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Did this happen before or after the outcry against proposed social spending cuts?

Does it even matter when it’s the same policies repackaged as different politicians with different labels, is my point.

(In lieu of development, Nairn contended, nationalism gives the masses “something real and important.”)

It seems this is the illusion of “real,” am I missing something?

Margaret Thatcher famously identified Blair as her greatest political achievement. Starmer might yet come to represent a similar victory for Nigel Farage.

Seems a bit of a pyrrhic victory, to me. It saddens and annoys to see the whole Western world following the neophyte nation state’s worst examples with history-proven terrible consequences, while throwing out the baby and bathwater, for anything decent we accomplished.

There is no other current or former Western politician with a tenth the courage and tenacity of Mr. Corbyn.

"Jewish law doesn’t apply to gentiles.” That’s what they say when this is brought up amongst themselves.

Palestinians are Semites.

That’s really not good wages for twice a month, is it?

Among those Walters appointed to the review committee were Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and a key figure in its Project 2025 blueprint for a conservative presidential administration, and Dennis Prager, a radio talkshow host who founded Prager U, a conservative non-profit that offers “pro-American” educational materials for children that some critics say are not accurate or objective.

No! 😮

Correct. But also not hindered by it being closed.

“There is some sense that in the age of Trump there is some grand scheme to throw out election results and let the GOP win despite how people voted,” Kokai said. “I don’t think you’re seeing the stage being set for anything like that.” Historically, the board’s five members have been appointed by North Carolina’s governor, with three of them coming from the governor’s party. Since 2016, the governor has been a Democrat.

Translation: we don’t need front doors. There are other doors, windows, chimneys, crawl space.

That ship sailed with McKinley, tbh.

Lol. I completely understand! It’s been a long week. Almost time for a cuppa here. I think I’ll have it early.

No worries! In the past, I’ve had issues with replies posting under comments posting out of order. I just guessed the glitch was back, and am relieved that it isn’t! Double entendre cheers!

Building sits empty, rents are lost, value decreases.

It’s pretty entertained in USA culture as well. I feel not having any attacks on US soil during the war didn’t lend any need for community building endeavors, whether public health, public transport, or public shelter. It’s easier to instill greed/fear of lack or fear in general, as well as cynicism and distrust of our neighbors the more separate and divided they can make us. Long hours, low wages and laws designed to protect business rather than workers perpetuate and compound the issues.

But muh property holdings!

Eta: how proud Dickens would be, with the global state of things.

If people only knew how many anti/sec professionals do this, this would be in a zone with ASCII art, not Wired, but frankly, after what Poulson and Lamo did to Chelsea Manning, I really don’t expect better from the media specifically marketed to those with an interest in anything tech related. I did before that happened, but after the absolute apathy from the public sector, if not outright hostility toward Ms. Manning, I expected and do expect the absolute worst, for the sake of sweet, profitable clicks. What I continue to be surprised about is how utterly bottomless this particular hole is. Really a black hole more than a mere abyss.

iPhone is extremely overpriced and the workers who produce it aren’t compensated accordingly. I’m not going into why, because it would be extremely time consuming to find and properly document it, but I’m pretty sure we could boil it down to “Apple greed.”

Secondly, I believe most American consumers would prefer quality, as in “want it,” but the bulk of the companies offering it prefer artificial scarcity. It’s not that these companies couldn’t make a lucrative profit without artificial scarcity. It’s that they aim to “hook” as many people into continuously chasing it to keep wages low, and conformity/obedience high.

Campaign group River Action welcomed the new measures but said they would only be effective if they were used. “Without delivering actual prison sentences, it’s just theatre,” chief executive James Wallace said. “If the government is serious let’s see real jail time, not just headlines.” Consumers were currently “paying the price for regulatory failure and corporate greed”, he said, and called for an end to the “failed privatisation experiment”.

USA is no longer a superpower. No need to be intimidated into following up our money>* horrible example.

I was recently asked to chat on discord. Add this to a host of other reasons I declined.