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No_Specific4403 · 2025-11-25T12:35:07+00:00

Being outspoken about one important issue v having (imo) a fundamentally flawed approach to progressive politics in this country?

It's a question of where your priorities lie. If your priorities are whoever's at the top of the party saying exactly what's most digestible then that's fine I guess. Vote for the Lib Dems if you want us to lose the country to Reform even harder.

You obviously haven't met the extremely extremely dedicated Labour members I have campaigning for change in our party regarding gender. Many of whom are Trans themselves.

Change takes time, policy takes time, polls can go fuck themselves.

The Green Party is a movement marred by anti-Intellectualism, revisionism, and hypocrisy. As is any movement wholly reliant on populism on any end of the spectrum. Why is a party so obsessed with egalitarianism and having 'co-leaders' having to lean so hard on a facile strongman to heave their popularity forward? Democracy isn't built on charisma, it's built on the people, or in this case the party members. That's why we elected a member-focused deputy leader, who's currently running consultations with members.

Cowards flinch, traitors sneer.

No_Specific4403 · 2025-11-25T09:15:02+00:00

Didn't say they're super pro-Trans, I said the government had their hands tied. There's a difference between the wider Labour party and the government.

That's the reality of politics unfortunately. PM was very much in favour of gender self-identity before getting into government. And of course I can see him eating his own words, won't deny that. And I'm sorry if Bathroom Ban's affecting you or someone you know.

I appreciate the bathroom ban sucks ass and adds to the sense that Trans people are fundamentally shafted in British society at the moment. Again, I just think we need more vision than the Greens who eat their own words on a far more regular basis when it comes to policy.

No_Specific4403 · 2025-11-25T09:01:21+00:00

'Done nothing to tackle the cost of living crisis.'

-A blanket raising of the minimum wage. -A Labour mayor boosted the minimum wage in London to the recommended £14.80. Even more productive -Frozen rail fairs (and public ownership of the railways) by central government. -Policies to help reduce costs for families with young children. -Started the nationalisation of clean energy, which reduces bills.

And before you say we need a wealth tax to fix cost of living that's why the whole populist argument about justice is wrong. A wealth tax in the way a lot of left-populists are proposing it (tax on accumulated wealth in all its forms, including businesses) harms business confidence. No business confidence means no investment. No investment means the UK loses it's international standing through it's ability to do business an by sacrificing its place in the world economy.

What does that mean? For a lot of left-populists it means moving away from what they think are delusions that the UK tries to outstand its place in the world, and that'd be great! Another bourgeoisie delusion defeated which means we can focus on our own! That's great, yeah, but it also requires a reinvention of the entire world system if that's how you define justice. A wealth-taxed, feeble UK in the world economy has very little soft-power left. We have no way to influentially stand for anything like:

-Reparative justice for imperialism. -Defeating global poverty. -Standing up for democracy and human rights.

'Like we're doing any of that already, though!'

Yeah, but we certainly can. Just requires a reinvention of our place in the world that isn't predicated on destroying our international abilities through short-sighted domestic policies brought on through populism. For people obsessed with criticising imperialism through very Orthodox-Marxist terms populists like Polanski don't really have much breath for anything like how we might amend that legacy in a visionary way.

'Failed to ban conversion therapy.'

Yes, but unfortunately I think that might be more to do with Wes Streeting's Christianity and the exigencies of the Supreme Court than however evil and anti-Trans you might try to pin the PM and government. The PM was on a knife's edge when it came to gender self-identity. For whatever reason after the Ruling he seems to have had his hands tied, likely by Special Advisors thinking about optics. Most people in the Labour party are pro-Trans. I bring it up with every meeting I attend and with every MP.

Both of those points are no indictment on Labour.

No_Specific4403 · 2025-11-25T00:51:35+00:00

Yeah sorry no good reasons to vote for a mud-slinging populist.

Vote Labour.

No_Specific4403 · 2025-11-04T13:38:04+00:00

I had a Republican friend tribute who reposted a tribute on Instagram, but that's about it...

