I’m pro-Biden now, we have to keep him in, it’s too much fun
BigBoyKarlLiebknecht
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Here’s the deal, Jack: you call me a tankie, but listen—back in ’68, Prague, Hungary, all those places… tanks everywhere. Ten, twenty tanks in one city. You better believe it. I stood up against communism, and Mao! We stood up against it too, folks - many times, we beat the drum against…We had a victory over communism, just like my administration had a victory over…over, Social Security. My dad used to say… wait… Oh, right, victory. I cede my time.
Comrade EyupLovely has been banned from Twitter, it seems 
Anyone know what prompted it?
I’ve posted this multiple times before, but I’m going to say it again as my mind is still blasted from knowing this:
- Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff took a “career break” in the 1980s to run a pub in South Armagh (which to the unfamiliar was an area of, shall we say, “active community involvement” in the fight for Irish freedom)
- Keir Starmer defended Berlusconi as part of his legal team during his appeal at the European Court of Human Rights
- Keir Starmer was part of the legal team that got the murder conviction of Sergeant Lee Clegg quashed
- Keir Starmer played with the Parachute Regiment in an 11-a-side football “grudge” match against the Royal Military Police
- Keir Starmer decided as Director of Public Prosecutions that an MI5 agent should not face torture charges for participating in interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. Starmer then attended the leaving party of the head of MI5 a year later
- Keir Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions when the Criminal Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute Jimmy Savile in 2009
- Keir Starmer is advised by Peter Mandelson, who according to an internal report by JP Morgan had “a particularly close relationship” with Jeffrey Epstein
- Keir Starmer served on the Trilateral Commission
- Keir Starmer secretly assembled a leadership campaign team days after Mike Pompeo’s private comments were “leaked” to the press wherein Pompeo pledged to “do [his] level best” to prevent a Corbyn premiership
- Keir Starmer’s campaign instructed its candidate running against Nigel Farage to leave the constituency, banned from printing leaflets, blocked from using campaigning software and had access to the campaign’s social media overridden. This happened after the candidate started being a threat to Farage. Farage’s party’s vote share drove Labour’s victory, in a reversal of what happened in 2019.
But reassured, Keith is a normal, regular guy who doesn’t work after 6pm on a Friday.
Hooooo boy, if you think tech bros were annoying, wait until you meet an Israeli one
The mental image of soppy Keith being chummy and playing football with paras is just utterly bizarre to me 
It still makes me giggle that the British establishment was so scared of a bumbling Social Democrat hippie in the midst of rapidly deteriorating material conditions that they just installed an MI5 government.
If I were a QAnon chud, I’d be having the time of my life - the bar that Starmer’s Chief of Staff ran in the 1980s (when fun things were happening) is now a daycare
Can’t remembered who it was that shared the Eyup Lovely Twitter account on here, but it’s both hilarious and illuminating. Without it, I wouldn’t have learned that Starmer’s Chief of Staff is almost certainly intelligence services:
Gray took a career break in the 1980s, a step described by journalist Sam McBride as "strikingly unorthodox". During this time, she ran the Cove Bar, a pub in Newry, a border town in Northern Ireland, during The Troubles, with her husband Bill Conlon, a country music singer from Portaferry, County Down. Peter Caldwell, a former special adviser to several ministers, said it had been speculated Gray was a spy at this time, though Gray denied it. According to the Belfast Telegraph, her car was stopped one night by IRA paramilitaries who wanted to take it, only for her to be allowed to pass after a voice said "that's Sue Gray from The Cove, let her go on"
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Former cabinet minister Oliver Letwin wrote of her: "Unless she agrees, things just don't happen. Cabinet reshuffles, departmental reorganizations, the whole lot – it's all down to Sue
Much remains unknown about the 60-year-old, who in the 1980s took a strikingly unorthodox career break to run a pub in Newry, a hotbed of IRA and security force activity.
In 2015, BBC Newsnight’s policy editor Chris Cook described Mrs Gray as “the most powerful civil servant you’ve never heard of” and “also perhaps the most secretive you could ever hope to meet”.
He said that she had “astounding” influence and was “notorious for her determination not to leave a document trail”, adding that “even when a document trail exists, Ms Gray is enthusiastic about keeping it a secret”, advising special advisers of how they could destroy emails to thwart potential Freedom of Information requests.
In his memoirs, former Lib Dem minister David Laws recounted a conversation with Conservative minister Oliver Letwin in which he said: “Our great United Kingdom is actually entirely run by a lady called Sue Gray, the Head of Ethics or something in the Cabinet Office.
Nothing to see here, just a Londoner casually taking a career break in the 1980s to run a pub in a majority Catholic border town that saw significant IRA activity, then being lauded by a former minister Tory as the person who actually runs the country.
I still see Seek and Merlin are starting points for imagining what ML could be under communism. As a birder/nature lover, these apps enhance my understanding of the natural world - and make it easier fo me to learn bird song, etc., rather than necessarily replacing that interaction I have with nature. The research possibilities are incredible too - being able to automatically track overnight bird migration paths, for instance.
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