I wonder who’ll be next week’s Prime Minister?
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Predictably, the press are now pursuing the U-turn/caving under pressure angle.
So the same people that criticised the decision initially, then criticised Starmer for sticking to his guns on it, then criticised him for not listening to internal Labour critics urging him to make changes to the decision, are now slating him for being a weak leader because he did the thing they’ve been calling for all week.
This type of macho bullshit thing is part of the reason politicians adopt such odd stances and tactics over this stuff. If the decision is a good one, and helps to reverse an earlier bad decision, then surely that should be celebrated? Otherwise you put politicians in a situation where they know that they’re only going to get a load of shit for changing a decision to the right one, so why bother?
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Yep. They also keep going with the line that they “believe” this and that…
I don’t want belief, I want proof that this policy is beneficial so where is it?
…and suddenly they have a problem.
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Keir Starmer says he ‘deeply regrets’ island of strangers speech
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Predictably, the press are now pursuing the U-turn/caving under pressure angle.
So the same people that criticised the decision initially, then criticised Starmer for sticking to his guns on it, then criticised him for not listening to internal Labour critics urging him to make changes to the decision, are now slating him for being a weak leader because he did the thing they’ve been calling for all week.
This type of macho bullshit thing is part of the reason politicians adopt such odd stances and tactics over this stuff. If the decision is a good one, and helps to reverse an earlier bad decision, then surely that should be celebrated? Otherwise you put politicians in a situation where they know that they’re only going to get a load of shit for changing a decision to the right one, so why bother?
it’s a big problem with the whole Trump Always Chickens Out thing that’s been popular on social media. Like are you going to call him a chicken for going back and forth on bombing Iran? Start yelling bok bok bok at him if he decides to not drop a nuke on them?
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Keir Starmer says he ‘deeply regrets’ island of strangers speech
Honestly though, who could expect a lawyer to put thought into the words he choses to use, their meaning and who they could be interpreted?
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Well, the “concessions” may have won over some but for a whole lot of others, they’ve been rumbled.
They emphasise the tag of Two Tier Kier by creating exactly that.
What happens now next Tuesday? I do not know, except in one respect: Labour have inflicted immense damage on themselves.
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Soon… just being born in the US will not save you from indiscriminate deportation:
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Not a good look when Starmer’s old law firm deem his proposals to seriously breach human rights law.
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Trump administration releases MS-13 leaders as part of deal with El Salvador’s Bukele
U.S. President Donald Trump intends to drop charges against leaders of Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13), currently incarcerated in the U.S. under charges of terrorism, murder, narcotrafficking, and the attempted assassination of an FBI field officer.
Now all of those leaders are being released, and though the “national security” motives of the Trump administration have not been made public, many experts on El Salvador assert that the deals are part of a quid pro quo with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, to avoid forcing those leaders to testify about his power-sharing deals with organized criminal groups.
Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, John J. Durham, has asked the Eastern District Court of New York to drop the charges against two of the nine MS-13 leaders: Antonio López Larios, alias “Greñas”, and Vladimir Antonio Arévalo Chávez, known as “Vampiro”.
In both cases, Durham argued before the court that there were more important “geopolitical” and “national security” considerations than holding these gang members accountable for the crimes of which they were accused.
According to Salvadoran media company El Faro, Greñas had the charges against him dropped in March 2025 and was immediately deported to El Salvador. Vampiro’s legal team have filed motions to prevent his deportation to El Salvador.
Prosecutor Durham sought to have the charges against Vampiro dropped and his deportation carried out in secret, arguing that “public disclosure of this motion before the operation is complete could cause harm to the government’s relationship with a foreign ally,” referring to the Bukele government.
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Well, of course he would let the actual crimelords go free while arresting innocent citizens as gang members. Because why wouldn’t he? Trump fucking loves crime, he’s criming all the time, all of his friends are criminals. It’s poor and brown people he can’t stand.
