So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.

"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."

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How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

The over 90% don’t want it nugget…

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WHITE SUPREMACISTS FEAR GENDER NON-CONFORMITY

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The idea underlying white male supremacy is at least 6000 years old

Class hierarchy - which arose with the city state - came out of earlier patriarchal notions of women's "natural" inferiority

The ancients held gender nonconformity to be "womanly", hence "weak"

This "womanly, hence weak" label became attached to other out-groups as politically required

origins of misogyny
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Coalition's misogyny stems from a history of female oppression

The key to ending the misogynistic attitudes of our governing politicians may be in examining the history of the Western patriarchy.

^{Independent Australia}

RT @WilkieMP@twitter.com

My Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Loot Boxes) Bill would put an R18+ rating on all video games with loot boxes. These features are setting young people up for gambling addiction. It needs to stop andrewwilkie.org/loot-boxes-bi…. #auspol #politas

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Loot Boxes Bill introduced to Parliament - Andrew Wilkie

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, recently introduced the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Loot Boxes) Bill 2022, which introduces mandatory classifications for video games with gambling type features.

^{Connor Munnings (Andrew Wilkie)}