Discontent that will end the Tory Govt is coming

[bluethrunthru]

Society is dead. Empathy is a scarce resource these days.

Hunger games / Mad Max - what the extreme right want for the working class

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Hunger games / Mad Max - what the extreme right want for the working class

It’s not really the extreme right, it’s just a strategy that works now that education is so poor that critical thinking doesn’t exist in most of the population.

 

[bluethrunthru]

It’s not really the extreme right, it’s just a strategy that works now that education is so poor that critical thinking doesn’t exist in most of the population.

so keep the population thick and then moan about the lack of productivity from a bunch of thicko's - Jesus we are in the 18th century aren't we?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

so keep the population thick and then moan about the lack of productivity from a bunch of thicko's - Jesus we are in the 18th century aren't we?

Yeah, but with reality TV.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Winter is gonna be far worse, absolute fucking shambles.

 

[Blue Maverick]

You’ve got to be a particular **** to be a scab. Not support a strike; don’t lose any pay; reap the rewards of any such action. Immoral. “But who’ll think of the passengers / customers / patients/ kids?” Get fucked blacklegs

Had a massive fault with a manager over strikes in 2013, called him out on it whilst others didn’t dare, if ever I see him I just turn my back in him, he retired 3 years after the strikes even now he calls me a **** behind my back because o stood up to him after his excuse for working was laughable he knows he will always be a scab. Fuck him.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Had a massive fault with a manager over strikes in 2013, called him out on it whilst others didn’t dare, if ever I see him I just turn my back in him, he retired 3 years after the strikes even now he calls me a **** behind my back because o stood up to him after his excuse for working was laughable he knows he will always be a scab. Fuck him.

The only good scab is a dead scab… and even then, they’re still a thieving ****!

Ode To A Scab, by Jack London

After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a rope long enough to hang his carcass with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his Master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab hasn't.

Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children, and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer, trust, or corporation

Solidarity wins.

 

[El_george]

“Get fracking and put green issues on hold.”Just what we need. More short-termism. It’s served the country, the world and the environment admirably thus far.

It's a bit unfair to take that part of my comment in isolation, I actually said: "Get fracking all the gas we can, get out all the gas under the North sea that we can - open coal mines too. Put green issues on hold until the whole world accepts it needs to act together."

On Newsnight, a few weeks back, they were covering energy prices. At one point they showed numerous power stations (coal/gas/oil) being demolished in the UK in the nineties and noughties as part of the green agenda. But then they went on to explain that this winter we will import much of our electricity from Belgium/France/Norway... at a much higher cost of course and the French and Belgians and Norwegians are still polluting the planet to make this power, so although we might think we 'look good' because we are edging towards net zero, in effect we have just out-sourced the problem to our near neighbours!

Exactly the same has happened with manufacturing by-the-way. People say we are doing well on carbon emissions compared with say India or China, but the fact is for the last 40-50 years we have moved to a service based economy whilst contracting out the production of things to other countries. It is fake progress because these other countries are still polluting the planet to make the gadgets and gizmos we buy, with the money made here in banking/insurance, shops and hotels!

When I was a kid in the 1970s we had one landline, one colour TV a couple of radios and some gadgets in the kitchen - when I look around my flat now and see multiple devices either plugged in on standby or charging up (laptop/phone) its crazy and that is replicated across the whole country and the population is 20 million bigger too!

I read a book recently: 'Hothouse Earth' by Bill Maguire that makes a convincing argument that we have already gone past the point of no return and there is nothing that we can do about the damage humans have done to the planet, since the industrial revolution.

There might be a slim possibility of reversing it if all but the most essential air travel ended tomorrow, almost all cars were banned, eating meat was illegal and countries went to aggressive 1 child per family rules to reduce the global population, that sort of thing.... but what are the chances of that?

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Society is dead. Empathy is a scarce resource these days.

While it was originally written about the silence of German intellectuals and certain clergy, following the Nazis’ rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, it reminds me of people’s current attitudes towards many of society’s problems…


First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then, they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.


Society (us) has turned a blind eye, and the resources necessary, to many of our collective ills in the hope that they’ll go away, someone else will take care of them, or because they didn’t really affect us…YET!

And here we are…

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

While it was originally written about the silence of German intellectuals and certain clergy, following the Nazis’ rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, it reminds me of people’s current attitudes towards many of society’s problems…


First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then, they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.


Society (us) has turned a blind eye, and the resources necessary, to many of our collective ills in the hope that they’ll go away, someone else will take care of them, or because they didn’t really affect us…YET!

And here we are…

I wonder how the people who will be affected that don’t realise it yet will react. Will it be in marching/protesting together, or via their Instagram story feed?