crapwittyname @ crapwittyname @lemm.ee

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There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics.

Not always though. It's also for example the number of keys on a piano, which led the Flintstones to create a character called 88 Fingers Louie, a piano thief. Then many years later, a Chicago hardcore band took the name for themselves. They're not coded racists, they just didn't know. I love the number 88, I think it's aesthetic, it divides nicely, it's not square or a 10- factor but it's even and an 11-factor so it stands out. I'm damned if I'm going to let neonazis take away fucking numbers.

Yeah! The Corbyn years, that was the time to do character assassinations, takedowns and infighting, didn't you know? Squabbling with the leader is passé these days.

I think Blair was a mixed bag. Illegal war, best NHS in my lifetime, student loans, privatisation, expansion of the welfare state. A mixed bag at best. I wasn't happy with him. But at this point I would bite your hand off to get that government back. They knew what they were doing, and they pretended to give a shit about the people they governed. That's six steps up from where we are now. Corbyn would have been better but we don't have that choice anymore do we.
Starmer's purge of the left is infuriating though.

This is a bit like the time Boris appointed a Bullingdon club friend as ethics advisor

You've misread my comment I think. Unions can coordinate and organise together. So nobody would be leaving their fellow worker to fight by themselves.

Not so. It makes sense to organise in trade unions. The heads of those unions are on the same side most of the time, as it would be in this case, and they can easily coordinate their actions. But in some cases the interests of one trade have no bearing on another, or are even in opposition, in which case it would be somewhere between difficult and impossible to organise a balloted action across the entire union. Thus nullifying the strength of the union and playing right into the capitalist's hands.

Ok. I'll give it a go.
You look like the kind of person who thanks the driver when they're getting off the train!
I bet your dad indicates on bendy roads!!

Yeahhhh, what do you got to say about that, you slightly-above-optimum-BMI person with last year's haircut?!

What a stupid thing to say...

Here's what I don't like about him: he's dishonest. The man is a psychologist. He's an expert in only one field: psychology. Yet he pontificates on any subject he pleases, trying to pass for some sort of generalized expert. He isn't as smart as he wants you to think he is, and he's certainly not an expert in sociology, economics, medicine, or any of the other things he likes to venture his unlearned opinion on.
Pseudoscientific woo dressed up in flowery language. Intellectually dishonest. Self serving egomaniac. Get in the sea, Peterson.

Who downvoted this? It's correct.

£18.8 trillion divided by 67.7 million people is £278,000 per person.

That's just not possible as a sum. 18.8 trillion is more money than the entire nation has. I'm all for reparations btw. But I can't see how that much is realistic?

I'm really not trying to dunk on you when I say this: you've fundamentally misunderstood the left-right political theory. A previously left-wing party can drift to the right and vice versa. A party called the "lefty left socialist communist hippy party" can be made up completely of right-wingers, and that doesn't change the definition of left and right. I won't try and explain the definitions of political left and right to you because there are almost definitely better explanations out there than I could give. I just implore you to find an impartial, unbiased explainer.

Nice! I've read the manifesto, most of Das Kapital and some of his essays and his thinking is a big part of my worldview. I'm reading "at the café" by Malatesta at the moment and I think I like it enough to recommend.

I'm not into identity politics either. I am far left, anti authority, pro-worker, pro-human, pro-science. Lots of things. What about you?

I'm not a liberal because I hold strong anti-capitalist views, for one example.

What do you want to know? Do you want me to label myself? PolComp score? What?

Or, I'm considering your argument which is supported by your evidence that some US citizens aided homophobia in other parts of the world. What was that again?

No worries