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@sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com

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Dave@mediocredave.bsky.social · 2w ago

Accusations of bias actually have specific content that can be assessed. The left attack the BBC for justifying a genocide, the right attack it for having too many black people on screen. These aren't equivalent extremes that cancel each other out leaving only the enlightened centre.

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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If there was a chance the new guys would be markedly different and better, about half of their MPs would be on TV right now going apeshit. They are not doing that, so we can conclude agreements have been reached and deals have been made, offscreen.

Suspect this is accurate. Burnham, Streeting et al aren't going to diverge dramatically from Starmer's hostility towards marginalised communities. Without a major u turn, scrapping the current raft of inhumane policies, and ditching those who pushed them, Labour is toast regardless of who is leader Mahmood set to remain Home Secretary under Burnham Labour MP expected to maintain her current portfolio if Starmer is ousted • ALT Le Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bs... • 1d The only reasonably confident predictions I will make regarding what happens after Starmer is out is that whoever gets in they will: 1) Likely keep Mahmood as Home Secretary 2) Definitely keep Mahmood's policies 3) Ignore anything they have ever said in the past defending trans rights
Naomi Colvin@auerfeld.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m not sure “this is totally different from the Suffragettes bc PA is a ‘covert organisation’ that supports its members who have been arrested” really holds water historically.

Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · 3mo ago

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

A Starbucks add that says 5/18: Tank Day! Slam it on your desk! And features a selection of coffee tumblers.
sprawld@sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 3mo ago

This is true, and I'm sure they're aware "this will replace jobs" goes down terribly with people. The pitch was aimed at their audience: CEOs and venture capitalists.

Micah@rincewind.run · 3mo ago

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

Jack@jackinpogform.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's astounding to me that we're 6 years into Starmer's project and this is only the second acknowledge I can remember from the liberal press that Starmer might actually be a horrible person.

One wonders if Westminster etiquette prevents Goodall from even considering the unpalatable alternative, which is that Starmer hasn’t improved people’s lives because he doesn’t want to, and the above gaffes show his instincts when in power are conservative. A wider interrogation of Starmer’s position on Gaza – which is only mentioned in passing as part of the reason for the loss in the Gorton and Denton byelection – and the authoritarian leanings of his response to protest, as well as a look at how Labour’s sources of funding have shifted from many small membership fees to relatively few corporate donations, might have created space for the idea that Starmer does have an ideology: to maintain the status quo, however angry this might make voters. It’s surely possible that the promise of change was a cynical lie, but this argument appears out of bounds
Dara O'Reilly@daraor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Credit to @jackseale.bsky.social for being perhaps the first mainstream journalist to even acknowledge the possibility that the reason Sir Keir Starmer has reneged on every promise he's made is because he's not a particularly good or honest person. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...