Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.
For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.
This is it: low income folks that graduated in '94 were the last to get full student grants and no fees to pay + renting was relatively way cheaper too.
Liberals don’t want truth or justice, they want a self serving narrative that disguises their contempt for people they feel are beneath them.
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I’ve been subscribed to Private Eye for about 22 years now. I don’t think it has changed all that much in that time. It’s not as apolitical as it would claim I think because it suffers from a little bit of Capitalist Realism. It doesn’t pull its punches regardless of who it sets its sights on however I feel it fails to tie together overarching themes.
Which gives superficial comfort as it gives scant protection from how aggregate data is used to upend democracy.
“Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies,” she added.
And that’s different to American companies how? None of this climate of data harvesting is currently good for us.
That’s uh…what she said?
A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.
My partner would have been haggling that vendor down to a £1.
Maybe so. I don’t remember the packaging half as clearly as I do the crappy chocolate.
I think I remember these. They were a low quality chocolate stick wrapped in paper. I didn’t like them. I think I got that they were preying on kid’s desire to ape adult behaviours but I may be conflating a decade of memories.
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They’d just ‘devide’ up their businesses into a chain of symbiotic entities defined by paygrade. Then the executive level can enrich itself insulated from us front line grunts.
Devide
verb
Obsolete form of divide.
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Oh look, here comes FlyingSquid.
I worked in a private library that still had it’s card catalogue up until 2005. People were always ripping out the cards (there was something like a metal knitting needle that passed through a punched hole in each card to stop idiots from destroying the catalogue, so the gobshites ripped them out instead).
The early digital catalogues weren’t great so the old card system persisted.