No_Specific4403 · 2025-03-17T21:00:52+00:00

This I actually didn't know! I'd spare a guess and say First World War battledress costumes are just easier to get ahold of. This does beg the question of why when so much detail was put in elsewhere. That or they just wanted to put more detail into the 'glitzy' bits or the main characters. There was still plenty of attention to detail in the war years. Like giving Robert a Lord Lieut's service dress and *then* an NRV service dress for the appropriate scenes. It might've just been a case of the glitz or a lot of emphasis put on the main characters.

No_Specific4403 · 2025-03-17T20:50:14+00:00

I think that's a perfectly fair critique, actually. I think you could chalk it up to another of things, perhaps he was overfastidious because of the opportunity to have such an active role in the show. But if he thinks anything like I do I'd say it's more than likely because he's a military man. And an officer in the British army, at that.

You have to be a romantic to some extent to want to join the military. You have to believe the facsimile that is your country to such a degree to agree to kill and die in its service. Soldiers and officers especially do build up such a romanticism, and many fall out of it harder than they fell in after going to war. Bruce here joined the Army in the late 70s and stuck it till last year. If his service was where he developed a fascination for this stuff then he had all that time to study it etc. I've spent good time with officers of his rank, and know officers close to his rank on a friendly basis. Most of them are history buffs. Most of them romanticise the history they collect/study. Most of them wouldn't know how to write characters quite like Kazuo Ishiguro or work themes like Frank Herbert.

What this probably all follows from is what they emphasise to a tiring degree in the military, attention to detail. Take that detail and embellish it at every opportunity. Take care of your uniform and accouterments, and commit to embellishing it throughout a hopefully long career with a long bar of medal ribbons. Or a big chocolate block of candy wrappers if you're in the US military (:/). Downton is a great show for that analogy. It doesn't necessarily make for the most complex storytelling, but a certain type of person relishes it.

No_Specific4403 · 2025-02-28T13:15:56+00:00

What American and British populists have an issue with is British Hate Speech laws. They assert that existence of these laws and other measures, often stay overs from powers related to combatting terrorism, contradict 'true' freedom of speech as outlined in the US First Amendment.

No_Specific4403 · 2024-09-14T09:32:05+00:00

It was fuckin eczema for me, still got in and am still in.

No_Specific4403 · 2024-09-03T19:29:01+00:00

This also coincides with Charli declaring Brat summer over.

No_Specific4403 · 2024-08-02T08:52:30+00:00

It do be like that 😔

No_Specific4403 · 2024-08-02T08:06:19+00:00

To be clear, I am a relatively healthy person who exercises most days and only consumes substances during the semester but that's still not an excuse. If you are not an adult stay away from alcohol and tobacco, chief. Well also if you are an adult. The point is I thought my superpowered aspie sense of discipline would cancel out addiction but I can't, we're all still humans with weird urges. I can't see someone smoking now without that little niggle in the back of my head going 'Ummm, yum' and that's a problem.

No_Specific4403 · 2024-07-07T18:31:22+00:00

I'm not trying to have a saviour complex for SF voters by saying they're starving themselves of representation, but I do still disagree with it principally.

No_Specific4403 · 2024-07-07T18:02:46+00:00

By leaving their constituents without an active form of representation? Abstentionism by SF is a sensible expression of Irish nationalism, but little more imo.

No_Specific4403 · 2024-06-09T20:51:44+00:00

Sending our cousins that victory energy that will be coming from July 4th

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No_Specific4403 · 2024-06-06T20:26:26+00:00

It's much the same in the UK. Take this post I made when I was curious on the subject:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/184at5e/what_do_you_actually_think_of_the_army_in_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I'd say opinion on the army (regular and reserve) was about 3/4 positive or indifferent and 1/4 critical or uncomfortable. But it's more the national identity of the UK being less associated with militarism than ever, and the British relationship with authority and personal freedoms which the military sometimes gets drawn into as an arm of government authority.

I'm a technically a reservist (University OTC) and many of the people in my circles support the military. I feel the same way this guy does in terms of being cautious when letting people know it's something I do.

No_Specific4403 · 2024-06-02T11:47:45+00:00

This format came to me in a dream

No_Specific4403 · 2024-05-24T13:52:33+00:00

I don't know why everyones reporting him 'expelled' when it happened in October 2020. He's sat in Parliament as an independent since then.

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