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piefed.zip
So Hegseth, while serving as SecDef (or SecWar, or whatever in the hell he’s cosplaying) is violating first amendment rights of a US senator, veteran fighter pilot, and (get this) FUCKING ASTRONAUT for stating a part of the UCMJ that every military member is taught in basic training? IMHO, as soon as he’s done laughing, he should make copies for the indictment then frame the original to hang on his wall.
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Bombing kids & innocent civilian’s - ✅ Making everything more expensive - ✅ Starting a war and sending peoples kids to die or be injured - ✅ High likelihood of being a pedo - ✅ Corruption - ✅ Racism - ✅ Dementia - ✅ Posting a picture of yourself cosplaying as Jesus - ❌ Christians are unhinged
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This is what trump posted today on social media. Fifty seven posts within 9 hours. The photo is also from today. 11:15 AM - Trump attacks judge who said he couldn’t put his name on the Kennedy Center 12:03 PM - Says he may perform and give a speech at the America 250 event instead of artists who cancelled 12:08 PM - Says Obama filled the Reflecting Pool with Garbage 12:09 PM - Attacks Biden 12:09 PM - Posts edited photo of Columbus Circle in DC with the caption “CLEAN” 12:10 PM - Attacks Biden again 12:11 PM - Posts AI photo of him and George Washington riding horses in front of the White House with a space shuttle and race car in the background 12:11 PM - Attacks Rosie O’Donnell 12:11 PM - Posts photo of him in front of the American flag 12:11 PM - Brags about his endorsed candidates winning 12:12 PM - Attack Obama and Biden over the reflecting pool 12:12 PM - Posts photo of him pointing at the camera 12:13 PM - Posts photo of the UFC event cage he’s building at the White House 12:13 PM - Posts an AI image of a “golden dome” for the White House 12:15 PM - Defends Jaxson Dart, calling him a “winner” and his critics “losers” 12:45 PM - Posts an AI image of him as a NY Knicks basketball player dunking on Governor Kathy Hochul 12:56 PM - Posts an AI image of him with Tom Brady 1:03 PM - Posts a garbage can labeling it “The Obama Presidential Library” 1:16 PM - Says America is back 1:16 PM - Says America is back again 1:16 PM - Says America is back for the 3rd time 1:55 PM - Posts an AI image of him golfing 2:55 PM - Says he’s in “excellent health” lol 3:17 PM - Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump 4:33 PM - Attacks the Pope again 4:54 PM - Posts a weird image of him staring at Greenland (which he has posted already) 4:57 PM - Posts an AI image of the “drone port” he wants to build on top of the ballroom 5:33 PM - Attacks Biden 5:33 PM - Attacks Biden x2 5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x3 5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x4 5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x5 5:35 PM - Posts cartoon image of Governors Newsom, Pritzker, and Hochul saying they like crime (Trump is a felon) 5:36 PM - Posts meme about Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files losing their primaries 5:36 PM - Posts an old tweet of his where he attacks “disloyal” Republicans 5:37 PM - Posts an old tweet where he said he wants to stop the world from “killing itself” 5:37 PM - Posts a mock up of a “Trump Peace Prize” which may be the most useless peace prize known to man 5:37 PM - Posts a photo of a B-2 bomber with the caption “Trump energy 2026” 5:37 PM - Posts a photo of his face on Mount Rushmore 5:38 PM - Posts an image of him kissing the American flag (he’s the least patriotic president we’ve ever had) 5:39 PM - Compares himself to George Washington 5:39 PM - Says you were convinced to think a photo of a family sitting on a car is “evil” and billions were spent to do that (???) 5:50 PM - Says we should “physically audit” Fort Knox 5:50 PM - Posts an image of him cosplaying as a navy commander 5:51 PM - Posts another image of his face on Mount Rushmore 5:51 PM - Posts another photo of him and George Washington 6:09 PM - Attacks Biden again 6:09 PM - Attacks Biden x2 6:09 PM - Attacks Biden x3 6:09 PM - Posts an old photo of himself and King Charles 6:12 PM - Posts an old photo of himself and President XI in China 6:12 PM - Posts another photo of himself and President Xi 6:22 PM - Posts a photo of himself walking in China 6:48 PM - Says the U.S. should have a ballroom because China has one 7:03 PM - Says he wants to cancel his America 250 celebration and replace it with a MAGA rally 7:56 PM - Promotes Mark Levin’s show on Fox News 7:59 PM - Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump Source: “Truth Social”
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Fuck trucks. I remember the Ranger it was barely bigger than a minivan. These things are obscene. People who own them don’t need them. Most people don’t even need trucks. People like to cosplay that they live up a 25 degree incline of muddy, rocky road. But a subaru would be just fine and IS in most of the world.
