That rebuts the pro-lynching charge, but it does make the story a bit pointless. "The moral example of an idealised micro-community of people dedicated to entirely non-violent responses to violent acts will persuade murderers to repent" is giving me Uncle Tom's Cabin vibes more than anything.
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
That rebuts the pro-lynching charge, but it does make the story a bit pointless. "The moral example of an idealised micro-community of people dedicated to entirely non-violent responses to violent acts will persuade murderers to repent" is giving me Uncle Tom's Cabin vibes more than anything.
Right, but as you've written elsewhere on the thread there was never any serious prospect of vengeance being opted for given that the victim's family were always expected to reject it. That empties the purported dilemma of any genuine weight, because only one option will ever be selected.
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Right, but as you've written elsewhere on the thread there was never any serious prospect of vengeance being opted for given that the victim's family were always expected to reject it. That empties the purported dilemma of any genuine weight, because only one option will ever be selected.
Ok, but in that case why is the alternative of letting the murderer drown even mentioned?
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Ok, but in that case why is the alternative of letting the murderer drown even mentioned?
It's an amazingly lazy and superficial critique, the two lowlights of which are calling Tom Harwood a journalist and the complaint below, which appears to have been written in complete ignorance of the RF's support for extending full expensing for CT to all capital investment
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's an amazingly lazy and superficial critique, the two lowlights of which are calling Tom Harwood a journalist and the complaint below, which appears to have been written in complete ignorance of the RF's support for extending full expensing for CT to all capital investment
It's honestly made me more sympathetic to prohibitionists given the magnitude of the harm caused. At least betting shops have limited opening hours and can physically stop you from placing bets.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
It's honestly made me more sympathetic to prohibitionists given the magnitude of the harm caused. At least betting shops have limited opening hours and can physically stop you from placing bets.
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“Read theory.” The closest Angela Davis comes to talking about an alternative in her book, Are Prisons Obsolete, is talking about how a white American forgave a Black South African man for killing their daughter during riots immediately prior to the fall of apartheid
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Read theory.” The closest Angela Davis comes to talking about an alternative in her book, Are Prisons Obsolete, is talking about how a white American forgave a Black South African man for killing their daughter during riots immediately prior to the fall of apartheid
She won't win the membership vote with this kind of policy or rhetoric.
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
She won't win the membership vote with this kind of policy or rhetoric.
Yes and this was how Reagan got re-elected despite presiding over high inflation during the first half of his term.
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Yes and this was how Reagan got re-elected despite presiding over high inflation during the first half of his term.
At least in this scenario the PLP will still bring him down.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
At least in this scenario the PLP will still bring him down.
We already did when Reeves whacked up employer NI by an eye-watering amount, which has in turn pushed up inflation and unemployment.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We already did when Reeves whacked up employer NI by an eye-watering amount, which has in turn pushed up inflation and unemployment.
Well then enjoy declining public services and death by a thousand cuts I guess, because absent broad-based increases in taxation, we're not getting out of this mess.
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Well then enjoy declining public services and death by a thousand cuts I guess, because absent broad-based increases in taxation, we're not getting out of this mess.
The people making the most use of those things aren't going to be paying much or any income tax though.
And if you want to cut other costs, then do that with the revenue! Get rid of VAT on electricity bills and take network costs and green levies into general taxation, for example.
And if you want to cut other costs, then do that with the revenue! Get rid of VAT on electricity bills and take network costs and green levies into general taxation, for example.
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The people making the most use of those things aren't going to be paying much or any income tax though.
And if you want to cut other costs, then do that with the revenue! Get rid of VAT on electricity bills and take network costs and green levies into general taxation, for example.
And if you want to cut other costs, then do that with the revenue! Get rid of VAT on electricity bills and take network costs and green levies into general taxation, for example.
The people really struggling will be paying the least additional income tax and would benefit from a classic redistributive Labour budget. Instead they're being fobbed off with half-baked alternatives.
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The people really struggling will be paying the least additional income tax and would benefit from a classic redistributive Labour budget. Instead they're being fobbed off with half-baked alternatives.