#GeorgeMonbiot wrote a searing column about how the right’s methods for tearing down progressive societies often begin with a joke
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/right-progressive-societies-joke-glastonbury-starve-benefit-rod-liddle-lewis-schaffer
> You could call these jokes, if you think killing people is funny. Or you could call them thought experiments. Liddle suggested as much in his column: “I am merely hypothesising, in a slightly wistful kinda way.” This “humour” permits obscene ideas to seep into the range of the possible.
> Academic researchers see the use of jokes to break taboos and reduce the thresholds of hate speech as a form of “strategic mainstreaming”. Far-right influencers.. desensitise...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/right-progressive-societies-joke-glastonbury-starve-benefit-rod-liddle-lewis-schaffer
I support #DirectAction against #genocide, #ecocide and other #CrimesAgainstHumanity. I oppose the #CriminalisationOfDissent, where that dissent is in the service of human rights, the survival of the oppressed, the habitability of the planet.
I support #PalestineAction.
#protest #CriminalisationOfDissent #UKpol #GeorgeMonbiot #DoubleDownNews
27.06.2025
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This new law is terrifying and will silence us all. George Monbiot talking complete common sense again, as usual. Like George, I'm Spartacus and I support Palestine Action. It's a fair cop guvnor, put the bracelets on.
#OustKeif (That squareheaded cunt!)
A #MustWatchVideo from #DoubleDownNews & #GeorgeMonbiot
UKpol: George Monbiot on the endof Labour
Städtisches Wachstum und Postwachstum: Thierry Paquot im Circular Metabolism-Podcast
In der neuen Folge des Circular Metabolism-Podcasts (Athanassiadis, 2025) unterhält sich Aristide Athanassiadis ausführlich mit dem französischen Philosophen Thierry Paquot, der sich vor allem mit Städten und Urbanismus beschäftigt hat. Die Leitfrage ist, ob es eine ideale Größe von Städten gibt. Ausgehend von dieser Frage geht Paquot auf eine Fülle von Literatur ein. Dabei stellt er seine eigene Arbeit vor, die von der Lektüre, dem Kommentieren und Editieren dieser Literatur nicht zu lösen ist. In der zweiten Hälfte des Podcasts geht Paquot ausführlich auf den Bioregionalismus ein und stellt dabei seine eigenen urbanistischen Ziele dar. […]
Texte zur Transformation: The Invisible Doctrine
Ich bin auf das neue Buch von George Monbiot und Peter Hutchinson zur „geheimen Geschichte des Neoliberalismus“ (2024) durch Kevin Anderson aufmerksam geworden. In England ist es ein Bestseller. Nun erscheint zum Buch auch ein Film. George Monbiot spricht den Text des Einleitungskapitels im Trailer: https://youtu.be/OeLNRzqCpCE?si=DNDxWK6UxWWuG4qo Zwei Narrative Ich habe bei der Lektüre des spannenden und zugleich sachlich und zugespitzt geschriebenen Texts viel gelernt. Ich wusste […]https://wittenbrink.net/texte-zur-transformation-the-invisible-doctrine/
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s #ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime
#GeorgeMonbiot
The horrifying #planningBill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir #Starmer told us
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/labour-nature-england-ecosystems-planning-bill-keir-starmer #science #nature #conservation #wildlife #UKpolitics
"How Capitalism Crashes Democracy" by George Monbiot.
A great insight, as always from Mr Monbiot...
#georgeMonbiot #democracy #fascism #neoliberalism
https://www.monbiot.com/2025/04/02/how-capitalism-crashes-democracy/
#FYI #democracy #fascism #politics #monbiot #georgemonbiot
George Monbiot on the ongoing system breakdown.
(A lot of aspects he is getting, but he is still not there. He still wants to keep the fundaments. If you have any kind of hierarchy and "politics" in a system, you have it fundamentally wrong. The only systems sustainable for ALL people for over 10.000 years in the past, we dug up so far, were ones without any hierarchy, based on some sort of mutual cooperation.)
George Monbiot has seen it all, or most of it. His research is thorough; his conclusions are sound. Why aren't we listening?
