'If you were an animal what animal would you be?' is hardly Conan/Dave Letterman level chat fun though, is it?
I'd probably choose chatgpt over that kind of conversation with colleagues.
Imagine Conan or Dave using 'if you were an animal what animal would you be?' as an opening gambit with a guest.
'I'll vote for people who support genocide if they will pass a little bit less publicly owned infrastructure into the hands of private capital' is a pathetic position to take.
It absolutely is not worthy of respect.
Clearly this premise, upon which your further exchanges are based, is complete bullshit.
You are a troll, presumably one for whom any response is a win. It gives you a little dopamine hit.
What a pathetic place to get to. There are a million ways to get a dopamine hit less pathetic than this, including all of the major addictive drugs.
Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea...
Presumably the other headline that read '50% of voters' were in favour of this party, should have read '50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party'
US (and in fact all 'Western') media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.
America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I'm not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don't engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.
I just meant the breadth of media coverage in the UK spans billionaire/Murdoch owned media on one side to the voice-piece of the British establishment itself, which is now little more than a proxy for the interests of capital, on the other.
As for the term 'antisemitism', well the Gazans being murdered by Israeli's are semites too.
But given the Israelis are committing a genocide - starving children then shooting them as they queue up for food - I don't think anybody really gives a fuck what Israelis or the people ultimately supporting the genocide in the UK media, or in UK political parties of every stripe, think about the people that oppose them. It is about being on one side of history or another.
An office-friendly version of this would greatly improve my well-being so productivity at work.
I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system
I bunged mine in the fridge, just drill a hole out of the side for the cables then use rubber sealant.
Yes let's see. I expect the media - billionaire owned on one hand, bbc on the other - will do the kind of job on him they did when he was leader of the labour party. He will become mired in claims of antisemitism (whatever that means these days), and whatever else they can throw at him and it won't go anywhere.
Capital drives the UK and capital does not want socialism. The media is in significant part crowd control.
It has been red tory v. blue tory since Blair took leadership in '93/'94.
It is more of less the same as the US (where it was red v blue republicans for a few decades and is now Republicans calling themselves 'Democrats' v. Christian Nationalist Fascists).
It is the natural continuation of Reaganite/Thatcherite neo-liberal capitalist ideology.
The outcome for the UK will be a lurch right as the poor vote for parties (Reform) who have used the immigration (that has caused serious legitimate problems for poor communities that simply can't afford to support the huge number of asylum seekers that have been dumped upon them) and other cultural issues of various legitimacy (imvho) that poor people have been coerced into finding important, as wedge issues.
Edit - obviously this lurch to the right is the opposite of what should happen but here we go. It is what fossil-fuel powered capitalists prefer to socialism and an egalitarian society any day.
America thinks it can run deficits to fund this sort of shit, and billionaire tax breaks. And it expects the world to buy US debt, in dollars, that the US prints, to at least partially pay for it.
Not only that, but Trump seems to not only expects this post ww2 economic order to continue, he seems to think this is going to happen while it not only withdraws military support to many of the people who financed the US's post war prosperity in this manner, but while he is actively supporting those people's enemies. Lol.
Under Trump the US is definitely heading for an economic collapse on the order of the collapse of the Soviet Union. When it happens, and how quickly is anybody's guess, but the post WW2 economic order (from which the US greatly benefited) is definitely, irrevocably done.
Debt is coming due.
;Yawns
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I know what socialising is, thanks.
I also know that chatgpt can be better than an asinine conversation with people I work with.