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I would say that the progressives like AOC and Mamdani need to really claim and define the word “socialist” for the people. In the States, socialism comes across different than elsewhere. There was some confusion about it with Bernie when he was running, some were saying he was a “commie” etc. They need to make that word not be a quick turn off for the people.
And that is his cue:
https://abc7ny.com/post/trump-calls-mamdani-communist-bad-new-york-interview/16882924/And reports now about funding his opposers.
The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
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They may, finally, have started thinking about disability properly, but still have much to learn.
I’m hesitant to jump the gun on this, but removing the idiotic cruelty of the 4-point requirement is good news:
“Much more importantly, it means that the switch to the four-point Pip eligibility rule may never happen at all. It won’t be in the legislation. And there is no guarantee the Timms review will revive the idea – certainly if it is genuinely “co-produced” with disabled people, as the government promises. The four-point rule was the key instrument that was going to deliver the £2.5bn savings that, this morning, the Treasury was going to deliver.”
Narrator: It would not have saved £2.5bn, simply transferred the costs elsewhere and likely increased them, while reducing tax revenue and increasing disabled unemployment.
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The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
When the right can scream about Obama and Biden and the fukkin state of California as being communist and socialist without getting laughed out of the room, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend defining it. It’s just a generic badguy term.
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The state the US is in, Bioshock’s Andrew Ryan would be deemed a commie.
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The state the US is in, Bioshock’s Andrew Ryan would be deemed a commie.
And Richard Nixon would be a centrist.
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And, less than 24 hours later, the “revised” bill does not have the committed to removals, but instead a load of caveats in the belief that that will make it better.
Labour are arrogant idiots.
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The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
When the right can scream about Obama and Biden and the fukkin state of California as being communist and socialist without getting laughed out of the room, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend defining it. It’s just a generic badguy term.
That hurts. And there is a reason why many didn’t like Obama’s decent healthcare plan, calling it Obamacare, and voting against their own interest. But that is for another day.
Years ago on MW, I asked why can’t the US at least try out on a small scale some of the cool things we hear about Europe: Healthcare system, more vacation days, a childcare system. It’s too painful on why we can’t have nice things.
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The “big beautiful bill” is scary. It passed the Senate and the last ditch effort to thwart it is happening now
This is from Cheney of all people:
There is a reason he said while campaigning that afterwards “you won’t have to do all this again”.
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“Alligator Alcatraz” is scary:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/us/what-is-alligator-alcatraz-florida
and:
and this from Laura Loomer about a population of 65M in the US:
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Well, the US is truly fucked.
Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill wins congressional approval
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Zarah sultana has resigned from the Labour Party
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The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
When the right can scream about Obama and Biden and the fukkin state of California as being communist and socialist without getting laughed out of the room, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend defining it. It’s just a generic badguy term.
That hurts. And there is a reason why many didn’t like Obama’s decent healthcare plan, calling it Obamacare, and voting against their own interest. But that is for another day.
Years ago on MW, I asked why can’t the US at least try out on a small scale some of the cool things we hear about Europe: Healthcare system, more vacation days, a childcare system. It’s too painful on why we can’t have nice things.
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The “big beautiful bill” is scary. It passed the Senate and the last ditch effort to thwart it is happening now
This is from Cheney of all people:There is a reason he said while campaigning that afterwards “you won’t have to do all this again”.
I looked up that “Trump can cancel elections” thing and that is fake news. Also I think that account is fake and does not belong to Liz Cheney.
The elections are in the constitution. You would need a constitutional amendment for him to be able to cancel elections.
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No, because Trump will simply do it and no one will enforce the rules on him.
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I don’t know if this is true or another example of the media immediately closing ranks against any possible progressive party. But it is a little funny if true.
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I don’t know if this is true or another example of the media immediately closing ranks against any possible progressive party. But it is a little funny if true.
Nice to see they’re steering clear of the usual leftwing clichés of disorganisation and in-fighting.
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I looked up that “Trump can cancel elections” thing and that is fake news. Also I think that account is fake and does not belong to Liz Cheney.