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I suppose it’s high time I post a song by the band whose logo I’m using in my avatar. They aren’t my favourite band (though, they’re up there), I just really like the design and the colour. I first heard The Sixth Lie in the anime series A Certain Scientific Accelerator to which they licensed their song Shadow is the Light and I love that song, but never thought to look up their other songs. I started looking at their other songs about two years ago, and liked what I heard, so I followed them (MusicHarbour, it’s an app that notifies you of new releases by artists you follow). Somewhat on a tangent that I will connect back with momentarily, my wife bought a Nintendo Switch, and a game I’d only heard bad things about, Animal Crossing. I thought it was a dumbed down version of Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley for little kids. (I’m not saying it’s not, but that’s also rude and unfair.) My game was Breath of the Wild. I dropped Breath of the Wild for being too hard, and she dropped Animal Crossing because it didn’t engage her. Once I realised I could not advance the story as player 2, we agreed to start a new island with me as player one. But she never played it, so I started a third island with me as player one, and she never joined it. Sad face dot tif. Anyway, after playing Animal Crossing for a couple months, having rolled the credits and gotten into the post-game content, The Sixth Lie released a new song. This one. And I thought, compared with the other songs they did, it sounded different. Playing Animal Crossing and listening to this song made a connection in my mind. Virtual Sky sounds like it’s sang by the Jack Russel terrier character, K.K. Slider, to some extent, and if you listen to the lyrics, it’s… kind of about Animal Crossing. He’s talking about bugs and living in a virtual world. It could be other things but it seemed pretty clear to me that there was some connection. Or maybe I was stretching. But it was cool to me! About a month later, they released a second version of Virtual Sky, this time 100% in English. The first one is in both English and Japanese. Also, this time around, his vocals are a little clearer; he sounds less like the canine musician from the game. Yes, I’ve asked K.K. Slider to play Virtual Sky. He won’t do it. (K.K. Slider visits your island every Saturday, and after 6pm local time, he will take requests, and you have to type the name of the song in, which means you have to know the names of his songs. You can also tell him your mood and he’ll pick one at random from that list. But there are a few he will never play unless you ask by name, and if you ask for those by name, he will call you out on being a cheater (he will say you have a code book). If he doesn’t know the song (you spelled it wrong or you made up something he doesn’t know), he just picks a random song. And whatever song he plays first each Saturday evening, he gives you a copy of that you can play on speakers or stereos or other sound-producing objects in the game. But about the song: the single title implies it’s from an album called “Sounds From a Dreamt Future.” That caption appears on six singles released one a month for the first six months of 2025. But this album never came out, and here we are a year after the last one came out. You could collect the songs and their English versions, and the Japanese version as well of Wonderland (originally in Hindi) and have 11 songs, which makes an album, but it would be repetitive and it would not be a real album. Anyway, one or two of the songs are good. The rest are amazing. Virtual Sky isn’t even the best one; that would be Time Capsule, but I have far less to say about that one. Absolute masterpiece though. Edit: Side note, addendum, tangent, whatever. I’ve since began cosplaying Tom Nook. I have the official shirt, I have raccoon ears, I have a decent tail (not a very lore accurate one, but it’s “close enough”), and I have a Bells bag my wife crocheted and filled with actual bells (so it rings when I shake it). I have an old Android phone I’ve slapped an Animal Crossing case on, and it runs Nova Launcher Prime with an Animal Crossing theme I put together, so basically I have a NookPhone (like in the game). And it has a playlist of my favourite Animal Crossing songs on it, so when I walk around, it’s playing Animal Crossing music. There’s also a whole bunch of “KK Slider cover” type songs on YouTube which are regular songs but tweaked to sound like KK Slider is performing them. I have some of those up there. And, of course, Virtual Sky is on that playlist.
