Folks aren't going to stop calling Trump's economic interventionism "communism" are they? Two more posts seen today. Nope, it's just more fascism! The Nazis fully or partially seized control of BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and many other companies. Scroll up for a quote from Mussolini […]

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Why not just say it’s tenthousandy bazliion? Just as credible.

I wish I understood how the very nervous dog next door decides which loud noises outside he should ignore, and which are immediate existential threats that deserve seeing off with frenzied and compulsive barking! There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it at all...

The distinguishing features of fascist regimes: Veneration of the nation, defined in hyper conservative-traditional terms - race-based, religion-based. Veneration of hierarchy and opposition to any form of egalitarianism. Rejection of democratic political institutions Drive toward […]

Anyone know yet what excuses the evangelicals are using to explain why there was no rapture (again)?

@mls14 @Hex I remember five years ago, and what I remember is that the Trump campaign paid for travel, expenses and organising efforts behind an attempted coup to violently overthrow the US government and install Trump as tinpot dictator. The plot involved terrorism, including pipe bombs and […]

More important than flags, is how we seize the initiative from the populist right and fascists in mobilising working class communities against the real injustices of the current economic and political systems. Today they're deciding what communities to target, where and when to put their flags […]

I needed to find something in the news today that might convince me we didn't all slip into a surreal alternate timeline in around 2015, and nothing will ever be the same again. Anything - a heart-warming human interest story, some good news - that might […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

“Trump is canceling an annual government survey that measures hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing under his tenure,” https://apnews.com/article/trump-ending-america-hunger-report-snap-cuts-750f90757f50ab2d8bc97dfca5a917dd

"Our government is being run by aggrieved elites who were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could finally read what we all think about them. And it caused them so much psychic damage that they have decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make […]

All Kimmel said was Kirk's death was being politicised. True. "Federal investigators have found no evidence linking Tyler Robinson, who is accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, to left-wing groups, despite claims from former President Donald Trump and his administration […]

Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/disney-cancellation-page-crashes-as-customers-rush-to-quit-after-kimmel-suspension-033512277.html

I lost interest in electoral politics years ago. I'll still vote - succumbing to doomerism or cynicism isn't in my character and never will be - but politicians aren't going to save us. Forget them. We need grassroots, bottom-up organising, networks of mutual aid and support, direct actions […]

If it's available where you are, I can recommend Häagen-Dazs ice cream as being comparable in quality. "Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying the independence it once had to speak up on social issues has been stifled by parent company […]

This is why they’re deleting studies

Regarding the bogus notion that Charlie Kirk was doing politics "the right way," Mike Masnick nails it here: "When we praise bad-faith performers for “engaging” with their critics, we’re not celebrating democratic norms—we’re rewarding those who exploit them." […]

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Nope. Take your stupid flags down. "Dozens of union flags put up last week on two major roads in South Bristol have been removed overnight during the weekend, with messages of ‘welcome and solidarity’ put up in their place... two main streets in Bedminster and Ashton Gate - Luckwell Road and […]

Three more taken down today. I basically just wait for the zip ties to become fatigued and for them to slide down the lampposts to within reach. Then grab 'em like an antifa ninja. It's a new passtime.

The whole problem with the Western world is that the richest have for decades been indoctrinating the masses with racism and white nationalism, to distract from the growing inequality caused by their looting of the wealth of the workers. They see far-right movements as a counterweight against […]

@servelan @alterelefant “All of it is unnecessary. The U.S. was not forced into this by anybody.” Yes it was. By Trump. It means that ranches will be for sale at bankruptcy prices. Good for Big Agro. Trump is also working at making plenty forced labour available. America will soon be great […]

We've moved into a new phase of fascism. Where the government is threatening to shutdown nonprofits like the Ford Foundation for funding news organizations who pointed out that Charlie Kirk was racist. Miller, who calls the shots for anything in this regime that has to do with promoting white […]

@TimWardCam @Lazarou It's zero-sum thinking, not stupidity. It took me a while to grasp the apparent masochism of Brexit voters. If you or I won £10 but that meant someone we don't like winning £20, we'd probably still want to be £10 better off. But to a zero-sum thinker, themselves being £10 […]

If an Islamist had incited to violence in UK like Elon Musk was doing the other day, he would have been extradited from the country in shackles and banned from entering the UK ever again.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Elon's mob yesterday in London. These people think they are patriots. They are disaffected men who want to believe someone else is to blame for their lives. Elon tells them it's migrants/brown people/LGBTQ+/empowered women/the imaginary radical left. youtu.be/8VXf6_-XaF8?...

