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@botzarelli

Brentford Fan Advisory Board co-Chair and supporters association Chair. In house lawyer working for an alternative model firm.

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AB @botzarelli Feb 27

How the Greens tie together their traditional environment focused beliefs and voters with apparently unrelated ones most concerned about Palestine.

AB Verified account @botzarelli Feb 20

It’s surprisingly logical.

Abstract belief in environmentalism -> practical electoral success in getting wildlife protection to trump human focused things like renewable energy, housing, transport, growth -> viewing demands for human development as an artefact of capitalism -> class analysis -> intersectionality to bring in race analysis and colonialism -> colonialism combining race oppression and capitalism -> historic conflation of Jews and capitalists -> hardline extreme Zionism by Netanyahu being extrapolated to Jews and Israelis generally -> Communist Islamism as the solution to all the preceding steps
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AB @botzarelli 10h

How are Birmingham City top? Brentford stuck six past them in the Carabao Cup.

jallmen @jallmenn 18h

Championship top 6 is like a top 6 worst places to live in the UK

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AB @botzarelli 17h

In Islam’s original geography nearish to the equator this was a fairly even fast whenever Ramadan occurred. But in such hot countries the prohibition on drinking water is probably more significant than the fast as it would also historically have involved changing the pattern of going out to do physical labour.

In higher latitudes it’s pretty tough when Ramadan falls at the height of summer (I assume there must be some dispensation for Muslims in the Arctic Circle otherwise they’d all die!) and trivial in midwinter.

Josh the Foxxo 🦊🇺🇲🇦🇶✝️🌷 Verified account @PizzaSteve3902 1d

Reminder that Muslims aren't fasting during Ramadan. They're just eating a huge breakfast before sunrise, skipping lunch, then eating a huge dinner after sunset. It's all performative and meaningless.
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AB @botzarelli 18h

A new and useful feature on X would be for it to automatically play The Doors’ People Are Strange on loop whenever you are on the For You tab.

AB @botzarelli 1d

They should teach about taxes at school.

Oh, not like that.

Guido Fawkes Verified account @GuidoFawkes 2d

Eight-year-olds are told in one classroom video prepared by HMRC:

“You can think of tax as one shared bank account that everyone in the country pays into. The government is then in charge of looking after this bank account and sharing all the money to help everyone in the country. This money is also used to pay for the things that your town or city needs. When you’re older and you get a job, or maybe even start your own business, the taxes you’ll pay will all be added into this shared bank account."
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