The fundamental issue is that its not really a Labour government - its a Labour government that has been eaten out from the inside first by Blairism and now by Starmer's mob - really it wants to be the Tories but have people like them.

You misspelled "sad" - that is what it should say not "funny"

Truly the most gutless group of politicians to ever run Australia. Not a spine among them. Not a word of dissent or debate in literally years.
Now they're silent Trump cheerleaders and genocide supporters...

I reckon we could pitch it to the techbros - First we train various AIs on the work of various philosophers - then we televise their debates - with paid voting for who wins.

Aye its basically a fact

Now now, we wouldn't want to do anything radical that might show we have a spine, not when we can allow one of our largest export centres and a core driver of economic prosperity to wither through neglect and jingoistic policies to show we are on the side of the "little guy"...

FFS - how not to read the room Democrats!

They already have Sky after Dark why would they want anything else?

Anywhere that elects Trump once let alone twice has already failed...

Ditto - Twitter became first increasingly useless and then just negative in its value to me. So I dropped using it. Mostly just used Discord with friends, then enough of my facebook friends posted things about moving to BlueSky that I figured I would try it.

Also with both King and Gandhi - the "peaceful" protest was aimed at eliciting a violent response from the authorities which could be converted into further negative coverage and public support.

I blame Miranda Fricker for this terrible epistemic injustice that she has failed to spot and rectify.

Sure but at which point are you launching your bitcoin?

One way your government could do that is not to overrule significant environmental concerns for the interests of big polluting businesses. An ambulance at the bottom of a cliff is much worse than a decent fence at the top preventing accidents in the first place.

A little to the left.

You joke but in my undergraduate "two revolutions" sociology class the prof did think it was worth devoting an hour to the breasts of the French revolution - with many many slides of "art" - and an overall argument that they shifted from pert independent to matronly and supportive...

Sociologically I suspect there is something about consequentialism that attracts people who are weirdly optimistic both about our own cleverness, ability to predict outcomes and the future and that technologies will definitely be used for good and not ill.

The effective hijacking of effective altruism by longtermism + techbro funding is deeply sad. But also unsurprising - go back 20 years and it was the same general circles that were writing in glowing and drooling terms about our glorious post-human future to come if only we regulated less...