Civil Discourse Haver

@BareLeft @LeftGrassroots The quality of reports from these outsourcing companies is diabolical (of course). I’ve had a 6 year old come back in to a+e with a missed skull fracture from an outsourced report in the last month alone

NHS outsourcing is one of the big scandals of our time. But we didn't get here by accident. We got here thanks to corrupt politicians in Labour and the Conservatives turning the State into a golden trough for the private sector. Build capacity into the NHS. End outsourcing.

Christ alive this is dumb

We need an end to tinkering around the edges. The public have had enough of this rip off. Andy Burnham must commit to taking water back into public ownership.

🇲🇽🇨🇺 | Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, in a firm tone: "We will continue sending oil to Cuba. We will not cave, and we will not be a tool for implementing the U.S. embargo. Enough of the blackmail."

This is the "double tap". Israel bombs civilians, waits for the emergency workers to turn up, and then bombs again. They deliberately slaughter civilians and the medical staff trying to save them. Don't look away.

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." - Che Guevara

Bro I cannot stop thinking about Cuba. an absolute giant of history, theyve done SO much for the whole world - Apartheid only fell in South Africa because Cuban troops went to fight the fascists in Angola!!! - and now they're abandoned, being strangled in front of us

@Mina_ffs @Grraarrgh Shouldn’t it be your object to make the greens look bad then? So Labour can beat reform? God you centrists are dimwitted

@Grraarrgh I’ve said this multiple times but no, I don’t think the greens standing will affect the results, I simply just think it looks bad for the greens

The Green Party are completely out of touch with the electorate, ‘we’ve shown we can beat reform’ works when they’re contesting the right area. They’re simply ignorant to the fact that the Greens have an extremely low popularity and presence in Makerfield. Saying they think they can win just shows how disingenuous and out of touch they are. By standing a candidate, all they do is help reform win in such a critical election for the future of our country. @ZackPolanski should really think about whether he cares more about popularity stunts or the outcome of an actual election. If you live in #Makerfield remember to vote #Labour on the 18th June and elect @AndyBurnhamGM as our MP in parliament.

@MrMatthewTodd labour calls a byelection it didn't need to call to allow an already elected labour politician to contest the labour leadership mid term with a westminster majority of 167, which if he wins will cause another election that could Let Reform In, and it's this other party's fault?

So then why on earth did he leave when Corbyn offered this?

RT @novaramedia: Police in Copenhagen beat peaceful anti-genocide protesters with batons on Wednesday as they blocked the entrance the head…

‘My ministers will control the cost of living’ -A King. On a throne. Wearing a crown. Bejewelled. Talking of cost of living

@DickBonnet @CurryClear @nick_colorado @pubity That’s exactly what he said, can you read?

@CurryClear @_DKatal_ @nick_colorado @pubity Wrong. The power plants at issue a being built specifically to provide power to the data center. They are not even connected to the grid.

Kevin O'Leary's proposed data center in Utah will require 9 Gigawatts of energy to function when fully built, double Utah's current energy usage for the entire state. It will dump around 23 atomic bombs worth of thermal load on the environment every day.

@benshapiro Hey Ben, have you read the New York Times today?

On the show today: Another American political official is found to be an alleged Chinese agent… and we discuss what we can do about America’s most powerful geopolitical enemy; the Chinese-Russian-Iranian info op to undermine America continues apace; and we examine why people aren’t having kids. open.spotify.com/episode/20TCnl…

I’ve just learned of the killing by Israel of one of the most courageous people I knew: rescuer Hussein Jaber from the Lebanese Civil Defence in Nabatieh. I had known him for three years and met him many times. He was always inspiring, brave and endlessly helpful for many reporters. We will not forget what Israel has done to Lebanon’s rescuers. We will not forget Hussein.

@jack64og @FT @MichaelRosenYes Have a look at their ‘manifesto’

@FT @MichaelRosenYes I get that a lot of people use Palantir for evil things but aren’t they just a company used for sorting large amounts of data in an efficient way I’m sure the IDF use windows, but it’s not stopping me from Idk maybe idk enough but I feel like most people commenting don’t either

FT Exclusive: NHS England has granted external staff from companies including Palantir “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data while working on a part of its flagship data platform. ft.trib.al/JmVlilq

@Greynxgga69 @MrTaha Why won’t you engage with me, a comrade, in good faith and with respect? I’ve said overthrow of the capitalist state and the rest of the economy

@_DKatal_ @MrTaha The overthrow of the bourgeois state wouldn’t make cooperatives or private labor socialist. All removing individual capitalists does is render capital depersonalized, or in Marxs words, it “turns society into an abstract capitalist” (1844)

Stalin is uncontroversially correct here: ofc there will be surplus product in a socialist economy. The commodity form also doesn't die overnight. The interviewer is repeating romantic idealist-slop where they think communism involves slamming a button titled "END CAPITALISM NOW"

@Greynxgga69 @MrTaha In a global socialist revolution with a global planning mechanism I’d have to agree with Marx, Engels and Lenin. They talk of ‘society’ in every quote you’ve given without definition. This is not the material reality of the Soviet Union.

Commodities cease to exist when labor is “directly associated”/“directly socialized” because the allocation of labor between the different branches of production stops being regulated by indirect restrictions of the deployment of labor (e.g. the law of value) and is instead planned by the united producers. This is how Marx, Engels, and Lenin discussed this.

@Greynxgga69 @MrTaha Only without the overthrow of the capitalist state and the rest of the economy. Thats the context of that quote comrade

@_DKatal_ @MrTaha just capitalism

@Greynxgga69 @MrTaha Commodities are not peculiar to capitalism. In fact that’s the whole basis for Marx’s historical analysis of commodities and exchange in those first few chapters. Commodities simply arise through exchange. You need individuals or groups to exchange. He says nothing more

@_DKatal_ @MrTaha They aren’t independent of capitalism nigga, thats the point. The products are commodities BECAUSE there is still private labor, labor carried out without socialist planning