Part4

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[–] Part4@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Yes let's see. I expect the media - billionaire owned on one hand, bbc on the other - will do the kind of job on him they did when he was leader of the labour party. He will become mired in claims of antisemitism (whatever that means these days), and whatever else they can throw at him and it won't go anywhere.

Capital drives the UK and capital does not want socialism. The media is in significant part crowd control.

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

It has been red tory v. blue tory since Blair took leadership in '93/'94.

It is more of less the same as the US (where it was red v blue republicans for a few decades and is now Republicans calling themselves 'Democrats' v. Christian Nationalist Fascists).

It is the natural continuation of Reaganite/Thatcherite neo-liberal capitalist ideology.

The outcome for the UK will be a lurch right as the poor vote for parties (Reform) who have used the immigration (that has caused serious legitimate problems for poor communities that simply can't afford to support the huge number of asylum seekers that have been dumped upon them) and other cultural issues of various legitimacy (imvho) that poor people have been coerced into finding important, as wedge issues.

Edit - obviously this lurch to the right is the opposite of what should happen but here we go. It is what fossil-fuel powered capitalists prefer to socialism and an egalitarian society any day.

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

None of it really matters all that much to me, at this point. But I am pretty sure that humankind having some sort of potentially achievable long term goal, and crucially (when it comes to trying to stop climate change) tries to fight a battle that isn't already lost, is the only way forward.

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Maybe the long term fight we can still win is 'Can we do enough to keep the possibility that humans might become extinct over the coming centuries off the table at 2100'.

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

America thinks it can run deficits to fund this sort of shit, and billionaire tax breaks. And it expects the world to buy US debt, in dollars, that the US prints, to at least partially pay for it.

Not only that, but Trump seems to not only expects this post ww2 economic order to continue, he seems to think this is going to happen while it not only withdraws military support to many of the people who financed the US's post war prosperity in this manner, but while he is actively supporting those people's enemies. Lol.

Under Trump the US is definitely heading for an economic collapse on the order of the collapse of the Soviet Union. When it happens, and how quickly is anybody's guess, but the post WW2 economic order (from which the US greatly benefited) is definitely, irrevocably done.

Debt is coming due.

[–] Part4@infosec.pub -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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