No need to repeat the funding scandal: Morgan was the party’s billionaire-bungs man, and he took shitloads of undeclared cash to wage war on his own party, a thing that looks to my inexpert eye like people should be going to prison for it. Details are here www.channel4.com/news/factche...

You might ask: why would a socialist party funded by members’ donations need a guy whose job is negotiating policy with billionaires in exchange for big cheques? And of course, it didn’t: Morgan’s job was largely obsolete, as indeed was he. Intolerable! So he decided he would blow that shit up.

At many times throughout this history liberal patriots in the United States have said "this isn't who we are, true patriots deny the evidence of their eyes and have a greater vision for what America is supposed to be" while the national project has been bloodshed and genocide.

They’re pretending it’s water. It’s not. It’s bottled flavoured water. You can definitely survive without it. And if the company making it is deliberately horrendously overvalued and then explodes, you’ll go back to drinking ordinary water.

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything