It’s all a complex game of 5D chess which they definitely understand unlike the rest of us idiots.

Whereas now you have to wait 10 extra years to buy a hous.

Almost like someone close to him thought it was very important Mandleson was appointed before vetting took place.

It’s very sad given that Starmer screwed them over not once but twice and they still haven’t worked it out.

Well at least he’d be able to save on legal fees.

Trump’s team repeatedly tried to intervene over Mandelson appointment Two people tell POLITICO that the initial response to the controversial ambassadorial appointment was deeply skeptical, despite eventual assent.

It appears he did not although I think the government here went out of their way to suggest that he did.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

How was it RealPolitik? Trump didn’t want him and given the Epstien link it was actively bad for Trump to have him there. It was just cronyism.

But appointing Mandleson was never something the Trump team wanted, it was entirely based on the internal promises made by McSweeny and Labour together. By all accounts Trump liked the old ambassador they forced out to put Mandleson in post.

I think the only thing you can say in favour of her continuing to be a columnist is that you can make fairly accurate predictions by reading what she says and assuming the opposite.

When I read her referendum day piece about never having to talk about Brexit again I knew leave would win.

The other two are either totally implausible or utterly damming for Starmer.

Trump’s team repeatedly tried to intervene over Mandelson appointment Two people tell POLITICO that the initial response to the controversial ambassadorial appointment was deeply skeptical, despite eventual assent.

That appears to be the total opposite of what happened

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

I find it funny that he first claims that the paragraph from Spivek is unintelligible gibberish and then gives an interpretation of it and claims it just an obvious point. Like it’s not that hard to work out roughly what is being said there.

I think there were people who thought they could before gas prices went through the roof. But who would want to take over right now.

No, i don’t think it’s good. I don’t think Portes thinks it’s particularly good either. He posted this in response to my claim that the wealth of the 1% would have increased since 2019. This suggests it fallen so fair enough.

Maybe there’s other measures that dispute this, IDK…

Fair enough.

Other have pointed this out but the first graph shows 1% owning about 25% of wealth just as they claim and that was 2014. Would be fairly surprised if that share decreased in the past decade.

But actually it doesn’t show this. Almost everyone agrees that neoliberalism doesn’t encompass Weimar. And the reason they do so is they have at least a family of concepts in mind that apply to the market reforms of the late 20th century.

No the article does not make that claim.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the furry who thinks Weimar is neoliberal is not correctly sourcing their argument.

Sure obviously asking for one example was making myself a hostage. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I did a search myself and yes while there are a small number of people who seem to want to equate neoliberalism with centrism and this Weimar. Almost all the results are ppl disagreeing.. I don’t think it’s a common take.

I want an example not from a furry.

I would like to see an actual example of someone doing that.

Tbh I imagine to some extent it’s true at the war has helped Starmer because it’s now clear that the economy will be a shit show for at least a year or so and no one wants to start their time as leader dealing with that.

I feel like it’s fairly obvious what draws eugenists to the ideas of Peter Singer…

Simmering resentment is magic

I worry that academia has a bit too much joy, camaraderie, and ability to take simple pleasures in the successes of others. That's why I am very much in favour of the proposal that everyone should report their privileges before saying something nice happened for them.

It’s honest though, he naively thought he could try the same bullshit he pulled on independent left wing journalists with “real people” and get away with it.

But having a rotating leadership is also a terrible strategy for winning election. Ultimately I think you have to have a leader who can stand up and confront the media on what they are doing and just refuse the frame e.g. Melenchon in France.

A time, not that long ago, where if and when the media rolled out their designated far right political character (ie Nick Griffin) it was purely so absolutely everyone across the public and media could throw eggs at him and boo him, not gladhand him on Question Time once a month for 15 years.

Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim…
What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”