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We have those self-service checkouts in our supermarkets too… I’ve noticed that all it usually does is create longer queues at the remaining staffed checkouts, and leaves pensioners confused and stressed when they try and use the automated lanes. I don’t like self-checkouts because it’s...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jk-rowling-adds-holocaust-denialism-to-her-transphobia Wizarding Karen going ever deeper down the fash rabbit hole.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/puberty-blockers-gender-identity-clinics-nhs-b2511437.html TERFs force change in government health policy here on TERF Island.

Wasn’t he the wrongcock nonce who planned to blow up natal care clinics, or what that someone else? I remember the name from the ATT days and that he “went away” for crimes, but the details are hazy several decades on.

Honestly, I would’ve thought and observed that the American segment of this fandom were predominantly right-wing, until around 15, 16 years ago, when things changed. At least in this neck of the woods (other TF boards, I have no idea).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68427309 Haley’s out of the race.

I took some criminology modules at university as part of my Bachelors degree. We learnt the origins of the (British and Commonwealth style of) police as based on the notion of popular consent and being policed by your peers, fellow civilians, and locally operated. We also learnt how that was...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68471568 France has amended their national constitution to guarantee the right to abortion. The vote was won 780-72.

It’s basically “I never thought that the face-eating leopards would eat my face” in an infinite loop.

Our prime minister made a televised address to the nation yesterday evening warning of the danger to society of increasing right-wing extremism.

Still remember back when the Iraq invasion started, there were absolutely furious arguments at my local Labour Party (most comrades were obviously not in favour of the conflict), and we had a group walk out and say they were off to defect to Galloway’s so-called Respect Party. Never heard from...

He’s friends with Steve Bannon: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/theresa-may-resigns-steve-bannon-george-galloway-hug-brexit-a8928816.html And an illustration of how far-left and far-right overlap.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rochdale-byelection-polls-george-galloway-candidates-latest-b2504516.html Notorious antisemite returns to House of Commons after getting 40% of the vote in a by-election, taking a usually safe seat off Labour.

(I think I can give up hoping for a redo of Energon Scorponok as an upcoming figure in Legacy, can’t I?)

Anyone heard of Decree 770? Draconian laws enacted by Ceaușescu when he was dictator of communist era Romania. Banned contraception and pregnancy tests as well as abortion. Sounds disturbingly like the situation where the US is currently headed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770

I thought PQ were almost extinct? *checks recent Quebec opinion polls via Wikipedia* Oh, they’re back yet again, I see.

Sunny, dry and 16C where I am in England today. England in February. Should be grey skies, humid and bitterly cold. This is all accelerating faster than governments of the world can react to.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/february-on-course-to-break-unprecedented-number-of-heat-records?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other (What was Rattrap’s catchphrase in Beast Wars, again?)

Local MP had some angry protesters surround his house due to his stance on the Israel/Palestine conflict. Even noticed by the national newspapers (including this terrible tabloid). Apparently he’s considered “pro genocide” by the protestors for not calling for Israel to be abolished, or some...

Candidate now suspended from the party: https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-rishi-sunak-general-election-keir-starmer-12593360?postid=7219038#liveblog-body