We're shocked by Trump and Musk's antics because we judge them against the idea that governments should serve the people. But they have no such intention. Government for them is simply about seizing power and wealth.
Let's stop being shocked, and build a global, democratic counter-movement.
Let's stop being shocked, and build a global, democratic counter-movement.
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Question. What were you doing back in 2017&2019 when were at an actual political crossroads?
Did you also defend & clarify the smears for what they were, smears to protect the rich from tax and so the right of Labour could take absolute control?
Many Americans are disgusted at what's happening, but millions didn't bother to vote.
Time to start looking after our own interests.
These bastards have untold wealth to bring in their New Order over your dead body, if necessary.
But even if they happen, they'll happen in the context that robbed at least three and a half million would-be Democrats voters of their votes last time...
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
So impossible.
so now it will rule US.
https://bsky.app/profile/stephenking.bsky.social/post/3liazdbpm6c2o
That's what Germans did during Hitler's onslaught.
𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝘁.
𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀.
𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘂𝗽.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆!
𝙎𝙤𝙤𝙣, 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧.
https://www.jandehn.com/post/taking-the-fight-to-the-right
It is the only way to survive the Trump years. We need to be strong and not give in to facile bullying.
Before we end up as serfs (or dead)
(Not really about Brexit)
https://alastaircampbell.org/2018/08/the-book-that-helps-you-better-understand-brexit-and-rees-mogg-part-2/
"Government for them is simply about seizing power and wealth."
Essentially, this is what any government is all about anyway. We simply get to put an 'x' on a piece of paper once in a while. Even a 'liberal democracy' fails Abraham Lincoln's triple definition...
... and is government of the people, by a technocrat-managerial caste, for the big corporations.
Occasionally there's a 'nicer' person somewhere in the mix of the managerial caste, but either they don't last or their niceness gets rubbed off.
We have renamed it #NoKingsDay
There will be protests at every state capitol in all 50 states.
There will also be protests at city hall in smaller communities.
We are following the examples of the Civil Rights Movement and Suffragettes.
National peaceful protest President's Day - Mon. 2/17 at noon at all state capitols & some additional cities!
Plus 2 additional national actions!
Please help spread the word & join with friends!
All we hold dear is in peril!
The Trump Regime has access to the data and will use it to identify and track people who disagree with them. We all know how trigger-happy the First Felon is about the use of martial law.
And fight back, vs just scream at them
https://youtu.be/ZjVZmn28rXo?si=kMzaGKO3wAdPfGxn
Musk
Trump
Lukashenko
Putin
Truss
Hunt
Danny Zuko
Bush
Billy Bunter
Hans Gruber
Rubio
Zuckerman
Bunter's defining characteristics are his naive greed, self-indulgence, and overweight appearance. He is in many respects an obnoxious anti-hero. Besides his gluttony, he is obtuse, lazy, racist, nosy, deceitful, pompous, and conceited…"
Do we know anyone like that?
“Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths”
The repeated mistake is to ignore the truths they have hijacked: that big states HAVE been shaped by neoliberal forces that serve - rather than balance out - capital
#IndependenceWorks
But I don’t think any of them have been as bad as Trump.
The Tories tried to introduce an app to identifiably track every person in the UK in real time (and threw millions at it while they knew it would never work). Trying to infringe the human rights of every person in the country is up there with Trump
What will he sell out next?
I'm all for building a global counter-movement. Reforming a British participating EU would be a start. Do you think anyone in power will let us?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NAfcBpbWxTA
https://bsky.app/profile/keithfitzgerald.bsky.social/post/3lh3f5n52hr24
Trump needs to listen too, and not just to his cronies , but to all in society!
https://www.science.org/content/article/human-altruism-traces-back-origins-humanity
The fact that we open doors for strangers with no expectation of reward, or you can put 100 strangers in a room without a fight, is REALLY unusual
- Do nothing, literally. Stop consuming.
- Do something. Nonviolent civil disobedience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWoFvuh_8Ok
They will empower the worst of the world and come after their enemies with mock piety and lawless arrogance.
They will not stop until you stand up and fight to stop them.
Is that their dream? To prove how very, very clever and capable they are? Are us, who don't want to destroy it all, we are chumps? This is the proof?
Self enrichment.
Whatever the cost for the others and the planet.
They believe they'll escape the common fate at the last minute - hear Musk rant about going to Mars-.
And yes, they are selfish psychopaths.
https://bsky.app/profile/theecologist.org/post/3lhssfi5yps2f
did you change your opinion on nuclear energy?
--> Starmer, has deliberately sabotaged any possibility of our current government delivering on emissions reductions: backing CCS and nuclear
Some is familiar... those of the 1980s might be familiar with 'storming, forming, and norming' of groups. Unfortunately many who get to 'norming' no longer evolve and dig in to be establishment.
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/11/the-meaning-crisis-and-how-we-rescue-young-men-from-reactionary-politics/
@jksteinberger.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3li5lhzyclc2h
@jksteinberger.bsky.social
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/katherine-stewart-money-lies-god-book-christian-nationlism
@jksteinberger.bsky.social
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/metapolitics-and-the-battle-for-europes-future/
cc @jksteinberger.bsky.social
The illiberal Right seems to have already reached across borders.
Why can't democrats?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/universities-double-investment-in-diversity-staff-over-three-years-25rn8dhvc
It must be global.
We might want specific things, like clean water or freedom from arbitrary detention. But even more important is to have a system that steers itself back to what people truly value. Resilience designed in.
We are in very strange, dangerous and selfish times.
Build a global, democratic counter-movement you say, George? I'm in.
And after this Labour government comes Farage and reform. Imagine how that's going to go.
He’s kowtowing to super rich Musk.
Who elected Putin? What choice did they have?