@Stevethered2 @a_nisbet @DanielFooksArt yes because if leftists in 2020 try to get Starmer to move to act like the socialist he promised he’d be when asking for their votes, & adopt socialist positions that are wildly popular with the voters, that’ll mean some moderate Tory won’t defect in 2025 and Labour will lose

@a_nisbet @DanielFooksArt “oh look Fooks is not writing every single thing that Nisbet wants so he’s going to spend all his time on twitter attacking him because he thinks that’ll help Labour win the next election.” How can you not notice how stupid you look?

@a_nisbet @DanielFooksArt That’s infantile. On that basis you can say no one ever has the right to object to anything. Try an actual argument or stop pretending you are engaging in anything but childish chest-thumping.

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@leftyjew @MomentumTraffrd excellent scenario: I think the Tories should bounce BJ and get Corbyn as head of party, now that Labour seems so cool to him. I mean they already nationalised the trains, right?

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@PimRoad that makes no sense. If I’m the unofficial head of state I can’t have unofficial security if I want it?

@luminous_thumbs @EmilyThornberry there are so many legitimate ways to say bad things about Dominic Cummings, do we REALLY have to start with the “he’s a Russian spy!” attacks & make everyone doubt anything else we say as a result?

@adereynolds your intervention serves no purpose other than to effectively defend someone you admit to be a vile person, by making baseless claims to personal moral superiority or greater perceptiveness.

@adereynolds I’d also agree with Rattles that there’s no reason to believe any of the people likely to read this were in any way accepting of him before this scandal, or “angry” with him now. They always hated him & now sense a vulnerability. Obviously.

@adereynolds I think then you should reflect on the self-indulgent counter-productiveness of such remarks. I wasn’t even remarking on his moral status. You brought that up.

@taiyubr7 yes it’s shocking, isn’t it? They made it clear they’d prefer a pathological liar to an honest man, a selfish narcissist to a decent caring person. Apparently, just on principle. I think politics is inherently corrupt, but this startled even me.

@adereynolds are you writing this because you think the tweeter, or the audience, isn’t aware that Tories tend to be privileged assholes who don’t think the rules apply? Why bring it up to defend Cummings when the tweet wasn’t even about the morality of his behaviour but about his power?

@eee_eff @inside_lemon the people who are paid highest in most hospitals are the administrators. Do you think they have the capacity to hurt the most people if they don’t do their job well?

@aquaticonions @araron0000 can’t find it now but I think it was the Carnegie Endowment for Peace?

@DevAnubis that would be a very optimistic interpretation. Now let’s just smash all the alarms and we might save the planet

@hapoelorient amazing? his policies were almost all common sense and common decency & you can’t very well admit you’re against that.

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@laserveuse2 I am bored too with learning how people are identical to themselves. I want to know the ways they are not.

@acc_anarcho I think this is true more of anarchists you find online than ones who are engaged in common practical activity.

@dominichills5 @silenceindustry @LovellPropguru @ztarasj @michaellondonsf @LDNRentersUnion it hardly means that anyone in the entire world is somehow obliged to argue about abstractions with anyone else in the entire world self-important enough to demand they do so. How you get from one to other is beyond me.