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  • Assisted dying bill is a ‘licence to kill’, Theresa May says

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  • So, she's in favour?

  • Left unable even to get into deputy leader contest proves Labour is dead

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  • There are many, many, things you can criticise Labour under Starmer for, but "neo-Thatcherite" is laughable, and is about the level of political insight I'd expect from the canary.

    Last I checked, Maggie didn't nationalise rail companies, or increase workers rights, or a mass house building programme, or make targeted investment in the north, or have an industrial policy, or put billions in to renewables. In fact, come to think of it, she did the exact opposite of every one of these things.

    Am I happy with Labour right now? No. But not everything short of fully seizing the means of production is Thatcherite, and to pretend it is gives the dead bitch far too much credit, and minimises the level of damage she and her ilk did to the country.

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  • Solarpunk

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  • I don't think you can blame literal children for this, cmon.

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    Before I was born, my vision was a pov of a star from a universe, is it true that each spirit came from a star every time it blows up?

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  • Spirit? No.

    BUT, it is true that every element within every molecule of your body did come from stars, and that all the elements heavier than hydrogen were created within either a star, or in a supernova.

    So it is absolutely true that you are stardust, just not in the way you asked.

  • Give me a ten-word poem?

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  • Why? I mean, you could just write it yourself, no?

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    What stereotypes about your country do you actually happen to fit?

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  • Americans are stereotyped as blunt?

    The insistent of continually using redundant superlatives has always seemed to me to be conflict avoidance rather than anything else.

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    What stereotypes about your country do you actually happen to fit?

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  • Queues are fucking glorious.

  • The AI vibe shift is upon us

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  • What's that, Magnitude?

  • UK Net Zero Technology Outlook

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  • Actually quite a cool read.

  • Brent Hinds, Former Singer-Guitarist in Mastodon, Killed by SUV Driver in Motorcycle Crash

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  • This sucks in so many ways.

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  • I manage to be pretty crap at chess without having to play 91 million games.

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  • If I was a smart man I'd be able to construct a discharge joke, but I'm finding it rather hard.

  • Emojis and Lemmy

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  • <(^_^)>

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  • Please re-read my comments, you'll see what I've written is not what you're claiming it is.

    I'm always happy to talk about routes of how we get to a better place, but if you're just wanting to argue then I'll pass.

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  • So an independent investigation into our current involvement in Gaza isn’t currently achievable for what reason? What part of a better world are we missing, where a supposedly democratic nation, can’t carry out an independent check on it’s public offices?

    I am continuing to talk about Labour's manifestos, their electoral results in 2017, 2019, and 2024, and how it's a frustrating reality that a) you can't change anything if you aren't in power, and b) getting in to power requires adjusting the offering based on what is currently possible.

    Pot. Kettle.

    I know you know this, but actually doing something that has an impact is not virtue signalling. We fed over 8k people last year, and that's much more helpful to the working class than failing to get elected.

    If purity is the reason you do nothing, instead of something, then you're part of the problem.

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  • There will always be tension between where ideology, and hopes of a better world, meet with what is currently achievable.

    What is achievable depends on load of factors; what technology exists, how wealth is concentrated, how divided people are, etc etc.

    It's the 1500+ days between elections that we must work to shift these factors closer towards where we want to be, so people support policies rather than reject them.

    I'd love to be in a situation where overnight everyone realised it's the ultra rich that are the problem, and band together to peacefully redistribute based on nerd. But that isn't where we are.

    I refuse to have the blood of innocent children on my hands

    This is just pure virtue signaling. The idea that by purposefully throwing away your vote is somehow morally better than voting once every 5 years for the lesser of two evils is asinine in the extreme.

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  • that it caused people such as yourself to act against your own interests.

    Continuing to vote for someone who lost two elections - regardless of how "fair" the other side fought is much more against my interests.

    Tell me, do you still think ousting Corbyn was the right move?

    I think any leader losing two elections is grounds of them to step down.

    Were there unsubstantiated claims? Yes, absolutely.

    But the report was not about those, it was about the ones that were proven to have happened. Replying to that report by bringing up unproven cases is very #notallmen energy.

    Are we in a better position now under Kiers labour?

    Better than under the Tories? Absolutely. I'm a trustee of a local foodbank, since July this is our first 12 month period ever where usage has reduced. That is directly related to increases in UC, the minimum wage, and DWP being moved to be helping people access benefits instead of finding any excuse to sanction them.

    Is it better than what Corbyn campaigned on in 2017 or 2019? No, it's not.

    But actual improvements are better for those people who would otherwise be literally starving, compared to hypothetical alt futures.

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  • but instead he was smeared and the party showed its true colours by jumping at the opportunity to oust him

    Now then, I voted for Corbyn for leader twice. But his statement after the report in to antisemitism came out was of his own doing. He was asked to remove a single sentence - about it being overblown by fake reports, even though was exclusively regarding substantiated instances - and refused to.

    We really need to stop with this faux persecution narrative. Policywise he was great, but at literally everything else he failed, and often by his own actions.

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  • It's going to be very interesting to see what happens here, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, registering for a mailing list isn't joining a party.