"The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor. However frantically centrist parties avoid the issue, there is no other way."
#ginicoefficient #incomeinequality #wealthgap #Populism #georgemonbiot
»Rechtspopulisten werden weiter gewinnen, bis wir diese Wahrheit über die menschliche Natur begreifen«
schreibt #GeorgeMonbiot im Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth
Sein Beitrag betont, wie viel ausgelieferter die Menschen in den USA den ökonomischen Zwängen sind - gerade im Kontrast zu #Europa.
Was in den #USA als Freiheit verkauft wird, ist vor allem eine Freiheit von Sicherheit.
»In den USA ist ein großer Teil der Bevölkerung von vielen Leistungen ausgeschlossen:«
Relevant für @BlumeEvolution : Der #GeorgeMonbiot erklärt einen sehr einfachen #Thymos-Reflex. Werden bei zu weit klaffender Ungleichheit Leuz dauerhaft von Schwebe-Effekten ausgeschlossen, kommt von ganz allein die Lust diese zu zerstören, bzw. auf Sündenböcke runterdreschen zu wollen.
Die Kybernetik der Verteilung gemeinsam erarbeiteten Wohlstands ist eine heikle Sache.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth
George Monbiot, “It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent.” #UK #protest #LabourParty #Gaza #ClimateChange #democracy #PeacefulProtests #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #HeritageFoundation #Starmer #GeorgeMonbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/protest-britain-activists-quaker-meeting-house
767 #ClimateAction #GeorgeMonbiot #JustStopOil
Luckily this man never tires from refuting those petty arguments fueled by #BigOil.
I wish the BBC would stop bringing them up and start talking about the real problem.
"George Monbiot | BBC Politics Live | 2 April 2025 | Just Stop Oil" [9:43 min]
by Just Stop Oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzs8uar98Jw
Quote by JSO:
"Apr 2, 2025
'Just Stop Oil to Stop Direct Action Protests'
So where are we at?
Demand 1: No New Oil and Gas Licences – WON!
Demand 2: Just Stop Oil by 2030.
We need a Fossil Fuel Treaty.
Carry on emitting today and hope at some future date huge carbon sucking technology will solve the problem. Yet we know carbon is killing today, and global emissions are still rising.
Oil is more valuable than our culture, our heritage, our bodies. More valuable than the beautiful web of life on earth, more valuable than home."
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
#GeorgeMonbiot #UK #fascism #Neoliberalism
"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in.
So what’s the game? Why adopt policies that could scarcely be better calculated to prevent your re-election? Why stick to outdated fiscal rules when projections suggest they’ll make almost everyone worse off, especially those in poverty? Why impose devastating attacks on wellbeing, such as sustaining the two-child benefit cap, freezing local housing allowance and cutting disability benefits?
Why pursue austerity when the country voted so decisively to end it? Why cut and cut when years of experience show this will undermine the government’s primary (and ill-advised) goal, economic growth?
Why taunt, insult and abuse a crucial part of your political base: people who care about life on Earth? Why trash environmental commitments, abandon protections, expand airports and tie down green watchdogs? Why sustain and defend the most extreme anti-protest measures in any nominally democratic country?
(. . .)
These policies might seem incomprehensible. But there’s a thread running through them. They all arise from the same doctrine: neoliberalism. This ideology, which has dominated the UK since 1979, demands austerity, the privatisation and shrinkage of public services, curtailment of protest and trade unions, deregulation and tax reductions for the rich. Justified as a means of creating an enterprise society, it has instead delivered a new age of rent, as powerful people monopolise crucial assets, from water to housing to social media. It leaves a government with few options but to scapegoat asylum seekers and other vulnerable groups for the problems it fails to address.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5E6qd1t4PY
The SINISTER Connection Between Trump 
and #Starmer
with #GeorgeMonbiot
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? #ToxicWaste – and ministers don’t care
#GeorgeMonbiot
#Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into #sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/21/tonnes-sludge-uk-farmland-sewage-farms-toxins-food-system #science #environment #pollution #pfas #microplastics