The elections are in the constitution. You would need a constitutional amendment for him to be able to cancel elections.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-bill-cancel-delay-elections-2b70612b8833e0015bcf9f852915936a%5B/quote%5D——————
I read that link and it is true that he can’t do some of those things right now. But… as it is now he is trying to amend the constitution on several things like birthright citizenship etc. and he has this presidential immunity clause now. He has a history of not conceding anything with any class, look at Jan 6 and even when that reality TV show did not win an Emmy.
As far as delay or cancelling elections: Miami has canceled their mayoral election this year and has postponed it for next year. So this challenging, canceling, postponing is happening right now in the States.
So… just wait for it.
(The midterms will be interesting)
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Weird that “big beautiful bill” makes the same acronym as “build back better”.
Or the Better Business Bureau
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Optimistic of you to assume there’s a US election in 2028.
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I hope there’ll be a US in 2028.
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Your electoral candidates 2028;
1. D. Trump
2. D. J. Trump.
What’s that the Democrat? Got deported.
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The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
When the right can scream about Obama and Biden and the fukkin state of California as being communist and socialist without getting laughed out of the room, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend defining it. It’s just a generic badguy term.
The propaganda machine that is conservative owned media and also racism that makes people vote against their own interests. Some of the economic plans that could help them out a lot, since they aren’t exclusive to them, they vote like that to spite themselves and groups they don’t like that could also benefit from it. It’s why there is no real national health care system. The whole country tries to get through life by telling themselves “at the very least, I got one over on…”:
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I hope there is still a universe left in 2028
Ah well, we’ll all be dead in fifty years and then what will all this matter?
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Israel is doing an excellent job of destroying itself, the problem is the death toll that is linked to it.
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The way things are going now, if the Dems ever get back the govt. power, look at how much damage they would have to “undo”.
I am still with voter mentality and behavior, with this mindset of “got one over on” and voting for spite and electing someone “who will own the libtards and put the LGBTQ+ in their place”. 47 really fed into something with the MAGA Latinos and MAGA in general. As LBJ said:
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The way things are going now, if the Dems ever get back the govt. power, look at how much damage they would have to “undo”.
Well that’s a big part of the problem, the Dems seem to have no real interest in fixing the damage the Republicans do at the best of times. They never closed Guantanamo, they could have dismantled ICE years ago, they maintained the panopticon state. Odds are many of the agencies that have been torn apart will never come back, or will be rebuilt using external third parties who’ll reduce the volume and quality of services in order to turn a profit.
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The idea that Putin could overrun Germany is… highly unlikely to say the least. The Russian military has been mauled fighting Ukraine to a standstill while Ukraine’s been armed with NATO hand-me-downs and off the shelf drones. Their best troops are either dead or exhausted, their inventory of arms is depleted and they’re meant to go straight on to fighting a modern volunteer force in defensive postions? While also assuming the European NATO powers won’t deploy their forces in support? Putin needed a short victorious war and is now embroiled in a swamp which is slowly eroding his ability to project force.
A primary point of strategy is to fight in someone else’s territory so it’s not your infrastructure being destroyed and your civilians being killed. If Russia manages to defeat Ukraine, which is by no means a foregone conclusion it’s likely the NATO forces in Europe will pick one or more nations between Germany and Russia to defend to keep the war outside their borders.
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Mad as MAD was, and is, part of it is the response to Russia going:
“We have nukes.”
“And? We got those too.”
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A primary point of strategy is to fight in someone else’s territory so it’s not your infrastructure being destroyed and your civilians being killed. If Russia manages to defeat Ukraine, which is by no means a foregone conclusion it’s likely the NATO forces in Europe will pick one or more nations between Germany and Russia to defend to keep the war outside their borders.
Well, it’d be Putin making the choice, as well. I do think it’s not unlikely that if he gets Ukraine, he’ll be going for other former Soviet states, as well. And if, say, Lithuania gets invaded, we’d better be ready to defend it, sure. I think the current arms race and military spending is over the top and a lot of it down to capitalist forces exploiting the situation, but I do think we have to get ready for a direct military intervention. Dumb as it all is.
