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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.)

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...

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.

Tariffs aren’t going to work out well for anyone.

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-brand-uk-tyrannical-police-state/ Space Wanker is trying to interfere with British politics now, attempting (futilely) to get the government to trigger an early general election, four months after the last one…

That could happen, but I’ve seen what’s happened with Brexit here. The blame for all the economic carnage was deflected elsewhere by TPB, and the “the government aren’t doing it properly/it was never enacted” narrative by prominent Brexiteers drowns out everything in the media. Then the...

25% tariffs, on produce from the countries where the US sources most of their food imports? The inflation caused by Covid and the war in Ukraine is going to be nothing compared to what’s coming. The cost of basic living is going to sky rocket, and not just in the States. People have no idea what...

Hate to be a downer, but I remember people touting GW Bush as a “peaceful”, non-interventionist president back in 2000, and look how that turned out.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/25/travel-chaos-and-flooding-to-continue-as-uk-counts-cost-of-storm-bert Climate change strikes again, compounded by 14 years of austerity having left flood defences in disrepair.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-transgender-military-policy-b2652956.html Rumblings that Fashy Orange is going to eject transgender people from the military en masse. Appalling.

Incidentally, remember when Hasbro owned Atari Games? (Or possibly all of the Atari IP including the hardware, can’t remember the specifics.) They punted all that off to Infogrames after 5 or so years, IIRC.

Been using it since last July. When it was Mastodon, but centralised and with actual regular users posting stuff regularly. Becoming more like early Twitter over the last few months, necessitating use of mute/block lists. (The actual block function is great though, use it and you’ll never see...