Ever seen a poll result that is basically telling the pollsters themselves to go touch grass?

Tucker Carlson: I'II be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We're implicated in this. I misled people.

It'd sure be nice if Kamala Harris' campaign organization wouldn't constantly promote Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and whatnot. But oh well.

you've never seen them do a joke that wasn't one or more of these. you haven't

Frankly if you need to resort to "she's taking testosterone" as anything other than a statement of her hypocrisy on transition, you are too much of a lightweight to offer a public opinion. It's Nadine Dorries. She's the definition of low-hanging fruit.

I think this is one area in which historical materialism really shines - you are not called simply to refute a perspective, but to explain how it expresses a class interest and subjectivity. It is not enough to merely state "this is not what I believe, and it is wrong because x and y".

She's also currently persona non grata in the UK because of her material support of direct action against the genocide, so buying her books has more than their quality to recommend it.

The UK Trans Experience: you can be arbitrarily included in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with you, be included in national coverage and have dozens of articles written about you, be found innocent of everything and still have journalists follow you to different countries to call you a pervert

If Kier Starmer is a knight of the realm and Olly Robbins is a knight of the realm, then surely this whole business could be fixed in a jousting competition?

The thing about all this Mandelson stuff is that actually dealing with it would require basically disestablishing at least 3 major political parties, banning their members from politics, jailing a lot of people and shutting down at least 4 national newspapers. Don't really see that happening soon.

They're trying to get her to kill herself.

See, the thing is, witches didn't actually exist (the few that thought they were witches were fantasists or just mentally befuddled old women). That's why we use the metaphor in respect of McCarthyism or the Labour Party's recent purge of "antisemites".

Genuinely think the hysteria they put out at the last by-election seriously damaged their credibility. Driving round vans with "THEY WANT YOUR KIDS SMOKING CRACK" on them or whatever is a good way to convince people that you think a). they are stupid and b). that you feel entitled to their vote.

Not only is it the didn't happen-est thing to ever not happen, but Starmer's policy of unilateral appeasement towards Trump has to be his biggest unforced error. Nobody likes it, not even the ever-shrinking group of true believers. You have to be a raging Reform supporter to think its a good idea.

Has the Starmer government given a formal reason for why it has not yet either published the UKG response to the ICJ ruling from July 2024 or banned the import of settler goods and services from occupied Palestine

it should be lost on nobody that - but for the US not giving a damn about burning the British ambassador - Peter would still be glad-handing senators, Morgan would still be shouting at underlings and everyone would still be pretending nothing is fucked, and the plane hasn’t crashed into the mountain

and if you are engaging in direct action or desire to

consider the power in "shutting the fuck up" and "not telling anyone you intend to or have engaged in criminal activity".

I think it came clear over the last couple decades that modern liberals really want to have it both ways; you're a conscious reasoning political subject on election day, maybe a couple weeks before then. Any other time you're a witless rube who ought to be thankful to be ruled by real people.

I'm currently on Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-history. Basically every lionised liberal figure you ever heard of said explicitly: "I don't mean freedom for dirty poors. They are basically animals. If it were possible to ban them from talking to one another I would do it." I'm barely paraphrasing.

Liberals love to try to package their absolute last resort before fascism, mild social democracy, as this hardcore socialist upheaval instead of a slightly nicer form of the obligations of nobility.

Handy Guide:

✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course

❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

Frankly, I think that the humiliating and public destruction of as many careers as possible is the only way these people will ever learn. Their careers and their image are the only things that are real to them, the lives or welfare of the citizens of this country certainly aren't.

Kier Starmer and his goons spent years calling me and my friends every name in the book, said we were cranks, idiots and racists. Explain why we ought not enjoy him being hoist by his own petard, when we know the same consideration would never be extended in the other direction.

“I’d have voted for Obama a third time if I could” from “get out”

I’d vote for Kamala’s 3rd failed presidential bid if I could

‘just how central was Peter Mandelson to the Starmer project’ is a question that is becoming increasingly close to being permissible, and I think Starmer is 100% done once it starts being asked

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

The Thick of It always depicts a series of minor interlocking parts breaking at the worst possible time and things spiralling quickly thereafter. In reality its always dumb cunts refusing to steer around an iceberg they were warned about months ago.

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

the right wing criticism of modernity always operates the same: it identifies the alienation of modern life, but its solution is to respond to this state of affairs with the so-called "freedom" of "natural hierarchies": man over woman, white over racialized, family over foreigner, nation over other

Just like the 'strikes' they keep organising that don't seem to involve actual unions that much.

It’s kinda cute that Americans talk about having the next French Revolution when they schedule all of their protests for 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday’s. You aren’t even willing to disrupt weekday business, how are yall gonna do any kind of revolution?