I don't know why they're called centrist. Objectively they're right wing. They could at last be honest and own it like Labo(u)r right factions elsewhere in the Anglophone world.
Do centrist democrats really like or intend on governing? I think they like the nice neoliberal sweet spot of letting individuals govern themselves and Republicans govern poorly. Sitting back, relaxing, taking the biggest bribes, and tsk-tsking everybody
Right-wing Democrats see an opportunity to take the Senate while keeping a Muslim out of the chamber
November 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I don't know why they're called centrist. Objectively they're right wing. They could at last be honest and own it like Labo(u)r right factions elsewhere in the Anglophone world.
I don't know why they're called centrist. Objectively they're right wing. They could at last be honest and own it like Labo(u)r right factions elsewhere in the Anglophone world.
November 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I don't know why they're called centrist. Objectively they're right wing. They could at last be honest and own it like Labo(u)r right factions elsewhere in the Anglophone world.
😑 permit me to add that it's particularly rich that this enraging sh*te was articulated by someone who has never engaged in productive labo(u)r in their lifetime
First of all this is racist af. Second of all, it’s wildly untrue. And third of all, a group of people does not need to produce science or literature to be fully human or whatever!!! What is this, 1780??? (This is a topic in my book btw)
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
October 27, 2026 at 11:16 AM
😑 permit me to add that it's particularly rich that this enraging sh*te was articulated by someone who has never engaged in productive labo(u)r in their lifetime
say Labor honours the feminist promises they made in 2022 and pass the bill. What next? The states and territories probably pass laws authorising public sector workers to lawfully shackle women in labour - literal labo(u)r, geddit - and strip search incarcerated women. Then what?
October 27, 2026 at 8:52 AM
say Labor honours the feminist promises they made in 2022 and pass the bill. What next? The states and territories probably pass laws authorising public sector workers to lawfully shackle women in labour - literal labo(u)r, geddit - and strip search incarcerated women. Then what?
I think those of us in the labo(u)r movement ought to be honest that unionization affects prices and services offerred: from the cost of groceries to the amount of trains we can run.
The real question is how important is solidarity when it costs you something?
The real question is how important is solidarity when it costs you something?
October 26, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I think those of us in the labo(u)r movement ought to be honest that unionization affects prices and services offerred: from the cost of groceries to the amount of trains we can run.
The real question is how important is solidarity when it costs you something?
The real question is how important is solidarity when it costs you something?
'They're just like this' is the best working explanation for the Labo(u)r Party(ies) I have heard this year. =)
October 19, 2026 at 1:00 AM
'They're just like this' is the best working explanation for the Labo(u)r Party(ies) I have heard this year. =)
Does Maryland still have a law on the books banning white after Labo(u)r Day?
Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night.
Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.
Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.
October 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Does Maryland still have a law on the books banning white after Labo(u)r Day?
Labo(u)r parties in both countries took a lot from them in impetus and culture.
October 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Labo(u)r parties in both countries took a lot from them in impetus and culture.
These are impressions I've gotten from UK people I follow here, but to my understanding the UK Guardian is what down in Australia I'd call a "Labor Rusted-On", that is someone who is vaguely progressive but generally toes the Labo(u)r party line and deems it the only 'legitimate' left-wing party.
October 8, 2026 at 9:25 AM
These are impressions I've gotten from UK people I follow here, but to my understanding the UK Guardian is what down in Australia I'd call a "Labor Rusted-On", that is someone who is vaguely progressive but generally toes the Labo(u)r party line and deems it the only 'legitimate' left-wing party.
It's literally just that they don't want to be nice to Israel. Like that's genuinely almost the entire point of difference between Labo(u)r/Liberal/Democrats and the various Greens. There's other stuff around tax but really it's just Israel. It's a deranged polity.
October 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
It's literally just that they don't want to be nice to Israel. Like that's genuinely almost the entire point of difference between Labo(u)r/Liberal/Democrats and the various Greens. There's other stuff around tax but really it's just Israel. It's a deranged polity.
I don't know about Canada because it already has another party of the left and I don't know about New Zealand because with proportional elections who the fuck knows, but every study says Labo(u)r and Democratic voters are closer to the Greens than almost all their politicians. It's so cooked.
