9/6/25, Kid Starver: “You know, i’m starting to get really worried about these “Elders of Zion”.”

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    Picturing a version of reality where the UK copies the US by doing tariffs and tries to rebuild its manufacturing and industry with exactly the same tactics.

    It fails miserably obviously but it would be really funny if not for the fact I have to live here.

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    The thing is no matter how hard he tries right wingers don’t give a shit they will always vote Tory or have already switched to reform. He’s pandering to nobody. Muh silent majority of moderates

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    Keith Starmer will declare an end to globalization

    anakin-padme-2 So he’s going to impose stringent capital and currency controls on the city of London while using tariffs to protect jobs and grow domestic industries, right?

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      If kid starver decided to unilaterally close down the city of London and arrest everyone in there from one day to the next, I would in fact have to give it to him.

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        Second coming of Richard the Lionheart - hated London, was mindless warmonger, knew shit about economy, ruined England financially (and also made his brother to eat shit and be villain for him, does Starver even have a brother?).

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    It does feel funny that globalisation was built up by all these massive trade deals that included years of negotiation and was often signed off on by by the countries’ parliaments. And then just one man, Trump, undoes all of it.

    Not that I’m taking the side of the neoliberal trade agreements of the past, tho.

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      Funnily enough most of these neolibs used to use the saying ‘no two countries with a Mcdonalds have gone to war’ as their justification for why capitalist globalization is/was important to establish, but Ukraine and Russia demonstrated that was false years ago. now sir kid starver is going to blame it on Trump

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      What does he even mean by Globalization failed?

      Basically, we’ve hit the limits for being able to raise the living conditions for those living in the metropolitan powers of the colonial era, and we can no longer pretend that globalization will allow us to endlessly expand our consumption and raise quality of life with no negative consequences. At least, no negative consequences as long as we collectively ignore the fact that we’ve just outsourced the worst consequences of pursuing these policies to poorer countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. As long as the sweatshops, wars over resources, crushing poverty and widespread suffering due to famine, droughts and war happened elsewhere, to other people that only get a short paragraph about their suffering from the consequences of Western economic policies, rather than having to write the “Oh, it’s so sad how they’re suffering horribly because of what we continue to do,” articles about people living in the UK, rather than in Sudan or something, they could count on a majority of people to bury their heads in the sand and act as though everything was going swimmingly.

      Now that we’re hitting the reality of those consequences coming home to impact us first-hand, the jig is up and we have to break out some new type of smoke and mirrors to try and keep the populace from seeing through the lies and realizing the whole system is a worm-eaten husk that needs to be torn down before it comes down on our heads.

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      Britons have it in their head that “the working class” are your standard reform-voting gammons and they love their bosses more than anything.

      Therefore, to appeal to “the working class” they need to be as far-right as possible because only a capitalist swine would go against the majority and openly say something like “it is bad to be racist.”

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    I feel like globalization has only failed because anti socialist propaganda has been too successful. If imperial core countries would actually work with china instead of constantly trying to act superior, and fearing the red menace. We’d have a shot. But oh well in the next life I guess.

    But this is preaching to the choir.