alun-owen.bsky.social
Welsh bloke living in Finland. Molecular biology technician at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Helsinki University. Interested in politics, economically very left wing. Not a populist.
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Labour have always had a Fabian approach to social and economic change. The problemnis that they are becoming more and more timid. In 1945-51 Attlee managed to nationalise 20% of the UK economy. Today Labour seems happy if it doesn't offended the most corrupt capitalists.
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I saw a post on Facebook about this casting, and the comments about the children were absolutely horrifying. I could not believe that adults were being so vicious about children.
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The one thing that is most obvious about Starmer is his complete incompetence. He is apparently not very bright and really, really bad at politics.
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I don't think Starmer became PM because she avoided hard decisions. I think he became PM by default. He became Labour leader because he was seen as pro-EU by Labour members. Then he betrayed them. He became PM because everyone hated the Tories. He could have been radical and won.
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To be fair, November last year proved they are really dumb.
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He says, "When we have control of immigration". But that's a vacuous platitude. For him and Farage there will never be enough control on immigration. Backed by their cheerleaders in the fascist press, a silly person migrating per year will be "out of control".
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Wants to leave NATO, backs anti-Ukraine conspiracy theories, and by extension condones Putin's genocide. Just another conspiracy theory peddling populist.
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By my observation, all populists are prone to conspiracy theories. From Farage to Corbyn, they want to abandon Ukraine to the Putinist genocide because, apparently, it's all NATO's fault. Not to mention the huge anti-vaxx element of populism.
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I kind of put it down to the usual party political messaging "only we can defeat party x", when clearly that isn't true. The Lib Dems employ it a lot, too. But also, it's an Anglocentric view to pretend Plaid Cymru doesn't exist. We're used to being treated as if we're an appendage to England.
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It seems remis to mention the Senedd elections without mentioning Plaid Cymru. The last YouGov poll put Plaid on 30%, and Plaid are a genuinely centre-left to left-wing party, with strong green credentials. Plaid are the party that will defeat Reform in Wales. The Greens should be standing down.
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I suppose he believes that we provoked Hitler toninvade Poland, too.
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Are you suggesting the blue passports don't make up for everything else? I mean, come on, they're blue!
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But pot is not addictive. She is a complete imbecile.
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The brain worm is really doing its worst today!
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When the Democrats win, Republican voters scream fraud, and when the Republicans win, Democrat voters scream fraud. Numerous investigations into electoral fraud always come up with minimal evidence for fraud. The polls were showing a Trump win for over a month before the election.
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You sound a unhinged as any Trump voter.
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You're just spouting insane conspiracy theories.
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Also, never underestimate the amount politicians panic when they see polls go south. The broader problem is that the left is terrified of being radical, whereas the right is not afraid to be radical. But a lot of people do want radical nationalisation and redistribution.
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From what I have read, there is no more evidence that Trump cheated in 2024 than there is that Biden did in 2020. Pretty difficult to commit electoral fraud when you are out of office. Conspiracy theories are no more appealing from the left than they are from the right.
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Society can't work without indirect reciprocity. "All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth." - Kropotkin
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If the Senate didn't vote to ban him from office after Jan 6, then this bunch of lickspittles isn't going to do it.
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And it isn't only Americans. Italy has Meloni, France has Le Penn, Hungary has Orban, Slovakia has Fico, Romania has Simion, the UK has Farage. The West is rather pro-imbecile.
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The terrifying thing is that he is an imbecile that Americans chose as their president, despite them already knowing he is an imbecile. 77.3 million Americans are therefore pro-imbecile as their leader.
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Starmer seems to believe that the way to deal with Trump is to pucker up and kiss his arse at every opportunity. Reminds me somewhat of Blair and Bush, and we all know where that got us.
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He's making the same mistake Blair made in assuming the left have nowhere else to go.
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Only the Express and its far-right allies are angry. The fact is that public opinion has turned decisively against Brexit, and a largish majority would welcome a return to the single market even if it included freedom of movement.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Clinton was accused of far worse then having been given a blowjob. Accusations of sexual assault and rape followed him around almost as much as they follow Trump around. Let's not pretend Bill Clinton was not a sexual predator, because he almost certainly was.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cl...
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I see, you don't understand what the word "headline" means.
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That's not what the headline says. But anyway playing music put loud may be rude, but lots of things are rude. You don't need to criminalise it, just have a rule against it. The busses where I live have a rule you cannot eat and drink, but there is no *law* about it.
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They going to stop people talking too, because some people find that irritating? And why do they want to stop people who do use earbuds from listening to music? It's like those odious people who wine because babies sometimes cry. It's just about being misanthropic.
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Quite so. We can all play music without bothering anyone else. So why would anyone want to stop me playing music? I don't bother anyone when I play music on my earbuds. So why do they want to stop that?