This should not be normalized.
Market forces and capitalism were sold to us as a means to prevent profiteering and cartel pricing, through competition.
This is on us, for disengaging and sleep walking into it.
But hey, blame brown people and migration for all our problems…
Never forget that, while the arrival of fascism is always blamed on 'the people', it is clear that it is those who had most power to stop it who refused to act decisively
The enabling of fascism takes many shapes and forms but it is predominantly and unsurprisingly a top down process
And we should be terrified of whatever their plans are for AI.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
20 minutes before Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz was open someone dumped 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures -$760 million bet that oil prices would drop.
Orders far larger than anything else in the market at that moment.They made a fortune.Somebody knew the announcement was coming.
#corruption
9th anniversary of the Grenfell fire is approaching. 72 people died, thousands more scarred.
Main causes remain unaddressed.
Lust for higher profits
Unaccountable corporate power
Performance related executive pay
Failure of regulators
Indifference of govts to the cry of the people
Nothing changed.
In 2018 David Frum saw the world more clearly than I did. He wrote, “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
this part should be repeated daily.
I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!"
but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question
Slashing the welfare budget to boost defence spending is asking the poorest people to pay to protect the interests, assets and wealth of the (tax avoiding) elite.
We got the NHS and welfare state after WW2 to repay those who gave their fucking lives for this country.
How quickly we forget…
Capitalism.
It happened when Blair and Brown drank Thatchers Coolaid.
The armed forces are paid by our taxes.
Patriots pay their taxes.
(And so do normal caring people who support other stuff like health, education, infrastructure…)
Just read a thing saying doctors worked harder in 2008 than they do now. As someone who qualified in 2010, I can’t speak for 2008. But there’s no way I worked harder back then than resident doctors are working now.
Who do you think absorbs NHS pressure at the moment? The staff.
I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵
a Pakistani diplomat says, "In essence, the United States can not conduct serious diplomacy; their arrogance and maximalist approach make it extremely difficult for them to show minimum care and flexibility for the interests and concerns of other nations."
Their ignorant racism blinds them.
Thank the gods for Grant Hanley!
There is no excuse for USA giving Trump to the world. Democracy is supposed to come with checks and balances to prevent monsters like him taking, or remaining, in high office.
Democracy has failed.
It was broken by capitalism.
Thank the gods for Grant Hanley!! 😂😂
a price showing the price of sun and wind over the coming weeks, it's zero
I'm in a chat with a bunch of wind and solar industry insiders and they're telling me they expect the price of sun and wind to climb to at least $0 per babbrel in the coming weeks
USA always has. And UK is an ally too…
Imagine it was the other way around?
Imagine Iran had attacked the US or Israel out of nowhere then broken an agreed ceasefire.
The world allowed Gaza and now more murder and expansionism into Lebanon. 1.2 MILLION displaced.
Where’s the condemnation? The sanctions? The outrage? The disgust?
Angus: This is a president who says the only constraint on his actions is not Congress, not the courts, not international law, but, quote, “my own morality, my own mind.”
There is no morality in a man accused of being a rapist…
Israel is an even higher priority than the mango Mussolini, but yeah…
Just delicious that the war in Iran may indeed bring about a regime change,
In America
It’s hellish.
Waking up every day witnessing hell. While fully understanding we’re ‘just’ witnessing it.
Unbearable that millions of people are suffering it, losing their loved ones, experiencing trauma, pain, seeing their homes and lives obliterated.
2026 & evil men still rule the world.
This is so well done. 👌
