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Who here claimed that Rogan isn’t right-wing again?

Those figures got me back into collecting Transformers back in 1996. Discovered the online fandom, read about the then-new Beast Wars, checked my local Toys R Us, but no Beasts (it was another 2 whole years before Beast Wars even hit the UK). However, they had the Cyberjets among the dusty rows...

France has the lowest rate of unionisation in Western Europe, and actually lower than the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_comparisons_of_trade_unions

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/02/kemi-badenoch-wins-tory-leadership-election The Tories elect the “abolish maternity pay to boost the declining birth rate” woman as their new leader. She was the weirdest and most extreme of the leadership candidates…

Random, possibly irrelevant, question… Do you have party logos on your ballot papers, like we do in Britain?

Huh, didn’t know that ol’ Trumpy was a member of the Orangemen.

Can’t find another thread about the US health system (or lack of one), so I’ll post here. Saw in the socials that the former head of Transformers brand has a gofundme for medical expenditure… For $21,000. Which is one month’s costs. That’s… Yeah, I don’t really have any way to put into words...

https://bsky.app/profile/bestforbritain.bsky.social/post/3l7kt36xcwj2r Latest instalment of American politicians complaining about a city in a country that they likely haven’t even visited.

https://www.politico.eu/article/georgia-elections-marred-by-intimidation-and-interference-observers-warn/ Putin’s minions throw another national election.

Stories like this are getting me very concerned that these media giants have their own private polling which indicates a near-certain Trump win.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wnr5qdxe7o Moldova votes for EU membership by a tiny margin, not helped by Russian interference and voter-bribing.

Looks like Harris is tacking sharply to the right in these last few weeks. I don’t envy you guys this time, either it’s Trump enacting a dictatorship, or 70% of Trump’s platform enacted by more cognitively competent people. Terrifying.

Yeah, I think I agree, unfortunately. It similar over here when people routinely predict the inevitable death of Tory party after the latest crushing electoral defeat, when the party always bounces back soon enough.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kamala-harris-could-join-podcaster-joe-rogan-an-interview-sources-2024-10-15/ Are the Democrats now going for a Starmer-style strategy of just campaigning towards right-wing voters?

Oh, there's a thread for this. Basically, is this any good? I was going to pick up the volume 1 TPB to test it out, but need some input first. (FWIW I grew up reading the Marvel UK comic, that was my G1 fiction as the cartoon was barely shown here. Didn't like Marvel's G2 comic; didn't like...

What a great future we have in front of us.

Our (allegedly) Labour prime minister wrote an op-ed for a right-wing tabloid the other day basically leaning into climate change denial and framing decarbonisation of the economy as a form of anti-jobs Ludditism. Great future we have here. (Yes, the ‘Labour’ government we have now is actually...

That’s… interesting. Didn’t know that. (I tried Linux back in 2002, can’t remember the type, and KDE was/is the desktop component, IIRC. Interesting it’s all connected like that.) (I miss the pre-spyware version of the internet, even if you had to pay for your web browser.)

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.bsky.social/post/3l5iddmffpn2o Sailing close to using the awful ephitet Bongo Bongo Land (no idea if that’s a known term in North America, but here it’s a Tory/Reform racist term for generic Africa country).