obamanator91 [he/him]

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  • This is genuinely a huge factor in why Labour got stomped so hard in 2019, and bernie too - back in 2016/2017 the algorithm was basically neutral- it favoured 'natural shares' not promoted content. They saw this massively helped the left (like insanely so - most people had never been exposed to actual left wing ideas without liberal or right wing gatekeeping before), and turns out left wing ideas are super popular when presented on their own terms by people you know... They aren't making that mistake again,they'd been getting high on their own supply.


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    tomainStarmzy - Bossy Cop
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    4 years ago

    I whip to abstain, I’m a bossy cop I’ll give you 12 months for looting Body Shop For spy cops, I’ll be right there at the lobby top As far as I’m concerned they should be using bloody Novichock Look I whip to abstain, I’m a bossy cop I’ll give you 12 months for looting Body Shop Should be 20 points ahead against this shoddy lot Frankly though I’ll settle just for seeing all you stroppy trots

    I didn’t mean a word, let’s be honest Basically reneged on every promise My target audience is Lord Adonis Cash for access to boost profits Been around the block, I’m not a novice Inspected any number of your wallets Now is not the time to just demolish Let’s help the government and help Boris

    Pass the bill, licensing to kill Another Orgreave, making trouble at t’mill Agents of the state can infiltrate you at will So beware of secret agents saying “Netflix and chill?”

    They’ll be coming through your door like Jack Torrance Unconstrained by any kind of warrants Historically no kind of tolerance For justice for Hillsborough or even Stephen Lawrence

    Target number one, social movements Climate activists and trade unions Anything remotely pro-humans You’re officially classified as a nuisance

    Sound the bugle on the hunt Forensic drone strike if you spark up a blunt Jess Phillips grinning like a cunt Now it’s legal to stab Jeremy Corbyn in the front



  • I think this is really interesting and a good point. At some point of conglomeratation and regulatory capture, one probably reached for much of the West already the difference between corporate and state planning basically becomes a moot point. Both are effectively planned economies, just one is planned to maximise only profits and the other planned in line with the goalsof the state. Deciding and influencing the goals of the state is the key question.



  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin is amazing, and becomes more and more relevant now it looks like climate change is effectively locked in - a communist society as a desperate fight for survival still dependent on the indifference/vanity of the remaining imperial and not FALC is much more likely imo.








  • obamanator91 [he/him]tomainNuclear power good.
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    4 years ago

    The amount of people here who think they know what they are talking about because they watched a Ted talk one time is infuriating.

    Everybody basically completely ignoring the deep deep interconnection between the military need for nuclear weapons and the nuclear industry they grew up from that.

    The problems of planning, building, maintaining, decommissioning and waste storage of a nuclear plant are absolutely huge, and they are incredibly expensive and take exceptionally long to build.

    They are not the 'one neat trick' to solving climate change held back by annoying hippies and ignorant NIMBYs a large proportion of comments here imply.

    That's not to say there is no place for current, and even some new build nuclear, But most countries and regions will have better and cheaper solutions if properly planned. Directing research to safer and simpler nuclear solutions is also good - but a very long term goal.