Why the fuck have I not played Disco Elysium before. Staggeringly good - crackling with wit and fury and grime, noir for the Current Century.

Avengers (and Marvel properties in general) suck ass bc the Western hero narrative is cooked. Superheroes only feel convincing when you don't have any real problems - eg during the Cold War. But now, when fascism is here, they are painfully inadequate. Actual antifascism is collective, not heroic.

Compulsorily outing trans kids to their parents is a huge safeguarding issue. Treating trans identities as a mental disease is just indefensible. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social bringing back (an even worse version of) Section 28. Who need Reform when we've got Sensible Adult fascism already?

Not a good week to be an authoritarian neoliberal state elite who wants to enforce a genocide! Time to roll back the whole punitive pro-genocide architecture.

Right-wing Zionists and antisemitic neo-Nazis are friends with benefits and they kiss when you're not looking.

#FBPE is the most cucked of political projects, rewriting a post-Soviet project of European internal colonialism - permitting the free flow of capital from German & French banks into the European periphery - into the eternal panacaea to the fascism that it patronised and incubated at every turn.

Have they tried not loving pedos?

If you're a prolific abuser inside the establishment's tent, the powers that be (incl the Labour Party) will do everything possible to enable you, and then make sure your victims can never get justice - because that would endanger all the rest they're still protecting. Burn it all down. All of it.

You know, if we didn't have an international financial / geopolitical system that puts world-bending power and wealth in the hands of a few unscrupulous power brokers, then they wouldn't all be pedophiles / direct enablers of the ones who are.

Your regular reminder that trans rights are human rights. You cannot be on the Left, a socialist, communist or anarchist, without demanding the liberation of trans people. If you can't bellyflop over this lowest bar, you don't advocate for the whole working-class, and you are no comrade of mine.

"I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - J. Weizenbaum, 1976. He invented the ELIZA chatbot in 1966, which simply rephrased user input back to the user as questions.

The refuge of liberal democratic parties in seeking military strongmen to solve their ills is nothing less than an impulse to fascist Bonapartism: desperately surrendering their own ideals, in the forlorn hope they can rise above the contradictions between classes with an iron fist. It never works.

Just FYI, this is in response to this story: www.thenational.scot/news/2584398... Labour are absolutely riddled with corrupt pedophiles, their enablers and their low-ranking apologists.

So at this stage, we know that the Roger Liddle Supper Club included two members who were active friends with known pedophiles. As well as Wes Streeting.

Whom amongst us hasn't appointed the close personal friend of a notorious pedophile billionaire to high office? Why, just last week I was bagging up my shopping when I realised I'd accidentally made the reanimated corpse of JIMMY Savile the Minister for the Duchy of Lancaster!

The House of Lords is fully of poorly vetted venal appointments who have a predeliction towards abusive behaviour and association with abusers? When did this come in?

Defeat your domestic political enemies who are criticising your rewarding the close personal friends of a billionaire pedophile with high office and lucrative data contracts! Just use these Magic Words!

This is what it all comes down to with Reform: ever-increasing neoliberal exploitation of the working-class, couched in 'grindset' ideology. No solution to runaway landlordism, low wages, degraded services... There is only so much class antagonism you can paper over with performative racism.

The Labour government is underestimating how utterly revolting their association with the Epstein Files is. If nothing comes of this, people won't want just resignations, they'll want blood.

The descent into fascism is merely one indignity after another. But Streeting's cynical dissembling in yesterday's Guardian will be viewed in retrospect as a dark moment in which liberals chose to follow the fascists down path of post-truth authoritarianism and protection from consequence.

American Fascists: Our guy is innocent of the Epstein stuff, fake news, he didn't know the guy etc British Labour stans: *exactly the same*

*Asimov turns to the camera and the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

I think this all hinges on the fact that the correct level of relationship to have with a convicted billionaire pedophile child sex trafficker is: none. Anyone arguing for any level of acceptable contact or entanglement from their favourite emotional support politician is, simply put, an accessory.

To be crystal clear: 1. Mandelson's relationship with Epstein was publicly known before Feb 2025. 2. In Feb 2025, Starmer was told by MI5 that M had continued friendship with E after E's arrest & conviction for pedophilia. 3. Starmer ignored this warning; appointed M anyway No other info needed.

In which Starmer defenders are reduced to asking for citations of the individual emails evidencing Mandelson's personal, ongoing, corrupt and potentially treasonous relationship with Epstein (which the Prime Minister knew about, per MI5 briefing). Truly nauseatingly desperate stuff.

Well, I will absolutely not be using @discord.com if they gate behind age verification software, and neither will my DnD group, or my friendship group... Open source alternatives that don't bug you for money and/or data are plentiful. Removing our only reason to stay 👍

There are two types of Labour parliamentary candidate: 1. Slasherina McBastard - local council leader for past eight decades, personally closed 29 libraries, transphobic Twitter alt 2. ??? - Some bloke who came canvassing once. We Googled his name and nothing that bad came up, he's probably fine.

