THE Museum of Neoliberalism in London is closing its doors for good this evening, before developers demolish and turn the site into luxury flats.

Founded by artists Darren Cullen and Gavin Grindon, the museum has been based in Leegate shopping centre in Lewisham since 2019.

The exhibition featured a timeline on the history of neoliberalism, and displayed artefacts including real-life anti-union posters, corporate-sponsored scout badges and an authentic bottle of urine from an Amazon employee.

Developer Galliard Homes plans to demolish the shopping centre where the museum stands, and build towers up to 15 storeys high accommodating 562 residential flats.

The exhibition featured a timeline on the history of neoliberalism, and displayed artefacts including real-life anti-union posters, corporate-sponsored scout badges and an authentic bottle of urine from an Amazon employee.

The cruelty truly is the point.

so there should be a windfall tax

There won’t be.

Are the Kennedys all right?

I’d make a joke about where John Kennedy could hide, but

“the way we were before the onset of COVID.”

Covid never fucking left so hooray for disease factories!

@Civility@hexbear.net wins!

“No.”

KNOWN for doing their Own Research

They are even assisted by the power of the algorithm to have the pick of the litter of fascist influencers that are LITERALLY DESTROYING DEI with FACTS and REASON!

The corpos want a horse race, every time. It doesn’t matter how utterly clownish one major candidate is, he must be presented in such a way that it’s always neck and neck whenever possible.

but for LD my daughter and I always skip to the nacelle-eating alien (we named him Yum Yums), yell “YUM YUMS!”, and then skip to the end.

That’s adorable!

Even that chosen pic has a sort of seething boomer/Xer energy to it: “those damn kids might be happy in some unforseen way that can’t be directly tied to a product or subscription service!”

No job, only spend

It’s baffling to me too, but considering how much the post-DS9 “NuTrek” showrunners like to trot out Section 31 and give them more power and reach and even respectability among the protagonists each time they seem to show up (such as in Picard where for some reason Worf and Jurati were associated with them and they apparently “had all the best toys” in a way that sounded quirky and cool rather than an unaccountably self interested bunch of murderous criminals as seen in DS9), there’s a fair amount of overlap it seems between the “black ops special forces shadowy adults in the room that make the hard decisions and get shit done” power fantasies of typical right wing entertainment and whatever Kurtzman keeps trying to push on the Trek franchise.

That’s even more baffling because the average self-described conservative Trek fan seems to hate “NuTrek” anyway, even the stuff that I myself enjoy like Lower Decks, The Orville (yes I count that as Trek, it earned it), Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds.

The final 20 minutes or so of this video summarize how I feel about the Discovery/Picard’s preoccupation with edgy grimdark gimmicks that seem to be trying to appeal to a crowd that nonetheless can’t see past the “politicalness/wokeness” of having too many nonwhite nonmale characters and the like.

https://youtu.be/MdLHKdn0JTY?t=12063

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I actually started to like that song.

The extended Cerritos refit montage/music was

It was fun to watch the Lower Decks intro gradually change over time, especially that shootout that the Cerritos runs away form.

I used an emoji to indicate that it seemed like political theater to begin with, just waiting to be denied by the usual political procedures.

Maybe they never saw Lucy do the football trick before.