Stelios Panagiotou
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Any direct or indirect defamation is a direct assault on my reputation and an insult to my honour. The use of my name in the recent hit piece cannot be left unanswered. I take such matters very seriously.
Let me set the record straight.
For the last 15 years, ever since I
Liz Truss’s alarming descent into far-right territory continues as she appears on the notorious Lotus Eaters show to promote her new book.
🔗 Read our full analysis here:
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I'm back. Thank you
@elonmusk
for bringing me back.
Thank you to friends and colleagues who tweeted and retweeted about this:
@Sargon_of_Akkad
@WGthink
@lotuseaters_com
@JoshFerme
@HistoryBro1
@thomaswdowling
@HarryLotusEater
@Kingbingo_
and many more friends and followers.
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@visegrad24
There will soon be complaints about discrimination with respect to who is being stopped in order to be searched.
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It is not Reform UK voters who are to blame for this. The responsibility burdens the shoulders of Tory politicians who have turned their backs on conservative values and the people who embrace them.
So Reform voters did in fact put in a hardline Labour government with a huge majority.
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Yet another 'isolated incident'. Interesting question to be asking: 'how many isolated incidents suggest a pattern?'
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@piersmorgan
The problem with Newsom is that California isn't exactly thriving under his governorship.
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I refuse to engage in discussions where the terminology is set by the left.
I do not accept any framing that presents the left as the champion of liberty, reason, or even popular government.
That is how I offend.
I am deeply moved and honoured by your reaction today. 🫡
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@PolitlcsUK
@guardian
A government that cannot define what a woman is now poses as an expert on misogyny.
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@DaveAtherton20
@Keir_Starmer
Starmer is a divisive ideologue. He has failed the pragmatist test repeatedly. He has already decided he is infallible and dismisses any dissenting voice as ‘far right’. Not a good way to run a country.
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@visegrad24
Macron still cannot understand why he and his political friends lost and doubles down on the same rhetoric. He still cannot understand that unrestricted immigration threatens European nations.
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@DaveAtherton20
People should stop taking the left’s self-description for granted. They are racist authoritarians.
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Don't believe a word he says. He and his party were elected in Greece by promising 'nationally proud negotiation' with the EU. The same person now comes and speaks of wide-open borders and denounces national sentiment as extremism. A lying hypocrite.
Wowses. Ex Greek finance minister
@yanisvaroufakis
tells me Suella Braverman should be "expelled" from the UK for starting this "misanthropic, stupid debate" about immigration — that she is a "ridiculous idiot" and a "poor excuse for human nature"😳
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@DaveAtherton20
The mantra of the left: ‘for my enemies, patterns. For my friends, isolated incidents.’
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Conservatism didn’t fail. You just weren’t conservatives.
The British public lost faith in us at the last election. But Conservatism didn't fail.
Labour are losing trust everyday. We must return to becoming a professional and united Party again. That will be my priority as leader.
#UniteToWin
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'Progressivism' destroys societies. The inability to enforce the law (for whatever reason) has become a spectacle.
Some laugh, some celebrate, some participate.
Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens who are heavily taxed and call for law enforcement are denounced as bigots.
Policeman trying to make an arrest gets attacked and others either join in or film it on their phones.
What has this country become?
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@KonstantinKisin
For decades, western ‘elites’ treat multiculturalism as an ideology in rhetoric and a divide-and-conquer strategy in action. Wokeness especially, sabotages any prospect for harmony by institutionalising group conflict and invariably siding against the natives.
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I am sad to announce that the Symposium ends today.
I did my best to host high-quality discussions about the pillars of our civilisation, and defend ideals under siege.
To all the fans of the show, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I am grateful for your support.
FREEMIUM: Symposium
#65
| Life, Liberty, and the Symposium
@Panagiotou90St
finishes up the Symposium series with a review of his favourite episodes, joined by
@HistoryBro1
and
@JoshFerme
Watch the full video:
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‘Global citizenship’ is a euphemism for turning citizens into subjects.
"Global citizenship" is a Communist scam.
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@piersmorgan
He needs to be arrested. He probably wont be but if he is and he gets convicted, the penalty will be significantly less than it would be if he were right-wing
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@piersmorgan
@elonmusk
He has to highlight what Starmer and mainstream media are trying to bury.
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@piersmorgan
It is a projection of might; desecrating two cultures (Ancient Greek and Christianity) with one move.
