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No? Short answer, full of over-simplification, in practice not since the English civil war. (Although the Queen did essentially overthrow an Australian Labor government back in the 1970s. Hence why Aussie Labor support republicanism.) On paper he could, but that means in practice either 1.)...

Speaking of single-term Democrat presidents, after seeing the news about Jimmy Carter’s death I looked up his (in)famous 1979 address to the nation. It’s like from another world – a president (or any government leader) trying to speak to the public frankly, like they rational adults, and the...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/elon-musk-keir-starmer-grooming-gangs-election-b2673185.html Space Wanker still fixated with attempting a ‘soft’ overthrow of the UK government. (There doesn’t need to be a general election until July 2029, and an early election while a government...

Space Wanker adopting explicitly far-right imagery like that, I suspect it’s a reaction to the MAGAts calling him a traitor for accepting the need for immigration – even being in favour of very strictly controlled immigration goes against the ideological purity of hardcore MAGA.

Our conservatives are just starting to go as mask-off crazy as yours, I guess. Compounded by the fact that Brexit hasn't returned the UK to its imperial superpower past, but revealed it to be a minnow in a vasty ocean, but they'd rather suggest the unsuggestable rather than ever admit that...

Hah, the Right-Right (or more accurately, the Nativist Right) remind me of the Lexit* crowd – a worldview that everything would be fine if workers from Poland, Belgium, Finland (etc) were chucked out and replaced with unqualified native locals. * left-wing pro-Brexit people (who are mostly also...

British conservatism and its media continue to be driven even more batshit insane by Trump’s victory…

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...