Looks like Republicans are the real groomers. Once again, projection is behind all of the hot air in their manufactured culture tantrums
#conservatives
Conservatives hate science and hate the word science as if it's a dirty word
Bill would ban the teaching of scientific theories in Montana schools - 1st, Montana considers outlawing #electricvehicles, now this? Has the state gone entirely crazy? It appears so.
#education #science #teaching #schools #conservatives #conservativemadness #rightwing #antieducation #montana
Bill would ban the teaching of scientific theories in Montana
One in 10 #Tory #peers have given more than ÂŁ100,000 to party | #Conservatives | The Guardian
Not only is the #HouseOfLords #undemocratic, it is packed with corrupt peers.
First, "Pro-Trump intellectuals" is an oxymoron unless the "intellectuals" in question have a decidedly nefarious purpose.
Oh look, they do!
Just goes to show that intelligence does not imply good intentions.
One thing the Trumpers got right is that they recognized the reality that intelligence (or rather, privilege) does not imply good intentions: They (like the rest of us) know that the rich and powerful (some of whom are intelligent) are out to fuck us.
But where they went wrong, in their simplified Disney World view of how the universe works, is that therefore all intelligent/educated/informed/liberal people are evil.
The reason this headline, "Pro-Trump Intellectuals", is so shocking is precisely because most smart people are also smart enough to be ethical. Many smart folk may hesitate to contemplate the fact that many smart people are not ethical.
For our current purposes, what matters is that some dangerously smart people feel emboldened to explicitly espouse fascism in a form they know the rubes won't recognize as such.
We must not assume our adversaries are idiots, even while the likes of MTG would tempt us to do so. Yes, the foot soldiers are mouth breathing idiots who can't tie their own shoes or wipe their own asses. They are racist, sexist, homophobic, hyper-religious zombies, but they are being led by a group of wealthy, intelligent, powerful, psychopathic motherfuckers who will do anything to get what they want.
It's not the pro-Trump morons we should be afraid of.
Pro-Trump intellectuals think voters are 'too far gone' — and they must discard democracy to save America: analyst
I hate to laugh, but the "Surprise" of people watching the right wing coalition government in Sweden "delaying" almost every promise they made about making life easier for ordinary people, is just too funny to ignore!
Article after article there are reports of Trump style changes to Swedish budget, the plans to tackle the inflation, cuts of anything related to environment and even culture on Swedish media.
The "people" are surprise and "shocked" by the betrayal of the conservative PM and his neo-Nazi backers from SD.
The cherry on the cake was the words of Ulf Kristersson about "being OK for foreign nations to have nuclear weapons carrying ships when they visit Sweden". Which made the hypocrite Social democratic former PM to act "shocked" and "upset" that Kristersson made such "decision" without first discussing it with them!
The speed of changes enforced by the right wing coalition is something new, even for the loonies like M and SD, but it seems like they are in a hurry to many changes as possibly can to the rules and laws of the previous government in the shortest possible time.
Gone is the small stipend to those repairing their bikes to use it to commute. Gone is the free entrance to museums. Gone is the subsidies for Electric cars. And in a short time, they will also announce massive cuts in many parts of the government dealing with culture, environment and civil rights (if the roomer are true, which usually are).
All I have to say to those who are acting surprise, remember the old Swedish provenb:
- Some man bäddar, får man ligga (you go to sleep in the bed you have laid down).
Enjoy the results of your vote to" stop the immigrants taking your money" and "getting massive discount on gas prices"!
You have 4 more years of this ahead of you!
#Sweden #Economy #Politics #Conservatives #Culture #Environment
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppskjutna-valloften-i-allvarstygnd-budget
Blocking roads isn’t crazy – It’s our last hope that sanity will prevail
Jonathan Cook (Middle East Eye)
A lack of public concern in the West at dealing with the impending climate catastrophe isn’t accidental. It’s been engineered.
COP27, the United Nations’ annual climate conference attended by world leaders, kicked off in Egypt at the weekend in the midst of a wave of civil disobedience actions in the UK.
The protests have been led by environmental groups such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, and come as oil giants have announced massive profits from surging energy prices caused by the Ukraine war, and new reports show catastrophic climate change is soon to reach a tipping point, becoming irreversible. (...)
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Protesters, with their necks padlocked together, block the road as they take part in a protest by Just Stop Oil climate activists at Piccadilly Circus, London, on 9 October 2022 (AFP)
Most of these actions have been ignored by the media or dismissed as the antisocial posturings of individuals divorced from the concerns of ordinary people. (...)
But the criticism most widely hurled at these various forms of direct action is that they are counterproductive, that they antagonise ordinary people and make them stop listening.
There is an obvious rejoinder. No one appeared to be listening before the activists took to the streets. Endless scientific warnings have made little impact on public discourse. The establishment media have paid only lip service to the dangers, even as the effects on the climate have become harder to overlook. And governments have made placatory noises while doing nothing meaningful to reverse the collision course humanity is on with the planet. (...)
