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🧵 explaining why “Judeo-Christian” is a problematic phrase with a chequered history, used mainly as a dog whistle by Christian nationalists and right-wing and far-right politicians, hacks, influencers and media on both sides of the Atlantic, especially since 9/11. Some of the…
🧵 Many politicians on the populist nationalist, Libertarian, Conservative Christian, and extreme-/far-/radical-Right often use the phrase “Judeo-Christian” as a prefix to, or euphemism for, (Western) ‘values’ or ‘culture’. It's a dog whistle. Here's why. Buckle up...
George Famer insists he objected to the racism, but as the son of a multi-millionaire hedge fund manager who "gave" the @Conservatives £4million, he loves to boast about the time that he flew all his Bullingdon Club mates to Bordeaux on a private jet owned by his father.
In response, one of the candidates told a joke about a black person hanging in a tree. Another said: ‘What do you say when you see a television moving around in the dark? Put it down you ****** or I’ll shoot you.’ dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
I wonder if Farmer's black wife, Candace, knows that in 2009, the OUCA was embroiled in a bitter public scandal after candidates for election to its governing committee were asked at a ‘hustings’ to tell the most racist joke they knew and name their ‘least favourite minority’.
Pompous arrogant spoilt prick George, who attended the elite fee-paying St Paul’s School for Boys in London – Chancellor George Osborne’s old school – was social secretary of the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) in his first year.
While studying Theology at Oxford University, son of ex-Tory treasurer & donor Michael Farmer, George found himself in the headlines for behaviour deemed shameful to the university while a member of the grotesque elite all-male Bullingdon Club, that once included Boris Johnson.
Oh fuck off, you shit-stirring gobshite. x.com/docrussjackson…
No Nigel Farage, you disgusting, irresponsible, bigoted, shit-stirring shameless liar, Britain is NOT "facing societal collapse" - that's just a divisive, inflammatory, fearmongering lie. Societal collapse is what has happened in #Gaza.
Donald Trump is currently in a hell of his own making. #FrameLab "For years, he amplified conspiracy theories about pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey #Epstein. Now that he's back in the @WhiteHouse, he's denying and downplaying the story. He wants his followers to “move on.” But…
Hey American friends, you seen Trump in this? 🤣 youtu.be/OgUAQ4ZGtgk?si…
Sounds exactly like every Reform UK MP! 😂
'Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election'. This research analyzed the strategies of influential bots seeking to affect the immigration debate. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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'Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election'. This research analyzed the strategies of influential bots seeking to affect the immigration debate. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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The democrat worship for Andy Beshear is really really weird and creepy lol
i've always wanted to ratio the white house
They came after the wrong man.
What have Lee Anderson and ‘Tommy Robinson’ got in common? They both like jeopardising trials and don’t give a shiny shit about the victims getting justice.
Yesterday Reform supporters were howling that this was a 5 star £500 per night hotel. Yet today it’s 4 star and £81!?! We can’t trust a word these liars say!?
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'So, why did a Thai-based multimillionaire who makes money from fossil fuels give £10MILLION to anti-Net Zero Reform UK when 3 of its leaders have shows on a "news" channel owned by a billionaire whose hedge fund has £1.75BILLION invested in fossil fuels?' x.com/BylineTimes/st…
'So, why did a Thai-based multimillionaire who makes money from fossil fuels give £10MILLION to anti-Net Zero Reform UK when 3 of its leaders have shows on a "news" channel owned by a billionaire whose hedge fund has £1.75BILLION invested in fossil fuels?' x.com/BylineTimes/st…
It's @reformparty_uk - the "anti-elite" private limited company led by privately educated multimillionaires Tice, Farage & Habib, funded to the tune of £10MILLION by Thai-based multimillionaire 'Chakrit Sakunkrit', & given a TV channel by billionaire hedge-funder Paul Marshall!
#THREAD The 'major economist who agrees with Reform UK' is Telegraph columnist Roger Bootle. What neither Tice not The Telegraph disclose is he's a member of the 'Economists for Free Trade' (formerly 'Economists for Brexit') - a group with strong ties to climate science deniers.
'So, why did a Thai-based multimillionaire who makes money from fossil fuels give £10MILLION to anti-Net Zero Reform UK when 3 of its leaders have shows on a "news" channel owned by a billionaire whose hedge fund has £1.75BILLION invested in fossil fuels?' x.com/BylineTimes/st…
Numerous members of and advisors to the Economists for Free Trade (EFT) have links to libertarian, pro-Brexit #TuftonStreet think tanks, including the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). x.com/docrussjackson…
#THREAD Disabled children’s charity Street Foundation, funded mainly by HR Smith Group (big donors to Reform, Tories & Brexit groups) gave 43% of its grants (£749,000) to #TuftonSt lobbyists. CEO Richard Smith owns the building housing the New Culture Forum, Civitas, GWPF & IEA.
Bootle is also a member of the IEA's Shadow Monetary Policy Committee (SMPC). Formed in the 1950s & inspired by the work of Friedrich Hayek, the #IEA was behind Liz Truss's catastrophic attempt to subject Britain to its dangerous ultra-free-market ideas. x.com/docrussjackson…
#THREAD comprising extended extracts from @lhfang's 2017 article 'Here's how Atlas Network, a libertarian American think tank, is remaking Latin American politics' - featuring Tufton St's most influential think tank, the climate crisis downplaying IEA... interc.pt/2uoGhlF