Do they give an example of his radicalism
was it dropping the $15 minimum wage he ran on because a random non-elected clerk told him he
couldn'tshouldn't do it, or was it bombing syria without consulting congressOh look, it's a guy who had very real and very serious concerns about labour anti-Semitism under Corbyn.
Exactly. He has a track record of stripping all meaning from words.
The Guardian is my main source of comedy. There is no greater nexus for truly absurd lib takes than The Guardian.
Curious how long they are going to able to keep this charade going.
They took a serious swerve towards neoliberalism over the Snowden stuff. They had a bunch of it stored on hard drives so our secret police turned up and destroyed the hard drives. Then management changed, they 'let go' all but a couple of their left wing journalists and replaced them with enlightened centrists and blairites writing condescending articles about the poors from their Tuscan villas. They also run a bunch of sponsored articles from the gates foundation about how child labour is good actually.
They were never great, but they did at least use to use something like a critical journalistic lens to analyse stuff like foreign policy etc. Now they just toe the line and offer up a couple of halfway decent takes from the few pet neutered left wing journalists they grudgingly keep on the payroll to keep up appearances.
Thanks for the history. It's always good for a laugh now because just when I think neoliberal brainworms have reached their zenith, they are always astonishly able to prove me wrong . The pro child labour piece was a personal favorite of mine.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/nov/06/child-labour-doesnt-have-to-be-exploitation-it-gave-me-life-skills
I think that's the one that people are referring to.
"Growing up in Africa taught me to be self-reliant and resilient. Putting children to work must be seen in local context"
Jonathan Cook wrote for the Guardian for over ten years, first as staff and then as a freelancer and is a great source for the destruction and poisonous modern nature of The Guardian, as well as writing a lot of award winning journalism on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The paper I assume was genuinely radical back in the day since iirc Manchester was at the heart of the British labour movement. Now they have to half heartedly pretend they're still left wing while having essentially the same politics as the economist.
My understanding, and I am not British, is that there was a vibrant leftist journalism in the UK, but that it has gone the way of the dinosaur. The Guardian today is basically ideologically neoliberal.
knowing that many UK tabloids used to be left wing blew my mind
Link to the article.
Biden was asked whether he would be running for re-election in 2024 and whether his opponent would be Donald Trump. He replied with a half-joke, saying he had no idea whether he’d face Trump, and indeed “no idea whether there’ll be a Republican party”, adding that he was “a respecter of fate” who had learned not to make plans for several years ahead. In that answer, he managed simultaneously to punch the bruise of his opponents’ current identity crisis, as Republicans ask themselves if they are anything more than the Donald Trump fan club, and to remind Americans of the sudden and cruel losses that have marred his life, and have given him an emotional gravitas unusual in politics
The fuck is this psychobabble lol?
Earlier this month, he sat for two hours with a group of presidential historians, pressing them hard on how FDR and LBJ had moved swiftly to make changes so profound and systemic they endure to this day.
Okay. Cool.
The foundation stone is the $1.9tn Covid relief package Biden signed into law a fortnight ago, which has seen $1,400 payments land in the bank accounts of more than 100 million Americans. But this is about far more than a short-term stimulus effort.One estimate calculates that the move will, at a stroke, cut child poverty by half. The poorest 20% of families will see their income rise by 20%. The law expands subsidies for healthcare and introduces something akin to child benefit. It directs $4bn to black farmers, in what some have hailed as a first step towards reparations for slavery.
There were criticisms of the bill, weren’t there? Like how the dems just negotiated among themselves, didn’t include $15/hr etc. I didn’t go too deeply into it as I’m not American so it doesn’t matter that much to me. I’ll let some American comrades chime in.
Biden promised to get 100m jabs into American arms in his first 100 days; in fact, he hit that milestone on his 58th day in office, and now aims to reach 200m shots by day 100.
Cool.
In the pipeline is a green energy and infrastructure plan that, coupled with an education bill, carries an astonishing $3tn price tag. He’s also under pressure to fend off Republican voter suppression efforts, aimed chiefly at keeping black Americans away from the ballot box, by passing a voting rights act, and to make other democratic reforms, whether granting statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico or scrapping the filibuster mechanism
Listen, Jonathan, if he does all this, I’ll accept that he’s not a “bad” president. Cool? But to be called a “radical” he needs to do much, much, much more.
Democrat: "Our lord and saviour st. Biden cut child poverty in half!"
Normal person: "Yeah... For a month or so."
Democrat: "You see how poverty alleviation is really complex. Just giving the poor more money won't work, they just relapse into their old irresponsible habits. We need smarter market-based solutions."
Yeah it's not permanent or anything lol they get the money once and that's it.
Fending off Republican voter suppression that benefits Republicans to the detriment of his own party and is just sort of blatantly immoral. Radical.
The vaccine thing is hilarious because he just literally became president around the time that vaccines were starting to roll out all over the world and then ends up taking credit for the fact that the US has a large pharmaceutical industry.
It is very nice of them to give 4 billion dollars to black farmers, but from what I can see US farmers got 22 billion in subsidies in 2019, so an extra 4 billion in subsidies for black farmers isn't exactly revolutionary. The 1400 dollar payments. Again, nice, but it is 200 dollars more than the old payments, not exactly radical or revolutionary. Actually, it seems a lot more like the bare minimum to prevent economic collapse.
As for the proposed infrastructure spending, if you live in a country where preventing the bridges from collapsing is a radical idea, you have some serious problems with your government.
if you live in a country where preventing the bridges from collapsing is a radical idea, you have some serious problems with your government.
This sentence is a great summary of the crisis that's happening in the US and Europe.
Again, nice, but it is 200 dollars more than the old payments
and $600 less than it was originally going to be
“a respecter of fate” who had learned not to make plans for several years ahead
Makes sense, since he has no idea whether he'll be alive several years ahead. (in fact, it's a safe bet he won't be)
The current plan seems to be to say that he is a modern FDR constantly and hope that people buy it.
This is like the third sentence:
I’m not referring to his debut White House press conference on Thursday, in which he showed that, for all the tripping up on the steps to Air Force One or the supposed senior moments, his political instincts remain sharply intact.
Anyone that saw that conference and had that takeaway is not operating in reality
Bill Clinton is giving left parties the world over a masterclass in how to use power
Tony Blair is giving left parties the world over a masterclass in how to use power
That smug redhead would totally use masterclass and think it's bad ass ownage.
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What delegating it without knowing because your brain is melting and last time you were in public you fell UP stairs 3 times in a row.
Here is how the left should wield power:
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Abandon all progressive campaign promises at the first given moment.
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Communicate through senile ramblings about the Irish.
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???
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Profit!
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