Dangerous far-left agitators confront peaceful flag-waving patriots in London yesterday. 26 police officers were injured after they inexplicably threw themselves at fists and bottles being held by concerned citizens.

This new Bluesky feature notifies you of non-bridged comments but doesn't give you the ability to respond directly. Aah I see. Clever. It already looks like a way to provoke fedi users into joining the corporate platform to respond. Nope. But I'll write a […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Powerful men often funnel money via their wives. In 2001, the wife of the Saudi Ambassador to Washington - who would become head of Saudi intelligence, and was close friend of both George W. Bush, the President of the United States, and George Tenet, head of the CIA - was Princess Haifa. Haifa […]

The far right don't understand what racism is. Racism is structural oppression. When they say "it's not racist to want the government to look after our own first", the flip-side of that is they expect other groups to be marginalized or excluded (you can't privilege one group without systemically […]

Here in the UK the far-right are using exactly the same baseless rhetoric about a migrant-fuelled crime wave as the MAGAs in the US. I wouldn't usually share anything from The Times (which lost all credibility as a bastion of serious investigative journalism […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Look, I'm no conspiracy theorist. But it's difficult not to notice (having reviewed the footage) that exploding one of someone's carotid arteries from 200 yards with a single bullet is either the world's flukiest shot, or this wasn't the shooter's first rodeo. If deliberate, that was […]

You heard the man. Now let's move on the way we did when it was Democrat Senators and a pet dog.

You remember when everyone (including AI firms) claimed that "Hallucinations" would soon be saved and I got so much shit for arguing that they are a structural property of LLMs? Now OpenAI releases a paper stating the same and just gets to move on (with all its sycophants). Really fucking […]

Londoners tore down the police barrier hiding Banksy’s new mural on the Royal Courts of Justice, showing a judge striking a protester with a gavel. The artwork appeared just two days after nearly 900 pro-Palestine activists were arrested in London.

"Imagine backing Trump’s ‘bring jobs back’ tariffs then cheering the ICE raid that nuked Georgia’s $4.3B Hyundai plant—475 workers arrested, 40k jobs gone," another user wrote. "That’s not America First, that’s economic suicide. You’re a walking contradiction and a clown." 'Massively ignorant' […]

Why do some folks refuse to use any browsers based on Chromium? It's a free and open-source, fully auditable web browser project. Why does it matter who developed it? It's just lines of instructions. Why does *code* have to pass an ethical purity test?! You're not materially supporting Google […]

Every now and then I have to re-read critiques of NFTs to remind myself that no, me not understanding them wasn't because they're devilishly clever or that I'm not bright enough to grasp their potential, but because they made no sense as tradable assets. NFTs were nothing but a Ponzi scheme from […]

@Lazarou Autocratic rule in general always implodes into chaos eventually due to its inherent irrationality: being steered by men who are disdainful of expertise and unresponsive to criticism, it will always get bogged down in managing all the unintended consequences of its policies. The […]

AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/ai_darwin_awards/ From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honours for machine learning misadventures

@paninid @emilymbender Ultimately we're all machines, sans the ghost. There's no magical glue or "elan vital" that makes our biological life and *only* our biological life conscious - everything is just arrangements stuff doing stuff - HOWEVER, chatbots do not in any way replicate animal […]

Image #1: photo of an ICE agent wearing a skull mask. Image #2 (link below): 2021 article from the West Point Combating Terrorism Center, explaining how that mask is an established symbol of a white nationalist/fascist terrorist group. They're not even trying to hide […] [Original post on c.im]

Today the Supreme Court has handed down a decision permitting Trump’s DHS/ICE goon squads to stop and demand papers from people who have brown skin or speak Spanish just bc they have these attributes. This is not only counter to the guarantees of the 14th A, it is fascism.

Chicagoans, a hero has arisen. This is how to stop Trump mobilising the military against your city. Finally, a legitimate use for cars! ✊ #Chicago

See you in London.