Apropos of a conversation elsewhere c, I’ve always been given the creeps by “Jonathan Pie”. It’s always struck me as “manufactured outrage click bait culture for left wing people who think they’re too clever to fall for that.”
The sceptics in the pub crowd had the same sort of attitude and it made them really really easy marks for the alt right to use as useful idiots in their culture war.
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Tom Walker's a freeze peach dickhead though and I remember Owen Jones ripping him a new one on that. He seemed to go quiet for a while afterwards and never recovered.
It's a narrow path, isn't it? You know that the Tories are scum and Labour are Tories and nobody else is going to be elected in England. But if you help people see it, half of them are going to decide they might as well be fash instead of supporting actual left or centre groups.
Hoomans. *Swears in Ferengi*
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