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“Girls desire a knight in shining armor to come sweep them off their feet!” — my pastor For the longest time, I struggled because I was told all my life what a “woman’s purpose” was, and my desires never lined up with that. Felt like a freak because I never desired romance, sex, or partnership with a man (or anyone else, for that matter). If that was my purpose, was I supposed to will myself to want that for myself? Was I doomed to be alone forever? Was I wrong to want to pursue adventure and things that I wanted? If my desire ≠ God’s desire (which was apparently union with a man at some point in the future), then my desires were… wrong. Maybe/probably even evil. So I fucked up my life trying to follow that and fit into that mold. I did things I never wanted to do because it was the “right thing” to do in the eyes of God. After I escaped, I never really recovered. But… I discovered a lot about myself. I did bearded dragon rescues & fostering, I got into cosplay, learned how to sew stuffed animals, got some mental health care, rekindled my love for nature… all by myself. I learned to love me and not base my worth on what other folks believe I should do or how I should behave. I don’t have a partner who gets to dictate my personality. I got to grow on my own. I’m still coming to terms with… a lot of things about myself, but now I’m able to grow freely instead of being confined to such a small pot. Don’t let people define who or what you are, or what your purpose is in life. Only you get to do that. It’s both terrifying and freeing, but you can do this.
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lemmy.world
If you are ICE, fuck you. You should be ashamed. Your parents should be ashamed If you are someone who stands by while these cosplayers are kidnapping and torturing people, then you deserve your place in hell
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programming.dev
Why would he be embarrassed? He obviously killed it with that cosplay! In fact, his costume and makeup were so good that even his own daughter (with “good eyes”) couldn’t tell it was him.
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lemmy.world
Evangelical Christian people were lied to, if you really want to know the truth. And that’s exactly what happened. Evangelical Christians are easy to lie to, if you want to know the truth, because they disdain intelligence, preferring their world in which they cosplay magic in fairyland 24/7 without even a tiny hint of self-awareness (because they have none). Given the same choice he would do it again, because he’s too cost-sunk in his dumbass roleplaying to do anything different.
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As a college sophomore with an internet connection during the Obama era, I was instantly intrigued by the promise of the new direct-to-consumer clothing brand Everlane. I don’t remember how or when I found out about the fashion startup exactly; I just remember getting the emails. Launched around 2011 with venture capital funding, Everlane styled itself in a sort-of minimalist, pro-consumer ethos. The idea was simple: sell beautiful clothing made really well — so-called “modern basics” — at reasonable prices. The company made it all the more enticing by amping up the exclusivity factor; like the early days of Gmail, you needed an invitation to shop. By forgoing brick-and-mortar stores, Everlane, co-founded by Michael Preysman, advertised itself as cutting out the middleman and allowing the consumer to reap the benefits. Initially, Everlane promised its wares — it started with boxy T-shirts — would always be priced at less than $100. The company embodied a decidedly millennial spirit: the idea that change was not only possible, but possible via simply buying better things. I spent hours pouring over the brand’s email marketing and clothing collections. I got off the waitlist in the fall of 2011 (“You’re one of the first in the door!”, the email read), but for months, I just browsed. Even at their heavily discounted prices, I wondered if $25 was too much to pay for a pocket tee, when Urban Outfitters was just down the street — or if the quality of a $15 box-cut tee would hold up, especially if I couldn’t see or touch it before buying. In the early days, by Preysman’s own assessment, Everlane was operating almost as more of a branding exercise. “I have seen, candidly with Everlane, we’ve had periods where we had okay product when we launched, and the brand carried all the weight,” he told a business podcast in 2024. “Then we had great products, and we had really high engagement.” From the author’s email inbox. Frida Garza / Grist Indeed, over time, the company’s aesthetic and business model shifted as it grew in popularity and reach, and its price point changed with it. In 2017, Everlane announced that its first brick-and-mortar store would open in New York City, where shoppers can still browse $148 jeans and $268 cashmere sweaters today. Its mission also became more ambitious: Everlane announced plans in 2021 to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The company sought to “empower people to