starmer pretended to be corbyn but "electable" and won solely for that reason, then expelled 90% of the people who voted for him from the party, including corbyn himself. the fact that the socialist campaign group just stood by and watched that happen shows how pathetic they are
blairites split from the party over meaningless bullshit, but the socialist campaign group and the likes of mcdonnell just tweet shit like "OMG KEIR YOU WERE ELECTED WITH A MANDATE YOU HAVE BROKEN THAT IS SO BAD", which everyone promptly ignores bc it's just empty rhetoric
take just 30 socialist campaign group MPs, split from labour and create a socialist labour party, and you take at least 5 to 10% off those blairite cunts and prevent them from ever being able to win an election. force them to negotiate seriously. everything else is a dead-end
what is the alternative? wait for a decade so that maybe another socialist gets on the leadership election ballot and somehow manages to win despite the rules being changed to prevent that, and then they get the corbyn treatment if not worse? ok and then what? there's nothing
they are going to run a labour candidate against corbyn in his own seat. corbyn, the guy who won landslide leadership victories just a few years ago, the figurehead of your movement, and you're just standing by and whistling. what the fuck is wrong with you? labourism is deranged
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the prices for the mandatory day 2 and 8 covid tests are fucking absurdly high, and basically prevent anyone who is poor from being able to come to the UK or travel out of it. they should be freely provided by the state instead of leaving it up to the predatory private sector
the government's website has a list of hundreds of these private companies that popped up out of nowhere and charge up to 300 pounds for a fucking self swab test that you can get for free if you're not applying for it as part of the travel requirements. it's a fucking scam
LOL this is so transparent. these are basically just sites quickly set up with a standard template and a different name like "118 testing", "001 covid test", "1 stop covid shop" (all of these are real), and they all use the same lab to get the test results. it's a big scam-market
iron dome is presented by the professional media and political class as a last line of defense against untold barbarism from out of control palestinians, but that turns reality upside down, as norman finkelstein, son of holocuast survivors, explains here
"they're sending these flares as an SOS: we are dying." the aim of iron dome is to make those flares go silent, so that palestinians will keep being killed by the israeli apartheid state without making any sound and causing any disturbance. israelis must be able to keep clubbing
and that is what the US decided to fund: the means with which to silence the victims of israeli apartheid and genocide. and AOC and jamaal bowman, who did not vote against it, are complicit in this depraved, murderous act
there's a lot to point to re tucker carlson to show he's a white supremacist, but for me most revealing was when he vehemently denounced fidel castro by pointing specifically to him sending aid to angola to help destroy the south african apartheid regime
in all the deranged denunciations of castro by the far right and liberals, I have never seen anyone mention his sending of aid to angola. but tucker did, bc he adores the south african apartheid regime. btw here is nelson mandela thanking fidel personally:
cuba was in fact the first country mandela visited after he was released from prison, given the central role it played in destroying the apartheid regime. in angola castro is also celebrated as a national hero for aiding their national liberation struggle against colonialism
people forget that grimes is also an anti-imperialist socialist who goes to events like the met gala and even marries a conman like elon musk to spread class consciousness
she also has some very good advice for communists. comrade grimes knows what real revolutionary praxis is
grimes: "enforced farming is really not a vibe". you know what else is not a vibe? this:
the phenomenon of rock stars like morrissey and johnny lydon going from being leftist counterculture figures in their youth to becoming far right deranged freaks in old age isn't bc that is the new counterculture, it's bc they've finally internalized that they're bourgeois now
"oh look, these extremely wealthy celebrities have the same worldview as charles koch and peter thiel, how edgy and countercultural!" no, their wealth has rotted their brains and they barely remember the class they originally came from. it's a faint memory of another lifetime
another though less extreme case of this is bob dylan. at a certain point he just stopped giving a fuck, and that point just so happened to coincide w/ the exact moment that he was becoming a rock star and accruing massive wealth. chomsky has some interesting commentary on that:
I get despising liberals for being the depraved ghouls that they are, but the primary reason for doing so is bc they enable the far right. why would you then support the far right and call for voting for them? this is what happens when you have no principled or coherent politics
"I hate gavin newsom so much he's such a piece of shit who did all this horrible stuff, that's why I now support the deranged far right republican who will do all the same things!" just endorse and support the left alternatives on the ballot instead of this asinine bullshit
I'll never in my life vote for the labour party under that blairite scumbag starmer, but that doesn't mean I'll vote for the fucking tories or some other far right creeps. WTF is that shit. just vote greens/SNP/northern independence party/plaid, or just abstain from voting at all