Deliberately provoking the union over a single day. How fucking stupid are these people?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I had a pretty Starmerite former MP who knows I think their politics are dogshit practically begging me for my thoughts at length on how to get former members and especially young left people on board again, at the football this weekend.

    Tell him that all the zoomers at /r/greenandpleasant will start promoting voting for them when he says Stalin wasn't as bad as he's been made out to be. :stalin-approval:

    Maybe also actually tell people how you're going to improve their fucking lives instead of how you're going to very obviously privatise the fuck out of the NHS even more than the tories, and fuck everyone's wages more than ever. It's not fucking hard to authentically offer an alternative that will improve people's lives? Everyone sees straight through them. They're literally transparent. Eat my ass.

    Everyone sees these ghouls as being to the right of the bloody tories and they can't understand it despite the fact that they're campaigning like they're the fucking EDL. It's unbelievable that they can't see this obvious shit for themselves.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah this was basically my point.

      Also that they campaign on economics that middle-aged and 30+ people are getting fucking decimated by, while their campaigning on social issues is the sort of hard right frothing boomer shit that most people under 30 won't even fucking tolerate, never mind support. It's almost perfectly pitched to maybe win one election against this Tory government before rapidly making them fucking irrelevant with everyone under 70 by the next time they fight an election.

      Pretty much all my conversations with them over the last five years have been them positing something inane about messaging and me repeating 'material conditions' again and again.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Also maybe being slightly, modestly less actively genocidal to trans people might help a little what with 1 in 5 Gen Z being LGBT.