live their best lives with the least impact on the planet — and leave the apparel industry cleaner than we found it.” In its latest sustainability report, Everlane stated the company has reduced Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions by 60 percent since 2019, and reduced per-product carbon emissions by 42 percent. The brand has signaled its commitment to the planet in other ways throughout the years, including its focus on using certified organic cotton and attempting to eliminate virgin plastic from its supply chain. Additionally, the company has taken the public inside its factories, publishing glossy-looking photos from its facilities in Vietnam, China, Italy, and other countries and tracking which ones use renewable energy and pay living wages. For these and other reasons, the company mystified consumers last week, when it was sold to the e-commerce giant Shein, which ranked as the biggest polluter in fast fashion last year. Shein offers clothing, jewelry, home goods, and accessories, all for sometimes shockingly cheap prices — the true cost of which is its carbon-intensive supply chain. The sale was orchestrated by L Catterton, the company’s majority owner, according to fashion reporter Laura Sherman who broke the story. (Preysman, who stepped down as CEO in 2022, wrote on LinkedIn that he “found out at the same time as everyone,” and has since announced he would launch another Everlane-esque business with no venture capital or private equity money.) Fashion magazines balked, asking if Everlane’s acquisition spells the end of the fashion industry’s sustainability aspirations writ-large. But the sale of Everlane to this particular buyer should turn the inquiry around: Of what use are sustainability goals in the face of hyper-consumerism? Put another way: Was it ever the case that simply buying (more) different things would ever yield a more liveable planet? Consumers, it seems, only want to shop sustainably if it means they can, in fact, keep shopping: A study from 2025 found that even when shoppers are buying secondhand fashion, they’re also still buying new clothes. The companies’ offerings are, of course, different: Preysman famously told the New Yorker magazine, “You do not get laid in Everlane.” Shein, meanwhile, is a one-stop shop for plunging necklines, revealing cut-outs, sheer fabrics, and ruffles on ruffles. And the methods are different, too: Shein is less of a fashion brand and more of an everything store — a no-man’s land of AI-powered nanotrends — akin to Amazon or Temu. Hop on over to the Shein website and you can just as easily find a halter top that makes you look like a ladybug or a pair of oversized jorts or buckets of slime. But, for all the hoopla around the acquisition, there are glimpses of Shein’s story in Everlane’s initial pitch, now adjusted for a new generation of shoppers accustomed to ultra-convenience. They were both, at one point, online-only stores offering clothes people wanted at seemingly unbeatable prices. And Shein has also apparently taken pages out of Everlane’s marketing playbook, by offering limited glimpses into its factories — albeit, heavily filtered through its influencer-fueled PR machine. In 2023, the platform invited a group of content creators on an all-expenses-paid trip to tour its facilities in Guangzhou, China. One influencer documented the visit in a video, noting that at least one worker was “surprised” about the rumors that Shein factories’ poor working conditions. (The video has since been deleted.) The publicity move was immediately met with criticism for attempting to sanitize Shein’s reputation. Everlane’s store in San Francisco. Liz Hafalia / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images In fairness, fifteen years after it launched, Everlane is nowhere near the scale of Shein, which reportedly produces 10,000 new items per day. But the question around whether the fashion world can ever truly become sustainable is something of a red herring, and even Preysman knows this — or knew it, at one point. “The word sustainability has been completely greenwashed,” he told Forbes in 2021. He went on: “Show me a fashion brand that claims it is sustainable, and I will show you a fashion brand that is not honest. One can be ‘more sustainable’ but nothing is truly sustainable.” In the end, the future of fashion retail relies on consumers buying more clothes. I did eventually buy multiple things from Everlane: a canvas backpack that held up really nicely for years; a silk button-down I wore just as much to graduate school classes as I did on vacation. I bought a pair of bootcut jeans after a long, painstaking discussion with a salesperson and a third woman in the dressing room who butted into the conversation. But I never shop at the Everlane store or website anymore, and that’s because I don’t have to — the thrift stores of New York City are filled with the brand’s clothes. It’s not the only one: On the racks at Goodwill, I can always dependably find at least one Shein top these days. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Everlane, Shein, and the myth of sustainable fashion on May 28, 2026. From Grist via This RSS Feed.
