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Cake day: December 12th, 2023

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  • Andrzejtomemes@lemmy.worldAnarchy Easter Eggs
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    2 months ago

    Surely the point is that the OP couldn’t possibly have known what the authority thought about their painted stones, unless:

    1. they had a personal contact, which is quite the omission

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    1. the authorities were putting up posters around town, interviewing door-to-door etc








  • In the case of UK Labour, they got fewer votes in absolute terms this time than under Corbyn, and only marginally improved on his vote share in 2019’s wipeout— what really got them into power was Conservative discipline collapsing as soon as Corbynism was dead and there was no longer any threat to the political consensus, combined with the quirks of a constituency-based fptp electoral system. Veering right is a ‘vote winner’ for a nominally left/centre party only in that it buys you the right to participate in the first place.






  • Andrzejtothe_dunk_tank@hexbear.netThe Lesser Evil
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    3 months ago

    This whole debate is so warped tbh. No-one ever says that voting for a candidate/party who would have won anyway is “throwing your vote away” but it does exactly as much good as not voting at all. Similarly, if you wake up the day after the election, and the Bad Dude won, well, your vote wouldn’t have changed anything anyway.

    You can register your dissent by voting third party. It’s not much, but that’s all you’re allowed to do.





  • Andrzejtochat@hexbear.netDo right wingers buy more books?
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    3 months ago

    I can’t really furnish you with a link, though I saw some pretty convincing breakdowns back when I was on Twitter. Long story short, nobody is actually buying e.g. James Ball’s books — they don’t even print nearly enough to cover what the author is paid. It’s similar to the columnist grift, which is definitely a thing in the US too