Starmer's antiracism speech would probably land better if he wasn't top of a grotesquely racist government who are pushing to retroactively change LTR

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'. - Terry Pratchett, The Truth

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

Every Mr. Beast episode:

“You look Mexican so should be arrested” is not *at all* different from “you look Jewish and should be arrested.”

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Shabana Mahmood should volunteer to fuck off.

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i honestly think guardian columnists are desperate for labour bcos they spent a decade willing the starmer government in to existence this is the government they wanted this is the government they thought would solve all the problems this is the sensibles, the grown-ups 80% disapproval rating

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

As someone who has tried to organise people, these talking points overlook the biggest stumbling block to mass left politics - sexist and racist behaviour being allowed to run rampant, driving people out of the movement. Has the recent Your Party scuffle not demonstrated that!?

There is nothing "open, tolerant or generous" about Labour's anti-immigration, anti-trans/non-binary, anti-disabled policies. When you start reducing the rights of marginalised groups, telling them they are unwelcome, treating them as second class, you lose the right to claim otherwise.

Omg

As someone who has tried to organise people, these talking points overlook the biggest stumbling block to mass left politics - sexist and racist behaviour being allowed to run rampant, driving people out of the movement. Has the recent Your Party scuffle not demonstrated that!?

Its wild because they and the press pack express concern about 'radical nihilism' driving young people to isolation and violence only to proudly tell the public 'nothing you say or do matters'

‪i guess the point is protest dragged this “party of government” to a better position than it had before (albeit a woefully insufficient one)‬

Here is to fun, joy, and unconditional love.

I sometimes watch that video of Thangam plastered drunk, sour faced and miserable at the count of Bristol Central in 2024 doing her concession speech. I am extremely depressed atm and it cheers me up immensely.

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Put another way, it seems as though at least a few influential people in the governing party of the United Kingdom subscribe to a theory of political subterfuge that might be called "The Protocols of the Elders of Gaza", and I think it's worth asking, at the very least, if this is a good thing.

The appropriate response to this one - yet again, about Bolshevik traitors conspiring with Them to pollute, undermine and presumably overthrow the nation - is to ask whose Kampf this is, and: is it mine?

Would that be the woman that wants compulsory and enforced chemical castration for prisoners too? She seems so normal and progressive and not like a rabid monster nazi at all.

"After Titanic" has surpassed 10% funding. Can we get to $1000 funded before the start of week two of the campaign? We only need another $335 to get there!!

We can dunk on Silver. But the folks wildly hyping Adams in 2021-22 included Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. The desire for a prominent BLACK politician who was pro-police and hostile to the BLM movement was broadly shared within elite Dem circles. They ignored obvious signs he was corrupt and inept.

amazing! this white woman proves posting is praxis. consumption will fix the world

It's not volunteering if it's compulsory

This is not a dunk but if American lefties are anything like British ones, they will fall-in-line behind people who want to make their lives better, even if they don't agree on everything. Schumer et al. don't offer social democracy because they receive lots of money from donors to oppose it.

Flashback to the time when somebody successfully sued the Tories over their "workfare" scam, and Ed Miliband helped the government rush through retrospective legislation to stop the tens of thousands of people affected getting £500 compensation. Labour needs to be put out of its misery.

Flashback to the time when somebody successfully sued the Tories over their "workfare" scam, and Ed Miliband helped the government rush through retrospective legislation to stop the tens of thousands of people affected getting £500 compensation. Labour needs to be put out of its misery.

Labour have reached the indentured labour stage of their collective insanity...

"Their plans to make visa reapplication is immoral and racist, out plan to strip immigrants of ILR and their visas if we decided they don't contribute enough to their community is socialist and protects workers from perfidious forrins"

This would be extremely bad, extremely corrupt, extremely “not a real democracy” stuff even if it did not involve e.g. Sir Keir thanking our Cyprus air base staff live on TV for their help in facilitating the genocide of the Palestinians, and saying he can’t talk publicly about what they’re doing.

Becoming a parent is difficult for everyone, but especially when you're a sex worker with no access to parental leave pay who needs time to recover before selling more sex while post-partum. If you have funds to spare and want to help me take 8 weeks off after I give birth: gofund.me/7369fa55a

I cannot underline hard enough how awesomely corrupt it looks, that the SNP were d3str0yed over that, while this fucking idiot took huge bungs from Israel partisans to wreck his own party and then create a government that would assist in the genocide of the Palestinians. It is unbelievably bad!

No matter how much money these people ever have, they will never be cool. Deep down they know this and it eats them up inside.

🗳️ BREAKING | Starmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister in history - WORSE than Truss 🔴 Starmer – 13% satisfied, 79% dissatisfied 🔵 Liz Truss – 16% satisfied, 67% dissatisfied Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 11-17 Sep

keir starmer: 20k is not a lot of money hahahaha. keir starmer: oh ppl surviving on universal credit which is about 11k a year? yeah, no, that's a lot of money obviously. that's so much money. we should cut their benefits bcos 11k a year is obviously riches.

I'm a few years older and have vivid memories of my form tutor being caught completely on the back foot by the malice and cruelty with which some kids spoke about asylum seekers, all learnt obviously from their parents and the newspapers

There is no possible concession worth giving that up. Any deal is worthless, what Congress actually passes now has no real force, he will spend or not spend as he pleases, and break any law he wants with impunity. Negotiating with that makes you look like a fool and worse, it makes you complicit.

"Tony, it's at two million, I... it's not going well. I don't-" "That's Mr Blair, Keir. I want the ID cards. Palantir wants the ID cards."

People seem to forget that one reason Trump won in 2016 was because he was the first political candidate in a generation to step up and say, “You’re correct: Your lives have gotten worse, these people are lying to you, they refuse to own their mistakes, and you can make them pay by voting for me.”

does anyone remember when "tankies" were telling democrats that they should abolish ICE and remove funding from police departments that under another trump admin would act as fascist paramilitaries outside of the control of democratic local control? they always hate us for being right before them

Remember the people who would defend the hospital bombings? It’s important to be petty and remember. It’s useful for later.

I'm old enough to remember the hysteria over 'asylum seekers' whipped up by Labour, and in particular Jack Straw, in collaboration with the right-wing press, in the early 2000s. And I also haven't missed the discursive shift from 'asylum seekers' to 'migrants'.