Labor expected to disendorse controversial candidate Luke Creasey

I'm inclined to agree. It all does rather boil down to 'what I say online is pretty representative of my views' because of the nature of the medium. Since I'm not actually talking to a person I'm probably going to be less careful online than in person, and it's probably going to be more 'gut feeling' honesty than IRL where I'm more usually gauging the room while speaking and would be getting live feedback from people's body language and reactions etc. And for context there, I do that a lot less than the majority of people I know irl!

Someone being charming irl but an asshole online suggests that their social 'act' is just really good, while their underlying ideas can actually be extremely toxic and damaging. (Or they might actually be nice and just a bad written communicator... tough to draw inferences from any one thing alone, all up).

So when the others were defending him, I took a bit of issue, because that Nazi discussion actually happened early on in the group's history, and there was plenty other questionable shit going on the whole time. I wasn't a fan of him because next to them I was an unpleasable, angry leftie (heheh), but he was almost untouchable because he was 'a nice guy once you met him'.

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