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Comment on Exit poll suggests Conservatives are set to win an overall majority of eighty-six in the UK general election in ~news
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yamada Link ParentProtestors are already being killed fighting neoliberal, US-backed governments in Haiti and Ecuador. This is nothing new and every world power does it. The hyper focus on China when there are...Protestors are already being killed fighting neoliberal, US-backed governments in Haiti and Ecuador. This is nothing new and every world power does it. The hyper focus on China when there are plenty of other countries doing this, this instant, is extremely strange and IMO shows massive anxiety in Westerners. It's honestly astonishing that the media has been dominated by the Hong Kong story but not a peep about Haiti, Ecuador, and the US-KSA genocide in Yemen, on top of maybe a week max of front page coverage of Kashmir. I don't doubt that next month people will be forgetting about Turkey/Rojava and will still be talking about Hong Kong despite like what, zero deaths so far?
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Comment on The millennial left is tired of waiting: How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff is working to build a generational movement in ~society
yamada (edited )Link ParentI'm sorry but this is probably one of the most dishonest, disgusting things I've seen in a very long time. People need to realize that Hillary ran one of the worst campaigns in recent history and...Personally, I'd argue Sanders is the single largest reason Trump is in the White House today.
I'm sorry but this is probably one of the most dishonest, disgusting things I've seen in a very long time. People need to realize that Hillary ran one of the worst campaigns in recent history and her loss is hers and hers alone. She ran such an unsuccessful campaign in fact that she lost to a proto-fascist rapist reality TV star. She didn't even properly campaign in some of the states that she lost because of her hubris and over-reliance on a technocratic obsession with faulty data. No amount of crying over Sanders, Russians, "uneducated masses" or any other scapegoat is going to change that fact.
From Brexit, to Le Pen's rise, to the AfD's rise, to Corbyn's rise to Golden Dawn's rise, technocratic Neoliberalism has been shown to be a resounding failure that excites no one. The right is surging with little opposition and the left is being stopped by the neoliberal status quo that just made one of the most embarrassing losses in modern history after 30 years of horrendously failed economic policies. If all you have is "hey at least we aren't republicans" and "things are actually good because capitalism is working, depsite the mountains of evidence showing otherwise" (which have been the prevailing justifications for voting Democrat for as long as I can remember) then you have already lost.
It really makes me think that most people who rag on Sanders have an agenda of protecting their ego against the 2016 loss by arguing in bad faith rather than accepting that Sanders would have won and would have pushed a progressive agenda and pushed the national conversation even more leftward than he already has (as evidence by every other candidate ripping from his platform that was derided as insanity 4 years ago). His policies excite people and have support among Democrats and Independents as well as moderate (and in a few cases majority) support among Republicans. To rag on him because of some perceived slight (without a shred of grounded evidence outside of fantasy) is lunacy and only works to help the Right.
So, let's have less blaming and more actual good faith arguments not blinded by insanity and hatred, shall we?
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Comment on The race is on to make the next ‘Game of Thrones’ in ~tv
yamada LinkGame of Thrones is basically just a worse Legend of the Galactic Heroes in the first place. We need more of the latter and less of the former.Game of Thrones is basically just a worse Legend of the Galactic Heroes in the first place. We need more of the latter and less of the former.
It's because the Right controls the media and has been smearing Labour for years. Class consciousness is non-existence and the manufacturing of consent in the UK is probably the highest in any industrialized nation. Their media is bonkers.