We are perhaps weeks away from finding out he’s making the WaPo journalists piss in bottles to meet quotas. He’s just that depraved about “”“efficiency”“”

Is his uncle like a 4 foot tall railroad tycoon in a comically oversized tophat or something

:ultra-keir-starmer-in-a-maoist-beret: “I welcome the Starmer proposal to minecraft all the leftist elements in the party, but I call on them to go further. We must root out even the soc-dems and the lib-dems, perhaps even the slightly left of centre technocrats. Even the right-wingers in favour of modest social spending should be cast out.”

Sounds the same as in Denmark, parties aren’t really accountable to anyone but the party leadership and since advancement inside the party is based on nepotism and ass-kissing, no-one rocks the boat too much when leadership decides to pivot.

It’s just wild to me sometimes that there’s no real way to do something like a vote of no-confidence among rank and file members, outside of the party getting their status/funding revoked by the state on account of not receiving enough votes. (Of course the lib response is to ‘change it from the inside if you don’t like it’, but that runs into the same issue again: if the internal party structure and culture promotes sycophants and weasel behaviour, nothing will change)

And now I realize yet again that I’m basically just rehashing what is to be done in a confused and less eloquent manner

Liberal politics is a fuck

Don’t political parties in the UK have some sort of charter or something that could be used to keep leadership accountable to their core values or can people just hijack them for whatever purpose? Like it seems so weird to have a party called Labour actively working against the interests of the working class.

I’m sure you’re just giving liberal politicians too much credit by assuming that they aren’t just craven slugs, willing participants in the hollowing out of society for profit. They don’t believe things will get generally better from privatization, they believe things will get better for them specifically.

Now why the average liberal voter believes in this shit, it’s probably just a mix of unconscious anti-communism and unexamined big-brain centrism that dictates that going to far either way would be too ‘extreme’ so a ‘mixed’ economy is by definition the best.

I’m sure they got that juche in them, but I also think public works projects just move very slowly here, there’s only like one metro line in Hanoi for almost 9 million people and I don’t think they’ve even completed the first one in Ho Chi Minh City yet after 12 years of construction.

Not that I can really point fingers, the Copenhagen metro began planning in '90, construction in like the mid 90’s and the first line wasn’t done until 2002 after something like a doubling of the budget and years of delays.

I took the high speed train from Chengdu to Chongqing a few months ago and it was so quick I barely had time to get comfortable, like less than 1,5 hours from buying the ticket to getting off at Chongqing station.

A few weeks ago I went from Hue in the middle of Vietnam to Hanoi on a train and it was literally never faster than 60 km/h twice the distance but it took like 16 hours, Vietnam really needs to suck it up and ask China to build their railway up.

me when I see a woman wearing pants

I’m assuming that this is poking fun at radlibs cosplaying as marxists while only advocating mild reforms in actuality (Jacobin etc.) I doubt Weinersmith knows any actual ML’s.

Beer

Passed my exams and now I can call myself a real chef

No contradiction there, the DPRK stands against fascists everywhere.

why do ex USSR/Warsaw Pact countries actively want to join NATO?

Because they are run by right-wing oligarchies that want to consolidate and protect their accumulated wealth and power? The imperialism is coming from inside the house.

They had to go hat in hand to the Egg Monopoly Lady every year to ask for a single egg for their New Years Celebration.