After talking about economic and political gaslighting, this had to follow.
I used AI, among other tools, when creating this post. I also used a word processor and about 50 years of experience writing about these issues. Drawing the infographic was the smallest part, and I had no budget to do it any other way.
Much of what is said about economics is little better than gaslighting....
I used AI tools when writing this post, including a spell checker. I also used about 50 years of experience observing, studying, and writing about these issues. The infographic drawing was the smallest part of all that, and I had no budget to do it any other way.
Hunt: "We've grown much wealthier as a country since the 80s"
1970s Britain owned its utilities, millions of council houses, had a huge oil/gas reserve & a national debt of £80bn. Now? No assets & £2.9tn national debt
We havent got richer. Jeremy & his mates have at our expense
Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars. Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. All we want is clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
something i’ve realized watching all of this play out
a sandwich that jumps from $8 to $14 never goes back to $8. rent that climbs from $1,400 to $2,200 stays at $2,200 forever.
gas, groceries, insurance, all of it. prices only move in one direction
inflation becomes permanent the moment everyone accepts the new number.
and we always accept it because we have no other choice
then workers ask for raises just to survive the prices they had nothing to do with creating.
and suddenly they’re the problem. they’re “hurting the economy” by wanting to afford food
the economy for who exactly.
because whoever it’s working for it sure as hell isn’t us
Michael Parenti (1933-2026):
‘The free market mythology argues that the most ruthless, selfish, opportunistic, greedy, calculating plunderers, applying the most heartless measures in cold blooded pursuit of corporate interests and wealth accumulation, will produce the best results for all of us through something called the invisible hand.’
Green cllr Gina Dowding: "Is it that we've seen a Keir Starmer project or has this been.. a Labour Together project, & is there going to be any change, because its looking very much like Starmer was the front man for that outfit & they're still very much going to be in control"
In Fight Club, Tyler Durden secretly appears in single-frame flashes before the Narrator ever meets him. One of these blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments shows Tyler disguised as a hotel waiter—a detail most viewers never notice on their first watch.
Your subconscious already met Tyler Durden before the Narrator did.
In Fight Club (1999), director David Fincher deliberately inserted four subliminal flashes of Tyler Durden before the character is formally introduced. Each appearance lasts just a single frame—about 1/24th of a second—placing it near the threshold of conscious perception. The effect was designed to make audiences feel that something was off without immediately understanding why, reflecting the Narrator’s own fractured state of mind.
One of these hidden appearances shows Tyler briefly standing in the background of a hotel scene as a waiter, visible only for an instant. Most moviegoers never noticed the flashes in theaters, and it wasn’t until home video made frame-by-frame viewing possible that fans were able to track down all four of Tyler’s secret appearances.
In 2015, Royal Mail was privatised. In 2017, it missed delivery targets and has never met them since. Yet again we see 'the superior efficiency of the private sector' in action.
On Aaron Bastani's Downstream podcast, the economist whose Channel 4 interview went viral makes the full historical case: austerity, rearmament and a collapsing middle class are the conditions that produced fascism. She argues we have reproduced all three.
Σχόλιό μου για την παραίτηση Στάρμερ: "Καλά ξεκουμπίδια στον Πρωθυπουργό που θυσίασε αξίες για την κυβερνησιμότητα - που έτσι πήρε την εξουσία χωρίς να ξέρει τι να την κάνει"
"Child poverty, soaring rents and endless war.
Yes, Keir Starmer should resign, but unless we replace our rotten political system, nothing will change.
We need a new kind of politics. One that takes on the rich and powerful to build a dignified society for all."
Jeremy Corbyn. https://t.co/tyrr7u8j5C