We’ve even had an “Evil must be opposed!” moment.

Gee, maybe you should have spent more time improving the lot of everyday people and less time playing footsie with billionaires?

A lot of neoliberal erstwhile-progressives are about to find out the consequences of selling out their principles for a seat at the rich kids’ table.

Most of Europe’s already found this out, Biden and Trudeau are looking at the same thing, and I expect Starmer will be out on his ass after four years of failing to help the poor and middle class, as he’s so busy right now assuring everyone that he’s not a socialist like Corbyn.

All those gains that were made in the 2010s? We’re at real risk of losing them as corporations try and triangulate their way to maximum revenue.

After Anheueser Busch welched, the right smelled blood in the water.

The progressive left is going to need to fight very hard and make a lot of allies because we’re so very close to snapping back to the 1990s, if not the 1950s.

Coincidentally, that’s what using it is like, too. :)

To be fair, that’s a British style of writing. It’s a loaded word in North American journalism, but neutral in the UK.

This would be accurate if they ever cared about neonatal or prenatal health… They don’t.

Infant mortality being sky-high is completely fine. Mothers with no supports, nutrition, or health care? Fine. A baby can die in utero as a result of neglect and they’d say it was God’s will, or rather that it’s God’s will that they not pay taxes for health care.

Ugh…

How did PCs beat out the Amiga, Mac and ST with nonsense like that?

I won’t say I didn’t have a bit of schadenfreude when Fort McMurray burned.

I agree, but to some degree, people own their government, and this government is, more than many, responsible for much of the causes of climate change.

I’d say the same thing if Florida sinks into the sea, or South Texas and Louisiana are swamped, or north Alberta catches fire.

Apropos of nothing, Saudi Arabia is the definition of a petro-state.

Chickens. Coming home. Roosting. Etc.

It’s hysterical to hear right-wing commentary about how New York Democrats are socialist Marxist communist hippies when the reality has much more goose-stepping to it.

It’s amazing how only one side doesn’t want to appear partisan, while the other one is openly talking about jailing opponents, dissidents and the media…

…and we’re still getting “both sides” bullshit.

When you say that the keyboard works: do the brightnesss, mute and volume controls do what they’re supposed to do?

HP laptops–at least business-grade ones–are notorious for sending nonstandard scan codes and requiring custom drivers.

More like seventy five cents, given Google’s profit margins.

Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

Because the political left got enamoured with corporate cash and forgot that they’re ostensibly a labour party. The spent the post-Soviet era indulging on third-way neoliberalism.

Heck, several of them are more actively hostile to actual leftist economics. Labour in the UK fought its own voters and threw elections over Corbyn, the Democratic Party in the US hates the Sanders wing more than it hates Republicans and the Canadian NDP voted for a fundraiser instead of actual lefties.

And in doing all this, they ceded working class politics to protofacists.

The populist right is quite happy to talk about “kitchen-table” issues.

The problem is that they usually don’t offer real solutions, preferring to says stuff like “immigrants are going to steal your kitchen table, and only I can stop them! Vote for me! Ein Reich Ein volk Ein gott!”

They might truly only care about corporations, but they lie very well.

Do more for the poor.

It’s really that simple. Do more for more people, and less for corporations. Deliver results.

That’s why the Right is eating everyone’s lunch: they’re promising they’ll make things better. They’re lying, of course, and their path to making things better is just basic scapegoating of out- groups, but at least they’re speaking to people’s insecurities, where the neoliberal left is clinking glasses with billionaires.

Tribal psychology is a helluva drug.

Because dying for GDP is the only thing that matters.