The World Meteorological Organization, meanwhile, noted that the three greenhouse gases have reached record highs, with methane – the biggest offender – showing the largest year-on-year jump.
Civil disobedience is a symptom not of the climate crisis – nature won’t listen to the protesters – but of the inaction that continues to be the default position of governing political elites, as well as the billionaire-owned media that is supposed to serve as a watchdog on their power. (...)
The establishment media is playing a crucial part in twisting social and political priorities. Every time it focuses on the inconvenience caused by the climate protests – or the potential risk of someone dying in an ambulance caught in a hold-up – it is downplaying what are already the tangible, lethal consequences of the climate emergency. (...)
Nonetheless, the claim that there is widespread antipathy in Britain towards acts of civil disobedience on the climate is greatly overstated – and by the very same media outlets determined to play down the climate crisis. (...)
Despite this, the rightwing Conservative government in London has been progressively eradicating the right of protest – precisely to prevent actions to highlight its continuing crimes against the planet.
A spate of recent legislation has been designed to criminalise any expression of dissent. (...)
Actions like glueing oneself to railings, sitting in a road, obstructing fracking machinery or tunnelling can result in up to three years’ imprisonment. “Disruption prevent orders” can be issued to anyone who has attended a protest in the last five years, banning them from taking part in future demonstrations for two years. Activists’ freedom of movement can be limited by orders requiring them to wear an electronic tag or denying them entry to specified areas. (...)
One might have hoped that at least Britain’s opposition party would be vowing to reverse such draconian measures once in office. But Labour leader Keir Starmer has suggested he would legislate even stiffer penalties for those taking direct action on the climate. (...)
What all this represents is a shift over the past decade from one kind of political insanity – a denial, either implicitly or explicitly, of a climate crisis – to a different kind of insanity: official acknowledgment of a looming climate catastrophe but a refusal to do something meaningful to avert it. (...)
But even more troubling, wars seem to be increasingly useful as a distraction. (...)
In this way, wars helpfully deflect attention from the far bigger global crisis of the environment, one in which Western leaders cannot present themselves as the Good Guys – because they are, in fact, the worst, the greediest and the most destructive of the Bad Guys.
The endless War on Terror has served this purpose all too well over the past two decades, when the climate crisis should have been the world’s top priority. (...)
Instead the constant chatter in western capitals, on TV and in the press, is about how to find new ways to generate gas and oil for public consumption to overcome the energy crisis, not how to wean ourselves off these climate-destroying fuels. (...)
But in a world of self-inflicted collapse, Putin is no more insane than his western counterparts. In truth, the only sane people are those trying to wake up everyone else, whether by glueing their hands to the road, climbing bridges or hurling soup at paintings.
> See also: Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis (Media Lens)
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#SteveBell on the #Conservatives and #ClimatePolicy – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
Marking as #NSFW on grounds of taste.
#UK #Politics #Satire #RishiSunak #BorisJohnson #JeremyHunt #GavinWilliamson #SuellaBraverman
For your amusement
New conservative 'The Right Stuff' dating app has some amazing reviews
American conservatives are wannabe Russians
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Why Trump and the other MAGAts are so eager to suck Putin's junk
'Conservative' now just means 'hates America' and CPAC made that brutally clear
FTA: “Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed on children in our schools from the primary grades?” asked Putin. “To be drummed into them that there are various supposed genders besides women and men, and to be offered a sex change operation?”
That quote was from Vladimir Putin but it could just as easily have come from any "good Christian American" MAGAt.
... Putin not only claimed that primary school kids are being offered gender reassignment surgery, he declared that America was denying the proper role of men, plotting the “overthrow of faith and traditional values,” killing religious freedom, and creating “a reverse religion that is outright Satanism.”
These people are all on the same page. The war in Ukraine (and innumerable other atrocities) are what you get when MAGAts are in charge of shit.
#Politics #Conservatives #Degeneracy #Fascism #Ignorance #Fear
Meist kommt die Säuberungswut aus der konservativen Ecke und richtet sich gegen Bücher, die #Rassismus oder #LGBT -Themen behandeln. Der Vorwurf lautet dann, die Schüler würden mit Inhalten der «Critical Race Theory» indoktriniert, das heisst, den weissen Kindern werde ein schlechtes Gewissen vermittelt oder die sexuellen Inhalte der Bücher seien nicht altersgerecht. Gegnern der Verbote wird dann entweder vorgeworfen, sie würden zum Rassenhass gegen Weisse anstacheln oder sie wollten die Kinder sexualisieren und dann missbrauchen (die «Grooming»-Unterstellung).
