Remain In Hell Without Despair

A thread of some of my Greatest Hits in political writing.

this site loves to talk about the professional-managerial class and thats true as the organizing force but the real *mass* of any modern left wing movement is going to be healthcare workers, teachers, sanitation workers, arborists, and secretaries, who are *not* PMC (except some healthcare workers).

There *is* a possible future

Hmmm. This seems to work against the Left-doomer belief that this will be a low-turnout election

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

"personalist, tight social networks, which aren’t a progressive social form" This is true, and consider what it means that most actually existing communist groups or even anarchist communities are personalist, tight social networks

The increasingly decadent global oligarchy seriously believes in Triumph of the Will, aka the Power of Positive Thinking, aka Prosperity Gospel, aka magick. It works in the same way Wile E. Coyote can defy gravity until he looks down.

>we have a radical new system to replace capitalism >is it a new system or is it feudalism? >it’s a good system sir *looks inside* >it’s feudalism

Zohran shows the way: YIMBY + rent control. The whole thing about "building affordable housing" is a chimera, because if you push the people saying this they don't want *cheaply constructed* housing, which is the only thing that can mean from the supply side. Build housing: make it affordable.

Seeing a disquieting trend of Western libs or even Leftists prioritizing "do they support Ukraine" in appraising a foreign politucal movement. 100% yes Ukraine must win, but you don't want to sound like a diaspora Zionist taking about Israel. This too is campism.

"Family posts describe a pattern of the 3-year-old excelling against older children in the league, which they say prompted repeated complaints about fairness." There's that word, fairness. Trans folk told you that a trans ban is racist, and here's the proof.

It’s funny how western leftists seem amazed at features of Asian societies as public infrastructure that is quickly repaired or public transportation that is always on time without seeming to realize that the secret sauce is worker exploitation

don't vote for me or my son ever again

I was today years old when I realised that the French use the same verb for counting votes as they do for skinning an animal

I hope I don't have to apologize for being 100% certain that the Opportunity Party will join the Right-wing coalition Wait a moment, yes I do

I keep wondering how long the TERF menace can be held off in this country by the presence of older MPs who remember serving with Georgina Beyer

Having to explain the Association of Child Touchers to Red Dwarf fans worldwide

The reason this, like many other things, isn't a bigger scandal, is: the media like the National Party and want them to stay in power forever.

This is why one high-profile political assassination of the last couple of years had serious political consequences, whereas the other just led to memes

The tricky thing is that people *do* want all these good things... *and* they want a National government to enact them. Because they want these good policies, but not the woofters and lanyard wearers and tree-huggers to be in charge.

I see an interesting cultural difference between the centre-Left in my country and elsewhere. American Dem voters: - bad poll result - redoubles effort to get the vote out in the last stretch NZ Labour voters: - bad poll result or even bad media coverage - give up and doom with 2 weeks to go

"Solidarity with Ukraine built on social peace in France is solidarity on the French ruling class’s terms" redmole.org/p/nobody-sen...

This is phrased sarcastically, but it *is* the essential question of Left strategy, ceteris paribus for the whole planet

Im not sure I agree with this, because all the Leftists I know who have gone all-in on studying the Right over the last 20 years are right now becoming political nihilist and passive because that fash shit is now the mainstream. Like, their lives work failed and they have no hope.

Trans peoples rights are disability rights are Deaf peoples rights are Indigenous peoples rights are Palestinians rights are Sudanese rights are Congolese rights are childrens rights are women and girls rights are workers rights are civil rights are migrant peoples rights are HUMAN RIGHTS

There is a section of the activist Left whoich blocs with the NIMBY Right because od negative polarization against neoliberals, and frankly conservative social preferences. The problem is that a real section of the poor is authentically NIMBY/conservative because all change is suspicious

Aotearoa is not Britain yet