Zombie
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- Comment on Life 1 day ago:
No it isn’t.
- Comment on Life 1 day ago:
No it isn’t.
- Comment on UK ministers explore raising price of water for industrial users amid shortages 2 days ago:
FFS MAKE WATER A PUBLIC UTILITY OWNED BY THE PUBLIC, RUN FOR THE PUBLIC, WITHOUT A PROFIT INCENTIVE
- Comment on He casts the spell of InstallShield 2 days ago:
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 3 days ago:
For example:
HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.[2]
- Comment on 3 days ago:
That’s nothing new.
Scottish Greens suspend ties with Green Party of England and Wales
The formal association between the parties was suspended over concerns of transphobia
Members stated that office-bearers of the Green Party of England and Wales had engaged in “transphobic rhetoric and conduct”, and claimed that the independence of the Scottish Greens had been ignored.
They also underlined the importance of protecting the rights of transgender people to gender affirming healthcare.
- Comment on Cities in Great Britain most vulnerable to extreme heat revealed 4 days ago:
Y u no put it on a map Guardian?!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. Thus, at one moment Winston’s hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies. And yet the very next instant he was at one with the people about him, and all that was said of Goldstein seemed to him to be true. At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
It was even possible, at moments, to switch one’s hatred this way or that by a voluntary act. Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one’s head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark-haired girl behind him. Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax. Better than before, moreover, he realized WHY it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.
The Hate rose to its climax.
At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of ‘B[oring]-B[oring]!..B-B[oring]!’—over and over again, very slowly, with a long pause between the first ‘B’ and the second—a heavy, murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of which one seemed to hear the stamp of naked feet and the throbbing of tom-toms. For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. Winston’s entrails seemed to grow cold. In the Two Minutes Hate he could not help sharing in the general delirium, but this sub-human chanting of ‘B[oring]-B[oring]!..B-B[oring]!’ always filled him with horror. Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.
- 1984 by George Orwell, Chapter 1
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html
The [square brackets] are my own addition.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I can’t find anything about when running for party leader, but I found this from February and nobody challenged him on it. If he promised not to run I’m sure Labour or Reform would have used what he said here against him.
Earlier, Mr Polanski said he wanted to be a London MP as he sought to explain why he is not standing as the party’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Mr Polanski insisted that he is not standing for the Green Party in the Greater Manchester by-election because his party believes in “nurturing local talent”.
The Green Party leader, who was born and brought up in Salford, Greater Manchester, suggested it would be wrong for him to stand in the by-election as he has lived in London for “about 20 years”.
However, Mr Polanski, a member of the London Assembly, stressed that he would “absolutely be going for” a parliamentary seat in the capital when one comes up.
“I live in London,” he told BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg.
“I’m a Mancunian. I’ve been in London for about 20 years, and the Green Party really believes in nurturing local talent and really lifting up someone from the community.
“When a seat comes up in London, I’ll absolutely be going for it.”
- Comment on Higher education regulator apologises for imposing £585,000 fine on university 1 week ago:
The OfS investigation began after Stock’s resignation from Sussex in 2021, following campus protests for her views on transgender rights and gender identity.
Took until the very last line of the article to find out what the case was about.
Her opposition to transgender rights and gender identity[3] have become a contentious issue.[4][5][6][7] In December 2020, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of services to higher education,[8][9] a decision criticised by a group of over 600 academic philosophers who argued that Stock’s “harmful rhetoric” contributed to the marginalisation of transgender people.[10][11] In October 2021, she resigned from the University of Sussex.[12] This came after a student campaign called for her dismissal and the university trade union accused the university of “institutional transphobia”.[13][14] A group of over 200 academic philosophers from the UK signed an open letter in support of Stock’s academic freedom.
- Comment on Trans rights charity warns new school guidance could make life harder for trans pupils 1 week ago:
I thought that was New New Labour’s plan?..