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@visegrad24
Good. Investigate them for anti-westernism, anti-whiteism, and anti-patriotism as well. They have been doing so for decades.
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The problem with calling everyone you disagree with 'far-right' is that the term will eventually lose its meaning. Some will deny it. Others will accept it to frustrate you. Sooner or later, people will understand that you use it as a manipulative conversation stopper.
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Eventually, socialists run out of other people's money.
Eventually, multiculturalists run out of the once dominant native culture whose good will they abuse in the name of social justice and equity.
Infatuation with abstract 'humanity' will cause concrete inhumanity.
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Sabotaging your energy independence is simply a suicidal policy.
NOW - Germany blows up the cooling towers of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, once a symbol of the country's energy independence.
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Refusing to forget values when voting is the exact opposite of an emotional spasm.
I am not 'blaming Reform'. I am blaming the individual idiots who engaged in an irresponsible emotional spasm and so inflicted a 20-year hardline Labour government on the country, when it was wholly avoidable. .
@sevmandy
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Sophists undermine the foundations of civil society while claiming to protect it.
To hide their nature, they make it all about rhetoric.
Your political opponent is not a fascist just because you say he is.
You are not opposed to fascism just because your say you are.
If you’re a “senior Democrat” that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.
This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire.
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All this is empty virtue signalling. You simply cannot bypass concrete considerations such as the issue of cultural continuities and discontinuities and the impact of mass migration on the host-country's institutions and ways of life.
You are wilfully confusing imperialist invasions by large standing armies with the free movement of people which has been the hallmark of humanity since we emerged as a species in Africa. Pandering, in other words, to the misanthropic Right for whom migrants=invaders.
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Desecrating one of the oldest monuments to get a message across shows precisely how their main motivation is blind hatred of society and the tradition they owe almost everything to.
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Regarding the Southport Stabbings:
Unless public safety is ensured and the rule of law upheld, governments are either at war with their own citizens or sit back in idleness amidst a rising chaos.
The prosecution and marginalisation of people who speak against governments that
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Disrespecting the Magna Carta amounts to disrespecting one of the greatest traditions of human history.
These idiots cannot comprehend that the government is not identical to the culture associated with the Magna Carta.
Just Stop Oil protestors try to break the glass of the Magna Carta
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Socialism is history’s greatest scam. It destroys society in the name of the common good. It divides society in the name of uniting it. It destroys people’s prospects in the name of a golden future round the corner.
"My family left, and I want them to come back... I was chavista [expletive], but I regret it! [expletive] I regret it! Because I have no future for my grandson or for my family. I feel terrible... I belonged to an organization that was trash."
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Am I absurd? No.
Unpleasant? No.
Conspiracy theorist? No.
Eccentric? I have a philosophy series. Of course I am.
‘I find it extraordinary that the former PM of this country would travel the world flogging books to whoever, no matter how extreme their view, just to stick it to the Libs.’
@Lewis_Goodall
calls for Rishi Sunak to ‘do his Party a solid’ and get rid of Liz Truss.
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This was my last original tweet before I got suspended.
I am criticising western parties that call themselves 'centre-right' for being full of visionless administrators who took people on the right for granted and expanded leftwards while adopting left-wing talking points.
How the centre-right was lost:
Politics requires a vision. Sadly, some visions are catastrophic. But their absence is catastrophic too.
The predicament of the English conservative party is similar (although not identical) to that of many parties of the western so-called
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Actions speak louder than propaganda.
In the name of liberty, more and more liberties are taken away from us.
In the name of reason, facts and logic are being routinely dismissed.
In the name of democracy, the popular will is constantly disregarded.
In the name of safe
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There is no reason to doubt that the UK is a two tier society.
A two tier system was precisely where wokeness was designed to lead to.
‘We are in a two tier society.’
@GoodwinMJ
argues that Britain is plagued with a ‘two tier justice system’ and calls for change.
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You know your side has lost all ability to reason and argue when their main argument is that half the nation is 'weird'. This is where woke education leads to. People who cannot think, converse, or engage in argumentation.
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Not all cultures are equal. This shouldn’t be controversial. Any position except cultural relativism is committed to this. Even the notion of progress requires there to be a clear distinction between better and worse cultures.
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Respect is earned, not coerced. If the government does its job in promoting the interests of the people it is supposed to represent, respect arises naturally.
The people cannot respect a government that demands respect while dismissing their most basic concerns.
