Politics Thread 7: THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER - General Election 04/07/24

[Knoyleo]

twitter.com/itvnews/status/1788967005443301687

People are going to try to come to Britain, if there are not safe routes, then they will take unsafe routes. More safe routes is literally the only way to stop these dangerous crossings.

[Tomous]

twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1789590944976650436

Mask fully off now

[Cuttooth]

Just a massively obsessed bully really.

[Squinty]

It basically seems like her whole personality now.

[Moggy]

If she really cares about cis womens representation in football management, then she'd be asking why there are no female managers in the top tiers of the men's game.

Or, if she's arguing that management should be strictly segregated by birth sex, then she ought to be campaigning about this:

In 2015, only 25 per cent of managers in the Women’s Super League were female. However by 2020, this figure had risen to 66.7 per cent.

This season, managerial changes in the WSL has seen more men hired and replacing female coaches. Currently, four out of 12 managers in the top tier are women.

Similarly, 10 of the 16 managers at the 2022 Women’s European Championships were male; the same as the previous tournament in 2017.

https://www.ucfb.ac.uk/news/the-rise-of ... 0in%202017.

But, nope. It's just about being cruel to a trans woman. And encouraging her millions of followers to attack a trans women just for existing.

[Wedgie]

I will never vote for Labour again in Scotland.

Is this due to something specific or due to Labour being a Unionist party?

Mainly because Labour is a Unionist party. Also they are really the red version of the tories.

Also the leader of Scottish Labour Party is a bellend for attacking SNP for an unelected First Minister and is calling for an election now, while ignoring the fact that his party just did the same thing in Wales.

Also the way they turf out Gordon Brown to "promise" that the Scottish government will get more powers during the Indy ref. Didn't happen at all.

So in my books they are just as bad as the Tories in Scotland.

[Tomous]

She's just vile

[Victor Mildew]

She us such a banana split

[DML]

I like the idea she think she can call anyone a man in life if they are look a bit 'mannish'. Just need to give her one picture of a mannish looking woman and let her destroy her entire argument.

[Cuttooth]

This is a particularly interesting exchange because Jonathan Chait is one of those American political pundits who has pushed transphobic talking points around healthcare for trans children by means of "just asking questions" or "raising valid concerns". It makes me wonder whether American transphobes are starting to be put off by British ones like Rowling, who are currently feeling emboldened to be more and more openly bigoted since the release of the Cass report, as the sheer cruelty might make them look bad by association.

[Moggy]

I like the idea she think she can call anyone a man in life if they are look a bit 'mannish'. Just need to give her one picture of a mannish looking woman and let her destroy her entire argument.

[Qikz]

I like the idea she think she can call anyone a man in life if they are look a bit 'mannish'. Just need to give her one picture of a mannish looking woman and let her destroy her entire argument.

LMAO

[Victor Mildew]

I like the idea she think she can call anyone a man in life if they are look a bit 'mannish'. Just need to give her one picture of a mannish looking woman and let her destroy her entire argument.

[Cheeky Devlin]

Remember when she pretended to be a dude to publish her non-Harry Potter books?

But yeah she's a vile, discharge of an excuse for a human being.

I'm so glad I never particularly liked Harry Potter.

[Moggy]

Remember when she pretended to be a dude to publish her non-Harry Potter books?

Her other book series is written under the name "Robert Galbraith".

[Victor Mildew]

Stewart Lee did an amazing bit on that last time we went to see him. Wish I could remember the whole thing to repeat it here.

[Cheeky Devlin]

Remember when she pretended to be a dude to publish her non-Harry Potter books?

Her other book series is written under the name "Robert Galbraith".

That was it.

[Moggy]

Remember when she pretended to be a dude to publish her non-Harry Potter books?

Her other book series is written under the name "Robert Galbraith".

That was it.

She used "JK" instead of "Joanne" because her publisher thought boys wouldn't buy a book if they knew it was written by a woman.

So Harry Potter = gender neutral author name

Other book series = male author name

But she really hates trans people changing their names.

[Garth]

twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1790119605119099089

[Garth]

twitter.com/JP_Biz/status/1789962702787342407