This really is terrifically good - as I knew it would be the minute @naomialderman.bsky.social first mentioned it - not only deeply considered and accessible, but Naomi is an excellent presenter, do have a listen if you get the chance:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This is exactly the wrong approach. Putting aside the fact that being anti-immigrant is just morally wrong, and that the idea that immigration lowers wages etc., you can’t out anti-immigrant the party that exists almost solely to oppose immigration.
To get to 5,500 miles you'd have to keep driving south until you get to Juba in South Sudan - almost to Uganda.
Another five countries, though most of them are truly massive.
So when folks (especially Europeans) say Americans "don't travel," they seem deeply unserious.
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless
So funny when people are like "we need to learn from the fall of the Roman Empire, so as not to repeat it."
My dudes, we need to learn from the RISE of the Roman Empire, so as not to repeat it. The Roman Empire sucked. We don't want that shit anymore.
In all the times this article mentioned labor shortages as a reason for extending the work week, there were zero mentions of this govt's actions to violently and fatally expel migrants from its borders.
Indeed, American Black people HAVE had very recent, living memory experience of being subject to an authoritarian US regime. It would be wise to listen to them.
Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
Seriously, fellow British peeps, go and vote on the 4th. Don't take it for granted that the Labour landslide victory is a done deal and your vote doesn't matter. Brexit was such a catastrofuck because half the people who had a right to vote on it couldn't be arsed because OBVIOUSLY it was done deal.
Seriously, fellow British peeps, go and vote on the 4th. Don't take it for granted that the Labour landslide victory is a done deal and your vote doesn't matter. Brexit was such a catastrofuck because half the people who had a right to vote on it couldn't be arsed because OBVIOUSLY it was done deal.
NEWS: Melenchon, left leader of LFI, just said his priority will be to block far-right in runoff. He says his party will drop out from runoff if RN is 1st & LFI is 3rd.
So: all left parties will have this approach—drop out to block far-right.
Macronists haven't followed this.
Doing some reading in"post-liberal" conservatism and struck by the simultaneous demands to return fertility rates to traditional levels and to destroy the economic system that has made a couple of centuries of global population growth actually possible.
I just want to remind everyone out there that rest is an actual thing you do and when you do it you aren’t doing “nothing,” you’re doing something essential to your health and wellbeing and also essential if you want to do *anything else.*
Pensioners recoil at being called benefits claimants but the truth is that there is not only nothing shameful in being a benefits claimant, but it in fact shows that even the very grubby neoliberal state has agreed that you have suffered enough to be entitled to compensation.
The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough.
Absolutely flood the zone.
"there's no meaning to our existence!" is only true if you assume humans are the most important species. we probably do something useful for fungi. maybe they like plastic
⬇️⬇️ a reminder that no number of academic studies will shift public policy when those with power aren’t genuinely interested in what is best public policy.
The reason why they keep doing UBI studies and not actually implementing UBI is that the people doing the studies want UBI and the people who have the power to implement it do not want UBI.
Contacted a friend who rescues angry feral cats, she recommended this hand gesture, which they call the Llama of Friendship
It may mimic non-threatening inquisitive cat ears, but regardless of the mechanism I have learned I will not be attacked as long as one hand is llama-shaped
There are a lot of reasons (some to do with the underlying condition of the UK, some to do with race) that Rishi Sunak’s lies land worse with the public than Boris Johnson, but one of them is that Johnson lies like someone who wants to fuck you, and Sunak lies like someone who wants you to fuck off.
*yells into megaphone defeating the purpose of the megaphone*
YOU CANNOT HAVE A SUPERMAJORITY IN THE UK PARLIAMENT BECAUSE THE UK PARLIAMENT PASSES BILLS ON A SIMPLE MAJORITY
Bombshell in France: Head of Les Républicains, the party of the traditional conservatives who long ruled France, just announced he’d accept a coalition deal with Le Pen’s far-right party.
Unprecedented in national French politics. It'd be a huge collapse of the barrier against the RN.
There is no amount of increasing border enforcement or deporting people that will ever make the American right wing believe the border is being properly handled by a democratic president. Any compromise on this is just a signal that they can demand more & keep the issue live. Immoral, bad politics.
