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Honestly cannot abide the thought of the onslaught of the gammon-faced ‘Rule Britannia!’ wankfest that we’re going to have shoved down our throats for the rest of the year

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love wins

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For anybody paying attention to UK politics, it has been an entertaining few weeks. Truss and Sunak are dueling it out to see who can be the worst person publicly in hopes of achieving the coveted spot of Tory leader, and one of the primary issues is Scotland. Both Truss and Sunak have openly called for the curtailing, if not removal, of devolved powers, and speak of the SNP as an unpopular, dictatorial menace threatening a supposed majority of Scots who love the Union.

This raises an interesting point. Why? I was talking with a friend about this yesterday; during the lead-up to the 2014 independence referendum, the focus of the Unionists was on appealing to Scottish moderates, arguing for the risks to Scotland's stability and economy. Now, however, this is gone. Tory politicians openly talk of suppressing the same parliamentary democracy they uphold as the pinnacle of government when it happens in Westminster, because now it threatens to tear apart the UK. This is not unique to the Tories; Scottish Labour opposes independence just as fervently. For Scottish voters, it is not an issue of which of the five main parties to support, but of Unionism versus Nationalism; a vote for Labour or Conservative is a vote for the Union, and the two parties exist primarily as opposition to the SNP, with allegations abounding of backdoor coalitions to not oppose the other in areas of mixed support for the SNP. To put it simply, Scotland has been pushed to breaking point, and there no longer exist these moderates; you either stand with the UK, or with Scotland.

Obviously, such repression will be unpopular in Scotland; the SNP and the pro-independence Greens hold a majority in Holyrood, and while the 2014 referendum was a close win for the Union, polls for 2023 already suggest majority support for independence. Despite their best efforts, the UK is losing Scotland. Westminster knows this.

For as long as the territories of the UK are ruled by the bourgeoisie, the relationship will be an extractive, exploitative one. As the capitalist world increasingly descends into chaos, the exploitation only worsens as the bourgeoisie attempts to cut their losses. The loss of Scotland would only accelerate this disintegration. Given the current energy crisis (caused by the inevitable processes of this collapse), Scotland's production of energy, of which it is a net exporter, is crucial. Westminster knows that they need Scotland, but they can't afford to keep making the necessary concessions of devolved powers. The tide has turned on support for independence, and they know it cannot be turned back.

This latest string of political promises to suppress Scotland bodes poorly for the future. Regardless of how many are followed through on, the future leaders of Westminster are openly signalling an intent to quell Scottish dissent. They have plans not of coming to a new compromise with the Scottish people, but of controlling our parliament and parties by any means necessary. The aim now is to manufacture consent among the English majority for such actions; attacks on Sturgeon as an individual, for example, seek to abstract the problem from a political to a personal one. This will, of course, only bolster support for independence in the long run, and by some means or another Scotland will break free of the UK; whether or not Westminster knows this is unclear, but, as always with the bourgeoisie, they create the circumstances for their own defeat.

In short,

Prepare for The Troubles 2: Scottish Boogaloo.

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“All you Indy folk are the same, blindly following the snp”

Except we’re nae cos we all recognise that cherry is a terf arsehole

I am once again calling for the SNP to kick Joanna Cherry out of the party - her behaviour is utterly vile.

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me and the girlies watching the government collapse

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Milo Ventimiglia in West Hollywood (APRIL 5th 2021)

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Indyref2: electric boogaloo

19th October 2023.

Get it fucking booked.

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you might like phoebe bridgers but i like her in a much deeper and more annoying and gayer way than you could ever hope to understand or achieve

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enough about how you chose your icon. enough about how you chose your url. if youre lgbt how did you choose your blog title

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Labour are red tories, pass it on x

Labour are fucking traitors. After weeks of ‘no deals with anyone’ rhetoric, they’ve just sided with the Tories to take over Edinburgh council instead of the SNP/Green coalition that was going to bring in rent controls and a tourist tax.

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A tiny little julien baker in a tiny little venue where I didn’t know anyone and was able to just experience my own company.

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They say it comes in threes and so far today:

1. My bus to Glasgow was late leaving cos someone wouldn’t get off who was then forcibly removed by police and who, when seeing that I was in the queue, yelled out “hi clerk!” because she recognised me from work

2. I closed my eyes for all of thirty seconds on the bus ride and when I opened them again we were in Scone of all fucking places. Which meant we didn’t get into Glasgow until 3pm, a full hour and a bit after we were meant to.

3. As soon as I got into my hotel and got undressed, the fire alarm went off.

So I went and got pizza and now I’ve drank two pints and I’m away to get on the subway to go to this gig and I swear to god julien baker is the only person I’d put myself through this for.

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tbh the real advice I’d give to anyone is, do shit alone. go to a museum & go at your own pace & leave the instant you’re done. go somewhere you’ve never been and just wander around, duck into & out of places as it pleases you. linger as long as you’d like.

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So proud of him for being the best coach, so proud of liz for putting the work in.

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Sigourney Weaver by Helmut Newton

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my favorite college memory was when one of my profs, right before graduation, sat all of us seniors in her class down and said, "do NOT drink a lot the night before graduation" and we were all like "yeah yeah no being late to the ceremony, no stupid behavior" and she goes, "NO not for any of THOSE reasons. there's a bagpipe choir. do NOT be hungover for the bagpipe choir. you won't like it."