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Restore Britain is a breakaway party of Reform UK which exists because the latter wasn’t right-wing enough. Reform has largely just ignored its rival, but this changed in late May when it turned out Restore could stop them from winning the Makerfield by-election. An interesting development since then is that the legions of anonymous Twitter/X accounts seem to have turned on Restore. The question is whether these accounts are actually British, or if they’re foreign users trying to game Twitter’s algorithm? Because as you can see, some of these people apparently live in Ecuador: Just a heads up All of these pro Reform UK accounts are being paid for and are based in Ecuador pic.twitter.com/81adNLktSm — Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) May 25, 2026 Foreign interference… in Restore Britain…? In 2025, Elon Musk announced that Twitter would be revealing every user’s location data. People anticipated this day, because they suspected many far-right accounts were actually foreign individuals cosplaying as Western reactionaries to farm clicks. Surprise, surprise – this ended up being precisely what happened: Confirmation that this account is Indian. pic.twitter.com/myNTIrfTPR — Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) November 23, 2025 Shockingly, the exposed accounts included the US Department of Homeland Security: https://t.co/32KUm3JeHL pic.twitter.com/mbFdamoqkb — j! (@astrrals) November 21, 2025 Reporting on the issue at the time, the Independentwrote: MAGANationX, for example, includes a bio line that reads “Patriot Voice for We The People,” but was actually started in Eastern Europe, according to the new feature. Another account, using an image of President Donald Trump in a tuxedo and using the name “MAGA Scope” with an American flag emoji, was found to have been started in Nigeria in 2024. In terms of the UK, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported on a man who shared AI slop videos of Keir Starmer dressed as a Muslim. Surprisingly, this particular account holder turned out to be “a devout Muslim man living in Pakistan”. The Bureau added: This man, who we are not naming for his own safety, runs successful accounts pushing Islamophobic AI slop to UK audiences. Videos shared by just one of his Facebook pages had been viewed millions of times and he told us in an interview he earned around $1,500 a month from that page alone. While it sounds bizarre that Black and Brown people could be driving white supremacy in the UK, you have to remember: These people don’t have to worry about racism in a foreign country. Our uneven and individualistic global system guarantees there will always be people out there doing anything they can to get ahead. We have plenty of scammers in the UK, too – the difference is our homegrown talent can pull in a lot more than $1,500 a month: Anyone seen this Tory lately she has “£122m” belonging us ? “Baroness Michelle Mone remains under active criminal investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) regarding suspected offenses related to the procurement of PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic” pic.twitter.com/70F3evAfEg — Gazberto (@gazberto) May 25, 2026 It’s also far from the case that only foreign accounts are spreading misinformation. In America, the reformed influencer Ashley St. Clair revealed that her former right-wing bedfellows get paid to coordinate their messaging. St. Clair recently discussed this and a lot more about the right-wing grift-o-sphere in a conversation with Hasan Piker: Anon for Reform One of the prominent accounts posting in favour of Reform UK is ‘Wolf’: Rupert Lowe dismisses concerns about splitting the vote in Makerfield. So why isn’t he standing a candidate in the Aberdeen by-election? Because it looks like the Tories could win there and I strongly suspect he’s got a deal in place with them. It’s so obvious what this is. pic.twitter.com/Ro3v1TL0Wg — Wolf (@WorldByWolf) May 24, 2026 If we look at Wolf’s account, it says they’re in the UK but with an exclamation point by the name: The exclamation point indicates that the account is using (or has used) a VPN. A VPN allows you to set your location to someplace else, suggesting that Wolf is using one to hide their true location. I should note that this method of verifying where someone is from isn’t foolproof. I actually have the exclamation point on my account, which is almost certainly because I use a VPN sometimes. Thankfully, however, we released a physical newspaper today, allowing me to demonstrate that I am in fact in the country: First edition of the Canary print edition! Find where you can get a copy here:https://t.co/EDhyWLES5W pic.twitter.com/Rm3Usz6UII — Willem Moore (@willem_moore_uk) May 26, 2026 Be sure to pick a copy up near you! Back to today’s news, Wolf is far from the only account going all out for Reform. The following is apparently based in Ecuador, but confusingly also has the VPN symbol: Lowe is the man that talks about banning Halal slaughter but has it in the menu at his son’s wedding. Restore is a party set up by the establishment to derail Reform. https://t.co/RsLGDXJJix — UK Patriot (@Yvonne1388552) May 26, 2026 If these accounts are fraudulent, the question is whether their activities are coordinated, or whether individual accounts are simple posting in