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If Iran is now actively pursuing nuclear weapons, which is not proven by any means, it would obviously be the result of the United States ripping up the agreement it made to prevent that. And it would be in their rational self-interest. It's important to remember that this war was preventable
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I obviously do not like the Islamic Republic of Iran. But this is a war where the primary dispute is something where one side has repeatedly shown a willingness to settle via negotiation and diplomacy, and the other side has repeatedly attempted to wreck that diplomacy.
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Regardless, this war has been caused by Israel working to sabotage diplomacy at every turn, both in ripping up the JCPOA and now attempting to destroy Trump's negotiations. No need to handwave a clear pattern of aggressive, destabilising behaviour
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I doubt Tulsi Gabbard would choose to leak to CNN if she wanted to influence the rest of the administration. I also doubt that CNN would publish this if it's Gabbard's insistence alone, given their close alignment with the traditionalist foreign policy blob and the Israel lobby
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Not that it's a consensus view that Iran is close to nuclear weapons or actively pursuing them anyway edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/p...
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Maybe Israel shouldn't have successfully lobbied to destroy the international agreement which prevented Iran from getting nuclear weapons
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Democratic Party elites ran a candidate they knew would soon be dead in 1944
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Joss thought he could just come in, upstage Zack Snyder in his own film, and move on to make thousand more Whedon projects. And boy was he wrong
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Politics is never explicitly discussed in the series but I think The Final Reckoning shows the dangers of nuclear proliferation in a way that the Labour leadership would dismiss as CND propaganda
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Yes, though Labour clearly sees Reform's position on Ukraine as a liability rather than an asset. Akehurst is particularly worried that a "progressive alliance" strategy means having to adopt an antagonistic approach on Trump, Israel and the wider arms industry (his no. 1 policy interest)
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With Akehurst, it's not just that he dismisses the threat of left-liberal voters turning against Labour, it's that he actively prefers a party which fights on Reform's territory than one than acquiesces to the left on foreign policy and defence issues
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I think you'll find that the campaign manager of the Liz Kendall campaign defiantly opposed the campaign strategy of the Liz Kendall campaign (Get In, p.27)
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Unfortunately for Labour there already is a more respectable nativist party to Reform UK, it's called the Conservative Party and it's doing worse than ever.
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The BNP was destroyed by the rise of a more respectable nativist party in the form of UKIP, but that's not a lesson anyone in Labour wants to hear.
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The only group the Tories did better with in 2024 was British Hindus, but who knows if their vote is still holding up with them? (not rhetorical, I genuinely have no idea) But I guess they'd still win Harrow
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Does anyone think Kneecap or their fans are involved in an active conspiracy to kill their local representatives or offer a material assist to the Axis of Resistance? No. So we're getting upset over DJ Provo and Friends making some outrageous comments.
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I think the Government, the Opposition, and various organisations in civil society collectively demanding the deplatforming of a band because of some performatively edgy statements counts as a moral panic. Certainly not a good use of valuable time.
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And now they've got a Groyper as their Research Director and unofficial Gen-Z representative
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Alien Covenant is very good. 3rd best of the series. Does something new with the series w/ gothic setting, delightfully nasty, anchored by a great Michael Fassbender. Much better than the lifeless, morally bankrupt Alien Romulus, which only exists to remind you of older, better films.
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I recall people supporting his re-election because the pro-Gaza independents movement was dodgy on LGBT rights. Good thing Wes is now outflanking them on the right!
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Here's the thing: he actually is a right-wing lickspittle cunt.
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Have to give Labour credit here: they have prevented the EHRC from being a strictly party political body by keeping the chair appointed by noted guest of the Steve Bannon podcast Liz Truss.
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Most people may say they endorse the principle of the two-child cap but most also think government should take more action to reduce child policy. People believe contradictory things. Politicians' job should be to take reasonable action and argue their case to voters, which this lot refuses to do
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It's also that the British centre-left were unable to generate enough enthusiasm to amass a couple hundred thousand people in support of their politics, particularly a miserabilist austerian one. A problem which Keir Starmer is not at all facing at present
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Yes, another reason to believe that the Tories' problems comes from their MPs often acting like total idiots
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The example used is IDS winning over Clarke. IDS was only five votes behind Clarke on the final ballot, with Portillo's 50 supporters to be released. You would expect IDS to either win among MPs, like Hague did, or come exceedingly close. The Tory right is not a political force imposed on by members
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MPs gave members the choice of Badenoch vs Jenrick
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On the use of law against politicians, people need to judge these things case by case. Bolsonaro involvement in a murder plot obviously deserves prison time, as does Trump's attempts to rig an election. The charges against Georgescu, otoh, were weak & have strengthened the far-right in Romania
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A pretty simple guide to studio heads on the Harry Potter IP: people love Hogwarts and dgaf about the wizarding war mythology. Which is why the video game was a big hit and the Fantastic Beasts films were total failures
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The Disney model is to make the same type of film over and over again until people get tired of it. Have they not factored in people eventually getting tired of it?
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Glasman is only in the news bc he's been given relevance by Keir Starmer's office. The same Starmer who chose the side of genocidal ethnic-nationalism in Gaza over the international movement of Palestinian solidarity & now prioritises warfare over welfare. The authors should try frying bigger fish
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Seems worse to me given the SpAds are the ones with power driving through these vicious cuts to the most vulnerable based on hysteria and selected statistics
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Right-wing Twitter including Government SpAds briefing to Bloomberg
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Though raising National Insurance over income tax was the more regressive choice designed to spare Tory-voting pensioners
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This seems destined to be in the same canon of anti-art as the Disney live-action remakes, only 4x the length
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I like the idea that the Biden administration and the Harris campaign were all about police abolitionism
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Musk is also interested in economics but he has a very dull perspective - he wants to massively cut the state whilst utilising government subsidies to enrich himself. IMF-style shock therapy in the Global North with a dose of personal corruption. Farage is the only one without an economic agenda
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I think it's because he has two jobs, one as the leader of Reform the British political party, the other as an international & MAGA right-wing celebrity. It's a very hard needle to thread at this point but he could have done worse.
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Rupert Low otoh is... Reform's 4th most effective Member of Parliament?