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"Markets can remain irrational longer than you or I can remain solvent."
A. Gary Shilling
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...after it goes bankrupt
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They will though because they are utter cowards
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Hopefully theyll abandon the Trump administration and refocus on their more important work, er... colonising Mars and Seasteading
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In social terms, yes, but in economic terms, they both still slavishly endorse the neoliberal "household economics" doctrine.
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Was just about to post the same. When will the Liberals get their head out of their collective arses and realise that a continuation of the austerity status quo just wont cut it?
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Public sector procurement is poor the best of times but in a crowded field, the MODs abysmal record stands out.
Why should we give those idiots billions to purchase more aircraft carriers that cant leave port or armoured vehicles that take a decade to arrive and cause violent motion sickness?
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Right wingers: "We must stop mass immigration and encourage the indigenous population to have more babies."
Also, right wingers: "The indigenous population must be punished for having more babies"
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In fact, the complete opposite is true. The billions in donations to US representatives by big corporations are never a direct quid pro quo. They are there to ensure that they vote the right way on policies that benefit corporations and screw the electorate.
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To quote FDR:
"True individual freedom can not exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
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The obvious answer: make social care part of the NHS so that carers get the training, pay, and conditions that they deserve for doing one of the most demanding jobs in society.
Then there wouldn't be any need to recruit from abroad or use profit making care agencies and residential homes.
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While there are a lot of parralels with Putins early years, there is one key difference. Russia was on its knees economically, and living standards had plummeted. Putin moved to eliminate the Yeltsin era oligarchs which gained him popularity.
The situation on the ground in the US is very different.
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Island of strangers that eats Indian , Chinese and Italian food, has a black leader of the opposition and Muslim mayor of London and has football and cricket teams full of the children of immigrants. Dog whistle bullshit.
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Starmer is a coward who has no ideology, no plan other than slavish adherence to neoliberalism and who is terrified of the right wing press.
It was as clear as the nose on your face when he told a pack of lies to get the leadership, and yet many of the chattering classes pretended that it wasn't
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Id have Kellys Heroes in there
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If I may venture the same but in a more positive aspect...
'The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,’
David Graeber
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There's a quote about the restored French monarchy that comes to mind... "they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing"
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Weve had a DOGE for local government for 15 years, its called austerity.
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Storage Wars 2035: T-Money pays $500 for a locker and finds it contains 2 tons of gold bullion from the federal reserve.
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The point is not that people dont vote for liberal governments. It's that when liberal governments do little to address inequality, what follows is always much worse than what went before eg. Trump x 2, Fratelli Italia, the rise of AFD, Reform and Front Nationale etc.
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"In this Midwestern city, a lack pf housing supply has Baby Boomers, Millenials and Generation Z all vying for apartments. Generation X can't be bothered"
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They didnt mention him increasing the water pressure to clean his beautiful hair quicker. Sad.
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If you want to see an *actual* situation where violent, racist religious bigots move to a foreign country, live segregated lives and beat up on the indigenous people, then its Israel you need to be looking at Israel, not Britain.
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I watched Louis Theroux's 'Settlers' yesterday.
It's remarkable that the racist genocidal scum that he interviews have gone from being bigoted maniacs on the political fringe to driving Israeli foreign policy in a decade.
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If only there was some piece of empirical evidence that we could use to evaluate these tariffs.
Oh wait there is. The Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 which had a disastrous effect on the US economy and exacerbated the Great Depression. It even got a mention in Ferris Buellers Day Off FFS
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Cuntry House
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The thing is maintaining the status quo just wont cut it, especially economically. Its not just the red wall brigade, large amounts of people in the west feel the social contract is broken, and if the Liberals, Labour, etc. arent able to make radical changes, they risk handing power to the far right
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🤣
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Im guessing that in the US, fly tipping would be the act of leaving a very generous gratuity to a waiter.
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Fly tipping is the practice of illegally dumping rubbish, most commonly a fridge or washing machine chucked down a back alley, although sometimes it can be on a much larger scale.
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Starmer: "We will deport foreign nationals found guilty of fly tipping"
Reform: "Why wont Labour commit to putting foreign fly tippers to death?"
Starmer: "We will execute foreign nationals found guilty of fly tipping"
Reform: "Why wont Labour commit to public executions"
Etc etc etc etc
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I think we should be rightly proud of the fact that we are among the top 10 nations of the world for tertiary education numbers, however I do have to question the form that has taken since the end of polytechnics.
We have huge shortgages in some professions which universities just arent meeting.
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Id say two things:
First , universities should be funded from general taxation not rely on funding from overseas students.
Second, that a conversation needs to be had about whether it is worthwhile changing some Universities back into technical colleges as in the days of polytechnics.
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Trump continues his quest to take the worst aspects of every political ideology and mould them into one dreadful system.
In todays episode, the president introduces Stalinist price controls.
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See also: Attitudes to homosexuality in Britain 1983-2015
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No journalist should allow social media platforms to bleat about freedom of speech unless they are prepared to reveal how their algorithms work.
Then we'll see how they put their thumb on the scales of free speech.
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What are the odds on those whose greed and incompetence caused the deaths of 72 people in Grenfell Tower seeing the inside of a jail cell?
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I think weve crossed the Rubicon on that one
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Oh, it's highly targeted, alright.
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Hes almost certainly been promoted.
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...writes Richard Littlejohn
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See also Peter Thiel, a Conservative libertarian founder of Palantir and a big fan of seasteading and Alex Karp, a founder of Palantir who said that pro Palestinian demonstrators should be sent to North Korea
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There has never been a single instance of deregulating financial services that hasnt been a disaster for ordinary working people.
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The only thing that will save UK politics from going the same way as the US is an end to FPTP.
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"We need to take back control of our borders so that we can let hundreds of thousands of immigrants in from poorer countries outside the EU"
The side of a red bus, 2015
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Thats mostly their early work. Have a listen to Surfs Up (especially Long Promised Road or Til I Die) for example, or Holland. That was a very different vibe.
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Unpatriotic traitors