boundary of belonging — and once belonging becomes conditional upon ethnicity, the civic order enters a condition of social metastability whereby accumulated citizen antagonisms eventually precipitate widespread systemic fracture.

Watch how that kindly old gentleman leverages the weaponisation of hypothetical victimhood as an affective solvent, dissolving the evidential distinction between possibility and probability until his own pathological form of xenophobia can masquerade as precaution.

Rupert Lowe MP, Piddington local breaks down in tears because of how bad its gotten.

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From Brexit to Brexit-from-Britain: maybe one day the world will become sufficiently homogeneous for #Piddington. Until then it seems the only consistent response is to keep shrinking the map until nobody else is left on it. Then finally why not declare a garden shed sovereign territory?

Lowe masterclass in far right rhetorical grift. Conjure the spectre (rape), racialise its imagined perpetrator (asylum seeker) and then invite fear to impersonate evidence. The manufacture of a hypothetical victim in order to confer retrospective moral legitimacy upon an antecedent xenophobia.

Rupert Lowe MP, Piddington local breaks down in tears because of how bad its gotten.

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Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

Lowe’s insinuation (0:15) yesterday that accommodating asylum seekers necessarily magnifies the threat of rape to women living nearby is a particularly pernicious species of political sophistry: it takes a legitimate concern about sexual violence and performs a grotesque epistemological ...

Rupert Lowe MP, Piddington local breaks down in tears because of how bad its gotten.

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I just responded to Victoria Derbyshire about her @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social #Piddington interview. What's your take? #asylumseekers #immigration #farright

richrdb.bsky.social@richrdb.bsky.social · 4w ago

I share these concerns as well. I think an important weakness in your formulation is that your wording risks pre-emptively validating the premise embedded in those concerns without interrogating it. The phrase “they are genuinely worried and they are not far right” is especially problematic.

In their flagrant unenlightenment, the opposite-of-good citizens of Piddington have chosen to imagine asylum seekers en masse as an undifferentiated category of threatening foreign males rather than as individual human beings whose claims have yet to be ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?

Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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Nobody launders pathological xenophobia through the counterfeit vocabulary of sociology better than the far right, right?