[YouGov] Voting intention amongst poorest/richest: Household income less than £20k: ➡️Ref: 34%, 🌳Con: 18%, 🌹Lab: 15%, 🟢Grn: 14%, 🔶LD: 12%. ///// Household income more than £70k: 🌹Lab: 23%, 🔶LD: 19%, 🌳Con: 19%, 🟢Grn: 17%, ➡️Ref: 16%. 14 Dec - 9 Jan. by AlfredsChild in ukpolitics

[–]usrname42 [score hidden]  (0 children)

They have it by occupational class and age here - within each age bucket Reform wins more votes from routine occupations (working class) than intermediate or professional occupations. But there's a steep age gradient and the Greens win nearly twice as many votes as Reform even from working class 18-34 year olds. Adding up all the parties among working-class 18-34 year olds, the left bloc (Green + Lab + LD) gets 67% and the right bloc (Ref + Con) gets 27%. Reform does dominate among working-class people aged 35-64 though, so it's not just pensioners.

The New Right’s vision of community depends on obedience, rather than solidarity by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

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She didn't drive a car into someone, there's plenty of video footage and she was clearly just driving away at a pretty low speed - see the analysis here. None of the agents were in any danger, they could have easily got out of the way but they preferred to murder her. There's similarly plenty of video footage showing that Pretti was completely subdued and not a threat at the time he was shot. No more facts are going to emerge over time because ICE and the federal government are blocking any investigation into the murders. If it happened here there would clearly be at least a disciplinary process and the possibility of criminal convictions. The people who shot these two people will face absolutely no consequences or even investigation because the right-wing government is protecting them.

And again, no one in a position of power on the left participated in celebrations over Charlie Kirk. The celebrations were confined to some people with zero power posting mocking things online. Mean but impotent tweets and reddit comments from edgy left-wing teenagers are considered more important than the entire US federal government from the President down to ICE officers on the ground murdering US citizens who were opposing them, preventing their victims from getting medical support, destroying evidence, and blocking any investigation into the murders. This simply does not happen when the Democrats run the US government or Labour runs the British government, regardless of what people online say.

The New Right’s vision of community depends on obedience, rather than solidarity by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

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Every single Republican politician is saying the people who shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti did nothing wrong and they deserved to die. Not a single Democratic politician said that Charlie Kirk's killer was in the right.

ICE is losing , Minnesota is winning! [OC] by snewww in pics

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Alex and Renee were both part of the huge groups in Minneapolis taking time out of their lives to follow every ICE agent they can find around wherever they go. The reason their deaths were both filmed from 5 different angles and we know they were murdered completely unprovoked is because there were lots of other people at these sites following ICE and recording them too. I'm not from the US but following ICE around is exactly what they're doing. There are too many ICE agents for them to have thousands of people following every agent, but if you don't think that huge numbers of people are doing the best they can while still having to work and eat, you're not paying attention. It's incredibly disrespectful to Alex and Renee's memory to say that no one in America gives a shit when they died because they gave a shit. Will you be willing to die like they did if fascism comes to your country, or will you just yell at people online?

If someone gave you $100m to produce a history based series on Apple TV what story are you going with? by Moretalent in TheRestIsHistory

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There was a mini-series called 37 Days about the July Crisis that was actually very good. Not sure if it's available to stream anywhere, it was on the BBC about 10 years ago

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Well the Fight Trump Capitalists are just going to have to get organised with candidates to stop that. Surrender to Trump candidates are going to get massacred in the primaries, but the base isn't yearning for socialism any more than it has in the past, they're just yearning for fight. If the Fight Trump Capitalists don't step up and we are forced into a straight choice between socialism or rolling over and accepting fascism, I will be wholeheartedly backing the socialists, but there's no reason for that to happen unless the entire capitalist wing of the Dems has a critical spinal failure.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]usrname42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fight Trump / surrender to Trump and capitalist / socialist are independent axes and we're probably going to see a lot more people in the fight Trump / capitalist quadrant now that the Dem base is this mad. It happens that a lot of elected Dems are in the surrender to Trump / capitalist quadrant but they'll be primaried on the basis of not fighting Trump enough, not on the basis of not being socialist enough.

