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The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Right-wing politics is a scam that people fall for again and again. How often do we see these polls saying right-wing voters are disappointed when exactly what everyone told them would happen happens? Then they fall for the next right-wing scam and do it all over again. No learning ever seems to occur.
Not so surprising when you remember that leaning left correlates with higher degrees of education.
Because no learning has to occur. The most anger inducing thing about right wing shitfuckery is that to fight against it, it pushes us to do shit that's... tantamount to right wing shitfuckery.
In other words, the only language they have understood is power and we're failing by refusing to accept that the reason they don't learn is because we haven't sufficiently dickslapped them into next fucking Thursday over it.
We do a lot of glad-handing right wing crime and acting like it's not a big deal while swiftly cracking down on left-wing... anything, not even crime. There was that guy in Florida who did nothing but posted online after Jan 6th 2021 that all leftists needed to be armed and prepared, and he was arrested and put away for longer than anyone who actually was at Jan 6th.
I know I'm speaking in USA examples, but I've seen the same of britain, using kid gloves with white people and cracking down on brown people. Like the whole shebang about "grooming gangs" in the UK is a firestorm of racism and blaming it on immigrants while the statistics and numbers actually say its widely white british people organizing grooming gangs.
What actually needs to happen is we need to give them what they ask for. They want more law and order and harsher sentences? Fine, that's what they will get for their bullshit, locked up with less patience and understanding with severely long sentences to keep these fucking idiots who refuse to learn off our fucking streets. They're the real street trash that needs to be taken the fuck out. If they want to cry all day about being victims of the system, we can show them what real victims of the system deal with.
They only understand power, so we have to actively show we have power, hold it against them, make them suffer, that's literally the only thing they will ever fucking understand. They will force us to play their stupid fucking power games just to have a normal fucking society without them, because they will never, ever stop vying for power.
It's like the old saying "a conservative would gladly eat shit if they knew a liberal had to smell their breath." it's about using power against someone else, even if the only power you have is to upset them. They don't care as long as it makes them feel like they have power over someone else.
They view literally everything through the lens of power, is it really such a shocker so many of them are fucking rapists since rape is about power?
good answer it's has always been about power
and being able to wield power without corruption is the human condition
I'm not certain we're hardwired that way.
though I'm hopeful
It doesn't help in this case that Labour has been doing a terrible job.
Labour are doing so badly they're helping the fascists. This is Weimar Republic weakness before the storm. Watch out for Farage now he has Elon Musk's billions and the US President behind him (not to mention Russia). Keir Starmer is not the person you want defending the country against that threat.
Farage and Elon are not friends anymore.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/06/bromance-on-the-rocks-where-does-musks-brush-off-leave-nigel-farage
Maybe he's putting his money into Stephen Yaxley Lennon instead.