GrumpyOldFart1d ago

“[#UK] Labour’s desperate and disgusting smear video has fallen flat”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

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“As the May 2026 local elections draw near, the Labour party’s fear of the Greens is written as clearly in its campaign as Keir Starmer’s brylcreemed vacuity. Just like its utter lack of substance, ideas, and integrity. And wow, did it show in the abject failure of its naked attempt to smear the Green party in a dire new video”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/05/05/labour-video/

#Press #SocialMedia #Labour #Austerity #WFA #FreeGearKier #Reeves #Starmer #BenefitsHarmer #Streeting #RachelThieves #FreezeAndStarve #TwoChildBenefitCap #ChildPoverty #Genocide #Complicity #Authoritarian #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty #KidStarver #LabourVoteRigging #LabourCorruption #LabourFriendsOfBigBusiness #LabourFriendsOfBigOil #LabourFriendsOfOligarchy #LabourFriendsOfGenocide

Labour's desperate and disgusting smear video has fallen flat

Labour are so rattled by the Green Party ahead of the local elections that they're churning out content attempting the same old smears

Canary
WIST Quotations1d ago

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The only man for whom Hitler had “unqualified respect” was “Stalin the genius,” and while in the case of Stalin and the Russian regime we do not have (and presumably never will have) the rich documentary material that is available for Germany, we nevertheless know since Khrushchev’s speech before the Twentieth Party Congress that Stalin trusted only one man and that was Hitler.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41599/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #authoritarian #dictator #ideology #mutualrespect #respect #strongman #totalitarian #trust #tyrant

Arendt, Hannah - Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 "A Classless Society," sec. 1 (1951) | WIST Quotations

The only man for whom Hitler had "unqualified respect" was "Stalin the genius," and while in the case of Stalin and the Russian regime we do not have (and presumably never will have) the rich documentary material that is available for Germany, we nevertheless know since Khrushchev’s speech before the…

WIST Quotations
Thor A. Hopland1d ago

Listen, here's the #SiliconValley agenda for #AI:

* Race to #MonopolyByDefault (everyone wants to usurp #Google's throne)
* Increase #DataCollection, #Tracking, #Profiling tenfold by having users WILLINGLY give away their financial information
* Sell said data, manipulate markets with it and generally do a bit of mass- AND targeted psychological manipulation
* Sell the systems to #authoritarian states to form a #SurveillanceState
* Eventually build the same at home

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/923684/musk-brockman-altman-openai-trial

OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question

In the second week of Musk v Altman, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman took the stand. After a tedious cross, he told the story of the company’s founding.

The Verge
Trevor McLeod3d ago

Will #nasa put someone on the #moon by 2028? This article argues that it is unlikely for many good reasons. As for the #chinese that's one of the advantages of an #authoritarian #government

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/artemis-moonshot-9.7184395?cmp=rss

ANALYSIS | NASA says it will put humans on the surface of the moon in 2028. How realistic is that? | CBC News

The Artemis II lunar mission is over, and NASA is already looking ahead, planning to put astronauts on the surface of the moon by 2028. But there are a lot of hurdles that need to be cleared before that happens.

CBC
Show threadRichard Michael Blaber4d ago
@QudsNen I'd like to ban Keir #Starmer & the #LabourParty (so-called), but I think I can be persuaded to refrain from doing so. The former #HumanRights #lawyer must really try, at least, to overcome his #authoritarian #instincts.
Richard Michael Blaber4d ago
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/keir-starmer-calls-for-ban-on-some-pro-palestian-protests-british-jews. #Starmer would just LOVE the excuse to ban ALL - never mind SOME - #protests in favour of the #Palestinians. He is NO #democrat, & no #liberal; he IS an #authoritarian & a #Zionist, willing to defend #Israel come-what-may, even when the #Israelis are committing #genocide, & even if that entails the #UK being #guilty of aiding & abetting genocide. His #fascism must be named for what it is, & rigorously opposed!
Some pro-Palestinian protests could be banned amid attacks on British Jews

PM worried about ‘cumulative’ effect of marches, as Met chief says Jewish communities facing biggest threat

The Guardian
Show threadoldguycrusty5d ago

@everylibrary

This is why #Fascists, #ChristoFascists, #Xenophobes, #autocrats, and #authoritarian #dictators of all stripes want to defund libraries, ban books, and limit access.

As more people read, and people read more..., they expect more from civil society and they see how the #oligarchy is a cancerous pustule on humanity.

https://mastodon.social/@everylibrary/116499921488566192

Richard Michael Blaber5d ago
https://theconversation.com/how-authoritarian-regimes-use-education-as-a-political-tool-270731; https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15/7/801?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article (open access). Education wouldn't be "empowering" under an #authoritarian regime, now would it? It would be the opposite - by #definition! If you survived your #education with an #ability to #think for #yourself intact that would be a massive tribute to the other influences on you, & your personal #integrity.
How authoritarian regimes use education as a political tool

Governments can spread their ideas and principles through the processes and organisations they use to maintain power. This includes education.

The Conversation
🦉Nýktiméni ❌👑5d ago

The #TrumpRegime is not going to let go of building this perverse American Führerbunker.

Whether Trump, the man, is alive or dead, I don't see the Oligarchs, their political and corporate proxies, or MAGA cult he inspired peacefully surrendering power, suggesting to me, a darker motive for building the Führerbunker.

Like Charlie Kirk, a martyred Trump would be an even more useful idiot for the powers arrayed around him now against the American people and our estranged former allies.
#US #Culture #Politics #Authoritarian #Capitalism #antiDemocratic #Illiberal #Ethnostate #WhiteNationalism #Patriarchy #AmericanAparthied #JimCrow #JimCrow2

joe•iuculano Apr 29

By JonathanChait via #TheAtlantic
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«Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

2 describe Donald #Trump as a corrupt aspiring #authoritarian is not 2 conclude that he should b murdered

This ought 2 b a simple point 2 understand. Yet it is lost on a large swath of the American #Right, who insist that calling Trump what he is causes @ least some of his opponents—among them, the accused shooter #ColeTomasAllen—2 believe violence is justified against the president»

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/trump-language-policing/686977/

Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.

The Atlantic