I wonder who’ll be next week’s Prime Minister?
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I’ve been seeing the term “late stage capitalism” online and on T shirts in the city. (Everybody makes their statement one way or another). I got the gist of what it meant ie. a society that where capitalism has gone on for so long that it is taking its toll on it. The society is on its way down and dying, not being what it once was. Saw this on the Google AI and it fits the US to a degree:
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As explained in 1976:
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Well, now I’m mad as hell, and…
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Late-stage capitalism is from Marx’s writings, one more thing he accurately predicted.
Google has it as late stage capitalism, late capitalism, and postmodernism.
Interesting, and it is all true. Marx was right.
Structures do collapse on themselves after a while
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I just got hit by the age verification barrier on Reddit, so I thought I’d experiment with it. I’d heard that you can spoof some of them with just photo mode in video games (which I tried last night on Bluesky’s using Ghost of Tsushima, but it didn’t work). Thought I’d really push the boat out and just use a GI Joe Classified figure, because well the head sculpts on them are really good, enough that the camera on my phone will recognise them as faces. And yeah, it worked. As far as Reddit knows, I look like this:
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Well, now I’m mad as hell, and…
Maybeshewill use this speech so well in this song. It’s just the most furious thing.
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“late stage capitalism”…on T shirts in the city
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“Laughing” Arjan? Really?!? In NYC, there a lot of young kids (ie. college age, 20s) making their statement with T’s. Go to the Village, NYU campus, Washington Sq. Park and you will see what I mean.
I want to know what is being theorized and projected for the US future, if (more like when) late stage capitalism causes a huge collapse in the US. May not be that far away when these huge cuts to healthcare and subsidies start to take effect (the big beautiful bill indeed).
But they voted for it:
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Late-stage capitalism is from Marx’s writings, one more thing he accurately predicted.
Unfortunately, he was more successful in analysing the state of things and predicting how they got worse than in predicting a way out of this fucking mess.
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I mean, sure, but the problem with capitalism’s ability to co-opt and integrate criticism is there isn’t much you can really do, is there? There’s activism, sure, but the only way to achieve actual change would be through a major political movement, and anti-capitalist parties have become more and more irrelevant in the last years.
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He thinks this is “The Apprentice”
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Someone even Fox News calls crazy is now DC’s top prosecutor. Where is the bottom?
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This is why I love Jasmine Crockett:
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Where is the bottom?
There isn’t one. American society has given their worst people free license to be as terrible as they want.
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it’s not really a country, it’s an economic zone where we are getting brainwashed with ethnic self hate.
For someone who claims to dislike the far right, you sure do uncritically repeat their talking points a lot.
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They want to redistrict targeting black areas for more voting control and prevent the likes of a Jasmine Crockett from getting into office
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We’re permafucked. All our leaders are complete imbeciles, or traitors.
Hey, it’s not my fault. I didn’t vote for his party!
(I voted for one of his coalition partners, that are supposed to be liberal, but are mostly just retarded, so it probably is my fault after all.)
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This is what the Texas redistricting would look like. And now Vance wants a similar plan for Indiana:
All for the midterms really.
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The Trump Republican Party: If you can’t beat the Dems fairly, change the rules!!
You can drop the Trump, and this’d still be accurate.
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She had him dead to rights. If he didn’t win the election. Now he is using being POTUS to get even:
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Wikipedia could reduce UK users as it loses legal challenge against online safety legislation
Wikipedia’s operator has lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain’s Online Safety Act, which it says will drastically reduce the number of users who can access the site.
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The foundation said if it was subject to so-called Category 1 duties – which would require Wikipedia’s users and contributors’ identities to be verified – it would need to drastically reduce the number of users who can access the site.
Judge Jeremy Johnson dismissed its case but said the Wikimedia Foundation could bring a further challenge if regulator Ofcom “(impermissibly) concludes that Wikipedia is a Category 1 service”.
He added that his decision “does not give Ofcom and the Secretary of State a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia’s operations”.
