Dylan Glitch
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Two Green Party economic policies patriots could get behind:
1. Well-being economy: Explicitly against "line go up" "growth growth growth" mindset and GDP targets instead reorienting economy around people
2. Renationalising railways, water companies, and the Big 5 retail energy companies
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@AcademicAgent_X "Israel is the Jimmy Savile of nation states" is a funny take.
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How come Alexi Sayle is like this but Omid Djalili is so bad
Ragged Trousered Philanderer@RaggedTP
"Israel is the Jimmy Savile of nation states" Alexi Sayle
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@JaydaBF It's shocking. We should have our own police force. Anyone up for it?
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Nothing like this has ever been done for rape-gang victims - but they’ll do it for a few Jewish ambulances.
Just let that sink in.
Metropolitan Police@metpoliceuk
Officers have joined the Community Safety Trust and Shomrim to provide additional patrols in Golders Green, following the antisemitic arson attack on Monday 23rd March. These will continue, with additional firearms patrols in the area to deter those who may wish to cause harm.
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@AaronBastani Very much agree with you @AaronBastani. On balance Thatcher was a disaster.
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Counter-argument:
She spunked North Sea oil and Goldilocks demographics.
Britain should have had a TGV, plus Norwegian style sovereign wealth fund.
Today a publicly owned air carrier in BA, with an ad campaign featuring Henry Cavill, should be a political aspiration.
Handre@Handre
Thatcher inherited a Britain where the state owned everything from steel mills to telephone lines. Unemployment hit 11.9% in 1984, inflation ran at 18% when she took office, and strikes paralyzed entire industries for months (the three-day work week wasn't a lifestyle choice). She privatized British Telecom in 1984, British Gas in 1986, and rolled back union power that had strangled productivity for decades. The results speak louder than any economic theory: Britain's GDP per capita rose from $10,000 in 1980 to $19,000 by 1990. Critics still blame her for "inequality" - missing the point entirely. You can't redistribute wealth that doesn't exist first. The alternative wasn't some egalitarian paradise... it was Argentina.
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@AcademicAgent_X It reminds me of the sailingship effect from innovation theory.
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Looking back, stuff like James Bond, the British Invasion bands, Michael Caine films etc were some EXCEPTIONAL cope for the loss of empire and status.
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@AcademicAgent_X I think the idea is that they are "prepared for losses". So much for the Russians' using human wave tactics, it looks like the Americans will employ human waves against Iran. Fascinating to watch the disintegration of an Empire.
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How is the 82nd Airborne meant to do any "surprise attacks" when all its movements are breathlessly tracked and telegraphed from 100s of miles away?
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The Chinese must be dropped jawed wondering why they put so much effort in making a first class military just to defend against a 21st-century Dad's Army. In any case, my understanding is that the PLA, is straining at the leash to have a go at the Americans. I think they will make mince out of them.
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I am now more convinced than ever that the huge US military budget has been a kind of gravy train investing in overbloated tech that doesn't really work and acting as a sort of make-work scheme.
I no longer see it as an unbeatable military.
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@afneil our government is not run for the benefit of the people of Britian, but for foreign powers and hedge funds.
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The current state of the Royal Navy:
2 aircraft carriers — neither operational.
6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus).
7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational
5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?).
Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged.
Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy.
Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.
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@sashameetsrus @rshereme that man is a moron. Keep going Sasha!
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@rshereme does posting this sort of thing make you feel better about your sorry self? 😂
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It is “russia,” not “Russia.”
The terrorist state that commits genocide, bombs civilians, kidnaps children, and seeks to erase everything Ukrainian does not deserve the dignity of a capital letter.
Other option include: ruzzia, russian terrorist state, terrorists
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@JaydaBF @UnityNewsNet They think the Indians will do as they are told, which they might. Zios provide the money to do this. This is why we need to turn our attention to the Zios as a matter of priority.
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@UnityNewsNet Farage is obsessed with Indians. All the Zios are.
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Labour Councillor Aaron Roy of Hartlepool has just joined Reform live on stage in Sunderland.
He moved to England just 10 years ago from Kerala in India.
He proudly boasted that:
"In 2024 I became Hartlepool’s first-ever Non-White BAME councillor. That election wasn’t just personal—it was a signal of progress and possibility for the wider community."
He also founded a football club called Mariners United which is exclusively a 'BAME' Football team and organised the first ever national Kabadi beach competition.
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@AaronBastani It used to be normal for British people to want British-owned infrastructure. I distinctly remember those days. Thatcher played a big part in selling the country out to the Americans.
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“…completely imaginary American influence”
All our payment systems, digital systems and social media platforms are basically American owned.
My favourite example: Starbucks, Costs and Nero….all owned by…Americans!
It’s so much worse than you think.
Yeerk.P 🦆@PYeerk
British dirtbag "anti-yankism" is the most contrived "position" I've ever seen on here- you think I'm joking but it actually does revolve around imbuing various fetish objects like "pints" and "bangers and mash" with some magical negating power in opposition to a completely imaginary American influence
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I used to like Lenny Henry, I really did.
But all this talk about reparations just doesn’t sit right with me.
Most ordinary Brits today had nothing to do with slavery, didn’t vote for it, didn’t benefit from it.
So why are they the ones expected to pay now?
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@ClarkeMicah @nfergus The USA is a failed empire, we need to cut ties with the USA before they drag us under.
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.@nfergus. It was sentimental piffle when she said it (30 years after Suez) and it is even more so now, after the USA forced is to surrender to the IRA..The USA is a foreign country. Lots of perfectly nice people there, but they have their own interests which differ from ours.
Niall Ferguson@nfergus
Forty years ago: “The United States has stood by us in times of need, as we have stood by her. To refuse their request for the use of bases here would have been to abandon our responsibilities as an ally and to weaken the fight against terrorism.”—Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 1986.
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Most Iranian towns and cities are objectively nicer than most US towns and cities including right in the middle of the CBD.
Aleph@woke8yearold
Midwit philosophy phds are not impressive. That’s why they’re dead and Iran is a shithole Their only advantage is favorable geography letting the threaten the oil trade. Otherwise they could be exterminated at leisure
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@AcademicAgent_X very much agree AA, but also add the disunity of the Western elites.
In any case, lets see if this ground force invasion ends up like Battle of Dien Bien Phu as some have predicted
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The three most surprising elements of this war for me personally have been:
1. The quality of Iranian leadership, underestimated, including by me
2. The hitting of Gulf States as a strategic masterstroke to demystify US power
3. The sophistication of Iran's propaganda effort
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Every single thing they do will fail. Nothing at all will come in. Nothing. I have come to believe it is because they have revolted against God.
Europa.com@europa
🇺🇸 Six months after Bari Weiss was installed as head of CBS News under the direction of Larry Ellison's Paramount Global, CBS is suffering a "ratings wipeout." CBS Evening News is on track for its lowest-rated Q1 of the 21st century, recently dipping below 4 million viewers for the first time. Analysts have called the numbers “catastrophic” and said the network’s decline is accelerating. Follow: @europa
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@HichkasOfficial Even if they had good intentions, which I don’t think is this the case, it’s literally impossible for Israel and the US to bomb Iran into becoming a democracy.
One of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever encountered.
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I'm Iranian.
The war against the Islamic Republic terrorist regime Must Not Stop.
The continuation of the Islamic Republic in any shape or form means 100s of thousands, if not millions, of Iranians, Israelis, and Americans DEAD.
#JavidShah
#PahlaviWillReturn
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I think I wrote this in 2008
Mark W.@DurhamWASP
“The main enemy of conservatism in Britain is the Conservative Party” Peter Hitchens
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