Of course they’re not the same; Tories are conservatives and Reform are fascists, but that has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. There’s still no hope in “unity” with Labor or any of their ilk; they’re simply not going to allow the things that need to be done to be done. We’ve literally just seen this happen in America, and nothing makes me believe Labor is different enough from the Democrats to produce a different result.

People also need to be realistic about what the electorate overall wants.

The electorate can be made to want new things; they’re simply not thinking about leftwing politics and ideas seriously enough for the status quo to be final, and why would they? The people who should be championing those ideas actively avoid acting on them not to alienate the neoliberals, so of course leftwing politics will have zero credibility with the electorate. You need to promote and make a good faith effort to enact your ideas before you can expect others to believe in them.

So tragic.

I didn’t have any tahini but I figured if I did that peanut butter substitution it might work enough to figure out if I should buy some.

Middle Eastern guy here, you should buy tahini anyway. Tahini sauce goes well with all kinds of grilled meat and kebab.

Fight Oligarchy tour, The Limits to Growth (haven’t actually read it), quicksort, La Marseilles and Borzoi (is it worth it?).

Organizing is the first step, the groundwork.

Certainly true, but what you’re organizing for is also important, because organizing can be the groundwork for anything from negotiating better wages to starting a revolution. My point was that it’s very possible that the sort of organizing we’re talking about is very different from what Bernie is calling for. It’s still useful advice, but not “fighting words,” so to speak.

Fucking hate the enshittification of search engines, finding a set of transcripts or simply searching tweets is a fucking Herculean task. I’ll get back to you on this if I find more than fucking two transcripts.

Uh… good luck, you’ll need it.

Labor productivity has grown faster than real wages

And this is supposed to be a good thing?

Okay I don’t like talking like this, but what part of “to a much lesser extent” do you not understand?

Which is why I said “to a much lesser extent.” Mass shootings are on the rise in multiple European countries, as are homicides and hate crimes. I mean hell, France is looking to restrict knives over this stuff. Having a non-broken society contributes a lot more than what murder weapons are available, and now that European societies are generally fraying at the seams murder rates are unsurprisingly rising.

I mean we’re seeing this in Europe with mass shootins and such, though to a much lesser extent than America.

But Bernie constantly calls for people to organize at the grassroots level, to join unions, to seek alternatives to oligarch resources?

Organize and do what? Because the only thing I’ve heard Bernie saying in the past five months in the way of concrete action is “vote and call your representative”.

Bernie has spoken in support of strikes as a tool for pressuring not just employers but the oligarchy more broadly numerous times.

Did he do so at any time after Trump’s inauguration? If so I’ll take back my statement, but I remember a conspicuous lack of such rhetoric during the oligarchy rallies, for instance.

“Vote blue no matter who” was blatant hypocrisy, how fucking surprising.

I mean it’s not an outright fascist policy, but it is a fascist-enabling policy, so I’d say the characterization tracks. When public services are cut, poor and vulnerable people become even poorer and more vulnerable, so when a fascist blames liberals and minorities for all their problems and promises to fix those problems, they listen. Economic uncertainty is the bedrock on which fascism is built.

I mean, pushing with the neoliberals only puts Britain on the same path as America, and we’ve seen how that worked out.

What do you mean “defend” against slop? How do you defend against a social media post?

Who’s that above Britain?

You’ve probably heard this a million times, but why not learn a trade?

Anonymous thread aggregators and bad family life, name a better duo.

Oh. Goddannit Germany.

agreeing to a litany of demands that include banning masks at protests and refusing to meet or negotiate with a coalition of pro-Palestinian student groups, according to a statement released Monday.

Zionism furthering authoritarianism, how fucking surprising.

“It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.”

Muslim here (I know, imagine religion on Lemmy) and setting aside the rabid Islamophobia, can I just comment on how fucking weird this particular stereotype is? Like, most prejudiced stereotypes trace their origins to reality at some point, even if they’re later twisted into misleading half-truths or complete fiction, but Western Islamophobes just made up this supposed mainstream Islamic belief out of whole cloth and bring it up as a gotcha. It’d be like if I said Jews are promiscuous and like to seduce married non-Jewish women (please tell me this isn’t already a thing). It’s just… bro what the fuck are you talking about?