The Wikimedia Foundation said the ruling “does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for”but welcomed the court’s comments emphasising what it said was “the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected”.
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MSNBC Host Says Karoline Leavitt Looked ‘Ashen’ After Putin Meeting
I could make a rather off-color joke about the true nature of Trump and Putin’s relationship, but at this point, it’s just low-hanging fruit.
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MSNBC Host Says Karoline Leavitt Looked ‘Ashen’ After Putin Meeting
I could make a rather off-color joke about the true nature of Trump and Putin’s relationship, but at this point, it’s just low-hanging fruit.
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Zelenskyy comes with backup:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=124734940
But there is no need for the US to worry. The majority voted for a former host of a reality TV show, his secretary of defense was the host of the weekend edition of “Fox and Friends” and even the former CEO of WWE as secretary of education. In good hands, eh?
If he is doing all these WH redecorations, sending armies to cities, wanting to take control of more and more, he is getting more invested into the position than just a four year 2nd term. And… he’s not leaving without a fight. Look at Jan 6th.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=124734940
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Nicole Collier:
She is doing her part to prevent this redistricting plan.
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While I’m somewhat happy the left might be moving closer to power here, I think it’s telling that in most countries the electorate swings from right to left, and back again, constantly. Voters are so dissatisfied almost no one stays in power for more than one term. (Macron with his two terms being the exception, but even he is incredibly impopular, it’s just that a lot of people thought the alternative was even worse)
There isn’t a single politician who can give people what they want.
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While I’m somewhat happy the left might be moving closer to power here, I think it’s telling that in most countries the electorate swings from right to left, and back again, constantly. Voters are so dissatisfied almost no one stays in power for more than one term.
14 years of the Tories says different.
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Two centre-right parties with only minor differences in policy have held power for almost the entire history of the Republic of Ireland.
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Honestly I don’t believe any mainstream politician wants to solve migration. They may say that to get votes. But they want migrants to do shitty jobs for low pay.
Yeah, and simple truth is that while those jobs should be better-paid, we need people to do, you know, stand at counters, drive buses, collect the trash and so on. These are important jobs, but they’ll never be especially well-paid, and migrants are the most likely people we can find for that.
And we also need highly-trained mmigrants, and a lot of them because, guess what? (Speaking for Germany here:) Our entire country is going to collapse because we have to many old people retiring and nobody’s there to fill the gaps. It’s already a big problem, and it’s going to turn into a huge one in ten years. So what our government should be doing is making Germany an attractive country to migrate to, not the fucking opposite. But even the regular, “normal” conservatives are so blinded by the arrogant assumption that Germans can’t be the fucking problem, it has to be Jonny Foreigner and that things can only get better if there are less brown people around.
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While I’m somewhat happy the left might be moving closer to power here, I think it’s telling that in most countries the electorate swings from right to left, and back again, constantly. Voters are so dissatisfied almost no one stays in power for more than one term.
14 years of the Tories says different.
They were in power for a long time, but then it swung to labor and now reform is ahead.
There are exceptions, but I think it’s a trend that incumbents are very impopular and often lose power. I think this happened in the US with the switch to Biden and back again to Trump, Germany, Poland, France to an extent with Macron’s impopularity, Italy, the Netherlands obviously, the UK more recently, Sweden, Finland, even in Japan the liberals lost a lot of votes…there are exceptions, Ireland like Lorcan mentioned, Denmark, and Hungary, although in Hungary now Orban may be the next to lose power.
So your theory is now that electorates always swing from one party to another, but the periods for which these parties hold power can last for an unspecified length of time, both long and short? That’s just describing how multi-party systems work.
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There’s nothing to be done on the climate, that’s pie-in-the-sky. And not doing anything will likely see those in poor housing more hit by both overheating and freezing.
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What I’m getting at Arjan is we can’t currently reverse the climate damage, the only card on that front is slowing and reducing it. But, in parallel with that, things need to be done to retrofit housing to the changed climate. That includes temperatures in both directions and it’ll likely be the poor, in the most unsuitable housing, who suffer most.
