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I mean, the Trump admin has taken over control of an ongoing genocide and announced a plan to complete it; is currently laying waste to the government to make it easier to loot the public with impunity, and their climate plan is “Fuck everyone, we will die rich and billions can roast”.

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Correct, and it’s interesting to me how all it took was for the press to more or less unite and say “Wait, Johnson is a bent fraud, this government has wrecked everything” and the Conservative Party fucking imploded. What might have happened, had this happened earlier than late 2021? Who can say.

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Funny the Government position is that Trump's interventions on Ukraine are good, helpful, perhaps even laudable, but also the direct cause of a massive security crisis that requires an immediate and huge defence budget commitment and the abandonment of a decades long Labour policy on foreign aid

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Is this because these people think there is a deep vein of knowledge to be tapped here? Or is it because there are only 4000 people who matter in the whole country and they can only ever have conversations between themselves, at risk of some peasant from outside showing them up?

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Following on from the convo yesterday, it's with probably saying that AI and machine learning tools are generating a moderate amount of value, but Silicon Valley is so deep into hyper scale growth at all costs, and has bet so hard on this, that expectations are an order of magnitude too high.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

The dotcom bubble, except this time tech dorks, pundits and politicians appear to have inflated it into a weird quasi-religion as well.

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Children who died because the policy is to expose them to the risk of dying, as a warning to others

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I mean they did convince Farage to stand down in a load of seats in 2019, and then unrelatedly several of the candidates got peerages

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My favourite of the Sarkar thing is part is bit where they go “oh but the book has more detail and nuance, bur of course the media are just using the bits most embarrassing to the left” Ye, exactly, that’s the whole point innit.

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This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.

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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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A perhaps needed post from Adam today - Reminder: Arsenal's attack is quite good when everyone's not injured

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“Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.” Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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Yes, Arsenal scored seven goals against this Manchester City this season and that was with a half with 10 men away from home thrown in.

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Cold light of day, Liverpool absolutely deserve another title for what they have done over the last 7-8 years, especially as they have almost certainly had titles taken from them due to redacted I remain confident Arsenal will do it under Arteta.

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Challenge for the reader here to identify the difference between "efficiency savings" and "austerity-driven cuts." Aside from the spelling.

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I'm not one to usually complain about DeCLinE but the sad demise of the BFI London Imax from displaying murals by Howard Hodgkin through to film posters & now generic rubbishy adverts is one of the few exceptions. It's such a great building too. Or at least could be.

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500 million passengers since it opened in May 2022

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Look, they have nothing else to say and nowhere else to go. The whole project was always a cruel fraud, from day one. Of course they are going to fall for it, every time a rich tosser offers to sell them some magic beans: they have absolutely nothing else to fall back on.

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Absolutely Jokerfying scenes here, as the lads again explain - in positive terms - that Starmer’s Labour was always a bleak fraud going all the way back to the start of the Labour Racism Scandal. Also, the PM is a clueless ambition monster and may as well be a cardboard cutout of himself.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Interesting if we could demonstrate some connected thinking and look at how many former Labour MPs end up as lobbyists for gambling firms.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Can we just fast forward now to this now, and skip the bit where everyone pretends to be absolutely horrified about something that specifically Sir Keir only did, that they all knew about at the time.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

No need to parse dog whistles with the advocate for Germany’s neo-Nazi party, who laments the end of Apartheid in South Africa, does sig heils in public, denigrates minorities, and proclaims that white men are inherently superior. Yes, he is. We don’t need to ask anymore, we need to deal with it.

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

Zoiks, Scoob

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This is how it’s been in Britain for a long time now. It’s true that a lot of people have absolutely roasted their own brains with Twitter drivel, and it’s mostly not random members of the public that we need to worry about.

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The actual government just told departments to brace for new massive cuts to pay for war. The more important thing here is that Britain looks like it’s done, regardless of what happens or who wins.

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This is it unfortunately, the same bullshit it’s been since the early nineties: we need to burn everything down because They made our kids sing Baa, Baa Green Sheep then took the racist cartoons off jam jars.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

These problems (both political and economic) are soluble..

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

My position is that George Osborne's political ideas were fundamentally bad and didn't work, not that they were basically ok and could have worked if they'd just been "competently managed." Sorry if this offends everyone in the Westminster bubble who really wants austerity to have been good.

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I feel like the issue here might be that it is only too clear what he wants, and that is to crush the left and the Sensible Moderate libs, while remaking Labour as the party of billionaire donors, fash-curious pensioners, flag-fucking imbeciles and football lads throwing bricks at the cops.

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I would simply look at what this Labour government is actually doing (brutalising migrants, handing out freebies to international corporations, falling in love with every Lyle Lanley AI huckster, ripping up regulations, destroying the environment etc etc) and assume that this is what he wants.

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The paper has been much like this as long as I’ve been keeping an eye on it, which is at least since 2008. Its really sharp turn into being extremely reactionary and increasingly National Front wasn’t 2016 or 2024, it was the 2010 election, which it seems to have interpreted as a starting pistol.

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We looked into the rise of the far right and it turns out, it’s all because of like eight percent of the population that everyone who has been in power for 45 years of escalating cruelty and disaster hates, as do all of their hangers-on. I know, remarkable isn’t it? And so helpfully convenient, too.

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Outside of the actual payroll this is like 15 guys, but yes I’m sure it’s very tough for them right now

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Financial Times general election endorsements while all this was unfolding 2010 - Conservative Party 2015 - Conservative Party 2017 - Conservative Party

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Better if it had been dumb and not merely vexatious, which is what it was.

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I have a piece at the LRB blog on the UK government's intention to permanently block refugees from citizenship.

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Bear in mind: the stuff here is what we said at the time was happening, and mostly the exact people we said were planting stories. And we were called conspiracy theorists for this by the same reporters who were being fed this drivel by these very people www.middleeasteye.net/discover/get...

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You would think nobody would ever need to say “It doesn’t matter whether these are ironic Nazi salutes”

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Specifically: there’s a reason why the response to e.g. October 7 was for tabloids to scream at the FA for not lighting up the national stadium blue and white, and camera crews chasing traitor MPs down the streets. There was a specific, very bad policy that needed to be imposed, against resistance.

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I think it speaks to the worst hangover of 2015-2019, that MPs from the governing party are slamming the "Jeremy Corbyn do you condemn..." button. I can't exactly blame them because this tactic got smoke blown up their asses by the press, but you've literally got everything you say you wanted.

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