a fashion which best brings in the cash? Because – let’s be clear – we’re not pointing this stuff out because we’d prefer Restore Britain to Reform UK. As much as these accounts pretend otherwise, they’re both the same party, and that party is the Tories. Another thing to note is that while there’s a deluge of anonymous accounts blasting Restore right now, they’re not all leaning that way. The ‘Basil the Great’ account we shared at the top supports Restore and is also of questionable origin. Said account is additionally a prominent spreader of misinformation: That Basil account already deleted the video, but look how they spread misinformation. pic.twitter.com/yPx5kTbA56 — Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) August 22, 2025 There are also many accounts like this one with obviously AI profile pictures: If you vote for Labour nothing changes. If you vote for Greens you get Sharia. If you vote for Reform you get demographically replaced. If you vote for Restore Britain you send shockwaves through the establishment and put them all on the back foot. Use your vote wisely. — British Bastard (@BritishBastardX) May 24, 2026 Strange times We live in a bizarre period in which it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s real. The legions of anonymous accounts attacking Restore Britain could be shy Brits; they could be foreign users; they could be AI; they could be all manner of things. The issue is we simply don’t know, and many people don’t care to check. It’s hard to say exactly how we solve this problem. Do we want to end anonymity online? Almost certainly not, but if these accounts are receiving money to push political messaging, it might not be ridiculous to make them display the actual country they’re posting from at least. In the long term, the only way to prevent people from cheating the system is to create a system which doesn’t need to be cheated. If we all lived roughly equal lives, people wouldn’t be scrabbling to get ahead. In the meantime, be careful who you trust. Featured image via Leon Neal (Getty Images) / Junko Kimura (Getty Images) By Willem Moore From Canary via This RSS Feed.
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Wes Streeting had been the first to go public with his ambitious desire to be Labour leader in an upcoming battle to replace PM Keir Starmer. However, his confidence – or arrogance – about how worthy he is for the top job will likely take a significant hit as polls show only 4% of Labour members ranking him as their first choice for Labour leader. Despite the mainstream media portraying him as the ‘golden boy’ of the Labour Party, this measly 4% is hardly enough to give him a fighting chance against Burnham or Rayner. This is hardly surprising, however, as we have reported multiple times – Wes Streeting is a snake who has been dismantling the NHS for private interests. As this polling indicates, people have finally seen through his duplicitous nonsense in the nick of time. 4% of Labour members want Wes Streeting to leader. FOUR PERCENT. And that’s despite a mass exodus of left wingers. Yet the media have treated him as their golden boy! https://t.co/FMeDBGVlng — Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) May 18, 2026 Streeting – 4% support is just humiliating It is undeniable that this polling should destroy any hopes that Wes Streeting – and his billionaire donors – have about the likelihood of him ever becoming the UK’s PM. In fact, even the publicly despised Keir Starmer flounces Streeting with 32% of members behind him remaining in post. Moreover, Burnham appears to be the front runner with 48% – but still, nobody is managing to command a majority of support even within their own party. So, why don’t we remind ourselves why Streeting should never be allowed anywhere near a decision-making position ever again. He is a duplicitous snake who will say whatever the public want to hear to get in power – then he will sell that very same public out. We wrote about how Streeting’s own words in 2023 to slam Rishi Sunak’s response to NHS strikes were exposed in their blatant hypocrisy with his own behaviour in post. Given he is throwing the word ‘progressive around’, this is a significant alarm bell for voters to pay attention to: NHS GP Neena Jha has taken apart Wes Streeting with his own words from 2023 over an upcoming resident doctors strike. It’s yet another indication that Tory and Labour politicians merely cosplay as caring opposition until they themselves enter government. Then, they backtrack and carry on the same neoliberal agenda they previously criticised. Adding: In 2023, Streeting said: “Now we know why Rishi Sunak refuses to negotiate with NHS staff. He wants the strikes to go ahead, so he can blame doctors and nurses for his failure.” The thing is, the health secretary has now himself refused to negotiate on pay restoration for doctors. This prompted Jha to take down Streeting “by his own admission”, replacing Sunak’s name with his own: “Now we know why Wes Streeting refuses to negotiate with NHS staff. He wants the strikes to go ahead, so he can blame doctors and nurses for his failure.” It is the Labour continuation of austerity and privatisation that is failing the NHS – not doctors. He is giving our data away to dangerous billionaires Streeting is giving our data to Palantir: a murderous, billionaire-interested spy tech