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Jonn Elledge

18 Feb, 7 tweets, 1 min read

One thing I think is unhealthy about the Labour party's forever war is that it's baked in that there's always a chunk of the left that's rooting for the leader to fail because it proves them *right*. This feels like it may, on balance, be a bad thing.

But I only started paying proper attention c2014. How much was this true before then?

basically, how much is this Corbyn, how much is this Twitter, and how much has this just been always true only I wasn't looking before?

"I'm having a stressful, slightly unhappy day. How can I make things better? I know, I'll send out a hastily written tweet that'll ruin my mentions for hours, that'll cheer me up."

anyway please subscribe to my newsletter in which I am angry about politics and gleeful other nerdy things, watching numbers go up makes brain chemicals feel good

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YES I KNOW THE LABOUR RIGHT DO THIS TOO I WASN'T EXCLUDING THEM FROM MY ARGUMENT THAT FACTIONALISM IS BAD THAT IS WHAT I WAS SAYING THAT FACIONALISM IS BAD WHOEVER DOES IT HELLO TAP TAP TAP IS THIS THING ON TAP TAP TAP TAP

how do I mute this thread, and also all other threads, and then log off and bury myself in a hole

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