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- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 4 days ago:
Carney has been leading the middle nations in the sense that he’s taken a tough public stance against Trump for years. European leaders have finally started to adopt his rhetoric this week after Trump took the Greenland crisis to the brink.
Given that I don’t think he was referring to creating more treaties or supranational bodies, I think by matching Carney’s rhetoric world leaders have answered his call.
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 4 days ago:
I’ve pretty much had the opposite reaction to this news. Starmer’s critics had painted the original decision as being the result of his legalistic tendencies triumphing over common sense. Personally, had totally imbibed that point of view because it fit with my preconceptions. (Possibly I was right and he’s using the recent anti-Trump sentiment as a smoke screen to give a post-hoc impression of competence.)
Hearing he had been acting pragmatically to curry favour with a notoriously transactional US president makes me view the original decision in a better light. If that’s true, he’s actually standing up to Trump by telling him to sort out the legality of the US base for himself. Pretty much every European leader had been taking the same tact of public flattery and private diplomacy before this week had Greenland spillover.
Sometimes I wonder if Starmer would need to put out a press statement saying, “DJT, eat shit” before he got any acknowledgement of representing the UK assertively on the world stage.
- Comment on welp 5 days ago:
Source: It came to me in a dream
- Comment on If only 1 week ago:
Fitting slogan for a pair of teenage shorts
- Comment on Anon has a tip 1 week ago:
just Bing it bro!
for real though if you ever want to watch a movie for free online it is by far the best for finding copywrited material (due to not filtering it out and letting you search for videos > 20 mins in length)
- Comment on The Traitors Is Fake Scotland at Its Worst 1 week ago:
It’s as representative of Scotland as Fort Boyard is of France
- Comment on Anon visits New York 1 week ago:
Chef’s kiss
- Comment on Anon visits New York 1 week ago:
Infiltration phase 1 completed
- Comment on Farage says 'thanks for the money' after he’s tricked into Ian Watkins tribute 1 week ago:
Mega lolz
- Comment on The Traitors Is Fake Scotland at Its Worst 1 week ago:
The legacy sequel, bafflingly titled T2 Trainspotting, is a decent commentary on the nature of sequels and being middle aged. There’s also more of actual Edinburgh in in; original movie was primarily filmed in Glasgow.
- Comment on The Traitors Is Fake Scotland at Its Worst 1 week ago:
This romanticisation of Scotland has been going on since Sir Walter Scott, it’s not a new phenomenon. It’s actually fairly apposite that the castle was paid for by the proceeds of empire because Scotland was an enthusiastic participant in the empire with much of Edinburgh and Glasgow being financed by the proceeds of “sugar” (read: the triangular slave trade route).
Unfortunately my fellow Scots can sometimes have a hard time grappling with our historical participation in empire and have a tendency to whitewash it. One of the reasons we had the unification of parliaments was that Scotland bankrupted itself by putting all of its money into an overseas colony which ultimately failed. Hard to see participation in empire as an English corruption if we were already trying to establish our own empire.
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 2 weeks ago:
Meant to prevent ban evasions but serial evaders just reset their routers.
- Comment on Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X after minister calls Grok’s sexualised images ‘weapons of abuse’ 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 2 weeks ago:
Focusing on the big 4 offices of state. Kemi’s Shadow Cabinet:
- Priti Patel: Shadow Foreign Sec
- Chris Philp: Shadow Home Sec
- Mel Stride: Shadow Chancellor
Rishi’s Cabinet:
- David Cameron: Foreign Sec
- James Cleverly: Home Sec
- Jeremy Hunt: Chancellor
There are like 30 ministerial roles though so not sure how similar the junior ministers are.
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 2 weeks ago:
To play devil’s advocate, part of being in opposition is to give parties a chance to reassess what’s important to them. Kemi wasn’t particularly senior when they were in government and the shadow cabinet has changed from the actual cabinet when they were in power.
Political parties are extremely top driven in the UK with the PM or LOTO having an outsized role in shaping what their offering will be in the next manifesto. Being in power also changes decision making like Tories can now be all in favour of online privacy and civil liberties in a way they couldn’t when they were running the home office. Similar shift in priority for Starmer being emboldened to further purge the left of his party more blatantly than when they were in opposition.
- Comment on Johnathan Ross right now... 2 weeks ago:
I was so confused when I saw #JonathanRossIsAMurderer trending on mastodon the other day
- Comment on Anon asks 4chan for parenting advice 4 weeks ago:
Anon searches daughter’s phone for dick pics
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 5 weeks ago:
Inb4 he says “only God can judge me”, shortly before a human judge casts a sentence
- Comment on Great guy 5 weeks ago:
It’s from /mu/ originally
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 5 weeks ago:
I believe it is still a criterion for changing gender to use the bathroom of the gender you are transitioning to for 2 years before the legal process can be satisfied. It sounds like the entire legal framework around changing gender is incompatible with requests like this.
For what it’s worth the supreme court decision simply found that someone’s sex could not be changed legally but that still shouldn’t preclude changing gender. Forbidding people from changing gender is essentially what is being asked for by these groups and society at large does not seem to have an appetite for that.
In the immediate future sex based legal protections do have the legal apparatus to trump gender based rights but it’s going to be implemented on an arbitrary, case-by-case basis. For example in the event that a trans person has a transphobic colleague of the same gender then the employer needs to provide facilities for both parties (as seen in a recent workplace dispute in Fife, Scotland). This is going to get messy where the NHS might have certain hospitals with this arbitrary need for extra facilities depending on people having the misfortune of transphobic colleagues.
- Comment on Great guy 5 weeks ago:
I saw Keanu Reeves at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
- Comment on China - Hong Kong: Civil society organisations urge UK PM to stand up for Jimmy Lai 1 month ago:
Not much we can do after giving it back
- Comment on Robin Ince forced to quit [BBC] Radio 4 over pro-trans views 1 month ago:
Overton window appears to have shifted from a decade ago
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 month ago:
I kind of got caught out by this by attending A&E with severe uveitis. It turns out there are no eye specialist departments or referrals from A&E so it all needs to happen through private opticians. Personally did not realise opticians could do prescriptions beyond prescribing specific lens types.
My eye was so swollen that it ultimately needed atropine to unstick my pupil from the lens, in addition to steroids to fix the underlying condition.
- Comment on 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades 2 months ago:
Curious about the adult figures because I’d guess they are lower but obviously can’t say anything for sure.
- Comment on 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades 2 months ago:
You’ll get cheffed up and put in a spliff if you set foot in central London
- Comment on The word "slop" has been taken full circle 2 months ago:
TIL I’m subbed to two green text subtlemmys
- Comment on Anon starts his day 2 months ago:
How about simply waking up and cursing whatever entity or cosmological force made this hell world?
- Comment on 'Multiple people' stabbed on train in Huntingdon 2 months ago:
Why would these doctors and engineers commit a random act of violence?
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 2 months ago:
We did it, Lemmy!
