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Huh, didn’t know that ol’ Trumpy was a member of the Orangemen.

Can’t find another thread about the US health system (or lack of one), so I’ll post here. Saw in the socials that the former head of Transformers brand has a gofundme for medical expenditure… For $21,000. Which is one month’s costs. That’s… Yeah, I don’t really have any way to put into words...

https://bsky.app/profile/bestforbritain.bsky.social/post/3l7kt36xcwj2r Latest instalment of American politicians complaining about a city in a country that they likely haven’t even visited.

https://www.politico.eu/article/georgia-elections-marred-by-intimidation-and-interference-observers-warn/ Putin’s minions throw another national election.

Stories like this are getting me very concerned that these media giants have their own private polling which indicates a near-certain Trump win.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wnr5qdxe7o Moldova votes for EU membership by a tiny margin, not helped by Russian interference and voter-bribing.

Looks like Harris is tacking sharply to the right in these last few weeks. I don’t envy you guys this time, either it’s Trump enacting a dictatorship, or 70% of Trump’s platform enacted by more cognitively competent people. Terrifying.

Yeah, I think I agree, unfortunately. It similar over here when people routinely predict the inevitable death of Tory party after the latest crushing electoral defeat, when the party always bounces back soon enough.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kamala-harris-could-join-podcaster-joe-rogan-an-interview-sources-2024-10-15/ Are the Democrats now going for a Starmer-style strategy of just campaigning towards right-wing voters?

Oh, there's a thread for this. Basically, is this any good? I was going to pick up the volume 1 TPB to test it out, but need some input first. (FWIW I grew up reading the Marvel UK comic, that was my G1 fiction as the cartoon was barely shown here. Didn't like Marvel's G2 comic; didn't like...

What a great future we have in front of us.

Our (allegedly) Labour prime minister wrote an op-ed for a right-wing tabloid the other day basically leaning into climate change denial and framing decarbonisation of the economy as a form of anti-jobs Ludditism. Great future we have here. (Yes, the ‘Labour’ government we have now is actually...

That’s… interesting. Didn’t know that. (I tried Linux back in 2002, can’t remember the type, and KDE was/is the desktop component, IIRC. Interesting it’s all connected like that.) (I miss the pre-spyware version of the internet, even if you had to pay for your web browser.)

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.bsky.social/post/3l5iddmffpn2o Sailing close to using the awful ephitet Bongo Bongo Land (no idea if that’s a known term in North America, but here it’s a Tory/Reform racist term for generic Africa country).

I also find it darkly amusing that the same people whose slogans are “Britain is full” and “stop the boats” are also “no, we’re dangerously underpopulated, you need to breed more!”

https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3l5ejp7mcvl2t Tories going full-on weird and MAGA (or MBGA, I guess) in opposition. The other day a frontrunner for the Tory leadership called for statutory maternity pay to be abolished, but the party also wants (native) women to “breed for...

Wow, great work there. Thank you for sharing that, and please let us know if you repeat this experiment with other figures.

Imagine if Kamala Harris beat Trump and won the presidential election, but started to immediately enact Project 2025 and all the extreme stuff Trump was going to do. But the ‘progressive’ media turn a blind eye because it’s “their” team doing it. That’s the state of UK politics right now.

Well, the main issue is that literally nothing has changed. Same bad economy, same Brexit, same anti-immigrant rhetoric from the government, same way out-of-touch politicians openly take freebies from big business. It’s like when the last Tory government switched to another prime minister: The...