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TerribleHands [he/him]

TerribleHands@hexbear.net
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Binface is on the right, on the left is a Monster Raving Looney with a puppet.

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Yeah, a simple majority is all-powerful in British politics, anything more constitutionally means nothing. The only real value of a larger majority is limiting rebellious fringes of the party from blocking legislation.

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No party that wins under FPTP is ever gonna get rid of FPTP, and no one that loses under FPTP will ever have the power to get rid of FPTP.

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How much have you heard Corbyn’s voice in Parliament since 2019? No one listens to backbenchers.

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Feels potentially real to me, corporations love performative allyship, just look at the attempted cooption of pride. I could absolutely see a company prioritising queer hires (in certain industries.)

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Isn’t the point that global warming could make a lot more of the country liveable? Same with Russia, climate change could potentially turn frozen tundra into usable land.

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Yeah but melty roads is a smaller issue than the apocalyptic famines anyone further south is gonna face.

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If I’m dirty from the day I’ll shower in the evening, but if I’m not I’ll shower the next morning. Sometimes I’ll do both.

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His Dad was, but fell out of favor. Xi grew up in a cave and struggled to join the party.

His later political career almost certainly benefitted from his family connections (after his father was rehabilitated) but he’d also experienced real working-class struggle during childhood.

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