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   Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 08:36:02 JST Jay Baker

   Also, anyone not familiar with the red Tory known as Sir Keir Starmer - a man who very clearly believes in nothing at all besides power - I'd recommend reading up on Jean Charles de Menezes, or Ian Tomlinson, or The Labour Files, or his Labour leadership campaign pledges. You know, I can despise a Tory, but at least they tell me they're a Tory. But one who leads a "democratic socialist" party, while purging democratic socialists from that party, and promoting the same policies as regular Tories? That's somehow so sickeningly worse. It's sinister, cynical, underhanded, and it's all based on an attempt to shift Labour to the right, which ultimately (as Danny Dorling has explained well) shifts the Tories further to the far right. It isn't going to be pretty. It'll be downright ugly, right from the very moment Sir Keir Starmer and his cronies celebrate their victory standing over the defeated democratic socialists, laughing at the smeared, hounded and ousted Corbynistas and declaring "We did it. We destroyed them. And we won." Well, fuck them. But never forgive them. And never forget them. Oh, no. Remember them, and oppose them wherever they are found. For they will never be a friend or an ally to you - unless, perhaps, you happen to own property or business, of course.

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     schtschur 🍉 no estramos solas (rad@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 08:48:30 JST schtschur 🍉 no estramos solas

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     What's with the XX20's and shit going down so quickly I can only wonder.

     Stay put out there. The world is going crazy and we'll have to somehow survive that.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 08:52:09 JST Jay Baker

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     What Starmer, like Sunak, wanted was a shift - away from the establishment's underestimated candidate that was Jeremy Corbyn and his mass mobilisation of the working class filling town squares and stadiums in their thousands for his rallies; away from what became the biggest swing to Labour since just after the Second World War (I remember witnessing, for the first time, lines outside polling stations, and dozens of young people queueing to vote *for* Corbynism). Starmer, Sunak et al hated that, even feared it. State politics being what it is, they found Corbyn's weaknesses: first, the democratisation of his own party membership who argued over a Brexit plan put together by Starmer himself; second, Corbyn's support for Palestine as they engaged in sickening, Orwellian, antisemitic weaponising of antisemitism - all aided and abetted by establishment media adding fuel to the fire of the smears (thus the openly antisemitic Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson retaining power). So now, instead, we get a lower vote turnout and/or reversal to "2020" politics: the election of cynically voting *against* someone, rather than *for* something. They prefer that, because it reduces choices back to "lesser of evils" and revolving door state politics, where power always wins...and capitalism continues.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 09:10:41 JST Jay Baker

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     Don't believe me? Just glance at the polls. It's not about support for Sir Keir Starmer, or his ideas (what few he does possess certainly don't inspire an electorate faced with an ongoing pandemic, devastating cost of living, and a climate crisis) - it is simply about wanting "the Tories out" (similar to how they wanted to "Get Brexit Done," the only real Tory policy presented at the last election in response to Corbyn's impressive and costed manifesto that got drowned out by that repeated mantra). The somewhat tragic irony of this is that a significant amount of the electorate (a minority of the population, mind you) who voted Tory to "Get Brexit Done" haven't enjoyed much the Tories have done, including Brexit itself getting done, and despite their perceived victorious switching of masters "from Brussels to Westminster" have learned little and are now prepared to switch back from Pepsi-Cola to Coca-Cola even while accepting that what they'll then get...will still be cola. It's bad for us. State politics is a cynical, dirty, and depressing game, and there is certainly much more joy to be found expending energy in direct democracy and our communities. Let's get on with it.

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     Brett Sheffield (he/him) (dentangle@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 19:48:51 JST Brett Sheffield (he/him)

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     @MediaActivist There are two people I hold responsible for Brexit more than any others: David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn.

     Cameron gambled the nation to try and quell an internal divide in his party, and lost.

     However, the one I blame most is the one who 3-line-whipped his supposed opposition party MPs to vote with the govt to trigger Article 50 before any plan had been tabled. There was no attempt to stand up for the 45% of the nation that opposed Brexit. For that, he can get in the sea.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 20:13:22 JST Jay Baker

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     @dentangle He probably wishes he'd been so forceful when it came to scum like Tom Watson who eventually led to his downfall. Corbyn's staunch belief in party political democracy was ironically his weakness. From his respect for his country's referendum result, to his respect for his party's internal democracy that led to a convoluted offering at the last election forced onto him by Starmer's "remainers."

     I'd always predicted that referendum result based on the fact that people go and vote for change rather than a status quo (part of my argument in this thread, too). I voted remain but was then appalled at certain people ignoring the result and the reasons for it (New Labour, ConDem austerity, etc) and wanting a re-run, not least when Corbyn could've fought for some sort of Lexit with Scandinavian features.

     Ultimately, it was all just BS, about choosing our masters, wasn't it? Corbyn had Scandinavian social democratic policies, but also wanted more cops on our streets. State socialism is a doomed concept, a contradiction in terms. Get them *all* in the sea. But especially Sir Keir Starmer, one of the biggest scumbags in party politics who makes Corbyn's Brexit machinations look like child's play, because he believes in nothing but power itself and who will doom us to greater disaster.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 20:54:15 JST Jay Baker

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     @Thebratdragon Yes! At this rate, we'll have to create a bloody reading list!

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     Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon (thebratdragon@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 20:54:16 JST Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon

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     @MediaActivist read up on his personal choice for general secretary and his data breaches after he sold the membership list to a company run by..... his wife.