firm which makes no secret of its disdain for ordinary people. Despite his promises that he intends to fix the NHS, the reality is that he intends to make it work for billionaires – whilst ordinary people have no say in the use of their personal health data. Speaking of the astronomical wealth accrued from contracts effectively just given to Palantir, we wrote: The spy-tech firm won the NHS contract for £1 in 2020 which is now worth a lucrative £400 million for Thiel and co. It is worth noting that this kind of wealth appreciation has become pretty commonplace for the world’s richest whilst ordinary people increasingly suffer. As a result, calls are being made to rip up this contract to prevent the inevitable exploitation of data for the financial gain of billionaires. Considering Palantir’s proven involvement in the genocide on Gaza, this really should not be a hard fight to win. He is the establishment’s ‘pick’ which should underscore how little ‘change’ this corrupted politician could ever deliver. Discussing Labour MP John McDonnell’s astute takedown of Streeting in which he theorised the whole bid is a revenge plot by Epstein-pal Mandelson and dodgy McSweeney, we wrote: He’s alleged revenge by Starmer’s former handlers Morgan McSweeney and his mentor and child-rapist fan Peter Mandelson. Both men were sacked or resigned over the scandal of Starmer’s appointment of Mandelson as ambassador to the US. Starmer has tried desperately to distance himself from Mandelson – completely unsuccessfully – and McDonnell says they’re now collecting payback. Finishing: Whether McDonnell is right or wrong, Streeting in Number 10 would be just as appalling news for the many as Starmer has been. Has-been… – that seems very appropriate. If only both of them were ‘never-was’s. Streeting is (at best) a continuation, but he could be even worse The Labour-right know that progressive, socialist policies are the only way they can differentiate themselves from right-wing Starmer. They are also the only hope of repair to our crumbling state. As a result, we have seen Streeting label himself as ‘progressive’ and once again, attempt to hoodwink the masses. However, his 4% polling signifies that members are waking up and will not be fooled again. Nevertheless, the media clearly worship him and will push him down our throats regardless. Therefore, it is crucial that we do not forget who this man truly is – before it is far too late to do anything about it. Featured image via Getty Images/WPA Pool By Maddison Wheeldon From Canary via This RSS Feed.
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lemmy.world
He’s an Ivy League educated social climber who hobnobbed with Peter Theil and lawmakers before he got famous writing a book where he cosplayed as a poor person so he could tell rich people exactly what they want to hear about poor people From a quick glance at my résumé, you might think me an older, female version of Vance. I was born in Appalachia in the 1960s and grew up in the small city of Newark, Ohio. When I was 9, my parents divorced. My mom became a single mother of four, with only a high school education and little work experience. Life was tough; the five of us lived on $6,000 a year. Like Vance, I attended Ohio State University on scholarship, working nights and weekends. I graduated at the top of my class and, again like Vance, attended Yale Law School on a financial-need scholarship. Today, I represent people who’ve been fired illegally from their jobs. And now that I’m running for Congress in Northeast Ohio, I speak often with folks who are trying hard but not making much money. A self-described conservative, Vance largely concludes that his family and peers are trapped in poverty due to their own poor choices and negative attitudes. But I take great exception when he makes statements such as: “We spend our way into the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don’t need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy. . . . Thrift is inimical to our being.” Who is this “we” of whom he speaks? Vance’s statements don’t describe the family in which I grew up, and they don’t describe the families I meet who are struggling to make it in America today. I know that my family lived on $6,000 per year because as children, we sat down with pen and paper to help find a way for us to live on that amount. My mom couldn’t even qualify for a credit card, much less live on credit. She bought our clothes at discount stores. Thrift was not inimical to our being; it was the very essence of our being. With lines like “We choose not to work when we should be looking for jobs,” Vance’s sweeping stereotypes are shark bait for conservative policymakers. They feed into the mythology that the undeserving poor make bad choices and are to blame for their own poverty, so taxpayer money should not be wasted on programs to help lift people out of poverty. Now these inaccurate and dangerous generalizations have been made required college reading. [Bolding added]
Komunitas
lemmy.world
Interesting, this bro walked so Lowcost Cosplay could run.
Komunitas
lemmy.world
Of course he does. I can’t find a link, but he once thought of all of his kids as a genetic dissemination of his gifts. He literally thinks he’s some kind of special, and not some rich kid cosplaying as Da Vinci or similar. The bar for narcissistic behavior has been raised.