October 1, 2026 at 9:02 AM
I don't know about Canada because it already has another party of the left and I don't know about New Zealand because with proportional elections who the fuck knows, but every study says Labo(u)r and Democratic voters are closer to the Greens than almost all their politicians. It's so cooked.
War bestimmt ein Haufen Läbo(u)r.
September 29, 2026 at 11:42 AM
War bestimmt ein Haufen Läbo(u)r.
Yep. There was a terrific video from an English guy at Modern UK showing what big money did to Labour in Corbyn v Starmer eras. They shaped (again) the potentially threatening party of workers into a lapdog. New Labo(u)r was a mouse that wouldn’t interrupt Neolib/plutocrat counterrevolution.
September 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Yep. There was a terrific video from an English guy at Modern UK showing what big money did to Labour in Corbyn v Starmer eras. They shaped (again) the potentially threatening party of workers into a lapdog. New Labo(u)r was a mouse that wouldn’t interrupt Neolib/plutocrat counterrevolution.
Once again feeling utterly unhinged as I include the quote from the director of Microsoft "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions…the largest theft of labo[u]r in human history" then must go on to create slides about how "if you use these tools in your PhD - watch out for confabulation!"
September 18, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Once again feeling utterly unhinged as I include the quote from the director of Microsoft "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions…the largest theft of labo[u]r in human history" then must go on to create slides about how "if you use these tools in your PhD - watch out for confabulation!"
Or just, stop pretending you live in a bubble and understand that one way or another other people DO have a right to the product of your labo/u/r, whether it's your community, your employers, your customers...it's how civilization's worked for millenia.
September 12, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Or just, stop pretending you live in a bubble and understand that one way or another other people DO have a right to the product of your labo/u/r, whether it's your community, your employers, your customers...it's how civilization's worked for millenia.
Look at my labo(u)r mp Dawgggggg I’m goin to get smashed by the far right 😫🤯🤣
It's hard to read this as anything other than complaining bitterly about having to do one's job.
September 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Look at my labo(u)r mp Dawgggggg I’m goin to get smashed by the far right 😫🤯🤣
We should have about twenty more Labo(u)r Days.
September 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
We should have about twenty more Labo(u)r Days.
There go my plans for next weekend! At least we got one last Labo(u)r day of whey, molasses and motorcycles.
Breaking: White House issues three proclamations banning imports of Canadian products including motorcycles, whey, molasses, non-alcoholic beer, and a range of alcoholic beverages
September 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
There go my plans for next weekend! At least we got one last Labo(u)r day of whey, molasses and motorcycles.
Thanks for this. Happy Labo(u)r Day.
September 8, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Thanks for this. Happy Labo(u)r Day.
Solidarity is always a team sport. 🤝 We’re proud to stand together as players, as workers, and as a union. Happy Labo(u)r Day!
September 7, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Solidarity is always a team sport. 🤝 We’re proud to stand together as players, as workers, and as a union. Happy Labo(u)r Day!
Yes we know, D. Cease is starting a pivotal Labo(u)r Day game for the Jays. But did anyone else in Canada ever play this tabletop baseball card game? Esso Baseball Challenge. Came out in '88.
September 8, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Yes we know, D. Cease is starting a pivotal Labo(u)r Day game for the Jays. But did anyone else in Canada ever play this tabletop baseball card game? Esso Baseball Challenge. Came out in '88.
US Labo(u)r Day should still be on May 1st.
September 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
US Labo(u)r Day should still be on May 1st.
Labo(u)r Day is a good time to remind folks about YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION by @ethanmarcotte.com — collective organizing and worker power is maybe *especially* important for these industries that shape all of our lives, especially now.
ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...
ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...
You Deserve a Tech Union — Ethan Marcotte
Read this page on ethanmarcotte.com
ethanmarcotte.com
September 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Labo(u)r Day is a good time to remind folks about YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION by @ethanmarcotte.com — collective organizing and worker power is maybe *especially* important for these industries that shape all of our lives, especially now.
ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...
ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...
planning out my day. lot of assignments to work on. gonna be a busy one today. wish me luck (or don’t)
happy labo(u)r day
happy labo(u)r day
September 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
planning out my day. lot of assignments to work on. gonna be a busy one today. wish me luck (or don’t)
happy labo(u)r day
happy labo(u)r day
