[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

Literally just nonsense, word salad, a strategy of anti-meaning. The perfect intelligence candidate for a moment they've manufactured to be devoid of meaning.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

They did six days of debate prep at Camp David and that was still the result.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

This again. You may be genuinely asking, but we get someone stumbling in here every day at the moment looking to repeat the same 'lesser evils' voting argument ad infinitum, so I hope you'll understand that I'm going to try to outline some of thr major points in brief and am not interested in a protracted debate about them.

  • The point that is nearly always ignored is that for the most part people don't actually care if someone wants to vote for Biden for whatever reason, but the amount of time people dedicate to this argument and electoral politics in general would be better spent doing literally anything else. Organising, mutual aid, protest, 'lawfare', community defense, whatever.

  • Perhaps most important is that the parameters of bourgeois electoral politics are set to ensure that no option outside of ruling class interests can be achieved. The spectacle of the campaigns are release valve for societal pressure, a way to sap and distract the energy of potential activists into something safe for the status quo.

And if we are going to engage with electoral politics...

  • An electoral system that demands you vote for a singular candidate because they're the 'only one who can win' against a greater evil isn't a democracy and it's not a free vote. It's a hostage situation. If electoral politics is supposed to be a free vote, then people have to be able to vote their conscience. And if you do believe in the electoral system as a potential avenue for change, then some people are going to have to vote for third party candidates before the time that they'll win.

On 'lesser evil' voting...

  • The mantra that is always repeated is that the lesser evil is always the tactical choice, that someone else 'would be worse' but that isn't necessarily the case, especially if you don't think electoral politics is the primary way to exercise power.

  • If you feel that one issue is most important - the genocide in Gaza for example - and the lesser evil candidate is currently doing it, without any possibility of policy change, then any other candidate offers at least the potential for change. A possibility of change is logically better than the certainty of none.

  • One could argue that in a political duopoly where both parties serve the same interest, they also each serve a specific purpose. With the further right party making regressive change and then the 'lesser evil' party protecting and solidifying those gains. Viewed like this, voting for the 'lesser evil' party isn't necessarily the most tactical choice. When the 'lesser evil' party commits atrocities or cements regressive policy there's less push back from the populace because their supporters excuse it rather than oppose it. Take the reaction to Biden's continuation of internment camps on the border for example; was there more opposition when Trump was doing it or Biden? Or for a UK example, the fact that both Labour and Tory politicians have said that only Labour has the 'good will' and 'credibility' to enact NHS reform (meaning deeply unpopular privatisation). It's too unpopular for the 'more evil' party to do openly, so the 'lesser evil' party will have to do it under false pretenses.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That's not a wrap. They just painted the panel gaps.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

In all seriousness, there's going to be a shit load of disaffected, confused libs in a year or two as everything continues to decline. We need to be ready to offer them an explanation and ideally a radicalisation that no one except the fash will.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

This is true, but that cement is weak and the foundation shaky.

Labour didn't meaningfully increase its vote share, turnout was the lowest in 20+ years, and and the average seat now is incredibly marginal - down from an average of 12k to 6k. The free ride is over, Labour have no answers, and no real bedrock of support.

There's an opportunity to organise, agitate, and exploit that weakness outside of electoral politics. There's about to be potentially millions of totally disaffected libs over the next few years who'll be looking to make sense of this shitshow and we shouldn't leave them to the far right.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Maybe one on the Zionist side.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Less than 1-in-5 people eligible to vote did so for Labour. This was the lowest voter turnout in 20+ years. Yet Labour won a massive victory with 400+ seats. FPTP voting is an absolute sham.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

500 votes away from humiliating that creep.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Awake but not up. Despite the fact it's the middle of the morning here.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

£38m is chicken feed. Trump and Biden spent at least £11bn in 2020. Delusional.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

B E A M W E A P O N

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George Grosz was a fascinating and viceral painter, deeply scarred and influenced by his experience serving in the first world war, before he was discharged and left with psychiatric problems and a serious drinking problem. Many of his paintings from that period deal explictly with the horrors of war and the human cost juxtaposed against societal conflict.

His later work saw him fined by the German government and some of his collections ordered destroyed as they became more satrical and focused upon what he saw as the hypocracy of those that advocate for such violence - things like preachers vomiting grenades and Jesus being forced into conscription.

He also went to Russia in the 1920s, where he was initially detained as a spy, but released when proven not to be and even met Lenin. He lived in the US for most of his life after the '30s but eventually returned to Berlin, where he died falling down the stairs one night drunk.

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🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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This is Thanet Parkway.

No ticket office, no information point, no staff, about as wide as a balance beam and less vibrant than a self-storage complex. It was supposed to cost £11m but somehow ended up spiralling to over £35m.

Southeastern Railways is on Twitter trying to answer or deflect angry questions, predominantly from disabled people, explaining the ever more complicated and absurd ways disabled people can 'request' assistance in using the station.

It's important to note that most of their answers rely on just saying that the trains on that line have conductors on the trains themselves who can help, at a time when both the government and the rail companies are pushing for DOO trains (Driver Operater Only i.e. no train staff apart from the driver who is not allowed to leave their cabin).

They've also been asked numerous times for the dimensions of the platform so that disabled users can check if there is enough space for their wheelchairs / mobility scooters. This is the only question they have repeatedly ignored.

It also appears that the station, which many local politicians have argued was not required, may have been promised as part of a deal with a housing developer to increase the value of the development they were building. Which is a whole other can of worms.

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(I hope this is the right comm, sorry if not)

It's not the first time this has happened, but I was making kind of an effort post in reply to a news commenter's question but the Hexbear logo just spins infinitely when I hit reply.

Have I hit some sort of character limit or included too many links or something? Or is it nothing to do with the actual post?

I'm old and not very tech savvy chomsky-yes-honey

Edit: Split it up and reposted this morning. Seemed to be a character limit.

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Kim Philby was an MI6 agent who had been working for the KGB since college. The man looked like a young Noam Chomsky, but spent his career fucking over MI6, the CIA, and notably Stephen Bandera's fascist 'resistance' movement in Ukraine.

Despite some gross but typical ingrained excuses for Western fascism...

When his forces reached the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, they found thousands of political prisoners had been slaughtered by the Soviets.

In retaliation, they joined the Gestapo in murdering thousands of Jews and Poles in the Lviv Pogrom. It is estimated that around one and a half million Jews were killed in Ukraine during the Holocaust.

The article is pretty damn good and talks frankly about Bandera and the UK/US effectively working with Nazis and spin-off fash as well as that legacy being celebrated in modern Ukraine.

I don't think it's smuggling in positive propoganda by stealth though. Just an accurate account and that reality, especially then, had a Soviet bias.

Also, Kim Philby Soviet stamp emoji when?

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