However, don’t confuse climate change with disaster capitalism, because that will, by design, leave people with very little.
The other factor in this is right-wing and far right crap-stirring. Last year it was 15-minute cities, this year it’s net zero and renewable energy. There’s the likes of Liz Truss going on about farm land being lost to solar panels. The reality is you can do both on the same land, the finite pie line being sold doesn’t stand up to rational scrutiny. Then again, why would it? It’s an emotional argument and nothing more.
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Yes there IS climate change but I am not sure yet that it IS catastrophic.
Fixed that for you, Arjan. Climate change isn’t something that may or may not happen in the future. It is here now, it is already having catastrophic results, and I’m stunned that people are still denying it.
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Places design for their habitat, which includes a temperature range. Problem for the UK is most of its housing is based on a range from 40 years ago, which did not extend to plus 30 degrees. In contrast, Saudi designs for a higher level of heat, but they’re also seeing higher temperatures beyond what they allow for.
Death by heatwave isn’t cultural, as last year’s Hajj demonstrated. Above or below certain temperatures, things don’t go well for humans. Climate change heightens the chances of those extremes occuring.
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The effects of climate change have negatively impacted the wine industry in France and southern Europe over the last few years, and now drought-fed wildfires are threatening the vineyards of Northern California and Oregon. If we end up having to drink South African or Australian wines, I would call that a major catastrophe!!
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There were lots of failed predictions from the science world when it comes to climate change, and a lot of it is doomerism.
There are also a great many things that have happened as predicted or even faster. The glaciers are almost gone, as is the Great Barrier Reef, the yearly rise in temperatures is pretty impressive and the sea levels are rising.
That not everything has developed exactly as predicted is to be expected, but in general, the predictions have been depressingly accurate. -
Ultimately, it doesn’t much matter if a negative prediction doesn’t pan out, as nothing is going to be done purely for it. Switching to renewables has multiple gains, not just improved environment and climate from no open mines and slag heaps.
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Quite a long and interesting list:
He still thinks all this is his reality show where he can fire whoever he wants.
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I mentioned before about some complaining about Obama and Harris not being at any forefront resistance movement to the current situation. Thing is they aren’t going to put themselves in the MAGA crosshairs line of fire and “take one for the team”, neither are poc going to the marches now to be pushed to the front and used as human shields and buffers.
But now, there are more asking about the old guard too and not just Dems like the Clintons, Gore, etc. but old GOP leaders like Bush, Romney, Liz Cheney, etc. And why isn’t the Kennedy clan reigning in RFK Jr.? But what can they do? A snarky soundbites war on social media? It is painful to see it all collapse and bleed but if that is how people get the point, to let them see what they got themselves into when they voted for him. When/If this regime is over, it will take decades to “undo” the damage.
I posted a pic about fixing the education system so that we won’t have people so ignorant and vote someone like that again. The Daily Show had reporters interviewing at MAGA rallies and…. Then again, it’s more than ignorance. Some voted knowing that it would f people over, but they are upset that it all backfired on them. So it’s ignorance, voting to be vindictive, voting to spite other communities…
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He still thinks all this is his reality show where he can fire whoever he wants.
Well, isn’t it? I don’t see anybody stopping him.
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Climate change? Oh yeah, definitely happening:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c1kz18d3wjro
Summer 2025 was the hottest UK summer on record.
Thing is, we’ve been taught by popular culture to expect an apocalypse to be both instant and dramatic. Climate change is neither, which aids those who want to dismiss or deny it.
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After reading about Kier Starmer’s claims that he loves flags and has a St. George’s Cross in his flat, I’ve come to the belief that after he dies they’ll discover that he was literally born without a spine and was held upright by a particularly rigid column of ambrosia devon custard.
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Thing is, we’ve been taught by popular culture to expect an apocalypse to be both instant and dramatic. Climate change is neither, which aids those who want to dismiss or deny it.
