I suppose it’s possible they won’t make a pig’s ear of it and that the two-ish party rigidity of our system could be broken

You mean it’s supposedly possible that the media won’t start an even worse smear campaign in continued and unrelenting defence of said system… I wouldn’t hold your breath…

I’m baffled that he’s imperiling all the effort

Lol, why? He got the job, that’s all he was after. He never even attempted to hide the fact that he is just another maintainer of the status quo.

This is nothing more than legal corruption.

It is loooooooooooooooooooooooooong past the time to get rid of this “bring a friend” system of keeping power and influence in the hands of an almost always un (or at least under) qualified privileged few who are only ever looking out for, and manipulating the government and society at large to maintain their own interests.

I’ll be honest, I just looked it up and shared the link (E: and in case you didn’t notice, am not the op of the thread), I’m no good with texts that long so have never read the entire thing, though I have left the link open to read through at least this part once I have my cuppa, and have bookmarked the pdf for future reference, so I might have to get back to you on that 😁

Here you go, it’s in chapter 10 section 4, p175: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf

Except it isn’t obvious to many people, and using the correct language is more important than any supposed point they were trying to make (because part of rape culture is society, and especially the media and the courts not calling it what it is to muddy the water. I’m not accusing OP of doing that deliberately, but that’s why words matter, even if you intention is benign).

Edit to add now my brain is in gear, probably just as important: is the issue of perpetuating ableist and or queerphobic stigma (which again, OP doesn’t have to intend for it, for it to be happening) - there is absolutely nothing inherently wrong with a person who has HIV having unprotected sex. Most HIV patients, especially in developed countries, now have viral loads so low they are not contagious, and have partners who are perfectly happy and safe having unprotected sex with them.

The problem here is and always was the lack of consent, aka rape, and the fact that the rapist husband told all his rapist friends that condoms were unnecessary. Nothing at all to do with the HIV status of one of the rapists (note she caught 3 other STI’s too, but no one is singling those rapists out individually)

So yes, words matter, the fact that they don’t matter to you, or any of the other fragile downvoters, doesn’t change that.

if you knew you were HIV positive, why would you have unprotected sex with rape anybody?

When you use the correct terms, your question answers itself (E, in case it wasn’t clear: because they’re a selfish piece of shit).

England on the bandwagon too:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anti-monarchy-protest-russia-police-b2166183.html

The documentary is worth watching if you can access it.

Main character syndrome, anyone? 🙄

Edit to add, on a more serious note: If I was an NHS employee I’d be absolutely outraged at the implication that the quality of treatment they provide is dictated in any part at all by the patients’ political views, rather than by the (lack of) budget, training, and available staff, which Labour is complicit in.

Seriously, the more I think about it, the more annoyed this bullshit is making me.

I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again

Well, I did need a good laugh this morning, I just didn’t expect it to come from the lies this fucker tells himself so he can recharge sleep at night…

Conservatives, of any religion or ethnicity.

Proud neoliberal does neoliberal things, more at 11… 🙄

And other people learn that targeting the most minor and irrelevant of symptoms expecting it to cure the disease is never going to accomplish anything, but rather give people false feelings of hope while doing nothing but waste time and resources while the cancer metastasises and gets significantly worse. ¯\(ツ)/¯

That doesn’t contradict a single thing I’ve said.

Right, because there is o information available out there for people to look up…

Those who care, already looked her up, those who don’t, won’t pay any more attention because of this.

not my money, not my choice, just my personal opinion… ¯(ツ)/¯

This is the sad truth.

Like I said, not my money, not my decision, but none of that will change the fact that I think they’re wasting their time and money on someone who needs to be removed from the public eye, not continued to be made relevant, and that there are people much more worthy of LBD’s attention.

I guess, but as far as I know, they’re funded by donations (and are meant to be focused on UK politics, not US), so it’s not like they’ve got a bunch of cash to splash about, and I really don’t think Truss is worthy of them wasting any resources on, she’s best left to be ignored by history as the failure that she was, not kept relevant when she really isn’t.

I get that she’s easy and enjoyable to make fun of, but even if it is about indirectly targeting trump, and they really do want to influence not only local but global politics, there are much better targets.

But hey, not my money, not my choice, just my personal opinion… ¯\(ツ)/¯