Oh hey, speaking of dumb, there’s a thing that’s been happening in Germany that was distinctly American in nature.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-constitutional-court-becomes-political-football/a-73274830
Germany’s Constitutional Court becomes political football
The Bundestag was supposed to elect three new judges to Germany’s highest court. But the vote was canceled due to a dispute over one of the candidates. It is unclear what will happen next.
The German parliament failed to complete one of its more important constitutional tasks on Friday: The planned vote on three vacant positions of the panel of judges in the Constitutional Court was removed from the agenda at short notice. The reason: It became apparent that at least one of the candidates, jurist and professor Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, might not receive enough votes.
Since the governing parties, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), do not command a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag, they are dependent on support from the opposition for votes affecting the court.
This was not supposed to have been a problem, as the opposition Greens and the Left Party had signaled that they would vote for the SPD-nominated Brosius-Gersdorf. But then it became clear that some CDU members would not — especially because of her liberal stance on abortion.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second biggest faction in the parliament, had already made clear they were vehemently opposed to her nomination — unsurprisingly, as she had also suggested she would be in favor of banning the party if the necessary legal requirements were fulfilled.
A few hours before the planned vote, the CDU demanded that the SPD withdraw Brosius-Gersdorf’s nomination, citing new allegations that she might have plagiarized her PhD dissertation in 1997, which left-wing politicians see as spurious. As a result, the Bundestag session was interrupted and, after crisis talks, the Bundestag voted to postpone all three scheduled elections.
The AfD voted against the postponement, with its parliamentary secretary, Bernd Baumann, calling for an immediate vote: “This judge is unacceptable, and the proposal has severely damaged the reputation of the Constitutional Court,” he said.
Heidi Reichinnek, head of the Left Party parliamentary group, blamed the CDU for the parliamentary impasse: “You are playing party political power games here and once again causing absolute chaos.” The leader of the Green Party, Britta Hasselmann, shared this view: “Today is a bad day for parliament, for democracy, and for the Federal Constitutional Court.”
During the debate, SPD member Dirk Wiese spoke of a “smear campaign” against a highly respected constitutional lawyer. This prompted Gottfried Curio of the AfD to interject by dismissing Brosius-Gersdorf as a “left-wing extremist” — earning himself a reprimand from the parliamentary presidium for his trouble.
Steffen Bilger of the CDU said that the long-standing practice of nominating and electing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court had proven its worth. “That is why we are a stable democracy,” he said. However, he warned, the election should not be the subject of a heated political debate.
At the same time, he reiterated the CDU’s reservations about Brosius-Gersdorf: Candidates for the Constitutional Court must be above any professional doubt. “And in our view, that is no longer entirely the case,” Bilger said.
What doesn’t quite become clear in the article was that the AfD’s smear campaign focused on accusations that she was in favour of abortion being legal until pretty much at birth, which is a complete nonsense concoction that the AfD pushed over social media and that made it into the right-wing news machine and that managed to push like a fourth of the CDU members of parliament to reject her.
Which is absolutely and totally fucking ridiculous and the first time a concerted right-wing fake news smear campaign managed to take over the conservatives. And all of that over abortion, too, which is in no way a divisive topic in Germany. We’re seeing the kind of thing we’re used to happening in the US in Germany now, and it’s deeply worrison.
The SPD probably isn’t going to budge, and the candidate probably won’t withdraw, so the CDU will have to get their shit together, or our current government coalition will already fall apart so quickly after its election over this on the face of it minor issue. Interesting times.
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I think the current arms race and military spending is over the top and a lot of it down to capitalist forces exploiting the situation, but I do think we have to get ready for a direct military intervention. Dumb as it all is.
There’s absolutely an element of the Military-Industrial Complex hoovering up more public funds, but I feel that the root cause is the realisaiton that the US is no longer a reliable partner in commerce or in mutual defense.
