By aka Espi Go To PostYeah my post was dumb as shit I’ll hold that LIt's all good my dude. I'm sure we all understand the sentiment.
By EldritchTrapStar Go To PostNot jumping on aka Espi:Uker here - its bad everywhere but always in a different way.
As someone that has been away from my home, for over a year, in backwards ass MS, let me tell you….black folks tried, other minorities tried, and even some of the poor (and not so poor) whites tried, to get some change popping in this past election. Didn't take, because white supremacy reigns supreme. Maybe it will change in the future. Maybe it won't. Northerners tend to act like they don't have the same / similar issues, tbh. As if there isn't historical evidence to say otherwise. As if melting pot ass NY isn't the home of one of the most fucked up police presences in America. Yea, Texas deregulation is it's own breed of stupidity, and ultimately the cause of the third world (esque) conditions that occurred, this past week. Homeless people still freeze to death, up north, and we're infinitely more prepared than the south to handle shit. Same for the midwest. Cali has it's own special bullshit, when it's bathed in fire. Point being, yea, you have to frame it way better than casting that net.
Now, if you want to talk about individuals, then my opinion is much harsher…at this point in my life…yea. Certain people better not ask my black ass for shit.
Always side-eye anyone donning the mask of righteousness though.
At least Corbyn had principles. Starmer wants to be running as the alternative to Boris but agrees with him on everything.
I'll always feel his leadership in the face of Brexit, which like it or not is the thing that political leaders of the last 5 years will be remembered for, was pretty wank.
knew starmer would be a nothing opposition leader as soon as he assigned his shadow cabinet positions
he won't make it to the election... but pickings are slim for effective opposition. andy burnham is the only person that'd give me some confidence.
he won't make it to the election... but pickings are slim for effective opposition. andy burnham is the only person that'd give me some confidence.
True.
But someone like Corbyn can go down as an anti-semite, imagine what they'll pull on him.
If you are going in as Labour leader in this country, you need be to be whiter than white. Tories spent the last decade making sure all opposition is smeared and slandered in the press. And the window-lickers that comprises the majority of the population will eat it up.
But someone like Corbyn can go down as an anti-semite, imagine what they'll pull on him.
If you are going in as Labour leader in this country, you need be to be whiter than white. Tories spent the last decade making sure all opposition is smeared and slandered in the press. And the window-lickers that comprises the majority of the population will eat it up.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/21/texas-freeze-greg-abbott-ted-cruz-oil-gas-green-new-deal
Here is one pivotal line:
Here is one pivotal line:
The white working class is taking as much of a beating as most Black and Latino people.
Yet the white working class has been seduced by conservative Republicans and Trump cultists, of which Texas has an abundance, into believing that what’s good for Black and Latino people is bad for them, and that whites are, or should be, on the winning side of the social Darwinian contest.
Forget boring old corruption, this is the stuff I'd do if I was PM. Megalomaniac superstructures.
The West of NI has no motorways or trains (bar a single coastal route that isn't commuter friendly) but spend £50bn on a tunnel underneath Britain's dumped war munitions and nuclear waste.
By Punished* Go To Post
I'm beginning to think Sir Starmer isn't the political genius that was promised.
literally swore off ever voting labour again after he just shadows tory decisions, plus a recent letter by a labour mps that essentially pretends Turkish Cypriots don't exist and that British Cypriots are all Greek. These guys are all racists and supremist in their own way, at least with the conservatives when they pretend to be allies or care about minorities, you still know where they ultimately stand.
UUP leader Steve Aiken said that "testing the NI Protocol in the courts is a fair and legitimate thing to do".Hard not to read the principle of consent statement as "it's not fair that something the Fenians like has passed, why don't we have veto power"
He added that the actions that brought the protocol into force "fundamentally undermine the principle of consent and laid out in the Belfast Agreement".
30 days of nothing from Biden, where they checks at Joey? I thought "immediate" meant in under a month.
Variable rates on utilities. This shit was fucked on mortgages, and they decided to have it on even more necessary shit. Whew. America brehs.
Part of the responsibility for the near-collapse of the state’s electrical grid can be traced to the decision in 1999 to embark on the nation’s most extensive experiment in electrical deregulation, handing control of the state’s entire electricity delivery system to a market-based patchwork of private generators, transmission companies and energy retailers.Add Texas 2021 to GWB's natural disaster failures on top of Katrina.
The energy industry wanted it. The people wanted it. Both parties supported it. “Competition in the electric industry will benefit Texans by reducing monthly rates and offering consumers more choices about the power they use,” George W. Bush, then the governor, said as he signed the top-to-bottom deregulation legislation.
Maybe now that Trump isn’t posting on Twitter every day people will remember that Bush is the worst president of the last 30 years.
Bundle that up with GWB's anti-climate change agenda and not believing in the science that we could ever see such natural disasters occur in our lifetime, and you got the perfect storm (no pun intended) for what happened in Texas in 2021. It's a direct line.
And it's only going to get more extreme if we don't turn shit around.
But, you know...
And it's only going to get more extreme if we don't turn shit around.
But, you know...
“The historic, just about unprecedented, storm was the heart of the problem,” Mr. Magness, the council’s chief executive, said, adding: “We’ve found that this market structure works. It demands reliability. I don’t think there’s a silver-bullet market structure that could have managed the extreme lows and generation outages that we were facing Sunday night.”These same politicians don't see that line.
the "it's unprecedented"/"once in a lifetime event, no reason to think there's a chance this will happen again" loops gonna be crazy
By Lunatic Go To PostSocial media is a problem.Meh.
I hear this then remember the different cults of all decades and "im trying to find myself" gurus of 60s/70s.
By i can get you a toe Go To PostMeh.Those gurus are still here and are in abundance.
I hear this then remember the different cults of all decades and "im trying to find myself" gurus of 60s/70s.
I think social media just amplifies it more.
By Lupercal Go To PostThose gurus are still here and are in abundance.That was my point?
I think social media just amplifies it more.
Shit ain't new.
By FortuneFaded Go To PostDamn, Soros gotta do something soon like causing a hurricane in Iowa, cause Bill Gates has taken his top spot with the conspiracy psychos.
Ya know you can’t gerrymander the senate or the governor so .....
I mean maybe you fix that district and there’s a couple less R’s in the house lll
I mean maybe you fix that district and there’s a couple less R’s in the house lll
By FortuneFaded Go To Postlet's see Trump get out of this one!
By Perfect Blue Go To PostTexas pretty much invented energy monopolies too... No Dem would've prevented this thing.
Amazing design
By DY_nasty Go To PostTexas pretty much invented energy monopolies too… No Dem would've prevented this thing.The elected architect of the late-90s Texas energy de-regulation bill is a Democrat from Dallas - Steven D. Wolens