Gee, maybe you should have spent more time improving the lot of everyday people and less time playing footsie with billionaires?

A lot of neoliberal erstwhile-progressives are about to find out the consequences of selling out their principles for a seat at the rich kids’ table.

Most of Europe’s already found this out, Biden and Trudeau are looking at the same thing, and I expect Starmer will be out on his ass after four years of failing to help the poor and middle class, as he’s so busy right now assuring everyone that he’s not a socialist like Corbyn.

Does it work the other way? Can I follow Threads users without being on threads.net myself?

Coincidentally, that’s what using it is like, too. :)

To be fair, that’s a British style of writing. It’s a loaded word in North American journalism, but neutral in the UK.

I won’t say I didn’t have a bit of schadenfreude when Fort McMurray burned.

I agree, but to some degree, people own their government, and this government is, more than many, responsible for much of the causes of climate change.

I’d say the same thing if Florida sinks into the sea, or South Texas and Louisiana are swamped, or north Alberta catches fire.

Apropos of nothing, Saudi Arabia is the definition of a petro-state.

Chickens. Coming home. Roosting. Etc.

They don’t think of working class people as people.

They’re things, abstracted away from empathy.

There’s a solution for this: socialized medicine.

It works literally everywhere else in the world.

Doesn’t Mint use native packages where Ubuntu is snap-happy?

Flip a few more of these and Fetterman can sit and fume.

David Brooks and George Will’s frozen corpses will pave the way to hell.

Wait, the threat to capitalism from the modern Democratic Party, which is a bunch of weak-kneed neoliberal do-nothings, is worse than the threat of fascism from a guy who said he’s willing to use the power of the state to punish enemies?

Ask the Russian oligarchs that fell down stairs, out of windows, ran into mysterious rains of bullets and/or drank radioactive tea how they feel about selling out democracy for profit.

Oh wait, you can’t ask them.

These nitwits don’t realize that even if they’re not the first line in Niemoller’s poem, they’ll at best be the last.

If there’s a saving grace, it’s that most of the modern Nazis are much older than their equivalents from 1936.

If there’s a downside, it’s that people in general live longer. Even modern-day Nazis.

Maybe y’all should have spent the time making things better for poor people in real, measurable ways, instead of fellating billionaires.

Maybe, just maybe, that would have avoided the rise of right-wing demagogues promising easy fixes for the problems created by the inaction of the neoliberal establishment.

But no, it was more important to make sure that the rich got richer than to worry about democracy.

When you say that the keyboard works: do the brightnesss, mute and volume controls do what they’re supposed to do?

HP laptops–at least business-grade ones–are notorious for sending nonstandard scan codes and requiring custom drivers.

More like seventy five cents, given Google’s profit margins.

Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

Because the political left got enamoured with corporate cash and forgot that they’re ostensibly a labour party. The spent the post-Soviet era indulging on third-way neoliberalism.

Heck, several of them are more actively hostile to actual leftist economics. Labour in the UK fought its own voters and threw elections over Corbyn, the Democratic Party in the US hates the Sanders wing more than it hates Republicans and the Canadian NDP voted for a fundraiser instead of actual lefties.

And in doing all this, they ceded working class politics to protofacists.

The populist right is quite happy to talk about “kitchen-table” issues.

The problem is that they usually don’t offer real solutions, preferring to says stuff like “immigrants are going to steal your kitchen table, and only I can stop them! Vote for me! Ein Reich Ein volk Ein gott!”

They might truly only care about corporations, but they lie very well.