“David Lammy under pressure as two more prisoners mistakenly freed”
I’m somewhat puzzled about the way this is being reported, allowing serial conman Nigel Farage to make out this is just about criminal asylum seekers being released by accident. 1/🧵 theguardian.com/society/2025/n… **
As this report makes clear, hundreds of prisoners, are accidentally released.
Nor is this new, there have been many cases like this for years. 2/ news.sky.com/story/how-many… **
One of Britain’s most notorious serial rapists (white), was rele…
“David Lammy under pressure as two more prisoners mistakenly freed”
I’m somewhat puzzled about the way this is being reported, allowing serial conman Nigel Farage to make out this is just about criminal asylum seekers being released by accident. 1/🧵 theguardian.com/society/2025/n… **
As this report makes clear, hundreds of prisoners, are accidentally released.
Nor is this new, there have been many cases like this for years. 2/ news.sky.com/story/how-many… **
One of Britain’s most notorious serial rapists (white), was released early, accidentally, and went on a spree of horrific offences.
3/news.sky.com/story/joseph-m… **
I remember many such cases being reported over the years, often involving mixing people up with similar names. I’m not exactly sure how many times it happens, or the causes of it, only that it has been happening for a long time. 4/ **
However, what is important, is that it didn’t just start with 2 criminal asylum seekers. Therefore, for the media and opportunist, far right politicians, to make this about asylum seekers, is grossly dishonest, as most accidental releases aren’t asylum seekers, or recent. 5/ **
Of grave concern is this cherry-picking logical fallacy, is being used by the right wing media, for dog whistle racism, where they over-report crimes committed by non-white offenders, to give the false impression, that most crimes are committed by non-whites. 6/ **
Again, and again, statistics prove that the majority of offenders are white, which is not surprising in a country with a white majority. It is just that the right wing media make a bigger fuss, about offences, committed by non-whites, to reinforce false stereotypes. 7/ **
The problem is much deeper. The national press, can only report a tiny proportion of criminal cases, even serious ones. Therefore, it is very easy for the media to mislead the public, by selectively cherry-picking certain types of cases, to promote political agendas. 8/ **
This has been going on for a very long time, on so many different levels. It is not always clear what the agenda is, but there is clear selectivity in the type of cases reported, which is often strongly correlated with right wing political agendas/campaigns. 9/ **
It is impossible to prove anything, in specific cases, because of the way, what cases are reported by the media, and which are not, is very arbitrary, and highly selective. So it is possible to pretend it is just coincidence. 10/ **
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Nov 1
Once again @grok is spread disinformation and smears, by falsely labelling people who are moderately left wing, as far left. I am just going to give a brief history lesson, to this artificial unintelligence. Of how the left actually is, not how the extreme right, typifies it. 1/
Firstly, I am not ideological, and I regard all ideology of any direction of ideology, as misconstrued i.e. this is not defensiveness on my part.
The left represents a very broad spectrum of political viewpoints. 2/
What are properly typified as far left, and I say this in a very neutral way, are revolutionary Marxists, communists etc. They don’t believe in Western democracy, and believe that the system needs to be overthrown by revolution. Most are quite open and honest about this. 3/
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I see no evidence @ZackPolanski lost his temper.
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This was entirely predictable, to anyone with their eyes open.
1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20…
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What I was trying to do with this thread, is to illustrate, how all those who deny the existential threat to our civilization, from the climate and ecological crisis, are in some form of ideologically motivated denial. 1/🧵
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Oct 18
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I’m not a doom-monger, saying civilization is going to happen come what may. All my commenting is to stop that happening, because it is entirely possible to avoid this, if, and only if we massively change our system, and start cooperating, and stop competing. 2/
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“Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg.”
If anyone closely resembles the anti-christ, it’s Peter Thiel, Donald Trump and JD Vance.
1/🧵theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…
Just to make it clear, that I am not religious. But I have read most of the Bible when I was younger, and self-evidently Trump hasn’t.
Enough to know that the Jesus described was quite the woke commie. 2/
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Matthew 19:24 3/
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