Home secretary criticised for tweets vowing to restrict use of tents by homeless people ‘many of them from abroad’

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      She’s doing white fascists a solid by saying things they’d be attacked for saying in public.

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      It’s a thing I see here in the US all the time. I live in Chicago. Have friends and colleagues from nearly every corner of the globe.

      For some weird reason, kids of immigrants can swing real hard towards hating other immigrants. It’s pure selfishness. They’re one of the good people. We shouldn’t be letting in the dirty poors trying to move in now.

      One lady I know moved here from Greece at 5. She has teenage daughters. Yuge Trump fan. I asked one time what she would do if one of her daughters dated a known serial sex abuser and rapist. She of course was horrified at the thought. So I then asked why she would vote for such a person as President. And that was different because he’s trying to “fix things” like all the illegal immigrants coming here.

      My former brother-in-law is the kid of Scandinavian immigrants. Also likes Trump. Also hates all the brown people immigration.

      Chinese coworker. Nicest lady in the world. Hates immigrants with a passion.

      Easily dozens more I could list. It’s all anecdotal of course. But it’s something about conservative people in general having a brain malfunction when it comes to empathy. Maybe science will figure out how to help them eventually.

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        They don’t want help. They’re happy not giving a shit. As they’d see it, we’re the ones with a problem: letting other people’s suffering bother us.

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    Perhaps we should chuck her out of her job and house(s), empty her bank accounts and let her try it?

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    I think Suella Braverman should make the lifestyle choice to be forcibly removed from parliament, evicted, and spat on in the street. What a piece of shit.

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    fining charities is such a Braverman move.

    its ironic shes unemployable.

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      its ironic shes unemployable.

      if only that mattered… She, just like the rest of them, will go on to sell books, and do “talks”, and go on tv promoting both, making hundreds of thousands of pounds without having to do much of anything at all (all being ghost-written of course, maybe she has to eat a worm or two in the Jungle at most).

      Parliament is these people’s jumping off point for their real careers as “public speakers” and “think tank board members”, they don’t give a shit what impact they have on the “little people”, and many if not most are happy to try and get as much out of it for themselves as they can get away with (or not, since there is no real accountability). Never forget that, because they are the ones who set the rules, and if we play by them, we will get fucked, every time.

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      The difference between Braverman and a pantomime villain is that she actually has the power to make this stuff happen. It remains to be seen if these are just empty words, but it’s definitely worth reporting that a government minister intends to start putting people in prison for being destitute.

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        Well it’s mostly empty words so far. Most of the things she said she’s going to do have no basis in Law - as I suspect she suspect she knows - she hasn’t got much in the table in terms of changing that, in the little time she has left.

        She’s not above performative cruelty, but the reality she says lots horrible things and enacts few of them.

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      These acts of terrorism were perpetrated by the entire Gazan community […]

      And now it’s here. I do hope they enjoy what they’ve worked generationaly to achieve

      There will be no ceasefire this time

      -- @downpunxx

      ‘Performative Right Wing Political Cruelty’ is a bold label to throw around from the guy who repeatedly posts that he considers the deaths of Palestinian children to be them merely getting what they’re due.