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Yerwot, mate? Not accusations. Just pointing out that phrase you repeated is as sinister as it comes. And I’ve seen it used in some awful ways by the crooked lot in charge of my own country to justify the unjustifiable. (Left wing government, though? Really? Aren’t the Liberals just another big...

For years now I have expected Trump’s lawyers to play the Uncle Junior defence. The longer he legal issues go on, the more inevitable it seems. I mean, this isn’t an ageist statement, but he appears cognitively impaired in some way. I agree with @Rhinox that it wouldn’t make a difference to...

“The will of the people” is what the Tory government(s) here have been shrieking for the last nearly eight years, using it to justify xenophobia, austerity and draconian laws. Absolutely hateful phrase.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/21/poorest-uk-families-hardest-hit-cost-living-crisis-official-figures Weren’t we promised that Brexit would be massively beneficial for the poorest?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/19/elon-musk-replies-x-twitter-martin-sellner-far-right-identitarian-movement-christchurch-terrorist-attack Space Wanker reinstated and replied to a notorious Austrian Neo-Nazi (who happens to be banned from Britain and Germany, among other countries).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tower-fundraising-email-fraud-bond-b2516285.html Grifting wanker’s getting desperate…

Possibly, as long as it covered prescription medications. I don’t quite know the history of why the Canadian system doesn’t cover pharmacare at a provincial or federal level. Presumably the intention was there, but it was never implanted with the rest of it? Or the right-leaning parties never...

They don’t. Their universal healthcare system is actually rather threadbare when compared to European equivalents. As far as I’m aware, some provinces have their own programmes for covering medication, but not free or universal.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-presidential-vote-starts-final-day-with-accusations-kyiv-sabotage-2024-03-17/ Putin won this weekend’s Russian presidential election with 88% of the vote. What a surprise!!1

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/penny-mordaunt-replace-sunak-tory-leadership-b2513677.html Fourth Tory prime minister in almost as many years? Possibly. Wouldn’t really surprise me, given how back-stabby the Tories are.

@wonko the sane? I remember we had Safeways here. Closed down about 20 years ago, and Morrisons bought up the former stores to expand southwards, when they were primarily a northern supermarket chain. Also heard of IGA, somehow. Quick research reveals that it exists in the States too, so I...

Aren’t Costco those huge warehouse places, rather than a regular supermarket? Google reveals we have Costco in the UK now, but the ‘nearest’ outlets to my location are few and distant. (Serious question, in North America do you have national supermarket chains? I know that the giant warehouse...

We have those self-service checkouts in our supermarkets too… I’ve noticed that all it usually does is create longer queues at the remaining staffed checkouts, and leaves pensioners confused and stressed when they try and use the automated lanes. I don’t like self-checkouts because it’s...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jk-rowling-adds-holocaust-denialism-to-her-transphobia Wizarding Karen going ever deeper down the fash rabbit hole.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/puberty-blockers-gender-identity-clinics-nhs-b2511437.html TERFs force change in government health policy here on TERF Island.

Wasn’t he the wrongcock nonce who planned to blow up natal care clinics, or what that someone else? I remember the name from the ATT days and that he “went away” for crimes, but the details are hazy several decades on.

Honestly, I would’ve thought and observed that the American segment of this fandom were predominantly right-wing, until around 15, 16 years ago, when things changed. At least in this neck of the woods (other TF boards, I have no idea).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68427309 Haley’s out of the race.

I took some criminology modules at university as part of my Bachelors degree. We learnt the origins of the (British and Commonwealth style of) police as based on the notion of popular consent and being policed by your peers, fellow civilians, and locally operated. We also learnt how that was...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68471568 France has amended their national constitution to guarantee the right to abortion. The vote was won 780-72.