Democrats can dress atrocity in just enough respectability to placate libs. Sure, there are terrible things happening in the world, but the Leader is so sad about it, so it must be that the terrible things are unavoidable and therefore everything is as okay as they can possibly be.
Trump, enacting the same policies but also revelling in their cruelly would make steam come out of a lib's ears.
They should ask how that's going in the UK. (which is currently drowning in sewage and I'm not even referring to the cuisine)
That interview is infuriating. The suggestion at the end that Palestinians are responsible for their own subjugation is genuinely shocking to me.
Bastani never asks tough questions, he just lets his guests speak at length. That's his style. Applebaum is hard to take at such concentrated doses, but I do think it is an insightful glimpse into the diseased and delusional mind of the imperial elites.
Interesting. Is there any hard proof of Yaxley-Lennon's connection to Israel?
Edit: Just came across this: https://www.meforum.org/7292/mef-organizes-25000-strong-protest-in-support Not a hard link to Israel directly, but definitely to American zionism at the very least.
His previous work proves he didn't need the stroke to come up with this take.
It was a better outcome that was expected. Labour's vote share is weak. Keir's vote share in his own constituency halved. He's become the least popular opposition leader to ever win by any metric. The lowest turnout in, like, a hundred years despite this nominally being a regime change election shows a lack of belief and enthusiasm for the current system. Greens did historically well. Independents from the left did historically well. Not just the ones that won, but the ones that came strong second. Many of Labour's seats were won on a knife edge. It was not a resounding victory of the kind Blair won, which imo was the worst case scenario. Yes, FPTP means none of that technically matters. But also, it does, because many of Labour's MPs know they're on thin ice if they want to win again.
The predicted outcome was a license for absolute red tory arrogance. Wes Streeting was gleefully rubbing his hands at the prospect of selling off the NHS, but maybe winning by only 500 votes will make him think more carefully about that. Or maybe it won't. Maybe he doesn't care about being re-elected because he'll have a gravy train waiting at the station when he leaves.
But I still think there's something worth celebrating, because despite the compliant media, despite the total Conservative collapse, Labour barely got a better share than they did in 2019 and a significantly worse share than they did in 2017. There is an appetite for left politics, it is a spectre that is haunting the UK. It's not going to be sated by elections and establishment politics, I'm not under any illusion about that. But the poor turnout indicates that nobody else is either, which is significant. The desire is there, the disillusionment with the current system is there, the results show it.
The danger was always that Farage would be the main beneficiary of this failing system, but this election indicates to me that there is absolutely an opening for the left to win people over.
Which one of these factions is Sturmer leading.
It seems like this viewpoint comes from carnists seeing very expensive mock meats and thinking that those mock meats are the only way veganism can be enjoyable. After all, these are people who are okay with animal exploitation simply because of taste pleasure, so the fact that they think veganism can only be "worth it" if they have big bucks to always eat things that taste very similar to meat isn't surprising.
It's gotta be this. The concept of meat-based diets being cheap and vegetarian/vegan diets being expensive was so alien to me when I first encountered it. Probably because of my immigrant background where the stereotypical "poor food" was lentils, rice, potatoes, bread. I'll confess total ignorance on the price of meat, but it seems inconceivable to me that it would be any cheaper considering the comparatively enormous input costs of its production.
I can only really speak to what I know, but I wonder if there's further layers to the class/cultural differences. I went vegan when I was 18 and had to cook for myself and reckon with the disgusting nature of meat. But if I had the money to blow >£2 a meal on ready meals, that wouldn't have happened. And in that case, it would have been financial privilege isolating me from the reality of my consumption. And being poor removed the possibility of that isolation. I dunno. But I do know that the idea of eating even imitation meat makes me feel physically sick after those teenage experiences.
What is the deal with that sub? They can't really believe most of the shit that they're saying, right? There's just no way. Is it like, they have to cheer for their team no matter what or something? The only time I went on there was when South Africa brought their case to the ICJ and everybody on that sub just dismissed them as doing it on behalf of their BRICS friends so automatically the allegation had no validity. Fascinatingly deranged.
Good.