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UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action
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What happen to you, UK? Torries is extremely incompetent, Reform is a fascist group, and Labour is an authoritarian party. It's no wonder why reform got so much popularity.
The tories are a more authoritarian party than labour.
I think there is a world wide shift to authoritarian like systems
It is terrifying
Yeah, i agree, but still. The current shift mean people gonna throw around the "everyone is the same, what's the point of voting" argument next election, which kinda spell the doom of any party that isn't right leaning.
Then fucking vote for the lib dems or the greens.
I've noticed that instead of a slow change in the right direction, people prefer drastic action even if it's in the wrong direction.
Voting in fascism to power is super obvious under this observation
Fuck that! The Lib Dems sold out all of their principles between 2010 and 2015, Nick Clegg is now a goon for Facebook, and Ed Davey is a walking joke.
The English/Welsh Greens are ineffective and TERFs, the Scottish Greens have formally unaffiliated from them because they're so bad.
The only real hope is the Corbyn/Sultana party, whatever name it ends up going by. It is gaining traction, with genuine socialists, and even the major unions like Unite and UNISON are considering endorsing them.
The Lib Dems and Greens have existed for decades and achieved fuck all. Don't waste your time with them, don't split the left vote with them, support genuine socialists. Support real change.
The sad thing is Starmer has made it hard to judge.