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@ThatGarthGuy it's actually outrageous that the BBC were reporting the scottish council elections by overall control when it's nearly impossible to win a majority because of STV

With how fractured our political system is now becoming in the UK, I think we should move past the need to use "Control/NOC" when it comes to councils We should probably show councils by the largest party on the council itself, instead of if they have a majority or not

@AFrazzledScot @scottishgreens they have the people to run but the party didn't want to run in many constituencies, presumably to help the snp

Seeing the @scottishgreens making such breakthroughs in the constituency vote leaves me frustrated that they're only standing in 6/73 constituencies. How was Reform able to find candidates and the greens weren't?

@Locked100plus1 It's basically a three way tie. The model says Labour edge it (by less than a percent!) but I personally think the greens might win just because of the number of signs I've seen for them. It's definitely an exciting contest regardless.

@libdembounce Labour isn't winning Edinburgh Central

Two weeks to go. Here is my projection for the upcoming Scottish election.

@wallacedadmsk05 Just checked the model, the greens are there but the map only lists the top 4 parties in each seat, and they're 0.1% behind labour.

@wallacedadmsk05 Oops I didn't mean to take the greens out of Northern 😭

@OnByStarlight Yeah those are the couple seats Im thinking

@libdembounce It really would have to be the Skye seat and *maybe* Argyll. I don’t see a world where they gain any seat south of the Central Belt that’s not a list seat, nor do I see them gaining Western Isles.

@OnByStarlight I think there's a good chance we still gain a couple more seats on the west coast because of the ferry scandal. Harder for a model to take that into account but let's see... 🤞

@libdembounce That would be an okay night, perhaps not a tad disappointing to not gain the Skye seat or a list seat in Glasgow.

@juniperebba If anything the Lib Dems are underestimated here I feel like we're definitely winning more than 5 constituencies

@libdembounce Good stuff, maybe an over projection for Lib Dems

@StefanFrancisci Type of thing you'd expect British local government to do ngl

Average bus experience in Bratislava

Living in Scotland is crazy because wdym on a random Wednesday I can get on a bus for an hour and see a castle for £1

@TheotherWill_NE Completely expected but still nice to know I'm a lib dem

I'm a YIMBY who wants to cut tax and this is what it gave me 😭

@Mr__Comics Did you watch the video? There were people dealing and the police stood and watched

@libdembounce Because there are actual crimes to deal with, first time possession doesn't even get you fined it just gets taken. You need dealing amounts to get booked

Cannabis should be legalised but it does feel fairly insane that while it's still illegal the police refuse to do anything and just watch?

@cezthesocialist @57_joe_ Other genocides didn't transport their victims from ghettos to extermination camps via trains and kill millions in purpose built extermination camps. The industrialisation of genocide is a unique tragedy specific to the holocaust. Saying that doesn't downplay other genocides.

Scale? So you think a genocide that killed 1 million people and completely wiped out an entire race is less evil than one that killed 2 million but wasn’t complete despite having completely identical goals? I don’t think there is any difference between these two things, they are both equally evil. And I don’t see how emphasising one is anything but downplaying the other.

Looks decent, honest, and truthful to me. It’s probably not legal though, as opposing the Zionist holocaust is illegal in the UK.

@cezthesocialist @57_joe_ I mean the holocaust was a uniquely evil event though. It's the only time that a genocide has been committed on that industrial scale through the use of extermination camps. That doesn't minimise other genocides, but it is important to distinguish how evil the holocaust was.

You are wrong and clearly very ignorant. The term holocaust was used to describe several genocides long before the Nazis. Zionists invented the propaganda term “the Holocaust”, note the capitalisation, in the 60s to describe the Nazi holocaust, which pushes the idea that it was a uniquely evil event, thereby downplaying other genocides, and denies the millions of non-Jewish victims. They need people to believe these things to justify Israel’s existence. It is not antisemitic to be educated and refuse to take part in Zionist propaganda. The Nazi holocaust was a horrific genocide, but it was not uniquely evil, and it certainly does not justify the Zionist colonial project or their genocide.

@LilithRStacey tbh I don't really think the lib dems are neutral on indy in Scotland they're definitely in the unionist camp

What’s with Scottish LDM’s being decently neutral on Indy (or at least having pro-Indy people) and Welsh LDM’s being hyper unionists?

@StefanFrancisci tbh Radev will probably be similar to Magyar on Ukraine anyway

Putin loses Putin gains 🇭🇺🇧🇬

Scottish Liberal Democrats have backed a land value tax in their manifesto!!! 👏👏👏