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Feb 6 3 tweets 1 min read
They don't know how to debate.
They think hate and rage is the same as making a reasoned case.
They think making blank assertions is the same as proving something.
They think the rules of logic are optional.
They think sneering and GIFs are arguments.
They're basically children.
It's no wonder they believe what they believe.
They don't fact-check anything.
The don't seem to know what fact-checking means.
They just swallow what they're told.
They don't question anything.
They're not even curious about whether their beliefs are true or false.
#ItWasAScam
They're passive vehicles for propaganda.
They're uncritical receptacles for whatever someone wants them to believe.
They're obedient mouthpieces of someone else's agenda.
They're dangerous weapons.
And there's a lot of them.
#ItWasAScam

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Feb 5
Corbyn has 'unconscious bias' claims Baddiel, neatly encapsulating the sheer absurdity of the hate campaign against Corbyn.
How does Baddiel know what's in Corbyn's head?
It's almost as if Baddiel has 'unconscious bias' against Corbyn...
It all just gets sillier and sillier.
Baddiel's nonsensical claim of knowledge of Corbyn's 'unconscious thoughts' precisely mimics 'Sideshow Lou' Ellman's 'antisemitic thoughts' hilarity, in which she solemnly 'suspects' she can read Corbyn's mind.
The 'antisemitism crisis' foghorns are reduced to these patently ridiculous formulations because they've dredged decades-worth of Corbyn's public statements and actions and found nothing but consistent and unwavering support for Jewish people and Jewish causes.
Read 7 tweets
Jan 24
I may not be bothering so much with #ItWasAScam from now. The evidence is clear, consistent and damning: Starmer and his bloodless assassins performed one of the most brutal political executions in UK history, and we will all be paying for it for generations.
Our media were willing helpers, dishonest, hateful and speaking with one voice, the bludgeoning voice of the UK state.
No-one who witnessed this and knew what they witnessed will ever trust anything our media tells us again. Those days of innocence are over.
UK is damaged, perhaps permanently, by it. Democracy is shown to be a comforting sham, and those who so desperately needed the changes Corbyn promised were betrayed. It leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. It leaves millions without hope of any kind.
Read 7 tweets
Oct 30, 2022
Everyone knows the story: Corbyn was an antisemite. There was that mural, wasn’t there, and some business about a wreath? And didn’t Ken Livingstone say something about Hitler?
The echoes and ripples of this story are confused now, like old memories. Was it Ken Livingstone who said the thing about Hitler or Chris Williamson? Did Corbyn say it was Jews or Zionists who don’t get irony? And didn’t someone say Jews controlled the slave trade or something?
The details barely matter anymore, though of course every one of these claims has been robustly and comprehensively exposed as a crude fraud.
Read 15 tweets
Oct 28, 2022
Obviously, as adults, we understand that journalists work for businesses which have editorial agendas, and are not free to just say anything they please.
Journalists have careers, mortgages, commitments. They’re not going to jeopardise all that.
But they’re now in an unenviable position, the honest ones I mean (if such exotica exist at all). In being required to peddle a narrative that has been wholly discredited, they’re being required to sacrifice their integrity: their self-respect.
Only the most hardened and cynical will be able to do this without some internal disquiet. The rest must, surely, be horribly aware of what they’re doing: denying the evidence, not just of their own eyes and ears, but of the eyes and ears of those who read and hear what they say.
Read 6 tweets
Oct 25, 2022
BBC:

The comment by Chris Mason that one of Starmer’s tasks is ‘getting rid of hostility to Jewish people’ is false.

There is no evidence Corbyn’s Labour Party showed any ‘hostility to Jewish people.’ The claims made by you in this regard have been comprehensively falsified.
One example of this falsification is the Al Jazeera documentary series ‘The Labour Files’. This contains hard evidence of fraud in your Ware Panorama.
This, for instance, where a Labour activist, Rica Bird, asking a Labour Party investigator, Ben Westerman, ‘Which branch are you from?’ becomes the question ’Are you from Israel?’
Read 10 tweets
Oct 23, 2022
I watched an old episode of Twilight Zone last night. The story was a man who starts to notice people using words wrongly - 'dinosaur' instead of 'lunch', for instance - which accelerates until he can understand no-one and no-one can understand him.
UK politics is like this now. Nothing actually makes any sense, and those attempting to make it make sense are using language that means nothing.
‘Got the big calls right,’ for instance, means literally nothing. Johnson blundered his way through covid, slaughtering tens of thousands of our elderly as casually as he would order a bottle of champagne, and flinging tens of billions of pounds away in corrupt deals.
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