Dave Johnson

Use of language that conveys to voters that immigrants are a threat creates a fear response that drives them into the arms of the far right - no matter the policies being proposed.

The language in this op-ed is almost textbook designed to drive voters toward Farage, Reform and Tommy Robinson.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

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She sounds good!

Thank you.

This kind of reporting is intended to make people hate "the other" and support fascists. You don't see this unless it was an immigrant

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PS I grew up being called a "kike." So this stuff is real to me. Being called a Nazi in comments here is pretty bad and says a lot about how politics works now. I just think it's worth looking a bit deeper before writing someone off. Remember Bernie supporters being called racist.

I can accept Mills. But I think his growth story is real.

Have you heard HIM talk about personal growth over these things. Many people in Maine have turned around on this and come to support his candidacy.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

Sorry, I missed this earlier.

They can't fathom it happening here, even when the process is unfolding before their very eyes.

This. I can't tell you how many conversations I've had since coming here like this: "This feels like America just a few years ago" only to be met with "but we have better education etc." Okay, barely, and you actually are among the most jaded and apathetic in the world, right alongside the U.S.

I have to wonder if people who talk about this have heard a few comprehensive interviews with him talking about it, about personal growth and about why he's running. I had the same reactions at first and now I think he will be a great progressive senator. Apparently so do a lot of people in Maine.

An important point. "Immigration" is not about immigration. It is entirely about race. When they say "illegals" etc they mean non-white people.

It is racial fear. It is stoked and used.

It can't be fought without understanding this.

Nature Loss Tied to Higher Government Borrowing Costs in New Study Researchers at Oxford and LSE found that ecosystem decline led to rising bond yields.

Declines in a country's biodiversity can lead to higher borrowing costs, a new study finds.

Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won’t be able to do anything else at all | Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair, says home secretary Shabana Mahmood

For example, on immigration. Language that conveys to voters that migrants are a threat - are bad - creates a fear response that drives them into the arms of the right - no matter the policies being proposed. Yesterday's op-ed by the Home Secretary does this.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Several studies have looked at data from elections to see if "move to the right" keeps the far right from winning. Conclusion: it validates right-wing propaganda in voters' minds, repels your own voters.

Here is one.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What's the point of Democrats if they can't just come out and say illegal war is wrong and we pledge to stop it?

Instead of waiting to see which way the wind is blowing.

the best explanation for why they shifted right and have doubled down is that Starmerites believe their success was based on ejecting Corbyn, rather than on an anti incumbent year.

One point. To be fair, Biden's people understood this in the beginning. Build Back Better was the right policies to fight this stuff. But it was blocked by the usual corporate-paid-off "centrists" along with the Republicans.

Absolutely correct!

Whenever conservative parties win, they typically try to see just how far to the right they can go before everyone turns on them. Whenever center-left parties win, they end up backing away from progressive policies and "moderating" in hopes of trying to appeal to people who didn't vote for them.

I live in the UK now and agree with this thread. UK politics is like having to live through the mistakes in the US all over again.

"Move to the right" does not "attract" conservative voters. It repels your natural base.

All it does is give the more right-wing parties an excuse to get *even more extreme.* You end up turning off your own voters while ushering in fascism.

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Dishonorable Attack, Inevitable Blowback Hegseth called sinking of the Iranian ship a ‘win.’ It may lead to Ameican losses.

This ship was on a diplomatic mission. The US military could have captured the ship. It could have convinced the sailors to defect, press them for intel, or holding them as leverage. Instead it killed at least 100 mostly young men. Only 32 out of 180 crew survived.

Sometimes I honestly wonder how I ended up on the text-message lists I'm on.

Use of language that conveys to voters that immigrants are a threat creates a fear response that drives them into the arms of the far right - no matter the policies being proposed.

The language in this op-ed is almost textbook designed to drive voters toward Farage, Reform and Tommy Robinson.