to conflate two points i feel are relevant: Grenfell is in the constituency with the most amount of properties subject to the ~mansion tax~ in the country bsky.app/profile/dann...

The same people who dismiss any left winger who has a degree as out-of-touch middle class also thinks a two million pound house is normal.

Oh, Icarus...

Lmao that they have spent five years burning effigies of Jeremy Corbyn and getting union flag tattoos and they are STILL dismissed as being stuck in 1970s socialism.

Recipe websites thrive on providing search results for whatever people are looking for. If the only ingredients in your house are cornflakes and MSG, you'll find someone offering a recipe for tasty cornflake soup. If you wonder if you can make fried eggs in a slow cooker, you'll find instructions.

(Marx makes roughly this argument towards the end of Capital but his claim is even more narrowly that all ideology (explicitly including concepts of justice) has its root in the wage relation)

I also think there is a credible argument that reducing prosecutions can help reduce crime, in that prosecuting first offences makes re-offending more likely.

Finally, someone who is serious about growing the economy!

When we call the state unjust we are judging it according to an ideal that ultimately derives from its power over us.

We are subject to domination by private property and state power and our concept of justice is the result of internalising this domination and accepting it as the natural order of things.

The way round this if you're invested in deterring people from petty crime is that only past cases are dropped, people still get arrested for doing fresh offences.

Wow, launching a global financial crisis really boosted the USA's favourability.

literally; outside of actually classified narcotics like cocaine and mdma

There is absolutely no medication/drug which is treated anywhere near like this. And this is before we even get to the fact that it's only banned SPECIFICALLY for trans youth.

cis youth? can still get it.

you can name basically any healthcare at all. ones with obvious known dangers, ones with lesser known dangers. From radiation being shot directly into your eyes to botulinum toxin injected into your lips. they're all available both on NHS or via private.

But not hormone blockers if you're trans.

Mistaking the specificities of capitalist society for transhistorical truths about human nature... Marx wrote a whole book about this.