I remember reading an anecdote once about boiling frogs; if you put the frog in a pot of room-temperature water and slowly boil the water, the frog won’t realize that it’s getting cooked until it’s too late to do anything.
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After reading about Kier Starmer’s claims that he loves flags and has a St. George’s Cross in his flat, I’ve come to the belief that after he dies they’ll discover that he was literally born without a spine and was held upright by a particularly rigid column of ambrosia devon custard.
Someone needs to tell him that he’s never winning over the flag-shaggers, it’s never going to happen.
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After reading about Kier Starmer’s claims that he loves flags and has a St. George’s Cross in his flat, I’ve come to the belief that after he dies they’ll discover that he was literally born without a spine and was held upright by a particularly rigid column of ambrosia devon custard.
Someone needs to tell him that he’s never winning over the flag-shaggers, it’s never going to happen.
Given that Labour were elected almost entirely on a platform of We’re Not The Tories, it’s baffling that now they’re in government they seem to think that they have to try and be some kind of shit Tory tribute act.
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After reading about Kier Starmer’s claims that he loves flags and has a St. George’s Cross in his flat, I’ve come to the belief that after he dies they’ll discover that he was literally born without a spine and was held upright by a particularly rigid column of ambrosia devon custard.
Someone needs to tell him that he’s never winning over the flag-shaggers, it’s never going to happen.
Given that Labour were elected almost entirely on a platform of We’re Not The Tories, it’s baffling that now they’re in government they seem to think that they have to try and be some kind of shit Tory tribute act.
The logical conclusion is that this is what Starmer’s Labour wants to be. They lied to the party membership, they lied to the public, they purged the party of just about anyone with principals and this is what you get.
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He still thinks all this is his reality show where he can fire whoever he wants.
Well, isn’t it? I don’t see anybody stopping him.
That’s most likely because they are his enablers. They may not like him (There is video of Cruz, Vance, and other GOP really badmouthing him saying he is a narcissist, doesn’t know what he is doing etc.), but he has the ear of the GOP voters that they never had. They can’t go against him either. They are compromised. (Almost like Stepford wives.)
There is a video here (scroll back to a few days after the election) of a similar situation that happened in Poland where the conservative party controlled all the major government branches. It became a regime, and the US is in one now.
I hope the Dems are strategizing but I doubt it. Some complain about Dem leadership and my main thing is voter mentality. It’s not that it is a stupid country with ignorant/uneducated voters, but look at the sociology of it all, voter behavior and mentality. What if voters weren’t so wishy washy/fickle in 2016? Look at how different SCOTUS would have been. And I won’t rehash the voting out of tradition, voting for spite, to be vindictive. It is all painful and upsetting.
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New Green leader Polanski vows to ‘replace’ Starmer’s Labour
Zack Polanski has been elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales by a landslide, signalling a clear shift to the left for the party.
The London Assembly member beat Green MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, who were standing on a joint ticket, by 20,411 votes to 3,705.
In his victory speech, Polanski promised to build a “green left” to take on Labour, telling Sir Keir Starmer’s party: “We are here to replace you.”
His election potentially opens the door to cooperation with the new left-wing party being set up by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana.
Polanski, a former actor who was the party’s deputy leader, campaigned on an “eco-populism” platform and has promised to make the party “bolder” and more radical in its approach.
In his victory speech, he said: “If you’re feeling hopeless, if you’re feeling in despair, if you’re feeling politically homeless, there is a political home for you.
“And I promise you, nothing will make you feel more inspired, more ready to get out there and more like we can turn our country around than joining the Green Party.”
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Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: “Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?” Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
https://bsky.app/profile/tristangrayford.scot/post/3lxtytwgq6c2n
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It’s infuriating that both Starmer and Cooper are bowing down, trying to win over a racist, psychopath minority outnumbered by Park-Runners!
Revealed: Asylum hotel protests dwarfed by runners going to Parkrun
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If Massie can get enough signatures to release “the Epstein files”, that is an encouraging sign Trump doesn’t control the majority of Congress.
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Florida – Making Polio Great Again.
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