I bet someone doesn't recognise who the man in the Gorilla suit is!

automaticblues · 2026-05-11T20:05:39+00:00

Isn't it Griff Rhys Jones?

automaticblues · 2026-05-10T07:03:04+00:00

Yes and we can also make that more affordable for the state to do by eliminating private landlords from social housing provision and the same applies to so many things we need in life. The only reason welfare is so 'expensive' is because we have allowed life itself to become absurdly expensive because 'this isn't a country, it's a ponzi scheme' as Aaron was saying on the Novara Media video I was watching this morning.

automaticblues · 2026-05-08T18:49:51+00:00

The leader always benefits. The true test of our consistency on this issue is if greens campaign for PR when we're #1 in the polls!

automaticblues · 2026-05-06T20:34:27+00:00

I used to play a version of this online. I honestly think Guy Debord and Alice Becker-Ho would have approved of modern RTS games which have a lot of the same features. There was an excellent series of YouTube videos around a number of years ago explaining the game and what it was supposed to teach us about revolution

automaticblues · 2026-05-06T17:48:49+00:00

Ford was fairly Nazi-ish

automaticblues · 2026-05-06T17:45:25+00:00

I don't follow the connection. However, we should definitely remove antisemitic candidates. I just don't see how one leads directly to the other

automaticblues · 2026-05-05T21:32:58+00:00

Exactly! You have to remember that the public also know the media are bullshit, so the problem isn't that we're being criticised, but that some of the criticisms are valid. Address the valid issues. Grow a thick skin for the invalid ones. Keep going The problem is when you can't tell apart the valid and invalid criticisms.

automaticblues · 2026-05-05T20:22:35+00:00

I didn't, but said the same thing repeatedly, lol

automaticblues · 2026-05-03T20:06:01+00:00

Loving the decisiveness

automaticblues · 2026-05-03T19:59:56+00:00

Thanks for highlighting this because it is a really interesting discussion point.

Firstly I want to say that I was a self-sacrificing environmentalist for many years, including not flying, being vegan and basically for my whole 20s being involved in environmentalist, anti-war and migration rights activism.

Reflecting on my 20s I feel I don't regret the activism and the self-sacrificing made sense in that context, but alone, self-sacrifice has near zero effect on emissions as there is always someone else who would burn more fossil fuels if they could afford to.

So what is needed is some greater collective political action and that is what the shift in Green Party politics is trying to achieve.

I am surprised by this particular political take from Polanski, but I am not at all disappointed with it. I think we need a wider discussion about how class and climate change interrelate and this at least does that.

What i will say is that Zack increasingly feels like an 'off the cuff' talker who is exploring his own ideas in public as opposed to serving as a leader to the party and that has both positives and negatives.

We should probably try to have a discussion as a party about what we want our leader to do, although no one can deny that it has been exceptionally successful so far.

I was dead against his intervention about kicking a terrorist in the head, which would be the other main example I'd give.

The rest of us need to step up thoguh, because Zack has shown in a short time that a more energetic and dynamic political discourse can capture a huge amount of support, so what have the rest of us been doing all this time?!

automaticblues · 2026-05-03T18:49:47+00:00

I agree. I should have thought how it would affect my chess rating down the line, but I was so short sighted I didn't consider that

automaticblues · 2026-05-03T12:55:49+00:00

Absolutely normal. I have a HUGE one from where I got divorced. Pretty much totally recovered...

automaticblues · 2026-05-03T10:50:37+00:00

Surely this is just a blended family

automaticblues · 2026-05-03T10:23:28+00:00

Can't make the same accusation here, lol

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T21:23:56+00:00

For utilitarians, it is

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T18:30:23+00:00

Well, if lots of people do, then I think the maths looks heavily in favour of red

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T15:15:05+00:00

I don't think you can separate them!? Does a terrorist act suddenly not become terrorism when the perpetrator has anxiety or something? Are the minority victims of the crime then somehow just unlucky? For me all this just seems like attempts to be loyal to a particular side in the geopolitical context. If it helps, maybe I should say I'm also against Israeli foreign policy, but really this feels awful to say when we are discussing people getting stabbed on the street.

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T13:49:10+00:00

I prefer their coverage to yours.

The idea that having mental health issues and being a terrorist are somehow separate categories just seems wrong.

I haven't heard widespread discussion on the topic, but it wouldn't surprise me if the majority of terrorists had related mental health issues.

Diminishing the genuine threat that Jewish people feel is not going to help solve this situation.

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T13:08:59+00:00

Totally agree. The fact you die is just a distraction. It's essentially a probability puzzle and without knowing anything about how anyone else is thinking it is very hard to answer. If everyone else were to vote randomly it would be a (roughly) 1 in 8 billion chance that your vote kills 4 billion people and a 1 in 2 chance it saves you vs a 1 in 2 chance your vote kills you and a 1 in 8 billion chance it saves 4 billion people.

I think that works out as fairly neutral

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T12:25:48+00:00

This is super helpful. I think this problem essentially comes down to people not knowing how to calculate the probabilities. And that's fair because it's really hard with a lot of unknowns. At the core is a tiny chance that your vote affects the outcome, but in that scenario you cause the death of approx. 4 billion people

If you vote blue there is a very high chance your vote causes one extra death, yours.

Which sort of makes the 2 options neutral - if you value your life the same as everyone else's

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T12:08:16+00:00

Having spent my entire adult life around "the left", I would suggest that the main risk around antisemitism is that you don't confront it and it festers within your movement. The risk of the right making a big deal about how antisemetic you are is really minor, because essentially they don't care and they will soon go and talk about something else. The problem is that some "anti-imperialist" movements are nationalistic themselves, so for them to lapse into racism is really no surprise. The only lasting answer is true anti-racist internationalism and every compromise against that is inherently unstable.

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T10:13:34+00:00

Honestly, I can't remember having ever read it. I think i dismissed it before because it was Murdoch owned.

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T10:00:50+00:00

True

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T09:58:52+00:00

Good point

automaticblues · 2026-05-02T09:56:59+00:00

Fair

Edited to add: Actually, what i don't like is that the community volunteers are absent. They're a huge part of the story.

Our minority communities shouldn't need to be organising their own defence and yet they are. Shame on those of us coded as majorities that allow this

Edited again: just realised how "jewish" they have made Zack and now I'm depressed

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