Auffällig oft landen #Bücher von afroamerikanischen, hispanischen oder homosexuellen Autoren auf dem Index, die sich im weitesten Sinne mit Minderheiten beschäftigen. Gelegentlich kommen die Zensurbestrebungen aber auch von links; sie richten sich meist gegen ältere Bücher, denen eine stereotype Darstellung von Schwarzen vorgeworfen wird. Die Hatz ist Teil der amerikanischen Polarisierung und des Kulturkampfes, in dem alles politisch instrumentalisiert und ausgeschlachtet wird.
https://www.nzz.ch/international/cancel-culture-in-den-usa-lesezirkel-fuer-verbotene-buecher-boomen-ld.1701022 #usa #conservatives #bannedbookclub #literatur #gesellschaft #bildung
#HMRC issues winding up petition against #PPE firm linked to #Tory peer | #Conservatives | The Guardian
#Corruption is alive and well in the #UK and this is the result.
Puppet one or puppet two,
The system has a choice for you,
Puppet Brown or puppet White,
Be sure to get your choices right.
Puppet blue or puppet red,
No other choice for you instead,
Puppet Right or puppet Left,
Of principles they are bereft.
Puppet women puppet man,
Believe the puppets if you can,
Puppet young puppet old,
Vote for puppets like you're told.
#rishisunak #liztruss #conservatives #ukconservatives #conservatism #conservativeparty #leadership #uk #britishconservatives #toryparty #usa #britishpolitics #ukpolitics #puppets #westerncivilization #nietzscheanism #plutocraticelites #scions #elitism #judeoangloamericanempire #eu #un #westernpoliticians #westernpolitics #corporatism #corporatocracy #wef #worldeconomicforum #builderberg #globalism #globalists
The big #problem with #British #politics is that it doesn't exist. #Read some #political #history and #philosophy and you'll soon realise there is a de facto one party state in the #UK.
#Conservatives = neoliberal-globalists.
#Labour = neoliberal-globalists.
#LibDems = neoliberal-globalists.
#Green = neoliberal-globalists.
#ScotsNats = neoliberal-globalists.
The only real choice is the #colour.
The Conservatives #conserve nothing, grow #government, permit mass #immigration, support #speech crime, support thought #crime, increase #regulations, support "#multiculturalism", support "LGBTQIA+", hate #autochthonous British people, borrow #money at interest, print #currency, support #globalism, support foreign #wars, support net zero, support offshoring #industry, take part in #cronyism, don't support free market #capitalism, want to give illegal #migrants #amnesty, support the #corrupt #Ukraine puppet government, supported illegal #lockdowns, supported illegal #medical #mandates, supported #unscientific mask wearing, support illegal on-the-spot #fines, support #biometricID, support ignoring #paedophilia, support ignoring crime #statistics regarding #race, support the World Economic Forum, support #agenda2030, support "the great reset", support low #birthrates, support #miscegenation and support #depopulation.
Labour support everything the so-called Conservatives do and they don't support the #working classes and in-fact appear to hate the autochthonous British working classes and consider them, in the words of Jack Staw, a people "not worth saving."
Lib Dems are neither #Liberal, in the classical sense, or #Democratic. They wanted to overturn the #EU #referendum and reject the Democratic #vote on membership and they're #neoliberals, which is a philosophy that includes attacks on classical Liberal concepts like free speech, free thought and free inquiry. They also support everything the so-called Conservatives and Labour party do.
#Greens support the the reduction of #CO2 from the current 400ppm to zero, which will kill all life on #Earth as it will prevent #photosynthesis occurring, therefore preventing #plants growing and eliminating them as a food for #humans, #insects and #animals, destroying the food chain and the Earth's #biosphere. They don't understand how the #climate or biosphere works and are ostensibly useful idiots for plutocratic #elites and big #corporations. They also support everything the so-called Conservatives, Labour party and Lib Dems do.
The #SNP wants to take #Scotland out of the UK union and give the Scots "#independence" by signing them up to EU union. Essentially all this does is transfer dependency from #London to #Brussels and exchanges the #English for the Franco-Germans. Scotland will be no more independent and in some ways even more dependant. The SNP also support everything the other neoliberal-globalist parties do too.
In short, there is no political #choice beyond colour because there is no meaningful differentiation between political philosophies, or outcomes of voting. Whatever party you vote for, you get the same policies, the same lies, the same #corruption, the same #cronyism, the same #sophistry, the same national trajectory, the same everything, only with some minor and ostensibly superficial differences in packaging and delivery.
British politics is a total #farce that doesn't even engage in any recognisable political #debate because other than faux ad hominems, jeering and lip-service to non-existent political #principles there's nothing to debate, because they all agree...
#truss #sunak #johnson #tories #conservatives #starmer #labour #democracy #brexit #westminster #politics #UK
Toot Redux (first published 12th February 2017)
#truss #sunak #johnson #tories #conservatives #democracy #contrast #brexit #westminster #politics #UK
Toot Redux (first published 22nd July 2019)