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Re:The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood by kunion on Saturday June 17, 2023 @08:49PM (#36376258)
> They're based at 55 Tufton Street which just so happens to also be where a bunch of very curiously linked conservative think tanks promoting anti-climate change, anti-immigrant populist politics are centered.

It's office space that's situated conveniently close to Parliament, and isn't just used by conservative think tanks. For example, Feeding Britain (https://feedingbritain.org), a charity dedicated towards solving hunger in the UK, and headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, is also based at this address.

> here's to hoping they lose their charitable status when the Good Law Project's appeal concludes later this year

This seems unlikely, all things considered. And, rather karmically, what representatives of Mermaids said in the tribunal has led the Charity Commission to investigate them. So that all backfired somewhat.

As for the rest of your comment, please read: https://lgballiance.org.uk/lgb-alliance-who-what-why-when/

Re:The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood by chownie on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:33PM (#36394014)
You signed up just to argue the LGB alliance with me? This is of course completely natural.

> It's office space that's situated conveniently close to Parliament, and isn't just used by conservative think tanks. For example, Feeding Britain (https://feedingbritain.org), a charity dedicated towards solving hunger in the UK, and headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, is also based at this address.

Bit of some biased generalising going on there, given of the nine companies based publicly at 55 Tufton Street you could only say Feeding Britain, as they're the only company you could possibly point out as being not-reprehensible. The others are _all_ American political influence imports, some with extensive ties to populist right wing xenophobic groups like Brothers of Italy.

> As for the rest of your comment, please read

Thanks for the condescending link, it changes nothing.

The LGB alliance are a hate group, they exist only to divide. They'll throw a paltry bone for "same sex attraction" between tweets where they say that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry or erasing trans victims of mass shootings and apparently that's enough.

I actually see LGBTQ people in my daily life, the LGB alliance have zero presence among us. They exist only as a neat token for right wing callouts online, I'll stand by that until it ceases being true.

Re:The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood by chownie on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:46PM (#36407693)
Unclear on why the other comment was flagged, I'll pull just the facts through to this one.

> It's office space that's situated conveniently close to Parliament, and isn't just used by conservative think tanks. For example, Feeding Britain (https://feedingbritain.org), a charity dedicated towards solving hunger in the UK, and headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, is also based at this address.

This is an extremely selective statement, there are 9 businesses stationed at 55 Tufton street and every other bar Feeding Britain is controversial. Some have links to far right populist ventures, even the other charities like the Taxpayer's Alliance actually "[exploit] the taxpayer rather than protecting their interests as they claim to do"[1]

> As for the rest of your comment, please read: https://lgballiance.org.uk/lgb-alliance-who-what-why-when/

Rather than going to the LGB alliance's site to read who they say they are, I'd rather believe in their actions over their words.

* They have argued it is not homophobic to oppose same sex marriage

* They have argued against a ban on conversion therapy for trans people

* They have suggested the "+" on "LGBTQ+" promotes beastiality

* They specifically excluded the names of trans victims from their condolences list after the Colorado Springs night club shooting

Fifty LGBT organisations pushed back against the LGB alliance being given charitable status. Plenty more have branded them a hate group. I think these longer lasting perspectives are far more telling than the autobiography from a group who came into existence in 2019.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/dec/29/taxpayers-alli...