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The ideology of 'social justice' aims precisely at creating a two tier-society where the allegedly 'oppressed' receive preferential treatment. We are at the stage where the ideology is so well-entrenched that they do not even see a point in hiding it.
Hi
@DonnaJonesPCC
as the Police & Crime Commissioner for Hants can I have your opinion, please?
I believe this is Rushmoor, Hants & a lady sergeant is asked about two-tier policing.
"If you treat everyone the same then you are going to treat people unfairly aren't you".
Can we
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What an arrogant and misleading statement. I have news for you. You are fallible. Most of your beliefs are mistaken. You are not an authority on truth. Portraying those concerned with the right to express their perspective as concerned with the right to lie is peak hubris.
We have to be clear what people are now demanding. Not the right to free speech. But the right to lie. The right to spread malicious information that could impede an ongoing murder investigation. The right to incite people to riot. And they should just admit it.
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@piersmorgan
@Keir_Starmer
Socialists have a habit of running out of other people's money.
Better days will come when Starmer leaves.
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@DaveAtherton20
@GBNEWS
@NandosUK
@X
@LeoKearse
Curious to see if Yvette Cooper will characterise the Nando's slapping incident as an instance of misogyny.
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This cannot go on. Labour’s incompetence is emboldening antisocial elements.
Sadly, the more Starmer focuses on empty virtue signalling rather than the causes of the stabbings, the more criminality will rise.
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Humza Yousaf governed as an authoritarian racist. He notoriously lamented the fact that the Scottish are white and branded disagreement as hate speech with his hate monster initiative. Furthermore, he has yet to define the ‘far right’.
Elon Musk is a dangerous race baiter who must be held to account for his actions.
I can't think what it is that upsets him so much about a Brown, Muslim, progressive politician? 🤔 But his billions won't stop me calling out his support for the far-right.
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Kamala Harris’ slogan ‘to see what can be unburdened by what has been’ is the best expression of the left’s problem; they focus on possibilities while ignoring probabilities.
Let's talk about
@KamalaHarris
saying "to see what can be, unburdened by what has been." This phrase, which she repeats all the time, is not mysterious. It's esoteric. That is, it's occult. It's a Marxist and Luciferian incantation, and that's easily seen.
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Suspension is not enough. He incited violence with his speech. He called for the throats of fascists and Nazis to be cut. And we all know that in today's society these terms mean anyone who disagrees with leftists.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour Party have suspended Ricky Jones for threatening to cut British people's throats
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Socialism in the west is virtue signalling your way into a third world anarchy.
Socialists promised peace, love, and understanding.
They deliver war, hate, and institutionally sanctioned bigotry.
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The dying breath of Argentinean corruption.
Purposefully misleading people by blaming Argentinean poverty on Milei and by appealing to data that roughly capture yearly inflation as opposed to inflation since Milei has taken over is both untrustworthy and harmful.
Javier Milei’s Argentina is in complete chaos.
People are protesting his devastating policies which are driving the people into unimaginable poverty and desperation.
Inflation is at 300%. Population living in poverty reported to be as high as 50%.
In response, he has declared
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Peak anti-westernism condensed. Two traditions desecrated with one move.
This is the tackiest opening ceremony in the history of the Olympic Games.
There is a reason why I have described tier-one wokeness as ‘Eurovision’; we see the same aesthetics here.
Countries should pull their ambassadors out of France over this. I'm 100% serious.
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@DaveAtherton20
Is this the same Labour party that promises building hundreds of thousands of houses every year? Cannot they build more prisons? Nothing shows better that Labour cares more about virtue signalling to extreme ideologues than they care about the common good.
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@DaveAtherton20
@benhabib6
@EdwardsEconomy
Notice how those who brand almost everyone else as ‘far right’ do so repeatedly without ever defining what they mean by it while also using it to describe those who disagree with them. Few things are more extreme than defining opposition to the ruling party as extremist.
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France is in big trouble. Too much ideology makes people feel righteous and proud about ignoring the truth.
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Progressivists radicalise people by brainwashing them with the narrative of victimhood. Victims see themselves as requiring extra protection or as being in a state of self-defence.
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Homemade pizza for tonight; made from scratch. Let the cooking competition continue.
#LotusEatersCookOff
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Labour won a punitive, anti-Tory vote; not a pro-Labour vote. Their number of seats will make them arrogant. Prepare for five years of progressivism on steroids; wokeness, oikophobia, censorship, and blaming everything to the right of them as ‘far right’.
