Tomorrow's MP is today's local councillor. If you don't help them build a power base, you're leaving selection (and hence policy decisions) entirely to the party. Which is part of why modern Westminster is so broken.

Maybe I am being misogynistic, but I bet she'd be quick to complain when unattractive men insisted on talking to her on a plane.

What about tactical misdirection? E.g. you present A, B, and C, but on the choice you want (B) you leave some details "blank". The meeting descends into working on those details, hence sanctioning your pick on the important choice - while also leaving leadership with a sense of ownership.

"Panem et circenses", Roman emperors knew that 2,000 years ago already. Trump messing with both is a gamble he will come to regret.

You don't provide a source, but a quick check brings up something like the below link, which says the content theft machine is currently not accepting photos for plagiarism, but still accepting prompts for generating soulless images based on user descriptions.

Don't bother - that line of argument is a disingenuous right-wing talking point, meant to legitimise anti-democratic behaviour. It's been around for 25+ years, as stupid today as it was back then. Sad that people living in one of the oldest democracies can be turned against their own culture.

It's actually slightly annoying that basically everyone agrees with everyone. Where is the drama? The excitement? Conflict is what makes socials go round.

His 1st term was not as bad as this one, he was trying to look legit. Her community clearly skews Republican, she voted for Biden: she is a swing voter who doesn't live and breathe politics - the kind that progressives should persuade, not hate. Vilifying her doesn't help anything.

This thread sadly shows that Bluesky is going exactly the same way as Twitter, in terms of enabling the worst of the worst. People calling her names of all sorts, when she's just a victim of skilled conmen. Progressives should be compassionate, not hateful.

Mayor Carcetti is one of those Wire characters that is just so good because he's so credible: he runs for office for the right reasons, but once in power, his priorities shift to survival and he becomes just another villain.

Ever looked at those skyscrapers? Quite a few of them have fascist motifs all over.

Life was getting faster thanks to electricity, railways, cars and telephones, but political and social norms were seen as slow and reactionary, and impossible to reform via consensus. It was natural for artistic avant-guards to call for a new acceleration, which in the past was brought by war. /end

The young kingdom struggled with many familiar issues (corruption, mismanagement, unequal economic development, stodgy politics), and many veterans were unhappy that they'd fought for a Republic but ended up with just another king. This in a context of tensions between all European countries. /2

Don't want to be an apologist, but futurism must be seen in context. The kingdom of Italy, at the time, was barely 50yo, a dream realized with dozens of wars over the previous century. Napoleon was still a well-remembered, positive figure in Italy, where his looting armies brought civil progress. /1

Gotta replace them with his true believers. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

A lot of activists and rank&file were against it, but the leadership was only formally opposed - in practice, then-leader Corbyn married the "lexit" argument that outside EU they'd be more free to nationalize companies. So there was no filibuster, so to speak.