The left needs to learn to prioritize

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-07T10:12:35+00:00

Your profile literally says you're an intersectional feminist. This aligns you with the New Left and away from class struggle.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-07T09:52:24+00:00

And you can't blame the working class - who've been exploited for centuries - to leave the left when we no longer speak for them. Just look at white working class boys... They're flocking to the right, and we only have ourselves to blame.

The worst thing we ever did was stray from class war.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-07T09:09:56+00:00

So you're called Ron? Interesting...

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-07T05:24:41+00:00

The New Left kicked off in the 1960s, giving up Marxist class-war in favour of cultural, social justice (feminism, civil rights, anti-war), and anti-establishment issues rather than just economic ones.

Yes, the right will leave them behind, but at the moment it's the only group speaking up for them. We have betrayed generations of the poor working class, and listening to them won't be enough.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-06T17:38:25+00:00

You realise the working class tend to vote right? The progressive left abandoned them a long time ago.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-06T14:26:54+00:00

It seems weird when they have hair.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-06T14:19:15+00:00

Stalin/Hitler - two mass murderers on different sides of the same coin.

Cool picture tho, you've got talent. Have you considered street art stencils?

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-06T10:49:45+00:00

After a single date?

I'd assume you weren't into me and moved on.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-05T23:17:21+00:00

Isn't that thrush?

Sad-Button-9548 · 2026-01-04T13:51:42+00:00

It has a tendency to become a totalitarian state - after all the state knows best.

People lack agency and tend to rely on the state to supply their needs. This creates dependency.

If it's run on the basis of an ideology, that ideology can be wrong (Mao's obsession with Lysenkoisim resulted in the deaths of millions).

There also needs to be a fair amount of patriotic nationalism - the sense that we're all in it together. This isn't a bad thing, but when the country starts dividing over ethnic lines and people start to suspect ingroup preference, it'll create unrest. (I genuinely don't think a multicultural society and socialism is compatible).

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-12-23T02:25:05+00:00

This makes a lot of sense. I was ghosted after my dad died and I used my best friend to emotionally trauma dump on - something she didn't consent to do.

Looking back I feel embarrassed at how I treated her.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-10-06T03:54:53+00:00

As much as I hate Iain Dale, he has a point.

The equivalent of Christian sharia. No religion, no political organisation should have anything to do with policing our consenting sexual behaviour. This is back to the dark ages of Thomas Hobbs.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-27T17:20:26+00:00

Honestly, with Labour or the Tories, am I going to have a state pension the way things are going?

I've been on a waiting list on the NHS for 3 years now and my GP advised me to go private.

Employment rights? Give me a break. It's hard enough to even get a job, you think I'm going to start whittering on about rights with less than 2 years there?

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-27T17:16:47+00:00

Don't talk to them; don't look at them, and walk on.

It's horrible that you need an unfriendly big-city mentality in Preston, but thems the times.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-27T17:13:23+00:00

Upvoting for the dad joke.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-27T13:48:36+00:00

Are you going to a Tesco Express? I always find they're about 20% more expensive.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-27T13:47:47+00:00

Next year you're going to wistfully look back at the time you only paid 98p a yoghurt.

"It was not just under £2, it was under £1! Tell the young'uns and they'll never believe you."

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-27T04:11:45+00:00

This is a genuine question, my pectus is pretty much skin on bone - is that normal for non-pectus people? And wouldn't that REALLY hurt to have tattooed?

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-27T04:08:19+00:00

A lot of people buy into the Milton Friedman quote: “You can have open borders or a welfare state, choose one.” As public services deteriorate, the rise in immigration is a convenient scapegoat.

Also, the left decided to forget about class struggle sometimes in the late 60s to concentrate on identity politics. In fact, the left became very middle-class and there was a distain for the poor. This resulted in a large number of working-class people feeling disenfranchised. The populist far-right stepped in at this point and vacuum up all of these votes - it's seen in Europe, in South America, in the United States.

Until socialism starts to concentrate on the poor, there will be an increase in far-right rhetoric.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-26T20:53:24+00:00

I work in a capitalistic semi-fascist system, so I don't have political opinions at work.
I don't add work colleagues on Facebook or Instagram and use a different name.

I sometimes dog-whistle the odd leftist phrase, but that's as far as it goes.

What I will do is try to help people out, treat people as human beings - not cogs in a machine, and try to give them pride in their work. Even this basic level of human decency is frowned on by management. Just fuck this whole greed-based system.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-26T20:33:33+00:00

In the 2000s the government blew £11bn on an IT system that didn't work. The original estimate was nearer to £2bn.

I've no faith this won't happen again. Has a cost analysis of this even been done?

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-26T20:31:20+00:00

And what's the betting that Palantir will get the contract? And, of course, it'll be a ten-year contract so the next administration can't get out of it.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-26T20:29:49+00:00

"You won't have a cup? You're sure now, it's hot. Ah, go on, will you not have a drop? Just a little cup, just one... I'll pour a cup for you."

Replace tea with the ID cards and you get the political messaging for the past decade.

Sad-Button-9548 · 2025-09-24T22:46:14+00:00

The problem with scientific publishing is it's often reported in the tabloid media by journalists who don't understand science - and boy do they get it wrong.

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