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Building a safe space away from Twitter. Just here to like and repost. Pro EU, anti-Tory. Hate the Mail with a passion. Daily Express is just idiotic. Enjoyed Poor Things AND Barbie. So nerrrr.
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They're all competing to say the maddest shit possible.

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When I got to the subhead 'My very limited involvement with the Fall' I assumed you meant Mark E Smith 😄

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Regular reminder that the very reason Musk is South African is because his maternal grandfather was a racist fascist who loved the idea of a racist apartheid state so much he moved his entire family there from Canada in the early 1950s. The views he held—detailed below—sound very very familiar

Part of a Business Insider piece on Musk’s family. “Elon Musk's grandfather, the late Joshua Haldeman, spent his time ranting about minority groups he didn't like, speculating about a global conspiracy led by shadowy figures (read: Jewish people), and joining the cause of technocracy. According to a deep dive from the Atlantic on the life of Haldeman, the Canadian chiropractor was a "radical conspiracy theorist" who spent the beginning of his career as part of a group known as "Technocracy Incorporated."
“Canada eventually banned the party after it opposed the country's involvement in World War Il and considered it and its members a threat to national security. Haldeman was arrested and convicted for his participation, the Atlantic reported. This kickstarted his involvement in other movements, including Canada's Social Credit Party, which espoused baseless conspiracy theories about Jewish people. The party came to be widely criticized for its blatant antisemitism. Haldeman, who became the SCP national chair, took it upon himself to defend the party's beliefs. Haldeman, the Atlantic wrote, "maintained that the Sociai
But in 1950, Haldeman's "quirky" politics led him to make an unusual and dramatic choice: to leave Canada for South Africa. Haldeman had built a comfortable life for himself in Regina, Saskatchewan's capital. His chiropractic practice was one of Canada's largest and allowed him to possess his own airplane and a 20-room home he shared with his wife and four young children. He'd been active in politics, running for both the provincial and national parliaments and even becoming the national chairman of a minor political party. Meanwhile, he'd never even been to South Africa. What would make a man undertake such a radical change? Isaacson writes that Haldeman had come "to believe that the Canadian government was usurping too much control over the lives of individuals and that the country had gone soft." One of Haldeman's sons has written that it may have simply been "his adventurous spirit and the desire for a more pleasant climate in which to raise his family." But another factor was at p
I studied across hundreds of documents from the time, including newspaper clips, self-published manuscripts, university archives, and private correspondence. Haldeman believed that apartheid South Africa was destined to lead "White Christian Civilization" in its fight against the "International Conspiracy" of Jewish bankers and the "hordes of Coloured people" they controlled. "Instead of the Government's attitude keeping me out of South Africa, it had precisely the opposite effect-it encouraged me to come and settle here," he told a reporter for the South African newspaper Die Transvaler shortly after his arrival. The far-right Afrikaner newspaper treated Haldeman's arrival as a PR victory for apartheid. (*PRAISES ACTION OF NATIONALIST PARTY REGIME: Canadian Politician Settles in South Africa," the headline read.)
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DBdeborahstort.bsky.social

Maybe Dylan Jones is an Aussie 😀

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There's a reason the Guardian didn't open the comments.

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I know it's meant to be humorous but I recognise virtually none of those examples. People in the pub cheering when someone breaks a glass - okay, but who calls Sainsbury's Sainso or Sainy-B?! 🤮

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/ was supposed to be a ?

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Something to do with Pretty Woman/ Is he calling Sir Kier a ho?

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Zero. I still do 5, 16, 17 and 18.

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'Obey my dog'

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@deborahstort.bsky.social
Building a safe space away from Twitter. Just here to like and repost. Pro EU, anti-Tory. Hate the Mail with a passion. Daily Express is just idiotic. Enjoyed Poor Things AND Barbie. So nerrrr.
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