peterh04.bsky.social
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Is the UK really that desperate? Just nine years ago the result of Farage’s long campaign to get us out of the EU saw us vote to leave. He, along with that buffoon Boris, has made us poorer, made our politics more divisive, and now he’s exploiting that with his dangerous populism.
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What? That’s a pointless comment since I never claimed to be right. Maybe stick to your conspiracy theories.
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That time has long gone. The only issue now is how big a calamity are we going to get and how fast. Nor is it just climate destabilisation, we’re damaging the entire planet: plastic pollution, a new extinction event, loss of biodiversity.
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Which doesn’t make them right, does it? Over half the voters believed Trump was the right answer, so numbers on their own prove little.
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You’ve described the position in which the Democrats find themselves. They’re trying to play by the rules to deal with a president and Republican Party that long ago stopped playing by the rules. They need to rewrite their rules of engagement, and fast.
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Maybe he was expecting the GOP to play by the rules; unfortunate mistake, but unfortunately the Democrats have still to wake up to what’s happening.
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Welcome to Gilead
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I thought they were Trump’s top two ‘must have’ qualifications for holding office in his administration?
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Fortunately with food labelling we have some choice over what we buy
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He is retired, it’s a lifelong vocation.
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You must know by now that facts are utterly irrelevant to Trump.
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That’s exactly the point that people either don’t get or choose to ignore. Either we manage ourselves away from our fossil fuel addiction or Gaia will do it for us, without regard for the impacts on one solitary species on this planet; particularly as it’s the one doing the harm.
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Right until it’s someone they know who is picked up off the street.
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Katie, I agree 100%. Sadly your president regards the provisions of the constitution as merely irritating barriers to his exercising of total control. Even more sadly there are lawyers happy to try to help him in his endeavours
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No, due process applies to everyone because how else do you find out if they’re citizens or not? What criteria are you using to decide who is entitled to due process and who can be dragged off in handcuffs?
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Vlad, I want that Trump hotel in Moscow that you promised if I helped you win your war, so please sign the deal
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Just be grateful he’s worked out how to take CapLock off.
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He was trying to find an intellectual equal…. but still failed.
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Just wait until they start ordering the burning of books.
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It’s the same as the lack of understanding about who will pay Trump’s tariffs: they don’t understand it’s everyone, including them.
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Trump and Witkoff are just naive and out of their depth. Putin has absolutely no intention of entering into a ceasefire. His plan since 24 February 2023 has been to put a puppet regime in control of Ukraine and make it another Belarus: a buffer between poor, misunderstood Russia and NATO.
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The problem is less about emissions per ship and much more about the sheer volume of ‘stuff’ that has to be shipped around the world. In simple terms the issue is overconsumption, and that extends way beyond CO2 emissions from ships.
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It has long been a concern that the US legal system is so entangled with its political system. It needs constant reminders of the different role and obligations of being an officer of the law.
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A small group of people with an extreme ideology rooted in a deep sense of national betrayal…. Sound familiar? Think back to the 1930s. Then add on the saying, “all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing” and there you have it.
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Homework: please write out 1,000 times, ‘the end does not justify the means.’
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Geoengineering is the human race admitting defeat in the battle against climate change. It’s absolutely the last thing we should be doing - more ignorant tampering with something we don’t properly understand
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I have no idea what you’re talking about
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China really isn’t that desperate
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I much prefer ‘those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad’. It just fits what’s happening under Trump so perfectly.
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Rather more than 60% of people have got the message. Sadly most of those in power are still petrified of the right-wing media backlash if anyone dares to suggest rejoining.
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Perhaps they could travel to Moscow, tell Putin that Trump intends to flatten the city, buy up the land, move out all the occupants and then build the biggliest, greatest, most beautiful city ever known. With a sign saying ‘murderous tyrants not allowed’.
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I think it would be manageable if we got rid of anonymity and made people identifiable on-line, but it needs proper monitoring. The problem with curtailing free speech on-line is that you’ve started down a slippery path.
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I think your first three words sum up your post.
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It says the sentence was 34 years but reduced. The issue here is the Draconian sentence, which was massively increased on appeal. I guess we shouldn’t expect much more given the country concerned.
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If you’re not familiar with that quote it merits some thought about what it’s saying. The point is that good intentions don’t always lead to good outcomes. Think about where what you think is a great idea might lead. 🙂
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I agree with the goal but remember the saying: the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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I read the article and your defence of it seems to be based on a couple of possible benefits, whilst ignoring the elephant in the room: politicians have a habit of making decisions for reasons of political expediency. That alone is reason enough not to give the lever to decide interest rates.
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This is just so fundamentally wrong. It is correct that interest rates are important but that’s exactly why decisions on rates should be kept as far away from politicians and their short-term political game playing as possible.
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If you’re going to troll at least make it intelligible and subtle. This is neither.
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Even if what you suggest is true, which I think it is not, ‘identity politics’ hasn’t been responsible for the breakdown of the vital consensus approach upon which effective government functions. Plus the Right has been making it into a stick to sow division, as we have seen, not the Left.
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Maybe because it wasn’t on his list, he won’t admit to giving anything in a deal and he can’t deliver on it anyway.
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I should have added a dishonourable mention for the Tea Party, which dragged the Republicans to the right.
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You need to brush up on your US history. His administration started the US down the path which has broken the consensus politics upon which governing the country depends. The consequences are pretty obvious
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It’s worse than that because he thinks he knows everything.
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He and his team don’t understand how VAT works either. To suggest it’s an EU tariff on US imports is utter imbecility.
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So, less time than it would take to turn Fox News into a proper news station.
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But that’s not the point, Trump needs a yes man who will follow orders. Competence and ability don’t feature on his hiring checklist. Kennedy in charge of health is another example. Remember he wants unquestioning loyalty to him not the Constitution.
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Here’s some accurate news: you’re wrong