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The idea that Putin could overrun Germany is… highly unlikely to say the least. The Russian military has been mauled fighting Ukraine to a standstill while Ukraine’s been armed with NATO hand-me-downs and off the shelf drones. Their best troops are either dead or exhausted, their inventory of arms is depleted and they’re meant to go straight on to fighting a modern volunteer force in defensive postions? While also assuming the European NATO powers won’t deploy their forces in support? Putin needed a short victorious war and is now embroiled in a swamp which is slowly eroding his ability to project force.
A primary point of strategy is to fight in someone else’s territory so it’s not your infrastructure being destroyed and your civilians being killed. If Russia manages to defeat Ukraine, which is by no means a foregone conclusion it’s likely the NATO forces in Europe will pick one or more nations between Germany and Russia to defend to keep the war outside their borders.
Let’s add that Russia’s economy, while not on the verge of collapse, is on a steady decline and it’s not stopping going down. The Ukraine war is taking a huge toll on its economy. Even under the assumption they get the Ukraine, it’s so war-ravaged that a lot of capital will be needed to rebuild it. They don’t have that level of money without increasing their budget deficit even more. (China would probably love to come in and rebuild, but it will be on their own Mafia-like terms which Russia would hate.)
The harsh truth is that Russia can’t afford another war, as they are struggling badly to pay for the one they are in now.
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I think the current arms race and military spending is over the top and a lot of it down to capitalist forces exploiting the situation, but I do think we have to get ready for a direct military intervention. Dumb as it all is.
There’s absolutely an element of the Military-Industrial Complex hoovering up more public funds, but I feel that the root cause is the realisaiton that the US is no longer a reliable partner in commerce or in mutual defense.
Who knew how-is-the-US-President-feeling-today would be an unstable basis for anything?
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The idea that Putin could overrun Germany is… highly unlikely to say the least. The Russian military has been mauled fighting Ukraine to a standstill while Ukraine’s been armed with NATO hand-me-downs and off the shelf drones. Their best troops are either dead or exhausted, their inventory of arms is depleted and they’re meant to go straight on to fighting a modern volunteer force in defensive postions? While also assuming the European NATO powers won’t deploy their forces in support? Putin needed a short victorious war and is now embroiled in a swamp which is slowly eroding his ability to project force.
A primary point of strategy is to fight in someone else’s territory so it’s not your infrastructure being destroyed and your civilians being killed. If Russia manages to defeat Ukraine, which is by no means a foregone conclusion it’s likely the NATO forces in Europe will pick one or more nations between Germany and Russia to defend to keep the war outside their borders.
Let’s add that Russia’s economy, while not on the verge of collapse, is on a steady decline and it’s not stopping going down. The Ukraine war is taking a huge toll on its economy. Even under the assumption they get the Ukraine, it’s so war-ravaged that a lot of capital will be needed to rebuild it. They don’t have that level of money without increasing their budget deficit even more. (China would probably love to come in and rebuild, but it will be on their own Mafia-like terms which Russia would hate.)
The harsh truth is that Russia can’t afford another war, as they are struggling badly to pay for the one they are in now.
I just saw this:
Desperate Putin Forced to Pull 1970s Tanks from ‘Graveyard’ as Modern Stocks Run Dry
Vladimir Putin is pulling rusty old Soviet-era tanks from the scrapheap as modern stocks of his war machines run low. T-80s and T-72As are being retrieved from so-called tank graveyards to replenish numbers on the frontline. The T-72A was first introduced in 1979 as an improved version of the original T-72, but its use has dwindled over the years. The Soviet-made tank is now mainly deployed by developing countries and militant groups. The T-80 is even older, having been introduced in 1976. However, according to analysis by open-source intelligence (OSINT), the old sluggers are staging a comeback, mostly because Putin’s modern weaponry stocks are dwindling. Decommissioned Soviet tanks are kept in storage, dubbed tank graveyards. But battlefield losses mean that the Russian armed forces are now patching them up and sending them back out to the frontlines. “Based on recent signs at major tank storage bases like the 349th that hold T-72As, it appears Russia is prepping them to bring them back to service,” an OSINT researcher wrote on X. The 349th base is a storage facility in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, where large stocks of old weaponry are held.
