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Try watching this guy's analysis. www.youtube.com/@PredictiveH... If you think a "democratic system" set up by the people who really own everything will ever work to dispossess them, I have some voting forms for you to fill in. For "voting forms etc" read "bridge to sell you".
I suggest you read more. Maybe while seated.
Labour just can't help forming itself into a cabal of headmasters and prefects as soon as it gets a little taste of power can it? They tell you they want everything to be fair and kind and then when they get power they start spitefully bossing everyone around.
Watch and learn as power corrupts the Greens - should they ever reach the point Labour have already arrived at - "caving to corporate greed and the hard right" being re-cast as "practical politics". The faith the left has in the "democratic" system that the rich and powerful invented is absurd.
The rich and powerful seek to divide and rule. I am shocked.
And I share it!
I've got a better idea. All the snotty filthy stinking rich who whink they're too good to pay their taxes here... can go and live somewhere else, and good riddance.
It's worse than the fact they're thick - they're proud of it and see it as some kind of birthright, that they'r entitled to be thick, the same way some posh types think it's infra dig to do any meaningful work.
You wish it was capitalism. But it isn't. Capitalism isn't about trade, it's about hegemony.
You need to stay in more.
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It's a new scam by righties because they found out their "let's ban the small print on any kind of contract" schmooze might cost some of the rich folks money. Basically weaponising any kind of ignorance, frustration or hatred is a win for them, and that's why they do it.
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
Brexiteers hated everything before and they hate everything now. Basically they're just full of hate, same as they're full of sh!t.
American political conversation: "Man people should at least be able to eat and be housed, right?" "Okay, Stalin. Let me know how the mass murder campaign works out."
Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
What's interesting about that question is the way it reveals as a stone cold fact that the scientific community operates so much like a priest-hood, using ridicule and accusations of heresy to mantain its extant paradigms... an idea which even now it would ridicule and claim was heretical.
Tories who've finally said the quite part out loud... number whatever in the series of... all Tories. Because they're all racist sh!ts and always have been.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrx...
If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.
"nice things are not for the working class." Especially if you don't look to disavow your working class origins and "improve yourself". That's one of the main reasons they hate her.
A working class woman in a position of political power, who's never done anything to try and pretend she's not working class. Gosh, I wonder what upsets the patriach toffs at the Telegraph about that?
He'd do that if he thought there was grift in it. But the British "orange make-up" is a fag, a pint, some Union Jack socks and a big gob.
It doesn't matter, in fact, it's better for Farage, because it's his task to weaponise hatred and ignorance. If Nigel says something they don't understand or know anything about is bad, that's a plus for them and for Nigel, because they enjoy hating things they don't understand.
They want blood on their hands. It's the classic condition of the fascist. Forgetting they are nothing but flesh and blood themselves, they thirst for the blood of the lesser and the other. Pure evil.
"Although Mike and Jenny are nothing but warm and welcoming in person, on social media they casually speak of revoking women’s suffrage and make insinuating references to throwing Marxists from helicopters." So, now we know all we need to about "Mike" and "Jenny".
The media - thrilled with conflict, thrilled with the sources of conflict. One of the main sources of stories of conflict... the uber rich who own the media and need to divide and rule.
Keeping women in abusive relationships is what church is all about. The fucking Bible is a manual for how to treat women like cattle. The Bible tells men that women are their property and can be traded or sold like farm animals.
Yup. Another wasp-grub eating at the heart of the BBC caterpillar. Outrageous, and tragic.
Fintan O Toole's missive in todays Irish Times is well worth a read, I hope it gets licensed to english newspapers. He discusses the buyers remorse over brexit: yet the rise in support for farage. quick 🧵 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Priorities.
The presidential law of the land is "it's illegal to dislike me and my friends" and I'm tired of pretending any of these grown up children are fit to lead. Ivy League schools are adult daycares for the rich and powerful. They don't create leaders. They spit out permanent babies.
The stories persist because the uber-rich pay for them to be spread about.
What Starmer could do: Say to the international uber-rich who fund Farage and all the toxic goonery world-wide: "Every time we see evidence of you funding this crap, we're going to raise your taxes." And it should be an international effort.
Better yet, the international super-wealthy need to be curbed. They're like a nest of wasps, spoiling everyone's picnic.
As Farage and his fascist chums are mostly funded by the uber-rich via Tufton Street etc, maybe the way to tackle him is every time he comes up with crap like this we slap a further hike on wealth taxes, and make it clear that's why it's being done. Farage would melt like the wicked witch.
So would Farage and his chums if they continue to be encouraged.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Wow, it never occured to me that these freaks might want the look of having bought an expensive meat mask on purpose. I always assumed they were so in-denial stupid they thought they looked good and normal.
Why is he "afraid"? I wish the decent people would stop being so passive aggresively polite. It's being afraid that gives people like Farage leverage in the first place.
"Tory chair says party would consider deal with Taliban to return Afghan migrants" Just as well the Tories are finished anyway then. You don't even need the rest of the sentence after "Taliban" to know what evil sh!ts the Tories are.
Indeed - our slavish adherence to truth and civility has been our undoing.