- Comment on Heathrow expansion would make UK ‘overshoot’ climate targets, report suggests 1 week ago:
At the end of the day climate change doesn’t give a fuck about anything you said.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 1 week ago:
Most of Europe in the 1940s was defeated by the very same forces that defeated Spain in the 1930s. Except they had the ability to learn the lessons of Spain and had the backing of international capital and the world’s most renowned militaries.
Does that prove the failures of capitalism, representative democracy, or parliamentary monarchies?
Blitzkrieg was a brand new warfare technique which the Spanish had to contend with and they lasted 3 years against the Axis powers whilst also trying a new form of political, social, and economic organisation. I think you should read up on the Spanish civil war some more, it’s an incredible period of history which if anything proves the strengths of anarchism despite the Republicans ultimately losing.
- Comment on Dont hate me 1 week ago:
ym always missing words
- Comment on ‘GB News wouldn’t touch him’: Milo Yiannopoulos will struggle to fit in with UK right wing 1 week ago:
He isn’t as extreme as we might think?
They guy who published an article titled “Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism Or Cancer?”.
The guy who said, on video, “that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can “happen perfectly consensually”, because some 13-year-olds are, in his view, sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults; he spoke favourably both of gay 13-year-old boys having sex with adult men and straight 13-year-old boys having sex with adult women”.
The guy who told “at least two news organizations that he wanted vigilantes to shoot journalists. He wrote in a text message “I can’t wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight”.”.
That guy isn’t extreme?
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 1 week ago:
Where does it say in the phrase “anything and everything goes” that that doesn’t include politics?
If you’re so unhappy with politics being posted here, as you seem to be by the regular complaints, then set up your own shitposting community without politics allowed.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 2 weeks ago:
Except that most people in most countries are retired by age 75 and therefore wouldn’t be “off” on sick leave in the first place.
But yes, otherwise, the point stands.
- Comment on Why is that a problem? Did something bad happen in 1929? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why is that a problem? Did something bad happen in 1929? 2 weeks ago:
Because it is.
Capitalism is the system of production for profit, and that is why capitalism always must have unemployed.
But look further into this system of production for profit and you will see how its basic evil works a hundred other evils.
Let us follow the shoe manufacturer of your city. He has no way of knowing, as I have already pointed out, who will or will not be able to buy his shoes. He makes a rough guess, he ‘estimates’, and he decides to manufacture, let us say, 50,000 pairs. Then he puts his product on the market. That is, the wholesaler, the jobber, and the storekeeper put them up for sale.
Suppose only 30,000 pairs were sold; 20,000 pairs remain on hand. Our manufacturer, unable to sell the balance in his own city, will try to dispose of it, in some other part of the country. But the shoe manufacturers there have also had the same experience. They also can’t sell all they have produced. The supply of shoes is greater than the demand for them, they tell you. They have to cut down production. That means the discharge of some of their employees, thus increasing the army of the unemployed.
‘Over-production’ this is called. But in truth it is not over-production at all. It is under-consumption, because there are many people who need new shoes, but they can’t afford to buy them.
The result? The warehouses are stocked with the shoes the people want but cannot buy, shops and factories close because of the ‘oversupply’. The same things happen in other industries. You are told that there is a ‘crisis’ and your wages must be reduced.
Your wages are cut; you are put on part time or you lose your work altogether. Thousands of men and women are thrown out of employment in that manner. Their wages stop and they cannot buy the food and other things they need. Are those things not to be had? No, on the contrary; the warehouses and stores are filled with them, there is too much of them there’s ‘over-production’.
So the capitalist system of production for profit results in this crazy situation:
people have to starve — not because there is not enough food but because there is too much of it; they have to do without the things they need, because there is too much of those things on hand;
because there is too much, manufacture is cut down, throwing thousands out of work;
being out of work and therefore not earning, those thousands lose their buying capacity. The grocer, the butcher, the tailor all suffer, as a result. That means increased unemployment all around, the crisis gets worse.
Under capitalism this happens in every industry.
