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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Sep 14

The modern right are not believers in democracy, unless it puts them in power. The modern populist right are totally intolerant of any other perspective but their own. They even attack, moderate Conservatives. By the left, they mean everyone but them.
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I must make it very clear that I am not ideological and that I am not conventionally left wing, even if I have similar principles of social justice and equality. My guiding principle is ecological sustainability i.e. avoiding the ecological collapse of our societies.
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My reason for attack the right is most are now climate change deniers, attacking the natural systems that sustain us. I am a lot more sympathetic to the left, because their policy is more in line with sustainability, but not totally.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Sep 13

"some of whom have clashed with riot police and could be seen throwing objects at the police line. The group seem agitated, with lots of shouting and shoving."

I've yet to see a report of any far right rally, when they have not attacked the police.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/live/…

But bizarrely arrests are always low, and the police never invoke the powers they have under protest legislation.

Yet the police make mass arrests of entirely peaceful climate activists and those protesting against genocide in Gaza.
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Bizarrely the far right makes false claims of 2-tier policing, and them being persecuted by the authorities, despite perpetrating violence, and making threats of violence, that have always been illegal. Not illegal under recent made up laws to make peaceful protest illegal.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Sep 13

There is something very important to understand about the Charlie Kirk murder. All the evidence shows that he was killed by a disaffected* lone gun nut, acting on their own initiative, which happens every day in the US. It was not part of some coordinated political movement.
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Any attempt to blame it on the "radical left", Democrats or whatever, is an opportunistic, mendacious lie, of the type that the Nazis and other fascistic dictators use, to take violent action against their political opponents.
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In the US, because of their lax gun laws, almost every day, gun nuts go out and shoot other people, because of an incoherent personal grievance. Sometimes mass shootings. The victims can even be innocent young children.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Sep 11

"Donald Trump blamed “the radical left” for the shooting and promised a crackdown"

The man who tried to shoot Donald Trump, was a registered Republican, and so was his family. This is Nazi style lying and hijacking of a murder for political reasons.

1/🧵theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

The biggest instigator of political violence, in America is Donald Trump. He instigated a violent attempted coup on 6 January, in which a police officer died, to overthrow a legitimate election result.
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Currently, Trump is instigating militaristic invasions of states and cities run by political rivals, on entirely false and made up grounds, to intimidate them. He did it in California, then Washington DC, and is now threatening it in Chicago.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Sep 10

The Trump regime has now gone fully Orwellian over the ridiculous denial of the genuineness, of Trump's birthday letter to Epstein.

This is aside from the serious fascistic direction of the Trump regime. It's outright denial of truth and reality.

1/🧵theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

It's very dangerous, not just in the US with the Trump regime, but with US influenced Western governments around the world, that are now absolutely denying reality, from the climate crisis, to the genocide in Gaza. A really dangerous turn.
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If governments refuse to accept such obvious truths and reality, there is nothing they can't deny or say.

The denial of the veracity of this letter is ridiculous, as it predates the first arrest and conviction of Epstein, and when Trump still openly socialised with Epstein.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Sep 9

I'll briefly explain what I'm attempting to do. We face several serious crises. The climate and ecological crisis. A social justice crisis and the creeping control of us and our societies, by a powerful clique of billionaires and corporate interests. All this is interlinked.
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All this is putting our societies on a catastrophic course, where the powerful vested interests I mention, try to mislead us about the situation we are in, so they can exploit us and accumulate far more wealth from our exploitation.

2/oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

It is not in the interests of billionaires and corporate interests, for the people, the public, to know, how much danger they are in because of the climate crisis, because the burning of fossil fuels are a key part of how the very rich, increase their wealth.
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