I mean Biden's pitch has always carried the implicit promise not to do anything about the systemic extrajudicial executions of black people, so

"optics" As if it were a trick of the light

At least... they claim not to

For the benefit of the chat, the Communist Party of Britain are a splinter group, from the Communist Party of Great Britain, which is the one that is recognized internationally. They're removed too ofc, but 🤷

Umm wasn't 'the labour theory of value' an artifact of contemporary liberal economic orthodoxy

Speculation is a game for the rich, I'm afraid

The problem with shorting is that it's an expensive position to maintain, so you have to get the timing bang on or you can lose potentially infinite money

Yeah he's awful, and it's all very cynical — just a less filtered version of the appealing to conservative religious communities that Labour do all the time (seriously, many Lab candidates will imply incredibly conservative positions on issues like abortion, depending who they're talking to)

Tbh I'm of the opinion that we don't have to pay much attention to him at all, other than laughing when clowns like him inevitably move into the void on Labour's left

A typical anti-war or anti-Zionist SocDem would be better or any other milquetoast anti-war liberal or peace candidate.

Surely the issue is that neither of these things are on the ballot in many/most constituencies. Totally legitimate to abstain and focus on extra-parliamentary stuff tbc, because Galloway is an awful POS, but let's not pretend there are a wealth of non-problematic electoral options

Also, the underlying thesis that there is this ancient animosity between Muslims and Jews (neatly sidestepping Europe's long history of antisemitic violence) is deeply problematic, and tbqh tantamount to denialism

*hair

It isn't a slur. It's the 'G' in GRT.

I'm sorry but that is clearly a crisis actor