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I keep seeing all these pieces on how Keir Starmer doesn't know what he's doing and it's bullshit.
The fucker is a very experienced barrister who's worked on some incredibly complicated shit (and bear in mind that English Common Law is a fuckin hugely complex thing, cause there ain't a strict constitution, just a paper trail of shit going back to 1066, you need to be one tricky fucker to work that shit)
When that man enacts evil, he knows full well what he's doing. And he's worked on enough human rights issues in the past (often at an international level) before he sold his soul to politics that he knows *exactly* the consequences of his actions.
This is like when they would go "Oh ho ho ain't Boris Johnson a funny bumbling thing" or "Look at Theresa May, out of her depth again" no, this is one of the biggest problems with British politics.
They *play* the role of ineffectual English upper crust.
They *act* that part.
Yes, Starmer *is* a wet fuckin vegetable. Johnson *is* a bumbling clown. Theresa May would struggle to change the toner on a fucking photocopier without covering the entire room in toxic dust.
But that ain't *all* they are.
They are *evil*. They enact evil policies. Their rhetoric is infused with evil.
And they operate on behalf of the nation-state that inflicted, mile by mile the most evil colonial dominance of the planet.
Shit, that entity practically spawned the US itself, now the biggest empire out there.
And, bear in mind that the UK is the 6th richest entity on Earth, even now. The Big 4 audit companies *all* have their headquarters in London now: Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC.
They *own* finance in this world, even with the US being richer and more miltiarily powerful than it.
It is still nuclear armed (and has a very definite first strike policy and not only that, they refer to anybody who wouldn't as a 'security risk', remember this? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15243063.sir-michael-fallon-theresa-may-launch-pre-emptive-nuclear-strike/)
When some military invasion happens, you get to find out after the fact that the SAS was in there much earlier. That British mercenaries were dug in. And when it's 'over', they send em back in.
And these PMs are privy to all that and far more than we'll ever know.
This includes Starmer.
Britain is a financially powerful, militarily devious and extremely dangerous entity, with a history that includes taking over a quarter of the landmass of this planet.
The Richard Curtis film style bumbling about and veneer of inadequacy is a vital part of that deviousness.
Nothing gaslights bureaucratically while committing evil quite like that nation. That's how it's operated all along.
Just look at the politics in many parts of the world now, so much of the ongoing marginalisation and the world's loot held in Britain itself for evidence of that.
Make no mistake: this is all deliberate.
And the pompous fucking anachonisms are there as a distraction.
That man is evil. He chose evil. He enacts evil.
As all PMs.
@saddestrobots The goal of Labour, like the Democrats in the US, is to simply replace the Conservatives. Not beat them and bring in their own policies, but to swap leadership so they can get in on the money that's going to be made and hold on to it.
That's their investment.
Labour has just handed the next election to Reform UK.
Shamefully only 49 Labour MPs rebelled on the second reading of the Welfare Bill this evening.
700,000+ new claimants will lose universal credit health payments, £3,000 a year on average.
A two-tier welfare bill.
I am so sorry for future disabled claimants.
Here's the breakdown of votes so you can contact your MP. I've just written to mine.
Senator Ron Wyden will raise a point of order to remove the Medicaid and CHIP ban on Transgender Care
Use the link to find your Senators phone #s and say you're a constituent and you want them to back Wyden's point of order to protect transgender care
I mean of course SOME Democrats are working to oppose Trump's fascist agenda; but is it the powerful ones? Is it the leaders? Aren't the VAST majority of Democrats actually doing something about fascism folks who A) do not take significant amounts of AIPAC money and B) precisely the folks the neoliberal wing would like to purge from the party?
I'm just wondering when it's going to occur to you that the opposition to the fascist Trumpenreich is very clearly compromised... will it ever?
@artemis @FlashMobOfOne since the late 90s there has, in fact, been a school of management philosophy that says that execs do not need to understand their industry to be execs. They need to know how to manage money, and (maybe) people. Then by spreadsheet magic they will make good business decisions.
This is bullshit, of course. But it has been taught at university/MBA level for decades now and many power players accept it as fact.
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Yeah... I'm beginning to wonder if they understand the difference between, say, a D&D player and a Monopoly player.
That feels like a really weird problem for a game company to have, but it's becoming pretty standard for businesses across the board to be run by execs who don't understand the industry they are in.
For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, @danaelkurd and I sat down with the brilliant @AstraTaylor and Naomi Klein to talk about the rise of end times fascism.
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