I was trying to draw a comparison to how the KPD formed in the first place. they were a group within the spd who were horrified at their colleagues voting in support of a brutal imperialist war and left (or rather were kicked out) of the party. Imo there has to be a moral line somewhere after which you refuse to vote for or even be in government with someone.

And it is not just the uk's system of elections, as I mentioned this pattern happens across all of Europe and the United States, which leads me to also believe it's an inherent feature of "liberal" bourgeois democracy and the kpd were right to roll the dice and try to fight it through non electoral means.

Same but for my mom

I mean, we're seeing the same thing (sans the communist orgs) play out in real time across Europe now. In Britain, labor purges Jeremy corbyn and his ilk, then gets elected with a solid mandate, then promises to gut the NHS and promotes transphobic policies (for no material benefit) in the name of coalition building anyway.

What distinguishes these "bipartisan" labourists and their american equivalents from the Tories except different colored hats? Would you also blame corbyn for running against these people?

To be fair it's not a mysterious "they", it's just an option available for channel owners to set alternative thumbnails and then check which does better. I don't think YouTube does this by itself if the uploader doesn't enable it

There's a long tail of servers/bartenders who are against this as well because they work at expensive establishments and make bank off tips. Like high double digits an hour.

If the push to convert tips into wages ever becomes serious, conservative media will do its best to platform and promote these servers who stand to lose income off it. We gotta think of a rhetoric/messaging strategy to counter that.

He's a pretty famous actor, I think that's weak evidence in favor of it too

I thought for a sec the video might be fake because it's of awful quality and not covered by any western news sites (that I could find) and just too on the nose. But it's from Graham's own twitter so https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1832160396846776710

Shout out to Alexandra elbakyan. She continues part of aaron's work by running sci-hub and libgen, but lives safely out of reach of the american criminal "justice" system 💔

so, like (a lot of) human music

elaborate performative outrage is just fun for its own sake sometimes idk