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I think the current arms race and military spending is over the top and a lot of it down to capitalist forces exploiting the situation, but I do think we have to get ready for a direct military intervention. Dumb as it all is.
There’s absolutely an element of the Military-Industrial Complex hoovering up more public funds, but I feel that the root cause is the realisaiton that the US is no longer a reliable partner in commerce or in mutual defense.
Who knew how-is-the-US-President-feeling-today would be an unstable basis for anything?
It’s not just Trump though, it’s the instability of the US as a nation now. Like the Democrats get back in, they’re probably going to come to Europe’s aid miltarily. But if the Republicans are in? that would have been just as much of a shoe-in before Trump, and now he’s recreated the party into a gang of vengeful, venal, and petty shits (OK, that’s the Republicans in general, but moreso), you can’t predict what they’ll do at all. It’s far safer and more practical to just assume you can’t rely on the US, ever again.
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Shit like this is bound to backfire. “Nooooo you must be like the funny wholesome chungus tv man, not like evil Andrew!!”
I don’t agree. I think without actively addressing this stuff you leave a gap for negative influences to dominate.
I also don’t think there’s any reason to assume this kind of thing is bound to backfire either. Secondary schools in the UK teach a very broad PSHE curriculum and they know how to address these topics in detail and with some nuance, and in a way kids will respond to.
And thankfully a lot of young people, even early teens, are already quite thoughtful and clued-up about this stuff and know how to recognise negative online influences, and steer themselves away from stuff that would lead them into an unhealthy mindset.
Kids are smarter than a lot of people give them credit for.
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To be fair, if you deal with adults on a daily basis you can form an unfairly negative opinion of children as a side effect.
Children are our future, which is why they must all be destroyed.
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Meanwhile, in a clear intent of displaying strength, Starmer has flipped out over four MPs voting against his stupid disability cuts.
What he seems oblivious to is, doing this to 4 MPs, when he has a +100 majority, does not display it. It shows off weakness.
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It’s interesting how the Epstein case has exploded now after all this time. This rot is going to fester for a long time.
I think it’s telling that the mass media let it simmer for so long, not really looking into it. You’d think after Acosta mentioned he was part of an intelligence agency there woud be plenty of investigative journalism articles in the major newspapers looking into that, but no. Nothing happened. I think there’s a good chance Trump has something to do with the Epstein case, but nothing happened with that angle of the investigation under Biden either. Maxwell was jailed, but there was no effort during that trial to get at the people that all those kids were trafficked to. So the verdict remains, she is in jail for trafficking minors “to no one in particular”.
There seems to be backlash against Trump now, but he could come out tomorrow, and say all of Epstein’s clients were democrats, and most of his base would believe it. I think child sexual abuse is non-partisan, and both parties are involved in this case.
pic related, Maxwell with Kevin Spacey on the royal throne at Buckingham Palace.
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There seems to be backlash against Trump now, but he could come out tomorrow, and say all of Epstein’s clients were democrats,
He and his cronies have been claiming that for years, it’s why the MAGA crowd are so riled up right now.
I think child sexual abuse is non-partisan, and both parties are involved in this case.
There probably are Democrats involved with this, as well [*cough*Clinton*cough*], but nobody has been as obviously and demonstrably involved and as transparently lying as Trump. It’s quite impressive, in a way.
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The UK voting age is set to be lowered to 16 by the next general election:
(This means both of my kids will be able to vote next time. I feel like I suddenly aged a decade.)
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I’m in favour of lowering the voting age, but it is a bit ironic it’s happening at the same time as swathes of the internet are getting age restricted for over-18s. The inconsistency of adulthood across various aspects of the UK is maddening. At 16 you can now vote, have sex (and thus potentially children) and join the army, but you can’t watch violent movies, look at porn or drink alcohol.
