But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?
But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?
After the USS Liberty, Israel realized it has carte blanche.
The rich will just insist on higher immigration levels in order to bolster demand.
See: Canada.
All those gains that were made in the 2010s? We’re at real risk of losing them as corporations try and triangulate their way to maximum revenue.
After Anheueser Busch welched, the right smelled blood in the water.
The progressive left is going to need to fight very hard and make a lot of allies because we’re so very close to snapping back to the 1990s, if not the 1950s.
I’d like to see them lose so badly that Sinn Fein has more representation.
It’s amazing how only one side doesn’t want to appear partisan, while the other one is openly talking about jailing opponents, dissidents and the media…
…and we’re still getting “both sides” bullshit.
Who is this supposed to endear him to?
Donors and “very serious people” who need to be reassured that this is still Tony Blair’s Labour, and that labour has no part to play in Labour.
Somewhere, Jeremy Corbyn raises an eyebrow.
From the outside looking in, it would appear that Labour is yet another pseudo-progressive party that got addicted to corporate cash during the late 1990s flowering of neoliberalism ans aren’t willing to let go.
It’s the same thing in most western Nations, and it has the awful side effect of making what were previously “reasonable” right wing parties into proto-fascists put of self defense.
Australians are basically US americans of the south (think food: originally british, cannot be healthy, no good car manufacturers, afraid of foreigners…)
They’re really more like Canadians than Americans, although I’ve heard it said that New Zealand more accurately fills that role
The market has solved it.
You just don’t realize what the market has solved for. It didn’t solve the problem of expensive healthcare, it solved the problem of how to maximize profits for the wealthy.
That’s what people don’t understand about “the market”. What you think it’s doing isn’t what it’s actually doing.
If you’re not white and you’re voting for Trump and his sycophants, be aware that you’re just a line in Niemoller’s poem that they haven’t got to yet.
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What’s even scarier is those same people seem completely oblivious to the alternative, which is Mr. “Muslim Ban, Shithole Countries, I like Jewish people counting my money, I’d just nuke the whole place” Trump.
Like, your problem is genocide and you’ll basically pave the road for the candidate that explicitly said they’d do a genocide, and whose supporters would cheer him on as the missiles launched, over one that you have some influence over?
Yeah, but the consequences is a second Trump administration if you don’t vote for a Democratic candidate for president, and two to four more years of legislative gridlock if the Republicans aren’t reduced to powerless rump.
Do you want a second Trump administration? Think really hard about that, because the last one vacillated between “Berlusconi-level incompetency” and “Mussolini-level malice”.
The stakes really are to high to “try to teach Biden and the Democrats a lesson”, and it’s not like corporate Democrats really care, because they’d rather lose to a Republican than get primaried by a progressive and stop the gravy train forever, plus they have this weird idea that if they’re “civil” they won’t find themselves lynched during the American Krystallnacht.
The problem with not primaring out corporate Democrats is that American voters…didn’t do it. Not that it didn’t work as a strategy, because replacing corporate Republicans with fascist nutjobs is working out just fine. Maybe progressives, or at least progressive Millenials and Gen-Xers, really are too lazy to affect real change?
He and his party are doing the calculus and figuring that they’ll do better supporting Israel because, frankly, where else are those voters going to go? Trump? He’d nuke Gaza if Netanyahu co-signed a loan for him.
Democratic voters need to vote blue no matter who, and then primary out the corporatist candidates at the earliest opportunity.
This has to be a two-pronged effort: keep the Republicans out of office permanently, and clean the Democratic slate from within.
If they were members of the Panthers, I bet they’d be long gone.
This was always the worry.
That this would become a catalyst for other sorts of action, not just Palestine.
Everyone with any skin in the game was very thankful they made it out of the 2008 financial crisis without OWS causing more trouble than it did. Expect a disproportionate response while they try to keep a lid on things.
No one in power in the west wants the American version of the Arab Spring.
But trying to actually overthrow the government, that’s only good for a few months.
Tell me again how the justice system is unfair to the right wing?
Oh, if only that were true.