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The internet was best when it was mostly the domain of hobbyists and academics. Or really, when it was a balance of the amateurs and the nerds with the more business/corporate side – there was a nice sweet spot when the internet was “useful enough” (online retail existed, and you could get your...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67612106 Key sentence: “The minimum income for family visas has also risen to £38,700.” Which is up from £18,600. So British people with foreign spouses are going to lose their spouses to deportation, even if they’ve resided here for years or decades. (And...

Edit: remove this bit as I was inaccurate on historical information. (FWIW, I don’t think a two-state solution would be a “magic bullet” which would lead to everlasting peace, but it’d be better than the horrifying situation in the Middle East we see before us now.)

Funnily enough, the current Swedish government is a Conservative/Liberal/Christian Democrat coalition –it’s one of those small breaks between the Labour Party being in power.

The “stop cheering on civilian deaths, you bloodthirsty Zios” act doesn’t work. Because no one here has cheered on civilian deaths. Ever taken into account some of us were appalled by Hamas’ 7 October massacre because we feared the further bloodshed it’d inevitably lead to?

I mean, the UK could rejoin the Single Market relatively straightforwardly, and still realign with it very quickly, which would rescue the economy, but they won’t. Because Europe = Bad to both the left and the right.

No, they aren’t, particularly as like the Tories they refuse to enact any realignment with Europe (which would boost the economy overnight). It’s just going to be ongoing decline for the foreseeable.

Island of Decay.

Private spaceflight should be banned. It’s incredibly polluting, a waste of natural and economic resources, and gives the human race zero positive benefit – no human will ever set foot on Mars, let alone be able to ever live there. Space travel and colonisation is essentially impossible.

Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic are going to idolise this man and hold him up as role model as he trashes his country, as they used to with Pinochet.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-b2450548.html I mean, I assumed that they talked like this behind closed doors during the pandemic…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/16/antisemitism-uk-universities-jewish-students Urgh, reminds me of the a/s I saw at university during the Bush 43 Invasion of Iraq, except far worse.

I didn’t say all the far-left are a/s. However, antisemitism is unfortunately a deeply embedded trope on the far-left, particularly the Marxist far-left. It’s less based on notions of outright biological racism than far-right antisemitism, but just as deep in the conspiratorial, “cunning global...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-boosts-1234880165/ Approaching openly armband-wearing Nazi, now.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rwanda-supreme-court-decision-braverman-b2447652.html The Supreme Court has rejected the government’s batshit scheme to mass deport immigrants to Rwanda.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/david-cameron-appointed-foreign-secretary-in-shock-cabinet-reshuffle-move-13007124 Pigfucker Cameron’s back. Shows how low the Tory government has sunk.

Regular reminder that the far-left, despite defining themselves as antiracists, are as racist as the far-right; they just just target their racism at different groups, and use different justifications.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67401753 Cruella’s out after an inflammatory newspaper article accusing the London Met Police of being “woke”.

Japan’s a mass of contradictions from a Western European and North American perspective. Advanced and developed on many levels (and they have universal healthcare!), awful on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality, among other sensibilities. Although, to be honest they’re more developed on some of...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/03/record-number-hate-incidents-british-jews-reported-hamas-attacks Unfortunately, I’m not entirely surprised by this news. (I’ve seen elsewhere online a common claim that there isn’t actually any rise in anti-Jewish racism, just “the Zios” have forced...