Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Keir Starmer Is Very Serious About the Status Quo

“I do think people need hope, but it needs to be what I call ordinary hope, realistic hope,” Starmer told Pickard.

“Serious” is one of Starmer’s favorite words, and it is echoed by reporters. It’s certainly true that Britain and the world face a whole host of serious problems. The trouble is that Starmerism has absolutely nothing to offer when it comes to actually fixing them. On migration, he’s tacked to the right, promising to work with a potential National Rally (far-right) French government to stop small-boat movement. ​“For me, that’s what serious government is about. So yes, we will work with whoever,” he said. On climate, his Labour has jettisoned its pledge for £28 billion in green investment. A party named for labor has cut back its proposed New Deal for Working People.

Perhaps one of his ugliest swings has been to slide towards transphobia: a reminder that ​“seriousness” is at its core an appeal to white masculinity. Often, as Joe Kennedy pointed out in Authentocrats: Culture, Politics, and the New Seriousness, as a weak substitute for class politics. In this line of thinking, so common in the press, working-class people are too thick to understand complicated concepts and are terrified of anyone different from themselves; their material concerns are brushed aside, as they mostly were in Labour’s manifesto, in exchange for some perceived cultural red meat."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/britain-keir-starmer-corbyn-election-serious

#uk #unitedkingdom #starmer #transphobia #socialism

@a @TheEddieShow

It really is that simple.

Another BBC classic headline.

“Nurse left out of tea round given £41,000 payout”

“Left out of tea round” is doing a lot of work there given it’s actually “three years of sustained workplace bullying”.

I'm wondering what domain to buy for my word puzzle site. What do people think would work?

lol

For those of you who have a high-volume input channel and, recently, software offering to summarize it with AI… Do you summarize much/at all?

[Maybe boost for reach, really interested in the result here.]

#genai

@stephanetremblay @CatHerder @Remittancegirl @nullagent if those Black kids had rifles and waved BLM banners my money is on the cops chasing them off and/or arresting them. Most police organizations seem to be more interested in protecting rights that uphold white supremacy versus challenging it

DHH is an absolute Musk Cuck (I won't even link his awful blog post) - he lives in a completely different reality