rooftopaxx

@rooftopaxx@campaign.openworlds.info

Everything is prefigurative, somebody must've said that too.
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rooftopaxx, to random

Is it too late to order in a Pali flag for Friday evening?
https://www.dumptheguardian.com/football/2023/oct/10/premier-league-clubs-wary-of-being-seen-to-take-sides-in-middle-east-conflict

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

🙄🙄
Maybe this is what Sunak meant by a "low value" degree 🤷‍♀️
Telegraph:
"Birkbeck University’s former head of politics explains why he’s putting his head above the parapet with a new anti-woke university."

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 Lynne Segal will tear him to pieces

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Great. Citizen militias are just what's called for.
Guardian:
"Far right Israeli minister [National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir] says will 'massively' arm civilians with assault rifles"
"Ben-Gvir is a hardline Jewish settler who has past convictions for supporting terrorism and incitement against Arabs."
But "Israel has a right to defend itself", yeah? 🤬

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 the "human animals' man

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 slight difference to a (fascist) minister of state saying it on the international stage though

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 here's another one ramping the rhetoric up
"Israeli politician Tally Gotliv, from Netanyahu's party, just called for the use of a nuclear bomb on Gaza."
https://nitter.net/Lowkey0nline/status/1711668410524807460

rooftopaxx, to random

@msaunders @Hamishcampbell too late for the activism instance but this looks to be a sound proposal
https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@jim/111206862937871560

rooftopaxx, to random

Is "human animals" trending yet?

rooftopaxx,

But at least he didn't say Untermenschen, so there is that

[twitter.com/PDeepdive/status/1711327992545177900/photo/1]

RichardJMurphy, to random
@RichardJMurphy@mas.to avatar

Reeves is promising to fail https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/10/08/reeves-is-promising-to-fail/. Reeves is proving herself a cowardly politician: one who believes that whatever the issue is the market can deliver better than the state meaning she should do nothing.

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 @wood5y @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @patrickhadfield trouble is there's such a lot of that gene pool swilling about:
"Rachel's younger sister Ellie is the Labour MP for Lewisham West and Penge and is married to John Cryer, Labour MP for Leyton and Wanstead." [Wiki]

CEMedia, to random
@CEMedia@union.place avatar

Palestine and Ukraine do exactly the same thing in defiance of an illegal occupation, yet according to the media:

Ukraine = self=defence
Palestine = terrorism

rooftopaxx,

@kierkegaank You'll be telling us next that the apartheid Israeli state and its settler thugs don't attack civilians all the fucking time.
@CEMedia

patrickhadfield, to random
@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot avatar

I've heard Starmer telling campaigners that they "blew the doors off" many times.

What did he mean? It's a take on Michael Caine in "The Italian Job" - you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! - as the target is destroyed.

But he didn't say that. He could have - it was an emphatic victory - but he didn't. Essentially he said his campaigners were ordinary: they did what was necessary but no more.

For a skilled lawyer, his oratory seems very pedestrian.

https://youtu.be/7_PX1cVuaVA?feature=shared

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @patrickhadfield It's a pingpong seat, SNP's turn again when/if the GE ever happens.

breadandcircuses, to socialism

I don't have any problem with a market economy, per se, but I do have a BIG problem with capitalism.

In my preferred version of state socialism, there is no accumulation of capital, and thus no capitalism. All large industries and large-scale services are socialized, owned by the people and managed by the state (or by worker cooperatives, where practical).

In my version of a market economy, people can own and run small companies, hire employees, set prices, make a profit... that's all fine. But they can't buy their competitors and either take them over or put them out of business. They can't open franchises, where they sell (or rent) the right to operate a different company with the same name. They're not allowed to buy their suppliers and create a conglomerate. They aren't permitted to grow so large that the market no longer operates fairly. And every business owner's wealth will be capped with a highly progressive tax structure (which is the price of using the commons to turn a profit).

So, the marketplace as such is not the problem. The problem is capitalism.

#Capitalism #Socialism #Economics #Politics

rooftopaxx,

@breadandcircuses Re your Alt Text photo was from the early days of Occupy LFS (London Finsbury Square)

fkamiah17, to Football
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Old white guy desperately attempts to stay relevant by jumping on the culture-war bandwagon.
Anything you can do, we can do too, Kevin. Usually better.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kevin-keegan-female-pundits-england-31108293?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 fucking hell. the results of the poll at the bottom of that.
(KK wouldn't know where to start with Sky's BL2 coverage co-hosted by a woman anchor)

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 Still surprising from a poll in the Mirror, maybe the Tommybots have been mobilised to hijack it?

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Careful Jeremy. The internet doesn't write in pencil.

rooftopaxx, (edited )

@fkamiah17 there's a lot of it about
[twitter.com/HuwMerriman/status/1664285329065668615]

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 hope someone's keeping a list

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 perhaps they don't believe in Britain anymore, wonder what could've changed their minds?

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 DAG voice Well…

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-major-projects-portfolio-accounting-officer-assessments/continuing-investment-in-hs2-phase-1-accounting-officer-assessment-october-2023

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 thought said shitload of ancient forests was through the pretty Tory heartlands in the home counties heading out towards Brum, haven't checked.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

@adambienkov @BylineTimes warns, after the conference that:

'As things stand that lurch to the right is unlikely to significantly alter the outcome of the next election. but it does set us up for a far uglier & more dangerous form of politics than the UK has ever been used to before'!

Yup, that's what is starting to look like - we are heading into dark(er) times...

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/04/the-conservative-party-conference-embraces-trumpism-without-trump/

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6 possibly a little off-topic, possibly not, but wondering quite where the starting point of Richie's 30 years of short-termist 'consensus' could be pinned down to?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/why-two-years-is-a-long-time-in-politics-early-in-1993-after-a-series-of-postelection-disasters-many-conservative-mps-believed-things-could-only-get-better-for-john-major-but-they-did-not-colin-brown-reports-1368934.html

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6
Hmmmm. Maybe his dreams are troubled by memories of Black Wednesday?

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

ICYMI: the front page of today's Fail.

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 tbh post facto Richie's thing the northern wisdom of Shelagh Fogerty might be time better spent if that's available on rewind

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 OK, you've seen Politics Joe's latest little offering of course

rooftopaxx,

@fkamiah17 https://campaign.openworlds.info/@rooftopaxx/111176835516511662

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

With his usual impeccable timing, he's decided to have a pop at Scotland. Did no one tell him there's a byelection next week?
"Sunak: “Nicola Sturgeon wanted to be the woman who goes down in history as the woman who broke up our country. Now it looks like she’s going to go down for very different reasons.”
Lewis Goodall on the other place.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 :baner: 🇮🇪 🇪🇺

rooftopaxx,

@CloudyMrs @fkamiah17
googles "Sunak reported to police over conference speech"

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