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Piers out

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How long until he starts moaning about free speech

meanwhile Uncle Andrews still largin it at Pizza Express Woking -GET IN

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I fear he’ll gravitate to GB News or whatever.

Not sure he’d fit them, he’s a bit too shouty in comparison to the people they’ve already recruited but maybe they’d just take him for the clickbait?

Rightwing organisations will take anyone to spout their bullshit if it means they’ll garner attention.

Perhaps Piers could be their ‘moderate’ voice to show how balanced they are and not at all echo-chambery.

Maybe! I’d happily hear more Boris grillings from Andrew Neil though, the last one was a total shitshow.

Alex proper called him out , such a good job at doing it especially after piers took the piss out of her reading the weather.
The irony a weather presenter sent him packing . And fucking well done Alex.

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Wow shit be poppin today!

it’s pretty fucking obvious that skateboarding has a liberal bias. If it was any different skate video soundtracks would all be ted nugent and morrissey.

Everyone disagrees with everyone on here about everything - apart from simple things like a dislike of bigotry. Echo chamber my arse.

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Not a development I was expecting.

Skateboarding isn’t particularly special, you have such a cross section of people within it but it does throw people into places and situations with other cultures and people so they see more often than not that there are good people everywhere across the world, not many other things do that.
There are skaters that stay within bubbles and never experience other worlds so their prejudices stay and sometimes grow into bigger issues.

No they don’t

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insert slow clap gif

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But it’s so, so rare. We’ve got Trawler here in the UK and Jason Jessee in the States. It’s no coincidence that Warwick is mates with Trawler and followed (until very recently) Jason Jessee on Instagram. Racism definitely exists but it’s so small, to the point where racists - in this case Warwick, Trawler and Jason Jessee - have to exist in their own bubble, separate to actual skateboarding where people are much less cunty.

i feel like regardless of your background/upbringing, skateboarding makes you introspective and thoughtful. you can’t get anywhere with skating without going through some mental and physical shit. i feel like all of that ought to make you more open to other people’s plight and suffering. if you’ve been skating for years and still can’t drum up any empathy then you’re probably a sociopath tbh

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I’m always so out of the loop. Who is Trawler?

80s vert guy. Did some decent books of Paul Duffy’s photographs.

Oh that Trawler. That’s disappointing. What has he done/said? Was he posting here?