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- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 5 days ago:
Those are bombings in a public area, and some people did die.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 5 days ago:
It was sabotage, but to call it terrorism implies they were endangering human life. If they wanted to do that, they could have sabotaged the engines in a way that wasn’t obvious, and would cause failures when the plane took off. This was clearly meant to be visible to everyone, they even filmed it. It’ll cost money to fix, but it never endangered human life.
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 6 days ago:
These started popping up just after I started seeing a bunch of moths in my house. How did they get in my phone?!
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 week ago:
Talk about issues that affect the working class. Not the white working class, not working class men, just everyone who makes a living by drawing a wage. Progressive movements are formed by solidarity, and we have more in common with other working class people than any of the politicians or business leaders who set the tone of this debate.
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 week ago:
Gold is useful! It’s unreactive and conducts electricity really well. Plus you can drink vodka with bits of it in.
- Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't 2 weeks ago:
Just point them at the fusion reactor once it’s ready.
- Comment on Labour’s Centrism Is a Dead End 2 weeks ago:
I agree that needs to be done up until the election, but now Labour have a massive majority and no election for over 4 years. There’s no need to be pandering to the right at the point.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 3 weeks ago:
Let’s hope so. Europe’s reliance on the US for security has paved the way for this.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 3 weeks ago:
Ukraine was handicapped by poor allies and is now handicapped by a handicap in the US. They are struggling no doubt, war isnt nice but so too are Russia. I personally think if the US election had gone in a different direction, to someone with a spine, the war would be ending and Russia in collapse.
I agree with that, but that doesn’t change the fact that the US election went to Donald Trump, who has no interest in curbing Russia’s imperial ambitions.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 3 weeks ago:
I’ll have to trust you on that, I don’t know anything about weapons systems.
What I do know is that Russia has never lost a war due to lack of manpower.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 3 weeks ago:
Please stop okay it’s dunning-kruger at its finest.
Says the person who just confidently stated that the Nazis were losing in Western Europe before the Soviet counteroffensive.
What’s America going to do to enforce their version of the ceasefire, if Ukraine disagrees with it if the rest of NATO disagree with it? NATO will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, and Ukraine will continue to use those weapons. And Trump will do what?
To state the obvious, the US has an outsized influence in NATO. Yes, there’s a legal mechanism where other NATO countries could continue sending weapons to Ukraine after a US-brokered ceasefire. But in practice this will never happen. I challenge you to name one time that all the non-US NATO members voted in favour of a war that the US was against.
America been big is irrelevant.
A superpower being big is never irrelevant. That’s why history is shaped by their actions.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 3 weeks ago:
That’s just Trump doing Trump things, it’s got no basis in reality.
Trump is the president of the most powerful country in the world, for the next 3 years. His team will be doing the negotiating, so he has a lot of power here.
You cannot have a negotiation where one of the parties is not present.
Tell that to Palestine, or literally any country in Africa. Negotiations between superpowers don’t take into account the needs of the proxy countries.
Anything agreed with Russia will not be enforced by the international community.
It doesn’t need to be enforced by the international community. If Trump hands the Donbas to Russia, the various other NATO members aren’t going to do shit.
I don’t really want to get into the points about equipment because that’s well outside my wheelhouse, but I’ve heard all sorts of conflicting stuff about that.
So? They are at war so obviously they are switching over to a wartime economy. That doesn’t indicate any intention to attack NATO.
You don’t switch over to a wartime economy for a limited military operation. You do it because you think the war is going to last a long time, just like the UK seems to think in this article.
Secondly they wouldn’t have won had it not been for the allied forces having already severely hammered the Nazis.
I disagree, the Nazis had taken the whole of Western Europe by that point, then the Battle of Stalingrad meant that they had to divert a load of forces from the West, making a push from the West possible.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 3 weeks ago:
They’re not “getting their asses handed to them”, lots of the latest negotiations (with the US) seem to involve Russia gaining territory in any peace agreement. And they’re switching over to a fully wartime economy, so they’re in it for the long haul.
Don’t underestimate Russia’s ability to play the long game in a war. I know western media likes to give us stories like “Russia is running out of Russians” or whatever but that stuff is just propaganda imo. Ukraine, even with all the western weapons, is treading water.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 3 weeks ago:
It’ll be interesting to see how they enforce that. The Electoral Commission will have quite a time tracing all the Bitcoin transactions that go to that address.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
You can do it! My advice is to take it one day at a time and remember that nicotine cravings go away after about 10 minutes.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
Tell me about it! I had to accept that part of quitting involved forever missing something, but knowing I’m better off without it.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 3 weeks ago:
The largest 3rd party in the country (according to polls) is talking about accepting donations that can’t be traced by regulators like the Elections Commission. They’ve already been associated with a lot of US dark money who would love something like this to get around donation limits. This is definitely newsworthy.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 3 weeks ago:
Exchanges are, but anyone can make a working wallet using one of the many free programs available. No real name, no KYC, just a public/private key pair and an address.
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 4 weeks ago:
They’re not allowed to raise prices, so they’ll just get in more debt and we’ll have to bail them out again, giving a bunch more UK taxpayer money to US hedge funds.
- Comment on Thames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyer 2 months ago:
KKR will “help it deal with its mountain of debt”. How nice of them to not expect anything in return!
- Comment on Is the pipeline true, fellas? 4 months ago:
I have one friend who got divorced. It was difficult for him since it was during COVID and their 2-year-old daughter was involved, but now he’s thriving and super well-adjusted. I think some people just refuse to come to terms with things beyond their control (namely the people in the pic).
- Comment on Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls 4 months ago:
Yeah it’s real - people can have a seizure despite having no prior symptoms, and a scan won’t be able to tell you they’ve had one unless they had it inside the MRI scanner. Unfortunately that’s what makes it a plausible get-out-of-jail-free card for causing death by dangerous/distracted driving.
- Comment on Pat McFadden vows to make the state "more like a start up" as he deploys reform teams across country 6 months ago:
So… run at a massive deficit in the hopes that we’ll get acquired by a bigger country?
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 7 months ago:
Or, if they’re a foreign agent being paid by another state, they’ll be at the front of the queue of applicants because they don’t mind the uncompetitive pay.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 8 months ago:
It certainly doesn’t make you a worker.