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Without
@X
almost no one would have seen what is going on in the UK. The main people responsible for division and hatred are the narcissistic virtue signalling woke ideologues who do not care at all about facts and demonise those who do.
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*An update on my use of X and ways to contact me*
I won't rush to a decision about whether to leave, but after the reprehensible behaviour of Elon Musk this week, I will be here less.
Musk is using his platform to sow division and fan the flames of hate.
It is indefensible
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The propaganda that spreads the ideology of victimhood is a cancer in civil society. The easier it gets to be seen as a victim in the eyes of the law, the easier it gets to demonise others and portray heinous acts against them as self-defence.
the washington post is complicit in todays assassination attempt.
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The BBC confused Russia with Poland. Behold the disinformation experts.
Poland has become quite the powerhouse according to the BBC! 🇵🇱
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This is direct incitement to violence. Will Keir Starmer and the leftists who claim to abhor it do something about it? Unless they do, they are appeasing extremists.
“They are disgusting Nazi Fascists & we need to cut all their throats”
There you have it Ladies & Gentleman - The Tolerant & respectful Left - literally calling for the murder of people they disagree with.
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@KonstantinKisin
This happens already to some extent. But there is a crucial step in the middle; outlawing particular interpretations of facts like crime statistics in order to restrengthen the narrative that the only causes of crime are economic and will be solved with more taxation.
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People underestimate how extremist wokeness is.
The rejection of disagreement as hate speech combined with the ‘silence is violence’ stance in conditions of social justice multiculturalism, presents any action against those not celebrating the latest woke trend as self-defence.
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Well done Connor!! Looking forward to it.
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Infatuation with oikophobic multiculturalism made hordes of politicians unable to discern between warnings and threats. The fact that nothing suggests that Starmer draws this distinction makes people feel less safe; not more.
🚨 BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer's full address to the nation about the riots on Britain's streets
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Starmer has proved himself an ideologue by failing the pragmatist test. He has made the population feel unsafe. He has made two tier policing undeniable. And crucially, he had the opportunity to appeal to every community to avert an escalation of the crisis and chose to miss it.
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This is shameful. You clearly have no respect for Greece or the Greek people. Good thing we voted you out of parliament.
Not in the slightest. Greece has been a crossroads between Asia, Africa and Europe since the Minoan era. These hordes who came and went only made us smarter, stronger and more interesting.
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We are so deep into the post-truth paradigm that even the name of the target of libelling is not announced properly.
"Liz Truss is going to be appearing on this Far Right platform, Lotus Eats"
Sophy Ridge couldn't even get the name right
Sky News has appalling fact-checking standards
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Labour will treat misogyny as terrorism. I doubt they will do the same for misandry.
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Starmer and his friends will never define ‘far right’. Doing so would prevent them from hiding the fact that they are stunningly ignorant and use it arbitrarily, to demonise those who disagree with them. But we should constantly ask them to clarify. It worked with Helen McEntee.
We are still waiting on Starmer's definition of "far right". If the PM is insistent on using the term, we are entitled to know what he means by it.
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People who disrespect Europe have no business being in Europe.
🇩🇪GERMANY DEPORTS 28 AFGHANS TO TALIBAN-LED KABUL
Germany has conducted its first deportation of Afghans to their home country since the Taliban's takeover in August 2021.
A Qatar Airways flight carrying 28 Afghan nationals, all convicted offenders with deportation orders,
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Any person who stabs children is a monster. An evil person who declares war at humanity.
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When the people are persecuted despite not violating the law, the rule of law is no more.
I have been saying for a long time now that the goal of progressivism is arbitrary power, unburdened by the rule of law.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer is considering forcing social media companies to remove or suppress 'legal but harmful' content
[
@Telegraph
]
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Another day, another tragedy. Europe is no longer safe. We experience the same pattern again and again.
Rather than addressing the issue, politicians and the mainstream media will make it again about the ‘far right’.
JUST IN - Mass stabbing in Solingen, Germany. Multiple people reportedly killed and injured. Arab-looking perpetrator is on the run — BILD
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Banning social media is blatant authoritarianism. The same argument used to support the banning of social media can be used for banning telecommunications. Justifying this in terms of public safety is utter nonsense.
🚨🇬🇧 Should Britain BAN Social Media?
“I think so”
UK Powers have lost complete control of the narrative - people are seeing the truth,
their Lies & Propaganda exposed.
Welcome to the UK in 2024 where Fascism is very much on the rise.
