BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.

Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There are no capitalist or socialist economies to compare because they don't exist.

What we're actually talking about is the balance of capitalism and socialism in mixed economies.

I agree that most models are susceptible to media control.

That specific point I made about capitalism not being a proven economic model is incontrovertibly true because there has never been a capitalist state, anywhere.

It's more than that. They're buying a shit but expensive car. People only ever do that for the branding.

Like Range Rovers but with added fascism. They like what the brand represents.

I know this reinforces a narrative about condescending leftists calling all conservatives bigots but I'm sorry, every form of data — anecdotes, polling and public statements by conservatives — indicate that these are the main drivers.

It's a doomed quest to keep looking for good underneath evil.

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

The royal family thinks it was chosen by god. Presumably god has now unchosen Andrew but how did god communicate this? Email?

🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.

A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.

To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.

🧵

https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

Ironic given that the Labour right calls people "tankies" if they want to renationalise water or stop supporting an ongoing genocide.

This should be familiar to Britons - norms, rules and laws being all-important unbreakable pacts with god and justice itself, when it’s time to stomp all over some dirty hippies, and more like guidelines when it comes to important people getting whatever they want this week, by any means necessary.

#BREAKING | The Knesset passes preliminary bill to annex the occupied West Bank.

Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.

The strategy *works* because for some *fucking* reason every liberal and savvy politics understander keeps trying to bring them rocks. "Will this make you happy? What about this? What about this?" Building fascism slowly in the hope that this will be the last concession we'll have to make.

Following Jemima's example, I asked it too, and...

This is impressively definitive! Either you believe Grok and Wikipedia is more reliable - or you don’t believe Grok, which is the editor of Grokipedia, and have to conclude in a whole other way that Wikipedia is more reliable!

Ludicrous.

Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street

No, I'm saying they're already rich and can import goods and services from other countries which have more capitalist and exploitative economies, and that most countries cannot now adopt the same model because they don't have the money - not resources but money.

Real soldiers kill eachother all the time. US armed forces are notorious for it.

At least two of whom are likely to have saved the human race from near extinction.

Still a long, long way to go before they reach US levels of fratricide

Again

They're not trying to win, are they. Nothing else explains their constant stepping on rakes that they laid themselves.

This level of incompetence is not plausible. The tories were incompetent, this lot are deliberately sabotaging themselves.

@stuartpstevens.bsky.social said, and I keep top of mind in this hellscape: It was all a lie.

You don’t abandon your so-called values in the span of one election cycle. What’s revealed is that this is who you were along. Masks and hoods off.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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