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Reminds me of a conversation.
Blah blah blah, those damned kids don’t know nothing, we should raise the voting age to 20, or 21! (from Canadian 18).
One older voice that I figured was with me was not.
“My old man kicked me out of the house at 16! I had to pay my own way.
Now you know kids today, even without my horror story, they have cell phone bills in the mid-teens, even pre-teens.
Are you supporting taxation without representation?”Hard to come down from my ledge, but wow, good comeback.
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I’m in favour of lowering the voting age, but it is a bit ironic it’s happening at the same time as swathes of the internet are getting age restricted for over-18s. The inconsistency of adulthood across various aspects of the UK is maddening. At 16 you can now vote, have sex (and thus potentially children) and join the army, but you can’t watch violent movies, look at porn or drink alcohol.
But you definitely can pay tax.
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The FvD is one of the worst parties in Europe I think, and they are set to gain some seats in the next election. Though they don’t have much right now, they have three seats, out of a total of 150. They could have 5 or 6 seats after the next election in October.
They are worse than Wilders, Le Pen, Orban etc. They like all the crazy nazi influencers on twitter like Bronze Age Pervert, Jared Taylor and Nick Fuentes. There have been leaks from their app groups where the party leader Baudet says things like “all my friends are anti-semites.” It’s painful that he has so much support among our youth.
Wilders is just basically a centrist liberal but with a seething hatred for anything related with Islam. And he loves everything Israel does. I mean I have criticized certain Muslims, but I’m not like Wilders. If he ever got a majority in the elections he might do some real crazy shit like ban the quran. Or make criticism of Israel illegal. I would be in jail because I own two qurans. I think Islam has many interesting facets, especially the more mystical side of the faith, and I don’t hate Muslims.
I’m a lot more right wing than you guys but I would never vote for these people. My choice for the vote in October is between the SP (Socialist party, but without a lot of the woke stuff) and Christenunie, a Christian party that is more to the left on a lot of issues but with some conservative points.
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So Labour in the UK have just banned the teaching of transgender identites at all in school. Essentially recreating Section 28. good job, you ficking monsters.
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Which goes hand in hand with the new police state internet where the “won’t somebody think of the children” age restrictions will limit teen access to information about trans people, gender dysphoria etc. Plus the new NHS guidance which basically forces kids into conversion therapy.
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Reform will be worse so eat whatever crap Labour give you, it worked brilliantly for the Democrats in the US.
They really are oblivious to how badly they are doing on social matters. It easily eclipses whatever other good they are doing elsewhere. They also look to be repeating the governing in campaign mode that has been the norm since Brexit but does not work.
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I mean yeah orange man bad but with such slimeballs on the democrat side it’s no wonder they lose.
Plus, the Biden admin also didn’t release the Epstein files. One does have to wonder why.
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It’s almost as if power protects power.
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Hey, Merrick’s still snailing along guys, one day…
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It’s almost as if power protects power.
Weird, huh?
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Haha the economist has a scary looking photo of Zelensky as the criticism against him increases.
I wonder if they have an archive of scary pictures of all world leaders to be used in case they turn evil.
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Looks hilarious.
Someone at work showed me a clip, I went to find it but had better luck finding videos talking about it.
But yeah, South Park destroyed Trump!Here’s something I found
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Fireworks have become completely illegal, we can’t even do it on New Years Eve, but they shoot that shit here every day. I think the police in general doesn’t care about this stuff.
I hear they arrested the guys with fireworks but then let them off.
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I’m never going to have a joke setup served to me on a plate like that ever again.
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I’m never going to have a joke setup served to me on a plate like that ever again.
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I think there’s something evil happening with the DOJ talking to Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Okay, Gislaine, remember to say that Trump didn’t even know Epstein and definitely never was on his plane, his island or had any private sex parties with underage girls with him. And in return, well, we can’t pardon you immediately, but he’ll do it at the end of his term, okay? Now there’s a good girl.”
Something along those lines?
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