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OK, I don’t fully understand US politics, because it’s ‘unique’ in the western democratic world. Is there anything stopping the Democratic Party from having a different presidential candidate if Biden continues to poll bad and/or becomes incapacitated?

We do need some level of rearmament. I’d rather we build the existing volunteer professional military rather than forcibly enslave kids for a year as free labour. Already this morning Tory ministers are trying to downplay the conscription policy (one even saying “no one will go to prison over...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo.amp I almost believe that Sunak is now actively trying to lose the election as hard as possible.

BeOS?! Haven't heard that name in about 25+ years. Last I remember, Apple had planned to buy it and adapt it as a new Mac OS before a certain S. Jobs intervened. Interesting to hear it’s still around in some form.

Find it ironic Tory MPs are angry at Sunak for ruining their life plans, when the Tory government have been doing the same thing to the British public for the last 14 years.

Just general incompetence, really. Not that different to the bad optics that plagued Theresa May’s general election campaign. All rather last minute too. Seems Sunak called the election without consulting most of his cabinet. He had six months left, so needn’t have called it this early. Safe...

Prime minister about to call a general election on 4th July. Allegedly. Edit: he called it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwwql21747o Officially dead.

The UK government are going to “Section 28”* trans people. And cut down on a lot of eduction about sex and relationship issues. Unfortunately not surprising, seeing how rabidly transphobic even Britain’s supposedly ‘liberal’ media is. * no, not the United Federation of Planets’ secret police...

Wouldn’t surprise me. Most likely however she’ll say something adjacent to that, and sue anyone who points out the obvious.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/robert-fico-slovakia-prime-minister Did anyone have “Slovakia’s prime minister gets shot” on their bingo card?

Ulp. Isn’t paywalled here. Might be a geolocation thing. Will avoid linking to the Independent in future. (To be fair, the aactual daily newspaper itself closed years ago, so perhaps I should avoid the website.)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-general-election-nuclear-button-b2544290.html “Vote Tory or there’ll be a nuclear war” is a rather desperate pitch.

Probably more than a bit of Trumpian “the rules don’t apply to me” thinking on his part. I voted LibDem in the PCC election. Thought it the best shot at unseating the Tory incumbent, and to me Labour is still as toxic as the Tories.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections So, the man who introduced draconian voting ID laws turned away from voting because he wasn’t carrying an acceptable ID.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68924304 Orange Git fined $9000 for breaking the gag order.

That’s a whole can of worms in itself! The EU sees itself formed in 1951 (European Steel and Coal Federation) or 1958 (when the Treaty of Rome formed the European Community), depending on who you ask. The EU as it is now is considered more a rebranding and reorganisation, IIRC. (Yes, I’ve gone...

Quebec separatists obviously suffer from a variant strain of the Brexit mind virus.

I can’t see a picture of a Cybertruck and not think of the driving section the Robocop 3 game.

Yeah, it was the US comic, but we got the US stories reprinted (with a delay). The story was published March 1986 in the Marvel US comic, and July/August 1986 here in the UK comic. I definitely noticed the similarity with Galvatron at the time, as the action figure was creeping into retail here...