• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    They are shit fucking scared of the new left wing party Corbyn is building and this is a pre-emptive reaction to it. They know it’s coming within the next 12 months.

    If you thought the media was insane last time Corbyn was a threat it’s going to get absolutely wild.

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        Jean-Luc Melenchon has been attacked for being anti-semetic since Oct 7 and he was asked why it didn’t seem to have the same effect on him and the party since it was pretty much the exact same scenario. He just said that you just have to ignore those things, anyone who is remotely seriously knows what’s going on, and everyone knows who the racists are in the political world.

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        As much as I wish for the best, I can’t imagine him not playing defence to some degree. The shameless aggression that is necessary does not seem to be in his nature.

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        The difference is, rightists have total domination of the media and government, Corbyn doesn’t. He can’t force his way to “populism” like chuds do. Time will tell if he can get enough support or not.

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        Except I’m not convinced Farage ever got half the vilification that Corbyn did. There’s a big difference between the media saying

        “Immigration is the worst. Also hey look at this anti-immigrant guy, crazy right? Plus we keep implementing his policies. Remember immigration bad. Reform is totally a problem.”

        and

        “This guy confirmed for Russian sleeper agent. Plus he hates you. Here’s the army chief confirming he’ll get us all killed. And we proved his policies will make you poor. Plus he’s unelectable anyway. Here’s a bunch of shit we made up about him for kicks.”.

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          Except I’m not convinced Farage ever got half the vilification that Corbyn did

          He was allowed to present panel shows multiple times, it’s why I can never take any establishment figure fearmongering about him seriously.

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        The left is the true antisemitic in the room thing has mostly been run to the ground in the UK (I hope), a few years ago a significant amount of his supporters were still both siding the Palestinian genocide.

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        Common Jezza W. I always thought it was a little insulting when people said he was Britain’s Bernie. Sanders would never.

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            I consider Corbyn pretty principled, even if the focus on electoralism seems a bit idealist. He’s called Maduro a good friend and called to his radio show, he’s been vocal in his support for Palestine for decades and opposes NATO.

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          He got arrested for fighting for Palestinian rights since he was young. Bernie‘s politics aged like warm milk in comparison.

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        Reportedly, rumour, gossip, grapevine, super secret except everyone seems to know about it and he doesn’t deny it.

        The rumour says it’s coming “definitely in the next 12 months” because it’ll need local election results in the next one if it’s going to have any results for legitimacy going into the next national election to fight Reform. The only window is now.