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Tariffs aren’t going to work out well for anyone.

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-brand-uk-tyrannical-police-state/ Space Wanker is trying to interfere with British politics now, attempting (futilely) to get the government to trigger an early general election, four months after the last one…

That could happen, but I’ve seen what’s happened with Brexit here. The blame for all the economic carnage was deflected elsewhere by TPB, and the “the government aren’t doing it properly/it was never enacted” narrative by prominent Brexiteers drowns out everything in the media. Then the...

25% tariffs, on produce from the countries where the US sources most of their food imports? The inflation caused by Covid and the war in Ukraine is going to be nothing compared to what’s coming. The cost of basic living is going to sky rocket, and not just in the States. People have no idea what...

Hate to be a downer, but I remember people touting GW Bush as a “peaceful”, non-interventionist president back in 2000, and look how that turned out.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/25/travel-chaos-and-flooding-to-continue-as-uk-counts-cost-of-storm-bert Climate change strikes again, compounded by 14 years of austerity having left flood defences in disrepair.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-transgender-military-policy-b2652956.html Rumblings that Fashy Orange is going to eject transgender people from the military en masse. Appalling.

Incidentally, remember when Hasbro owned Atari Games? (Or possibly all of the Atari IP including the hardware, can’t remember the specifics.) They punted all that off to Infogrames after 5 or so years, IIRC.

Been using it since last July. When it was Mastodon, but centralised and with actual regular users posting stuff regularly. Becoming more like early Twitter over the last few months, necessitating use of mute/block lists. (The actual block function is great though, use it and you’ll never see...

https://bsky.app/profile/politicsjoe.bsky.social/post/3lbchxpl5gc2c Latest right-wing mass protest: This time it’s farmers.

Yes, we do have hate speech laws here. I put this inaction down to a (very wrong) decision by whomever in the Cambridgeshire police force.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/18/more-than-one-in-three-uk-children-poverty-deprivation-record-high Quarter of the UK population in poverty. Can believe that, judging from what I see outside my window and on the way to work every day…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo Hopefully this is all just a precaution?

The Republicans use the abbreviation GOP (“Grand Old Party”) rather than Rep basically to avoid that confusion, apparently.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-eu-andrew-bailey-mansion-house-b2647398.html An obvious fix for the crippled UK economy in the age of Trump Tariffs would be, you know. But the largest two political parties won’t even acknowledge the possibility.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-critics-retribution Wise decision for people to start preparing for a full-on fascist state, TBH.

Oh, like what happened immediately after the Brexit referendum, then. Human history is merely a list of failing to learn from past mistakes.

I'm shocked, in the negative sense, how quickly transgender rights turned from a non-issue to a central part of these Culture Wars. Not that long ago in the UK we had social-conservative Tory prime minister Theresa May perfectly happy to introduce self-ID laws; now the Labour Party, which made...