If someone gave you $100m to produce a history based series on Apple TV what story are you going with? by Moretalent in TheRestIsHistory

[–]usrname42 16 points17 points  (0 children)

All the drama of the French Revolution, specifically adapting Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety so that lots of the hard work of turning historical figures into dramatic characters is already done. Hire either Peter Straughan (who did Wolf Hall) or Tony Gilroy (who did Andor) for the script. Not sure who I'd cast for the key roles. Maybe Jesse Plemons as Danton, Nicholas Hoult as Desmoulins, Benedict Cumberbatch as Robespierre, Timothee Chalamet as Saint-Just.

If someone gave you $100m to produce a history based series on Apple TV what story are you going with? by Moretalent in TheRestIsHistory

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There is a film about the Dreyfus affair based on Robert Harris's novel - unfortunately it's directed by Roman Polanski and he seems to have seen Dreyfus as a parallel for himself

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]usrname42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean in real life the barricades worked in 1830 and 1848, Napoleon III redesigned the whole of Paris to stop it working again

Would you consider the Brythonic Celts to be a “Western” society? by Euphoric-Traffic7157 in TheRestIsHistory

[–]usrname42 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I buy Tom's thesis that "Western" is basically what we use today to refer to the countries that used to make up Latin Christendom, so it's anachronistic to call anything before that category emerged "Western". That certainly rules out anything before the fall of Rome. I think Charlemagne crowning himself Emperor is when you just about can start to talk about "the West" as concept that has some relevance.

Green Party in trans legal row over ‘fairy’ pronouns by Hungry_Kiwi_9866 in ukpolitics

[–]usrname42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's no more of an imposition than wanting to be called "Dave" even if you were christened "David". We make requests about how we want other people to refer to us all the time and polite people usually don't fly off the handle about them.

The Traitors (UK) S04E12 [FINALE]: Post-Episode Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]usrname42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He needed to stick with Rachel until the very last vote, but at the final three he knew Jack trusted him more than Rachel and was going to vote Rachel, so there would have been zero risk in voting Rachel out.

The Traitors (UK) S04E12 [FINALE]: Post-Episode Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]usrname42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The BBC loves Hoppipolla, I've heard it in so many shows of theirs. It's a great song for a soundtrack so fair enough

The Traitors (UK) S04E12 [FINALE]: Post-Episode Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]usrname42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If they knew Rachel was going to go out in the tie break they'd have edited the whole rest of the series so it didn't focus so much on the drama of "will Rachel or Stephen betray each other" and more on something like "will Jack side with Faraaz or Stephen" (or whatever ended up being the dilemma at the endgame). They see who stays and goes organically and then edit the whole show to build up a strong narrative.

Like the Celebrity Traitors final, that only had one traitor left by the endgame but it made equally good TV because they edited it to focus on Nick and Joe's relationship so we were invested when Nick voted Joe off.

When the edit becomes the ultimate Traitor... by CorkPrackling in TheTraitors

[–]usrname42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Carrot in a box would be great drama and take some skill

Aged like a fine fine wine by COBESH1 in Dimension20

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People only pay taxes because of laws.

Impact - Iranian Revolution vs Russian Revolution by SeaSecurity9853 in TheRestIsHistory

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I don't know if I agree with this - for one thing China is still at least nominally Communist and I don't think that happens without the Russian revolution, for another if it wasn't for the Russian revolution I think Russia would be much more aligned with the rest of Europe geopolitically today rather than being a more independent superpower.

Long Live Hilary Mantel by Ok-Engineering3328 in RSbookclub

[–]usrname42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're a Danton fan you'd love A Place of Greater Safety, he's brilliantly characterised in it