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Mar 11, 2022Liked by John Birmingham

You're preaching and I'm the converted but, damn, I heart all of this.

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The contemptuous disregard these hate-for-hire mouthpieces have for their audience is quite astounding. Anyone with even the slightest shred of intelligence can see that Russia's war of aggression has literally nothing to do with queer rights or renewable energy, and yet they make these assertions with straight faces. It is now the audience's job to hold them to account for this disgusting propaganda by continually reminding everyone that they said these things until they no longer have jobs spreading their idiotic hate.

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Superb piece of thinking writing JB, greatly appreciate you wading into the madness of the right wing for their take on the Ukraine/Russian war. I have seen the occasional nutjobbery but hadn’t realised how widely this ridiculous ‘wokism cause the war’ narrative had pervaded. I fear Lindsey Graham won’t be as ready to employ this take.

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This is a keeper “Rupe’s collection of self-inflating windbags.”

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omg "sheltered workshop" and "self-inflated windbags" in one paragraph there's at least 5 years' subscription fees right there far out well played

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Thanks John. In my white hot anger about wokeism, and Murdoch's abuse of it, I find I can't think rationally. Chips spat out all over the place. But you put it all so clearly and concisely, it's like the ringing of a bell on a still dawn - loud and long.

Murdoch scribblers are truly evil when they use war to protect their business model. The fact so many of them can't gain alternative employment (realistically, who'd give them a job?) means they are yoked to the model, forced to take no notice of the articulate voices, like yours, that so forensically pick them apart. Well done.

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I was astonished by how closely the report of Hitler's process has clearly been used as a How-To guide by so many politicians to this day. It's clearly Scomo's playbook.

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It is interesting you put out the headlines about the LGBT activists fighting and capturing Russian troops in Ukraine. I would love to have read the articles as well. Curiously enough the Daily Fail says that MI6 have been tracking Russian troops using Grindr https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10582229/British-spies-use-gay-dating-app-Grindr-track-Vladimir-Putins-soldiers.html

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