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No one should be surprised with Labour's approach towards criminals.
Progressivism reduces everything to structures that override agency and personal responsibility.
It acculturates people into being afraid of responsibility and linking their survival to government handouts.
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Progressivists have brought this to themselves. They have done so with their abstract multiculturalism, their hate-driven willingness to side with anyone against their domestic political opponents, and their dismissal of any warning as ‘far-right bigotry’.
P.S. This is an
SECTARIANISM- Is a growing problem in the U.K. This is Jess Philips being abused by a Pro Palestine mob.
Multiculturalism has failed and opened the door to Islamic sectarianism, where abuse of women is the norm.
Expect much more of this.
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No borders, no country. Simple.
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Starmer’s Labour promises to build hundreds of thousands of houses but apparently cannot build more prisons. This measure was adopted in Greece with disastrous consequences. It led to a generalised atmosphere of impunity and disregard for law.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will authorise emergency measures this week to automatically release criminals less than halfway through their sentence
[
@thetimes
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The enforcement of abstract multiculturalism in Europe is a castle made in sand. Spineless politicians and ‘progressivists’ are shamelessly treating indigenous Europeans as second class citizens in their own countries. More and more Europeans are just not having it.
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Merry Christmas to everyone!!!! May you live a life full of happiness, health, and meaning.
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After the first lie, came the second. I am noticing a pattern here. Disinformation ‘experts’ are proudly remorseless at misinforming people.
Hope Not Hate's Nick Lowles admits the list of "100 planned protests" given to the Home Office was a hoax.
Disinformation is dangerous.
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The first duty of government is to ensure the safety of its own people.
400% rise in rape in 10 years.
Women and girls are expected to endure the threat of brutal, painful, terrifying, humiliating, life altering sexual assault, and
@YvetteCooperMP
thinks the issue is nothing to do with millions of foreign men flooding the country, from cultures
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Two tier policing is a fact. I will not apologise for saying so. That the Labour councillor talking about cutting people’s throats was arrested does not disprove two tier policing.
Apology?
2 tier policing is in your mind. He's been arrested
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Milei reminds us that many bad outcomes that politicians claim to be inevitable and unfixable are a matter of choice.
What they mean is 'inevitable and unfixable within their paradigm'.
BREAKING:
Argentine President Javier Milei has reached one of his stepping stone goals.
This week was the first week without inflation in Argentina in over 30 years
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Compare the state's reaction to desecration of traditional symbols with the state's reaction to kids leaving marks on rainbow crosswalks.
American Revolutionary War hero General Rochambeau vandalized. The statue was unveiled in 1902 in DC.
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Name calling and smearing is the last resort of those who have run out of arguments.
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The question to people who respond to stabbings by scaremongering about the far right, should be:
‘What would have to happen for you to acknowledge that there is a problem with mass migration in Europe?’
Ideologues and mouthpieces will not be able to answer it.
Ex-
@LBC
Political Editor
@theousherwood
is worried the murders in Solingen "could be used by the far-right to stir up hatred".
Good to see the establishment have their priorities right, we can't have the plebs angry at anti-Semitic & anti-Christian, murderous hatred.
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The EU is full of bureaucrats who never assume responsibility for their failures.
Alternative media are influential primarily because mainstream media have lost credibility.
Mainstream media had great power and used it irresponsibly. They continue to do so by promoting
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A lieutenant colonel was stabbed multiple times.
A police officer was stabbed in a prison.
A 15 year old boy was stabbed in Hackney.
And the question people ask is whether the police is institutionally racist.
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Without free speech there can be no dialogue.
Without dialogue there can be no popular government; neither a republic nor a democracy.
Those who seek to destroy free speech aim towards yielding absolute power arbitrarily.
Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy. If the truth is suppressed, it is impossible to make an informed voting decision.
The degree to which freedom of speech is being undermined around the world is extremely alarming.
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Governments that seek to censor dissident voices are governments that do not want to be criticised.
Their goal is turning their people from citizens to subjects.
The best antidote to misinformation is more information -- not a draconian clampdown on free speech
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Plato warned us. Subjectivism about truth has a high correlation with sophistry, amoralism, and immoralism. Unless it possesses a high degree of moral truth, any mere consensus to get things done will result in catastrophe and tyranny.
Here's the new NPR CEO Katherine Maher (and former chief executive of Wikipedia) explaining that "the truth" is an outdated concept.
Everyone can have their own truth:
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