splonglo

love that title screen music it's so good

Good!

hell yeah

Buddy, you're living in a crazy world where people know what's real and care about things that matter.

It all comes back to big money in politics. These guys get bought and sold by billionaires because they don't want to pay tax. It stinks and everyone knows it and the longer it goes on the less people vote, the less they believe in democracy and the stronger authoritarians get. Democracy is on the brink because of Jeffries and people like him.

Normally I'd be skeptical of a party like this having a chance, but those sign-up figures are insane, 650 k is huge! The last published Labour membership figures were about one third of that.

Outsider parties have the power to mobilize inactive voters and move the overton window even if they don't end up winning. If you care about this sort of thing now is the time to promote it and sign up and donate. Elections are mass psychology, if you're always going with the flow you don't get to change anything.

That's the most on-brand thing they've ever done.

Mamdani is a great candidate and he only seems to get shallow or dishonest criticism. When he talks policy it's straight forward, sensible and makes economic sense, but his critics talk about him like he's chairman Mao. Totally out of proportion and probably has a lot to do with corporate finance in politics and the DNC specifically.

Meanwhile Booker refuses to endorse Mamdani. Billionaire class solidarity transcends party politics.

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Some people who don't know any better would say that poor Jeff innovated the world into a better place by inventing Amazon, that he's being justly rewarded by the free market.

But Amazon became so successful because it killed off all of it's competitors - not through a better service, but using investor capital to artifically lower it's prices, systematically targeting it's rivals and taking them over.

Amazon is so profitable because it has killed the market and replaced it with itself, and the tech giants and uber and so on are doing exactly the same thing.

So turn it into a co-op, let it's workers decide if they can piss on the clock or not. Give it's sellers a say in whether they want to pay 40% markup and hidden fees to get pushed to the top of front page. Amazon abuses workers, businesses and the market - this is a great solution to a problem that everyone ought to have, regardless of politics.

Maybe if education and news media continue to degenerate they'll become too stupid to know any better.