If your fight for personal liberty (masks, free speech..) has ANY integrity, you'll oppose the Policing Bill which criminalises being #NoisyAndAnnoying at protests, just as strongly.
Can we count on you?
You've treated masks as muzzles.
You've described lockdown as intentional government suppression and population control.
THIS. IS. WORSE.
So I hope you would like your libertarianism to at least appear consistent:
Why telling your friend you're suffering is never a burden:
1⃣ It's more of a burden to me to have to *wonder* if my friend is going through hell, than it is to hold their hand through it.
2⃣ If your *friend* wouldn't look after you, or would rather not know... Not a friend.
And on a personal note...
My trauma was the most significant factor in the person I am today. If you you don't know it, you don't really know me.
And if someone doesn't know you, how can they be a friend?
We are the sum total of how we've reacted to the things we've experienced.
I often view friendship as an invisible safety net below a tight-rope... You only know it's really there when you fall.
Anybody who's waiting for Labour to overtake the Tories is kidding themselves. If that's your plan, just strap in for another ten years of Tory suffering.
For me, it's simple. Electoral Pact means the Tories are out:😎
If there's no electoral pact, we're all fucked anyway so: 😎
I'm pretty bad when it comes to off-colour humour. Like... I shield you guys from the sorts of things I say with my mates... But even me... I... I don't even know what to say.
I mean, part of me is genuinely hoping Patrick is about to turn round and say this was actually a super meta way of cynically exposing the way some media outlets tried to weaponise Prince Phillip's illness to try to silence Meghan and Harry.
We've all dated that guy who tells you and all your friends you look like a bank-robber when you go out dressed like that...
...you then receive 375% more attacks as a result...
And then he tells you the problem is YOUR "pessimistic narrative" (actually in the report).
The Prime Minister's narrative on race has called black people piccaninnies with watermelon smiles, said Britain should still own Africa, accused Obama have having a "part-Kenyan's ancestral dislike of the British empire"...