It's not great. But Starmer's act is all "sane and practical, steady the ship". But the ship is sinking and he won't admit it.
That's weird because whenever I think of him my brain thinks "at least he's not Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or Kemi whatsherface." I also think "At lease he's done something other than be a politician in his life, and that experience is probably very valuable."
Not even people who are actually Labour MPs know how to exert pressure.
It's social media that's paving the way to fascism one disconnected bubble at a time. Labour just don't understand what to do about it. How about this: Every time there's more righty trouble, hike the taxes on the uber-wealthy. We know it's them who are funding it all.
Here's a plan: The uber-rich are funding the vile right because they know divide and rule works. So here's what you do - like Trump with his quid pro quo tarifs, every time there's righty trouble, levy more taxes on the uber-wealthy.
Civilised people need to start understanding how it is that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and start squeaking in more creative ways.
Low IQ fascism is the most effective form. Make the lie big, and make it simple enough for everyone to be able to understand. Slavish adherence to truth, evidence, decency and honesty has been honest parties' undoing.
He's lucky he didn't fall out of a window. That'll be Trump's goons MO once he feels confident enough.
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Funny how if the actual St George wanted to visit England they wouldn't want to let him. Bloody forrin, wannneee!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_rG...
All these woeful gammon Brit-boy dinosaurs who suckled on second world war comics growing up... never really grew up. You can usually spot them by their efforts to keep the same haircut they had when they were in school.
Which is why capitalists spend so much money making sure the government is on their side, and keeping the people divided. As you've suggested, I'm sure you and I could think of a better system in an afternoon over a few beers. And yet... better systems struggle to emerge.
I'm sure we could agree upon a lot of things, once we started thinking about them rationally.
But surely your enthusiasm for capitalism must mean he deserves all that money? He must be good at "business"? So how come you think the state should curtail his genius? According to your philosophy, the richer he is the more jobs he'll create, which we mere peasants should be thankful for.
Turns out if you get an infestation of facists... it's a bit like having a wasp's nest in your shed. You need to take action.
All these woeful Brit-boy dinosaurs who suckled on second world war comics growing up... never really grew up. You can usually spot them by their efforts to keep the same haircut they had when they were in school.
A, you're one of the people who confuse honest and honourable trading with capitalism. An idea capitalists have ordained should be woven into the zeitgeist. Elon Musk must have worked awfully hard eh? Maybe you should read more... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Thin...
What a surprise.
See Gary's Economics for details. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_rG...
Super-ironic that if St George actualy wanted to come to the UK... which he never did anyway...
Super-ironic that if St George actualy wanted to come to the UK... which he never did anyway...
American Gestapo. You have fascism now.
1st rule of fascism: Invent an enemy.
Ah, "them". Them straw men, y'mean? Yeah, they always get it wrong.
Let's face it, the idea of owning more land than you need and making people who do need it pay you so they can use it is the basis of some kind of evil, but it's an evil so ingrained in our culture we've stopped noticing it's evil. Maybe once one man "owns" everything, we'll all wake up.
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
Lucky to be so bad the state houses and feeds you, huh?
You need to widen the scope of what you imagine to be possible.
We happily pay to house and feed criminalsin jails. That's quite expensive. We still do it.
Well, opinions can vary. So... healthcare is free at the point of use in the UK. It's also expensive. But I'm sure you can explain that away as well. It's easy when you think you already know everything isn't it?
Who will offer people a vote unless they pay a fee to have one, and why would they? It's essentially the same question.
Over-active funnybone. It's a curse. If someone does good jokes in their own profile, I think they'll get mine.
Was it November 5th?
When did you last visit? Was it 1945?
How about we stop rent altogether? Everyone needs a basic living space. Much in the same way as everyone has a vote.
Indeed, when you consider all the woes of the world, the heirarchy of concerns of the sort of people who advocate for Reform are toxic beyond belief. They diminish us all with their evil take on things.
Timothy Snyder's reflections on history in his book On Tyranny provide an excellent lens through which to view the dangers of modern tyranny @garygilligan.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
We need a different approach to everything. And yours isn't it. If it was, it would have made considerable progress when you were leader of the Labour Party. Your slithering convenient collusion with the Tufton Street massive will not be forgotten, Brexit boy.
It's also proof that "employers" are, in general, greedy, thieving, lying crooks. Which is why we need unions in the first place. When employers moan about unions they rarely have the savvy to understand they created the need for them.
No one owns the Water. No one owns the Land. No one owns the sand. These are given by Our Mother. The Planet provides for Free. Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
These morons who think the rich create work for the little people... the days of that being the extant and widely accepted belief system are coming to a close. It's never been true, and people are getting wise to it now.
What "we record your calls" really means is there's no chance you'll have any genuine human interaction with the poor call centre person you'll be talking to. They'll have to stick robotically to the company line, to the extent that they might as well be a robot themselves.
In the words of the late great Father Jack - how did that gobshyte get on the television??? Seriously. Who books that washed up POS?
In the words of the late great Father Jack - how did that gobshyte get on the television??? Seriously. Who books that washed up POS?
