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The real victims of the Cambridge scandal are the students, who signed up to learn “inclusive pedagogy and decolonising the curriculum within the academy,” and instead learned totally made up nonsense.
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Replying to @moveincircles
Reading Orwell’s Road to Wigan Pier convinced me that a lot of progressives tend not to have read what they cite and seem in fact to inhabit an oral culture.
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WHAT IS ‘PANTSUIT DEPORTING’? One problem with the ‘Politics of Deportation’ is that, especially in a more genteel European context, too vigorously expressed it can ‘Scare The Hoes’. Many Europeans subconsciously think about refugees and migrants in the same kind of sentimental, doting, mothering way that they would think about cats and dogs - and if emerging Right Wing politics is seen as being too ‘nasty’ that sentimental instinct can kick in and cause a kneejerk response that is often completely detached from real world policy outcomes. Women get the ick. “It sounds nasty and mean, you are evil” etc In this way, it may not always be better to be ‘loud’ in your politics, especially if your rhetoric is strong and doubly so if you policies don’t live up to that rhetoric. (See the British Conservatives.) People like the cuddly European Social Democracy consensus, they don’t like thinking of themselves as bad people, they don’t like to ‘feel gross’. Many of the Countries that have had the most success with the ‘Immigration Problem’ like Denmark and now increasingly Sweden have done so by appearing moderate and presenting themselves as existing in continuity with that existing cuddly European Social Democracy sentiment What does the ideal ‘Under-The-Radar’ sensible, pragmatic and technocratic cuddly European Social Democracy Minister for Remigration (this is a ‘Scary Name’ you can just call the Ministry the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) look like? Ideally a woman in their 40s maybe 50s. Attractive in a homely mummy-milkers way but best years behind her and not so attractive that she intimidates other women. Probably your dad likes her. (Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederickson is the platonic example.) She uses continuity progressive cuddly European Social Democracy language. She is a ‘Girlboss’. She talks about ‘compassion’, ‘duty of care’, ‘women’s rights’, ‘human rights’, ‘duty to the environment’ etc and everybody feels warm and cosy, the hoes are not scared by this unintimidating pantsuit-wearing HR woman, nobody gets the ick. Then quietly and with no fuss made, incentives for migrants to leave are incrementally ramped up and enforced and nobody cares because the vibes aren’t gross because it isn’t being done in a weird scary way
POV: You are about to be Deported but in a Progressive, Reassuring and ‘Doesn’t Scare The Hoes’ Pantsuit-Wearing Girlboss Eurocrat Way
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America will never be the same.
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This one's another favourite. It is the Cleveland Federal Reserve building. There are two machine-guns, possibly two 'light cannon', according to some reports, concealed in the bases of the two statues. Also, beneath the third step there is a sharpshooter post with a concealed slit. Apparently there are other concealed defensive measures but these are the ones that I know. I find this hidden urban fortification fascinating.
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Reminds me of Arab countries shutting down (or trying to shut down) Twitter and Facebook during the Arab Spring.
If you have a standard X account in the UK - presumably the vast majority of British users - you cannot see any protest footage that contains any violence tonight. Because of the Online Safety Act. A relative in America sent me this screenshot of one blocked post
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This is just sad. If the government was a kids' football team it would be the moment at which you quietly stopped the game and took them all out for ice cream. xitter.cf/maxtempers/status/1940…
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UK Economy lost 109,000 jobs in May. This many job losses have only happened during major financial crashes in modern history. Yet nobody in the UK media or Government is talking about it. The US is roughly 5x the size of the UK in terms of population. If the US lost 550k jobs in 1 month, the stock market would be collapsing, there would be widespread financial panic, and that would be the ONLY story in town. The UK is watching a historic collapse in the economy and choosing to completely ignore it. Extremely weird.
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Paul Henry
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inspired by @Yugemaku
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Post Soviet visual. The Motherland Calls monument restoration, Volgograd, Russia, 2019
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動いてないリング欲張りセット
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BREAKING: Russia has completely stopped delivering gas to Poland. Poland’s largest news portal, Onet, reports that the Polish state-controlled oil and gas company PGNiG, is holding a crisis meeting. Poland is one of the countries that has refused to pay for gas in rubles.
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Need to delete depop its ruining my life
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KFC just gives you your food in a cup now.
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