The Spectre Haunting Europe

The rational precision of the guillotine was applied to replace the breathless chaos of the lanterne. The ruling-class would do well to remember that there is always a harder, more entertaining way to do things.

The Serbian anti-government protest movement has just managed to oust Vučić's authoritarian-neoliberal right-wing regime. They managed to stand a broad slate to contest every parliamentary seat, and are on course to win an outright majority. If there, why not here?

Is it a wealth tax on assets? Lol no it's welfare cuts, of course. Consent machine for disabled genocide go brrrrrr www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ruling-class is a wine-soaked sexual-harassment orgy in the House of Commons bar that we aren't invited to (but still somehow have to foot the bill for).

... Ethan Klein is Hamas?

Three days of beans to outlast the climate crisis / AI apocalypse / fascist pogroms caused by Andy B's billionaire mates. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Soooo this extremely poorly-defined PFI-for-power-plants scheme has, in fact, turned out to be a largely ineffectual placebo to avoid actual state intervention in the energy market? And has been viewed by the Treasury as as a lump of dead money to be assigned elsewhere? I'm shocked, I tell you.

This stuff is just so ridiculous. We've had society hollowed out from 40 years of neoliberalism to the extent that a stiff breeze could shatter the British state. We're dependent on fossil fuels that have to be shipped through two extremely easily closed navigable waterways. Start there, maybe?

The theological implications of Founding Father Lecture Purgatory are many and varied.

Trans women are biological women. Trans men are biological men. Hmmmmm, Supreme Court, it appears your 'plain ordinary meaning' is not so plain after all?? Checkmate, I think!!

Heartened to see Comrade Healy embracing the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism and rebuilding the economy around the proletariat, the class who generate the social surplus in late-imperialist society. After all, the 'Labour' in the Labour Party is for the labour theory of value.

EA closing down BioWare - possibly the single greatest game developer in history - is just artistic vandalism of the highest possible order. Short-sighted corporate greed over the creation of beauty. Won't be buying anything from EA in future. 👎

60 years since the Aberfan disaster - where a small Welsh village lost an entire generation of children in mere moments. Not one prosecution has been brought against the mining execs who profited from lax safety standards. Yes, modern health & safety was born out of Aberfan - but not justice.

The Guardian has been in the forefront of airbrushing this disgusting transphobic paedophile's-charter into a national movement that they claim is merely about 'protecting women and girls'. Crocodile tears from the people who enabled everything leading up to this.

The kiwifarms-ification of the legacy media (!) continues apace. Imagine if we'd had Leveson II before COVID. Imagine!

An absolute ransack of the climate. When ministers say this will 'help British energy consumers' or 'bring down bills', they are *lying*. This gas will be sold on the open European market, and will feather only the nests of fuel execs. Cynically delayed until after the H&St.P by-election too!

Notice how, now the TERFs and neo-Nazi transphobes have largely institutionalised 'trans people should be forced to use services according to birth sex', they've elided seamlessly on to 'trans people should have no access to services at all'? I mean come on, what did you think this was all about?

'We've come such a long way in Weimar Germany - you hardly see any public lynchings any more since the Social-Democratic government adopted those anti-gypsy laws. Oh those jackbooted chaps down in Bavaria? Well, they're just downright un-German and they'll never amount to anything much.'

Nobody should have a shred of faith that this will be used to correct and re-educate genuine (right-wing) hatred vs Jewish people - which could already be done via existing racism / bullying policies. This will, in fact, be used to extend the anticommunist pro-genocide hysteria into schools too.

Yeah I mean sure, nonviolent protest movements afford dominant power structures a 'moderate' bloc with which to compromise in the face of violent / terrorist struggle and they therefore have at least some situational utility - but this nevertheless remains the whitest take I've seen in a while.

SINGLE MUM FUCKED BY BBC (she gets a visit from the TV licence inspectors)

This article correctly points to exploitative rentierism in the 'special accommodation' sector re Housing Benefit. But fails to follow the obvious corollary that the vast majority of housing benefits (eg UC housing element) are a huge sop to rentierist landlords more generally.

[dual power intensifies] French youth - take control! It is there for the taking! Do not surrender it! Link arms with your brothers in the factories, supermarkets and call-centres! There is a world to win! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

Literally everything that the Sensible Moderates were writing blubbering op-eds hailing to end of neoliberalism about, is just reheated failed unworkable Blairite policy from the mid-2000s.

Let this be lesson: El-Sayed gave the most measured, compassionate, eloquent answer - and the corporate media will still gin up a wild Islamophobic controversy. There is no format you can propose systemic change that they will accept. Rather, state it plainly & revel in their vindicating disgust.

Oh so the working-class of Europe is stirring? Name three times it successfully hanged the last landlord with the entrails of the last cop?

I'm sure the quants have *some* blood. Let's find out.

Very much amused to see the 'but the same was true before WW2' replies. Yeah man, the Nazis almost beat the whole of Europe, the USSR took over one third of it, and we had to radically rebuild British society to stop a communist revolution at home. Be careful what you wish for!

Desperately seeking to reverse history by treating individual bigotry not as a deeply anti-social pathology, but as a legitimate fragility that demands infinitely catering to (including with full-throated genocide) is all these ghouls have left. Thank god they'll die off soon.

Mothin Ali is a transphobic, socially-conservative landlord who shouldn't be in the deputy leadership of a national pro-worker party.

Unfortunately the rest of the KHIVE will not be able to survive the winter without Harris' nourishing authoritarian-neoliberal jelly.

I always had a soft spot for some of the BBC's sociological / historical programmes eg Thinking Allowed, The Long View etc - but even they have now been axed. Just unapologetic fascism top to bottom.

Is the 'Burnham ducks issue' the same as Rachel Reeves' pathological hatred of newts? Does he want them to get sucked into the jet engines on the new runway? (No, it's just a regular case of Manchester-flavored spinelessness)

Holy shit they paramilitarised PC Plum

Soooo that stuff about how the motion ignores Palestinians and rides roughshod over their expressed desires was... complete transparent nonsense?

Tonia Antoni-Nazi

*Not a single prosecution* under the Terrorism Act 2000 vis Palestine Action has yet been brought to any court. Every single result of this restriction has been through innuendo, fear and censorship. That national security advisers can get tangled up in it shows how wildly absurd it is.

Trans identity that cannot be expressed, validated or affirmed in any way without having the state, or individuals with court-approved sanction, instantly attack you is not in any sense socially real. This is, to be clear, a concerted attempt to wipe trans people out altogether.