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    8 months ago

    It’s unconscionable that the government is reportedly considering cutting struggling families’ benefits to fund tax cuts

    😮😮😮

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        Clearly that’s what the Brits want, they want to be fucked by the Tories, otherwise they’d vote differently.

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          Oh yeah, it’s not like the population is overwhelmed by conservative propaganda courtesy of Merdoch and co who basically own the government and have actively worked to destroy the chances for any real alternative, or that the education and social systems haven’t been gutted intentionally to leave people desperate and and without critical thinking skills (making them easy targets for the right who superficially co-opt leftist ideas to make themselves appealing exactly to that demographic).

          Never mind that the public didn’t even get a say in the past 3 prime ministers because they were voted in via internal party elections, not general elections, and before that they were being elected in by a very thin margin (and when you consider voting turn out, those who voted for them absolutely do not represent the majority of the population).

          But hey, why think critically yourself when it’s so much easier to lazily point the finger at the little person on the street, rather than at those making the rules for them (rules designed, of course, to maintain the status quo). 🙄

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            They are grown people, they should take responsibility for their actions. The 2019 tory landslide speaks volumes.

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          I mean, what do people expect?

          The most popular books to come out of the UK in the last thirty years were a fucking Tory wet dream where slaves literally want to be slaves and only a perfect special completely average white boy born to provenance can save the world. The author would go on to be one of the biggest TERFs alive.

          The popularity of Harry fucking Potter still screams that people love Tory horseshit.

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            Ah fuck off with this white shite, not everything is racist. He’s just white. Not sure how this is Tory related.

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              The culture war is part and parcel part of the class war. It’s literally used as a class war tactic to divide people, and it uses the destruction of real minority lives to do it.

              If you don’t think standing up for the rights of minorities matters in class war, take your Stalinesque plans and shove them up your authoritarian ass.

              Because that attitude is why nobody in the LGBT community fucking trusts leftists, because they’re willing to throw LGBT human rights under the bus the second that it’s convenient for them. Lenin, Stalin, Castro all ascribed to the same machismo bullshit as the people they looked to replace. Castro admitted wrongdoing for the killing of homosexuals near his deathbed, but way too fucking little, way the fuck too late.

              No, standing up for them is part of the class war, because the attacks on them are part of the class war.

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      Believe me, we’ve been asking that same question since 2012.

      We’ll let you know when we have an answer or just give up as a nation.

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      Turns out that when economists said that Brexit was economic suicide that the economists understood the economy better than the 27% of the UK population that voted for it.

      That and the Tories selling the country to their mates, family and donors for over a decade.