Exclusive: The US spytech firm sent letters to British MPs who made critical comments or asked difficult questions in parliament. Harriet Williamson reports.

US techno-fascists threatening democratic-elected MPs who denounce the erasure of our data privacy.

  • Hamartia@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

    Neo liberalism needs to fall for this to end. Trumpism is the natural reaction to Neo liberalism when the propagandised can only see a move rightwards as escape. Trumpism, or its like, is what Neo liberalism systemically herds a democratically significant protion of society into with the explicit purpose of delivering permanent power to plutocrats.

    The purpose of a system is what it does.

    • LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 days ago

      Neo liberalism needs to fall for this to end.

      No disagreement between us on this. The current rise of right-wing populism around the world (which Trumpism is just the most prominent part of) are mere blow-off valves, designed to release some of the pressure of an unjust system and (mis)direct the justified anger of the people away from its main beneficiaries.

      • Hamartia@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Hmm. If it was just a blow off valve I don’t think so many of the more self aware plutocrats would be dumping so much money and time into it.

        • LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          2 days ago

          The Tea Party movement and the Trump I admin emerging from it certainly was just a valve (as well as many other right-wing movements). Trump II, I agree, is a much different beast, although what exactly it is and who is in charge of it remains debatable:

          • Is it authoritarians and neo-fascists running the show, merely taking large chunks of the billionaire class hostage, as Carole Cadwalladr has said about the CEOs lining up for inauguration and later almost falling over themselves when promising to bring back investments from offshore?
          • Is it the moneyed elite who are tired of playing grey eminence, merely buying influence behind the scenes while, by and large, still keeping up the charade of committing to liberal democracy, egalitarianism and the rule of law?
          • Is it a Russian or Chinese operation designed to destroy American power throughout the world? A look at the results of < 2 years’ worth of Trumpist foreign policy lends a lot of plausibility to this hypothesis: why else would this admin take the axe to American soft power and alliances throughout the world, threaten and alienate its allies while at the same time cosying up to Russia and other dictatorships, and deplete U.S. high value munitions in yet another senseless war?