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https://bsky.app/profile/theguardian.com/post/3llnyyljbei2u Banned from running for office for 5 years, 4 years prison sentence (2 years suspended), €100K fine. That’s how you deal with these far-right populists.

If you’re in the UK, you can currently get an Antangony for £7 (plus £4.99 postage): https://www.game.co.uk/transformers-gen-select-voy-antagony-action-figure-925973#colcode=92597390 Legacy Selects Gobots set for £38, which is the lowest I’ve seen it being sold for...

Nah, not really. That’s like comparing apples and oranges. I mean, the president of the US is simultaneously head of state and head of government. Canada’s head of state is King Charles, and the head of government is the prime minister. Think of it as like if the UK changed prime minister, but...

Oh, that results chart was for the recent Ontario provincial election. The new prime minister, Mark Carney, got the job because he was chosen to be the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, the party which has the most seats in the House of Commons. Despite not being an MP yet – his aim is to...

I don’t really follow this sort of thing, but isn’t the F-35 a massively overpriced white elephant anyway? (Thinking back, Thrust in TF Armada was an F-35. That was over twenty years ago. Shows how long these pieces of military hardware take to get in service, given they’re only being rolled...

The figures look to me like the Jungle Planet (from TF Cybertron) meets Combiner Wars, with a splash of the Autobot’s combining gimmick from TF Energon.

I am half-wondering if Trump had read some classified documents with plans for annexing Canada and Greenland (etc) during a global emergency / war, and thought “hey, that’s a good idea”.

Howabout seeing it as "nation founded on the basis of rejection of an absolute monarchy reforms its laws to prevent the 21st century equivalent from happening"?

Realistically, you need a “second republic” in a post-Trump America. A transformation of the established institutions to prevent a Trump ever happening again, and to contain any threats within to both American democracy and the wider international order.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/13/technlogy-secretary-peter-kyle-asks-chatgpt-for-science-and-media-advice A Freedom of Information request revealed that a government minister was/is using ChatGPT for advice and policy ideas…

Y’know, it just struck me that as we as late-capitalist societies we are learning far too slowly why the postwar consensus existed in the first place. Capitalism at all costs without social guardrails is a self destructive shitshow.

Basically, part of the reason was that Georgescu broke Romania’s anti-dictatorship rules by publicly praising the 1930s/1940s fascist rulers of Romania. He’s gotten himself barred from contesting the re-run election as of this past weekend.

https://bsky.app/profile/mollyploofkins.bsky.social/post/3ljvxlnl4fk2u Remember all those dystopian cyberpunk novels, and films like Robocop, where the government and corporations are one and the same? Yeah.

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-putin-russia-starmer-summit-war-minerals-deal-live-sky-news-latest-12541713?postid=9220223#liveblog-body Oh, I mean, it’s not like Trump could be any more blatant which side he’s on. At this rate we’re a probably fortnight away at most from US...

Oh, this one billion per cent! I’m absolutely disgusted with the Labour Party; even at my most pessimistic I didn’t imagine that they’d go so full-on Tory so quickly.

Oh, I realise that, but organising as a strong oppositional force is vital, regardless of congressional representation. The worst thing they can do is the British Labour Party strategy of acting limply on sidelines until the public get sufficiently disgusted by the incumbents. I’m not even sure...

Are the Democrats doing anything at the moment to show any level of opposition or resistance? Or have they resigned themselves to de facto “managed opposition”* status? * like the non-banned political parties in Russia which aren’t Putin’s United Russia party.

https://bsky.app/profile/politics.mirror.co.uk/post/3ljkcbpqvqa2v I mean, that’s rich given that Britain fully backed America in both Gulf Wars, Afghanistan, Serbia, etc, etc…

He wants to be a fascist dictator. That’s it: There’s no other motivation there, other than clinical levels of narcissism.