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27 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
I wonder if Laurence Fox knows that in 2017 the US alt-right embraced #milk as a symbol of white supremacism, with infamous white supremacist Richard Spencer & far-right 'social media personality' Tim 'Baked Alaska' Treadstone both adding milk symbols to their Twitter profiles? ImageImageImage
Many dismiss bigoted rants on #MilkTwitter as nothing more than irony targeting the humourless PC brigade. But irony/ambiguity are used by alt-right trolls who seek to exploit Poe’s Law (it’s almost impossible to distinguish satire from sincerity online.)

inews.co.uk/news/world/whi…
Two of the most notorious far-right accounts in America - using the milk symbol - 'just for laughs'.

Why am I bothering with this? I think winking at the far-right to appear 'edgy' is irresponsible, & 'd prefer the UK not to simply replicate the USA over the last few years. ImageImage
Who funds Laurence Fox?

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A THREAD about neoliberalism & corporate propaganda.

For forty years, neoliberal economic & political policies have profoundly shaped our present by introducing a form of hyper-deregulated hyper-free-market capitalism, with four main attributes:
1 Shrinking the role of the state;

2 Centrality of the market to enable the buying & selling of goods & services & drive economic growth

3 Risk is a central organising concept;

4 Collective responsibility replaced with a competitive individualism driven by self-responsibility.
A corporation is basically a large company or group of companies authorised to act as a single entity & recognized as such in law: a legal entity distinct from its owners, which enjoys most of the rights & responsibilities that individuals possess.
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In the wake of the death of Ian Tomlinson at the London G20 protests in 2009, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary proposed a number of reforms aimed at making public order policing strategies more ‘human-rights compliant’.

#BristolProtests

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One significant development was the introduction of 'Protest Liaison Officers' whose role is supposed to be to build links between police & protesters through the establishment of dialogue & relationships based on trust.

Obviously, given scenes in Bristol, this is not the case.
Scholars started to examine the complex interplay between these practices & the more overt forms of Police coercion & control experienced by protesters.

This research shows that official accounts contrast sharply with the experiences & material conditions faced by protesters.
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25 Mar
Academic hat on.

🇬🇧 #Flag THREAD 🇬🇧

We know #flags are powerful symbols of national identity, & we know they have different meanings, for different individuals, & in different countries, largely dependent upon history.

But generally, this a surprisingly under-researched area.
#Flags evoke a very wide range of emotions, including pride, patriotism, egalitarianism & unity. However, we also know they can evoke a sense of national superiority.

They've been widely used as #propaganda, both good & bad.

The Nazis focused on division & national superiority.
I just want to flag up (see what I did there?) some interesting research.

The first is from 2017: 'What Do National Flags Stand for? - An Exploration of Associations Across 11 Countries'

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24 Mar
The working class is BY FAR Britain's most ethnically diverse class.

Virtually ALL w/c people are kind, decent, & not remotely 'bigoted'.

Instead of chasing the greedy or gullible 3 in 10 Tory voters, @UKLabour should listen to & inspire the 7 in 10 voters who didn't vote Tory.
And yes, you read that right: less than 3 in 10 of the electorate voted for the @Conservatives in the 2019 general election - and now they want criminalise protest.
Votes/seat #GE2019:

Tory 38K
Labour 50K
LibDems 336K
Greens 886K

Of the 47,074,800 registered voters, 67.3% voted in #GE2019. Of those, 43.6% voted Tory.

This means that *LESS THAN 3 in 10 OF THE ELECTORATE* secured the Tories an 80 seat majority.

It's simply ridiculous.
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22 Mar
British people deserve MUCH better than a Govt of delusional backward-looking bankers, bigots, bullies & lobbyists, headed by a sociopathic liar, & supported by a fawning media owned by billionaires & populated with free-market cranks, charlatans, grifters & Little Englanders.
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Less than 3 in 10 of the electorate voted for the @Conservatives in the 2019 general election - and now they want criminalise protest.
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Tory 38K
Labour 50K
LibDems 336K
Greens 886K

Of the 47,074,800 registered voters, 67.3% voted in #GE2019. Of those, 43.6% voted Tory.

This means that *LESS THAN 3 in 10 OF THE ELECTORATE* secured the Tories an 80 seat majority. 🤯
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22 Mar
It's naïve to think the police NEVER misuse violence - it's well documented.

Short THREAD on #militant #suffragettes, who helped women get the vote

And let's not forget the brutal miner's strike, or the poll tax riots, which helped end the draconian tax, & get rid of Thatcher. ImageImage
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Elsie Flint, a militant suffragette, recalled in the 1970s: "People laugh & say what ridiculous things to do, but it was never done for fun. They had to get the notice of the public and that was their way of doing it."

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