Reading it charitably, I think the point was that they stuck to the slogan (a perfectly noble one) as an expression of support for the government, long after it had become clear to everyone that the government wasn’t serving the workers any more, if it ever truly had been. Similarly, the rules-based international order is a noble idea that everyone still voices commitment to, though everyone has known for a while that it has nothing to do with what the imperial USA and its vassal states really do.

Yes, reading it charitably, the lie in the sign was the pretence that the government truly fought for the workers rather than looking after themselves.

That was one line that stuck out as being cheap and ill-consideted. I get the point he was making but the slogan was too tempting and rang ugly.

He is good at saying the right thing, and I think this was a significant speech historically. But Carney is a conservative neoliberal and will act like one. Canada needs to be forming new alliances and other countries need to realize they should do this too. He’s right about that. But internally Canada will become weaker and weaker without left social policies, and history shows that if you immiserate the people in a time of stress, you increase the appeal of fascist demagogues. Traitors like PP are standing by to take over when the people are desperate enough. Though Carney is far smarter and bolder than Keir Starmer, domestically he is taking the same risk of handing to country to the fascists by offering nothing for ordinary people who are struggling.

I could have happily watched that for a lot longer.

Every generation thinks the problems will go away when all the ignorant, reactionary old idiots die out, then half of them grow up to be ignorant, reactionary old idiots. The same with rich, self-serving assholes. They start out looking pretty normal so you don’t see them until they emerge mid-life from their cocoon of ruthlessly acquired wealth.

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Being able to live with yourself feels much better than always trying to hide from your own misdeeds.

Well said.

You’ve got to watch that impulse. Anyone can have it, and things never go as you expect.

Well it’s not like there are any glaring examples on the world stage of exactly how this combo can cause your country to plummet very rapidly into misery and violence from which it won’t recover.

They’ll get a surprise when they realize they just made every server in the UK illegal and stopped the economy. But perhaps “relevant devices” are only those owned by the plebs.

Some of them are frog-faced loudmouth wankers.

The problem with the Democratic Party is it’s full of Republicans.

Funding bill let Democrats make a statement without creating a standoff.

That’s a very optimistic way of saying “lets Democrats make a feeble token gesture of mild disagreement while still going along wholly with the fascist program.”

Who knew that real-life Big Brother would turn out to be as dreary and limp as Keir Starmer?

Tor gets better the more people run nodes. The main danger with Tor is that someone can control enough nodes to analyze traffic back to its source. The best insurance against that is loads of independently run nodes. I2p is less convenient than Tor but actually a little more secure against that kind of traffic analysis I believe.

Some P2P routing solution seems to be needed, along the lines of Tor or i2p but disguising its traffic. But no doubt they’ll be after any P2P communications next.

Are Linux, BSD, etc. about to become illegal in the UK? Good luck with that. It certainly seems to make GrapheneOS and all other privacy-preserving phone OSs illegal.

Stop asking the Baileys, Chuck. They’re full of shit.