International Politics

[Besticus Maximus]

If Labor politics in Australia are any indication, the "adults" are usually just pigs with lipstick and people quickly realise that voting for that guy because he wasn't the other guy maybe wasn't what they really wanted.

Over here we have a big problem because the centre right has been overtaken by the Christian conservatives and the Labor Party has been overtaken by the inner city academics.

They're all idiots and we just keep switching to the other side because they're not "the useless idiot who's in now".

We've got our own distinct problems, but the Labour party has only ever got into government when it's led by social democrats. Be mindful that the screeching you hear online from the nutters is, in reality, a few thousand people. Our big problem in recent years was Jeremy Corbyn, the most useless cunt on planet earth with his own crank cult of street poets and trots.

I have people on my Facebook feed who are Corbyn supporters. Was amusing watching them frothing at the mouth before and after that election. Delusional people and a lesson to all that the people who join political parties are mostly extremists and not very bright.

in that case you can auto-delete everything they've ever said, they are the equivalent of Jill Stein supporters in the US and there aren't even enough of them to move the needle in any way. Starmer is a world renowned Human Rights lawyer and a former editor of Young Socialists, he's done way more solidly left wing business in his youth than Corbyn did in his entire career.