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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).

I also find it darkly amusing that the same people whose slogans are “Britain is full” and “stop the boats” are also “no, we’re dangerously underpopulated, you need to breed more!”

https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3l5ejp7mcvl2t Tories going full-on weird and MAGA (or MBGA, I guess) in opposition. The other day a frontrunner for the Tory leadership called for statutory maternity pay to be abolished, but the party also wants (native) women to “breed for...

Wow, great work there. Thank you for sharing that, and please let us know if you repeat this experiment with other figures.

Imagine if Kamala Harris beat Trump and won the presidential election, but started to immediately enact Project 2025 and all the extreme stuff Trump was going to do. But the ‘progressive’ media turn a blind eye because it’s “their” team doing it. That’s the state of UK politics right now.

Well, the main issue is that literally nothing has changed. Same bad economy, same Brexit, same anti-immigrant rhetoric from the government, same way out-of-touch politicians openly take freebies from big business. It’s like when the last Tory government switched to another prime minister: The...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/21/honeymoon-over-keir-starmer-now-less-popular-than-rishi-sunak Starmer now less popular than the former Tory PM who lost in a landslide election defeat back in July.

Thought I might as well celebrate Transformers Day, our new annual secular holiday!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/16/giorgia-meloni-starmer-showed-great-interest-in-our-albania-migration-deal Here is the latest instalment of “Labour government being more weirdly right-wing than the Tories were”.

Can’t try that in Britain. We’ve already had our allocation of sunshine until next May. Anyway, NGL, I’ve been following the premature yellowing thread over on TFW, and it’s stopped my purchasing of new stuff in its tracks. Haven’t bought as few TF items in year going back to 1995. I’ve only...

Bolded bit – so ridiculously, painfully true, in my experience. Either they regurgitate the conspiracy theory, propagandist version of history, or don’t have any grasp of history or geography (no, the modern state of Israel is not a “white colonial state”, it wasn’t founded by Britain, and...

I’ll note that the “immigrants eat your pets” strategy adopted by Trump and Vance was also used over here, in the run-up the Brexit referendum.

Reminds me of the cover of Kiss’s Psycho Circus album, sort of. Thematically. You’re right though, I mean, without context I’d have no idea if that was a pro or anti Trump image. Could just as easily be something that some groyper edgelord cooked up with generative AI.