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Sounds like he’s ‘hinting’ at forcible annexation at this point. The most pro-peace president, everybody!

Oh, he’s backing an overtly neofascist party, who happen to be vocal climate change deniers.

The ‘good’ thing about the US Democratic party from a British perspective is that in theory it’s a broad front party, with liberals and social democrats and centrists and general progressives under one roof, rather than having half-dozen or more non-conservative parties splitting votes. Of...

Oh, that's another I remember! First place I found any photos of Diaclone figures, IIRC. And a variety of images of some of those legendary Japan-only Transformers I had only read about... Among other things. (Did I mention that some Transformers fan meets were the first time I had any idea...

Just a pointer, the Irish government that made those claims is a centre-right government (Ireland has two virtually identical conservative parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, who are in coalition together).

See in the Machine Wars sub-page, all these blurry, indistinct photos of the toys in packaging? That’s all we had to go on back then for pictures of TF figures. And no web forums, let alone social media, to share our own images. I had only vague ideas of what some of the early Beast Wars figures...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/11/puberty-blockers-to-be-banned-indefinitely-for-under-18s-across-uk Our openly transphobic right-leaning government further doubles down on its transphobia.

More likely, it all gets made into a territory, in a situation where its inhabitants aren’t full citizens, like Puerto Rico. I mean, if Canada was annexed, it wouldn’t be peacefully or consented upon, so I doubt the Canadian population would be treated particularly nicely.

One of the key things which developed my political views when growing up was seeing that early episode of The Simpsons where Homer Simpson has a heart attack. You know, where the family can’t afford the treatment. Before then I had no idea how healthcare worked (or didn’t) in America, that there...

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https://bsky.app/profile/politico.eu/post/3lcncgpfx2k2n Romanian presidential election results annulled due to the heavy Russian interference!

Canada has loads of Trumpish conservatives, unfortunately. Current Premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec are right-wing populists. The country has had some very rightwing figures. I mean, while Canada got as far as having (very weak) universal healthcare, more rights for (some)...

That reminds me, I did see some season 2 episodes (the one with the origin of the Aerialbots, Dinobot Island, Megatron’s Master Plan, few others) on various rental VHS tapes that got released over here during the ‘80s. Which would’ve been the only way to see those episodes, until G1 Transformers...

Have to admit, I agree with the general consensus that the film ideally needed a release date earlier in the year. (And why the months-long delay in getting a cinema release in my part of the world? It isn’t 1989 any more.)

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241130-georgia-president-says-parliament-illegitimate-as-pro-eu-protests-sweep-country Proper resistance is kicking off to the pro-Putin regime in Georgia, including from the Georgian president.

I watched the pilot three-parter whenever TV•AM* aired it back in 1985. That’s it, really. I saw most of the rest of the first season of the cartoon on TV•AM, which was the extent of the G1 cartoon being available on regular broadcast television in the ‘80s. (Like most British Transformers fans...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/ireland-election-parties-neck-and-neck Irish general election today. Voters have the choice between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, two identical conservative parties, Sinn Fein, nationalist populists with a shady past who claim to be left-wing, and...

Officially they are, and the Chinese Communist Party claims to be Marxist-Leninist. Their justification is that China needs economic development in order to transition over the long term from capitalism to socialism, and that one-party authoritarian rule (including stamping down on individual...

Well, yeah. If there was an early GE, there are only two possible outcomes: 1.) Labour lose loads of seats but stays in power, and sharply moves (even further to the) right to ‘compensate’ 2.) Elon gets his way, and there is a Tory-Reform frankengovernment which acts like a puppet regime for...

Yeah, well, Starmer is appalling, but I also don’t want the far-right Reform party getting into power, thank you very much.