DuncanMSussexPol.toot.community.ap.brid.gy
Former biochemist but escaped from the lab! Now an interdisciplinary social scientist.
Political account - on Birdsite this overtook things somewhat […]
[bridged from https://toot.community/@DuncanMSussexPol on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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@aphclarkson.bsky.social good. Someone needs to take the lead on this. British elites are too Americaphilic to get on board quickly, French elites too fragile in a domestic context currently, for Poland see Britain.
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Leaders of Germany's pro-democracy parties now speaking of "European NATO states" and the United States under Trump and Musk as a potential enemy of Europe.
The Trump administration has made a final rupture between the US and EU/UK increasingly likely.
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What Ned said
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@simonzerafa @hacks4pancakes I haven't any specialist info but a military coup does seem an underdiscussed outcome for the USA.
I'm not outright predicting it but I'd thought even before Trump was elected that things getting too lawless opens the door for that kind of thing to be a real […]
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@zzypt cool!
Tbh I'm not too bothered about following him directly (the account I was looking at reposted him) but it's proper good that some bigger politicians are diversifying from Twitter. On Fedi would be even better of course.
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In the U.K., polling shows that only 3% of Britons agree with Donald Trump that Ukraine is partly or mostly responsible for the war.
The figure goes up to 8% for Reform voters. It's still a fringe view amongst the fringe voters.
There is no way Reform leader Nigel Farage can spin a win by […]
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"Normally you can’t escape Reform UK MPs gobbing off on here but interesting, isn’t it, how silent they are about their friend’s campaign to undermine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Just when you need them to use some influence to protect British interests, they don’t."
Andy Burnham,
Greater […]
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I mean, fair play to the lad. And to be able to successfully pull off using "bootlicker" without just looking obnoxious.
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#Zelensky had until this week walked a fine line of staking out Ukrainian positions while avoiding any…breach w/the #US, #Ukraine’s most important ally in the…war. After…talks between #Russia & the US, Zelensky…laid out refusal to accept terms negotiated w/o Ukrainian participation.
At the […]
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@iandunt.bsky.social been said before, but a certain mustachioed German dictator was also a complete idiot. Didn't stop bad things happening.
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..the degree to which they've been subtly groomed to go along with cruelty to trans people as a 'two sides' debate. It's still alarmingly common to see every other minority named when reporting the collateral harms but for trans people to be obfuscated as 'er.. [pause] .. 'gender''. That […]
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I really wish smart people would stop attributing genius 4D chess to Elon. His motivations are really simple. He’s not very smart, or informed. He’s another traumatized rich bro who will never be happy with any amount of money, and the planned P25 societal collapse serves his needs.
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[UK Politics]
@rhys also, going a bit off-topic, but I'd go a bit further and say it's deeply concerning the high court judge aspect even made it to draft.
That having a high court judge rule on every assisted dying case, with a strict and arbitrary time limit, wasn't viable really should […]
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[UK Politics]
@rhys agreed.
The reaction against removing a "safeguard" that would make the entire thing unworkable and has no precedent in countries with well-implemented assisted dying shows how regressive and, frankly, divorced from reality the "debate" on this has been.
This bill's still […]
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[UK Politics]
It is interesting seeing exactly who does oppose it though. Perennially self-styled 'liberal' David Davis offers ostensible support in principle, but is likely to end up opposed. Weirdly placed left-but-conservative Wes Streeting opposes it, alongside weird-left Diane Abbot and […]
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@davidho oh, believe me, a king doing some of the things he's trying wouldn't last.
An executive trying to ignore what the legislature did and did not fund ultimately ended up badly for the first Charles, after all.
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@mmasnick.bsky.social 100%. No rational person looking at the data would have said Trump had the election in the bag the week before the election. Let alone in 2022. And even at its peak Twitter never had *that* kind of sway.
Musk made a terrible business decision that accidentally came good […]
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@GuillaumeRossolini ah, that's a kicker! Sounds like it'd be really useful.
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For the sake of "balance" (lol) here's something the current government is going well. There's always silver linings to any government, save Truss (yes, even Johnson and Sunak), but it'd have been hard to find one within ten stories of an obviously bad decision before.
So, yeah, rubbish but […]
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Haven't mentioned Threads but ... well, I only interact with it through this account so can't see how much Meta's trainwreck of a new moderation policy has fucked it up.
A fair bit I imagine, and, as someone who thought having it in the mix was valuable (even while knowing its myriad issues) […]