Starmer loyalists unironically trotting out J. M. Keynes' quote about capitalism: "the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone". The most corrupt politicians will do the most overt corruption, to Clean Up Politics™️.

ICE aren't acting like an American Gestapo simply because they are untrained / masked / not wearing body cams. They're acting like an American Gestapo because nothing at all would lead them to worry that there is a Nuremburg Trial and the rope waiting for them.

'Unitary theory of the executive', like a... King, yes? Like a monarch for whom there is no separation of powers, and whose executive will is unchecked and indeed *uncheckable*? You mean like the kind the people executed at the end of the 18th century? That kind of 'unitary executive', right?

We now go live to an interview with the Chair of Labour Friends of Epstein.

Keir Starmer addressing MPs at 11. Expecting more 'drawing a line', 'put up or shut up', 'putting the haters on notice' than yet seen before in British melt politics.

The Great Noticing has matured to where it is safe to describe McSweeney plucking Starmer from beige obscurity to be the anticommunist figurehead, whilst cynically promising continuity in an "elaborate... deception". For years, they screeched that breathing this was tantamount to actionable libel.

Epstein is alive! He needed an identity where he would be completely invisible and have no interaction with the public whatsoever for decades on end, so he's hiding out as a Labour councillor in Wrexham. Nobody in his ward has noticed yet.

His braindead 'anti-woke' nonsense aside, it's pretty fucking hilarious that Palestine scholar Norman Finkelstein's only appearance in the Epstein Files is a cameo in which he threatens to strangle Alan Dershowitz.

Rats, ship, etc. Gratifying to see one of Corbyn's chief butchers laid low by the grubby muck he swims in. Welcome to the Fun Zone, where Starmer's unerringly terrible political instincts will receive no pushback whatsoever! If he makes it to May, I'll be astonished.

I'm honestly pretty relaxed about the circle-the-wagons Continuity Starmer crowd. They're wholly self satirising, and only make the grotesque venality of this government more discreditingly undeniable. Hold the line, Sir Keir! Single figure polling is mere days away!

Fucking *bonkers* that Trevor Phillips can shred every journalistic ethic and go out to bat for his personal friend Mandelson, and then just blithely continue to 'report' on the issue, interview ministers about it etc. One might wonder if this is an extremely obvious cover-up by Mandelson's allies.

It's just beyond absurd that the 'technocratic', 'sensible', 'adult' Labour government has hitched the wagon of state to a handful of Christo-fascist billionaires whose stated intent is to deliver the White Race from the Perfidious Jew. Fish-hook theory in action.

To say that 'AI' is 'replacing' jobs implies that the jobs are still getting done. Theyre not. 'AI' is no more than a useful excuse for CEOs to lay off staff & degrade services in order to artificially inflate profit margins. It has enabled a thousand thousand Jack Welches, to our class's cost.

I think we will soon realise that, actually, the weird little neo-Nazis who run the Trump administration were not waiting for some big imaginary green light to begin the mass slaughter of the useless eaters and the racial pollutants. Rather, quietly, behind closed doors, they had already begun.

"Oh no, we can't guzzle this incredibly obvious poison chalice that would provoke unceasing industrial resistance from the largest trade union federation in the country and imperil the fascist government, because errrr the Constitution says no. Sorry, Mr Trump! You're on your own! Ciao!"

Everything else aside, it is astonishing that the electoral college - a political compromise that was made explicitly to guarantee the overrepresentation of slave-holding states in the federal government - has survived into the 20th century, let alone the 21st.

The funniest outcome of all this is Starmer refusing to go, shutting himself in the Führerbunker, and being gradually humiliated by inches as more and more insane revelations about the whole right-wing of the Labour Party trickle out of various criminal investigations.

I think I've come to terms with the fact that what I want from a BBQ sauce is the approximate consistency and taste of the scrapings from the bottom of the asphalt lorry.

The level of political cuckoldry it requires to come out in defence of the man who leaked state secrets from *your government*, as you were battling to stop the 2008 Financial Crisis from ending capitalism...! 'Bad Mandelson, Good Starmer' is one heck of a difficult sell.

If you create extra work for a service worker (leaving your restaurant table in a mess, not messing up the clothes aisle, etc), you should have your paycheck docked the value of the work you created (payable directly to said service worker).

This is the only clearsighted analysis possible. Attempting to define Epstein narrowly as a 'KGB spy' is wildly (& deliberately) reductive. Such analyses are designed to smokescreen the (as Seva puts it) post-Soviet transnational kleptocratic class. Dismantling this system is the only prophylaxis.

The problem with eg ICE conceiving of its operations as a COIN strategy is that... COIN doesn't work. The Rhodesian Bush War, where COIN was developed, wasn't a victory. Rhodesia doesn't exist any more. It didn't work in Iraq or Afghanistan, or really anywhere else.

Mandelson attempting to use every possible lever, including trying to use areas of the Editors' Code of Practice designed to protect grieving families, to prevent scrutiny of his corrupt relationship with one of the world's most notorious pedophiles. Principled move by the National.