• BattleshipPokemon [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago
    This one twitter post in the article doesn't really reflect my experience ngl

    The bumps mostly been people who dislike him saying “he sucks, but at least he’s saying he’s not going to do strikes on iran and standing up to trump”, not pro war right wingers commending him (they were really mad we hadn’t got british soldiers on the ground already right up until they saw how unpopular the war was and just started pretending it wasnt happening). Starmers not actually really standing up to the US that much tbh, and the “I’m not going to send young brits to die for your war” line only came like two weeks in after being thoroughly focus-grouped, but like a lot of people who dont follow it that closely have been begrudgingly saying its better than they expected of him.

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      9 days ago

      Probably. The Green Party are literally the only anti-Zionist and pro-trans party in the UK (that actually has a shot at winning). The leader, Zack Polanski, even wants us to leave NATO.

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      8 days ago

      The Green party before Polanski was leaning towards nato and soft on zionism.

      Polanski is a significant shift leftwards. Vocally anti-nato and anti-zionism.

      The anti-nato position has been very important in softening my view of them, I essentially viewed them as a wrecker party to stop a real leftist project before, but now I don’t really see a difference between them and any other demsocs. Although the policies themselves are essentially socdem with anti-imperialist flavouring rather than truly demsoc.