If I could choose one living person to have a beer with it would be Jeremy Scahill

Israel has the right to go fuck itself

I mean yeah, I agree of course. Capitalism is of course incapable of doing it sustainably, this is all too obvious. We need to take control of the machine.

Just take transportation as an example. There’s no need for everyone to be driving around in single occupancy vehicles when we could just have trains instead, I think everyone on this website would agree with that. It would reduce production overall, reduce GHG emissions, and improve everyone’s lives. But it would still require building more things (train tracks, trains, etc).

I don’t know what his opinions on veganism are but I can almost guarantee you he is not a vegan lol.

surely wants some sugar-daddy billionaire to fund him the rest of his life

I do not see any indication of this at all.

What is this “evidence”?

Pretty much everything he writes is very well sourced, citing studies etc etc. His seminal piece on anti-degrowth is here if you want to give it a read

it doesn’t seem like he has much of a handle on what proponents of degrowth are actually arguing

His argument is actually that the degrowthers don’t understand what their own position actually is:

degrowth unwittingly endorses what would be an imposition of austerity on the Western working class far beyond anything a Thatcher, Cameron or May could imagine, this time in the name of the planet.

Amazing to think that all that parking could be replaced with one singular train station.

Not at all.

Like I said, overall I agree with most of what he says (mostly regarding the environment and modernism, which is the primary subject that he writes and talks about), but there are other times that I’m fundamentally at disagreement with him.

It’s a fantastic book. But if you’re pro-degrowth you’ll absolutely hate everything he says.

I would say most of the time Leigh’s takes are correct, but some of his opinions are definitely questionable (particularly on Palestine as you’ve pointed out). He is very, very well read, and his book Austerity Ecology is pretty much the definitive guide for eco-modernism. He’s highly educated, and presents some unorthodox opinions on climate change (he is - strangely - quite optimistic about our ability to curb it, and backs up everything he says with evidence, which I appreciate)

On the other hand, there’s shit like this lol.

I mean, it all comes down to personal preference. Under the hood they’re all pretty much the same, with the exception that some distros use a different package manager.

You’ll probably want to stick with one that uses the apt package manager it’s very straightforward (all Ubuntu based distros use this).

Ubuntu is the most popular and works out of the box. Personally, I am a huge fan of the KDE environment it’s very customisable and looks super slick. Kubuntu and Neon are probably the most prominent distros that use KDE.

Never thought I’d say this but Manitoba and Saskatchewan stay winning I guess

Good cat. Nice cat.

Good cat. Nice cat.

Wait, where’s the part where they knock him out?

Look no further than the discrepancy between # of votes vs. number of seats for Lib Dem vs. SNP

We have exactly the same issue in Canada with NDP vs. Bloc . Parties with regional support are artificially propped up, whereas parties with diffuse national suppose get little to no recognition at all.

Hey don’t forget WE HAVE HEALTHCARE (that is increasingly difficult to access nobody under the age of 40 has a family doctor lol lmao) and if you can’t access it then we have MAID the government can just euthanize you like a dog

In addition to what @Evilphd666@hexbear.net said, it’s worth mentioning that when he was the leader of the Labour party, it was extremely active with the membership. It grew to roughly ~600,000 members, the largest political party in Europe. Their policies were things like nationalising industries, forcing companies to have employee representatives on the boards of directors, and other socialist-leaning things.

But, since the core of Western countries is build on anti-communism, the ruling class could not tolerate that. Corbyn was far too generous and refused to purge the reactionary elements from within Labour, and when he lost the federal election (in no small part due to sabotage from within his own party as well as the baseless smear campaign against him), Kier Starmer - a man who believes in nothing - took over, and then Corbyn was himself purged along with the rest of the left-wing elements within the party.

I have to admit, I did not know what this meant and had to look it up.

Apparently it’s supposed to be on by default, but mine was disabled?

some schools and work places still do.

My gut reaction to that was “WTF that’s bullshit no way they could force people to straighten their hair!?” and then I thought about it for 0.00005 seconds and was like “Yeah of course they would.”