Such crises are inevitable in a system of production for profit. They come from time to time; they return periodically, always getting worse. They deprive thousands and hundreds of thousands of employment causing poverty, distress, and untold misery. They result in bankruptcy and bank failures, which swallow up whatever little the worker have saved in time of ‘prosperity’. They cause want and need, drive people to despair and crime, to suicide and insanity.
Such are the results of production for profit; such the fruits of system of capitalism.
Yet that is not all. There is another result of this system, are even worse than all the others combined.
That is War.
From Now and After by Alexander Berkman. Chapter 5: Unemployment.
Available to read, or download in multiple formats, for free, here: theanarchistlibrary.org/…/alexander-berkman-what-…
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand 2 weeks ago:
Aye, exactly, this is a British community.
Nigel Farage, Tommy Ten Names, Laurence Fox, Rupert Lowe, etc didn’t spring out of thin air
- Comment on Birmingham exodus as 80,000 people flee city 2 weeks ago:
That site is a cancer.
To save a click: 80k left. 63k arrived. All English and Welsh cities are seeing a drop in population because people are moving to towns and the countryside instead. Presumably due to being able to work from home.
- Comment on Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand 3 weeks ago:
I hope you forgot your /s.
In the past I would have said this is obviously sarcasm, but there’s too many open and confident bigots now to be sure these days. Even on anarchist servers like dbzer0
- Comment on Me rocking up to Lemmy all feed 3 weeks ago:
An itch in my brain wishes they’d drive off like 50 Cent
- Comment on Farm defends Titanic-themed ride after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Nice whataboutism.
Just because one thing is shit doesn’t mean another can’t also be.
- Comment on Dog food recalled in UK after reports of pets losing their sight 3 weeks ago:
Years said on its website that the recall followed reports of some dogs having a potential adverse eye reaction to buckwheat, an ingredient included in its meals.
Buckwheat was added to the company’s meals several months ago, and a now-deleted blogpost on its website dating from February this year explored the question of whether it was safe for dogs to eat it.
“In most cases, yes, buckwheat is safe for dogs to munch – provided it’s cooked properly and fed in sensible portions,” said the blogpost, adding: “Here at Years, we carefully calculate the right amount of buckwheat to include … ensuring your dog receives all the benefits without any risks.”
“Here at Years, we carefully calculate the risk to profit ratio and determined it was worth it. Unfortunately we fucked up and turned thousands of dogs blind. Woops… Or should we say, woofs…”
- Comment on Farm defends Titanic-themed ride after backlash 3 weeks ago:
“We’ve had autistic children who are obsessed with Titanic… they love coming here and going on it because they know all the facts and all the figures,” he said.
He said: “It never even crossed our minds that there would be any backlash.”
“Because all we saw were £ symbols and a chance to profit, safe in the knowledge we could hold autistic children in front of ourselves to shield us and deflect any criticism. Next year we have a bumper opening of 9/11, 7/7, and Hindenburg rides! That way we can cover all forms of transport obsessed autistic children to ensure we can never be held accountable for our vile profiteering from death and disaster.”
- Comment on Reform councillor quits – but sends resignation letter to wrong council 3 weeks ago:
We live in the information age, receiving a constant bombardment of information. Consequently we all miss details here and there, there’s just so much to take in and process all day every day, so there’s no need to feel shame. That’s why we’re on a social site discussing the information, so that collectively we can get more from these articles than we would do in isolated reading.
Enjoy the rest of your day / night :)
- Comment on Reform councillor quits – but sends resignation letter to wrong council 3 weeks ago:
Ms Duffy handed it directly to the clerk of Kidsgrove Town Council.
- Comment on Reform councillor quits – but sends resignation letter to wrong council 3 weeks ago:
Her resignation letter was shared by a local political group, Kidsgrove Independents, who claimed Ms Duffy handed it directly to the clerk of Kidsgrove Town Council.
Ms Duffy hit back at the publication of the letter, writing: “I am appalled that a private letter, provided in confidence to the Clerk of Kidsgrove Town Council
She didn’t send it to the wrong council. She hand delivered it!
The only solace to the rise in bigotry and fascism is their absolute idiocy and incompetence.
