The Invariant One
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This will probably only affect about one or two children. Just utter cruelty for the sole reason of appeasing the worst people in the world.
Sky News@SkyNews
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So its understandable why they didnt give him support, they just understood it wasnt feasible for Hannibal to get much out of it, though they probably did enjoy sticking the boot up Rome's arse for a bit.
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Hannable was handing over like 20,000 signet rings of Romes aristocracy to senate and they would have been like "great so you got a surrender or negotiated settlement?" and Hannable would have been like "eh heh heh... not yet".
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A lot of people like to make the Catheginian senate were shifty spineless merchants that could see the genius and heroic vision of Hannibal Barca, bit if you think about it for more than two deconds, they were right.
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My teacher always used to play this on the radio when I was 9.
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@elephant_ben They are exterminating the Gazans. They are killing them through atrition until their pipulation is low enough that one of the surrounding Arab countries will agree to take them in.
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Saying the Gaza War was a genocide during the war was one thing, saying it now that the war is over and its thus clear the Israeli government didn't seek the annihilation of Gazans as a group much less Palestinians makes the ICJ case look stupid.
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@GlumBird Revolutions and class movements happen when theres a shift in the balance of power. If people are immerserated but also have no power, sadly it can just end in genocide at the extreme end of things.
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@llwtydeer @GrnCharlie The supply is low because of landlords. Supply and demand dont apply to housing because land is restricted and theres no other commodity you can just use to confiscate half of someone elses income for free. So no, just lettong landlords have whatever they want wont work.
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@GrnCharlie beacuse thats not how supply and demand work. housing costs are high because of a lack of housing supply, and often rent caps just discourage the construction of new to let housing which can make the problem worse
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supporting a rent cap is a signifier that you are deeply stupid and should not be trusted with running the economy
The New Statesman@NewStatesman
Five things we learned about “Zackonomics” Zack Polanski wants to see Britain rejoin the EU, forgive student debt, cap rent, nationalise the water industry, and much more By @meganekenyon #Echobox=1773842050" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
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@notquitemaoism That said, England and Wales wont be rejoining the EU now. It would take decades and would probably just get vetoed. But it will have to abide the EUs rules, the sooner it accepts that the better.
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@notquitemaoism The idea that England and Wales (because Scotland definitely wants to rejoin) could become socialist autocracies just isnt feasable. It would pretty much be fatal to whatever small chance there is of a socialist England to be surrounded on all sides by the EU.
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this is probably the biggest challenge facing the uk left as it stands—many of the budding radicals seem to retain a positive view of fortress schengen. the point seems to be dismay at falling in the imperial hierarchy, instead of a desire to break it.
Jack Mac@BennClips
No party that campaigns on a platform to rejoin the EU can be described as socialist.
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@cafreiman Housing is completely from other commodities. You cant lease most commodities to other people in return for half or more of their yearly income cant arbitrarily cut off the supply to make your own hparded assest rise in value forever.
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A lot of anti-YIMBYs suffer from what could be called “housing exceptionalism”—they offer explanations for why increasing the supply of housing will not deliver lower real prices over time that imply that increasing the supply of other goods will not deliver lower real prices over time (even though it’s uncontroversial that they do).
Kate Willett@katewillett
A major new study has confirmed what many of us know from reading all previous research. Socialists in NYC should care about this, bc Mayor Mamdani has filled his administration with developer hawks in hopes of delivering the Affordability Agenda. It won’t.
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@bigsnugga This is just ideology that doesnt explain anything. Russia are just as racist as anyone. Zelensky wants them to buy or use Ukrainian weapons and intelligence between it advances their interests to have the US, Israel and Gulf states needing them.
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americans are very uneducated live under an extreme veil of propaganda cause its insane how many people didnt know how racist ukraine was lmao
yas@folklaris
Ukraine’s stupid ass president siding with Israel instead of Palestine despite the fact that Palestinians are the victims here, proves that white people don’t see poc as human beings. U can understand the pain of your people but not Palestinians’s ? Fuck u hoe
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@folklaris Regardless of motive, this would be a small thing that is good for Palestinians because Israel's leverage over the West is its military industrial complex. If Ukraine is now supplanting that, evwn in a small way, it makes Israel less valuable.
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@folklaris Politicians dont make calculations based on victims, sorry to say. They wouldnt be politicians if they did. Ukranian intelligence sees an oppertunity tp advance Ukraine's interests and make money because the US and Israel need something they have. Thats it.
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@Briani642 People thinking that presidents / PMs ect have much influence over military actions and foreign policy. Most of it is made undemocratically by intelligence agencies and the military, and then they hand the "leader" a set of options.
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@actsmaniac Rent control is literally a compromise with liberalism, thats why it doesnt work in the long term. The only thing that does work is abolishing landlordism and having social housing where they only thing the tenant pays is a fee for repairs + extra to expand the houskng stock.
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my reaction when I saw the economic evidence on rent control
KaizerRev@Kaizerrev
"I just have to become Liberal at this point" - Nick Fuentes
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@HarleyShah China cant even sanction Israel, of course they care. Look at what politicians and propagandists do, not what they say.
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"China will lose the US market-"
"We don't care. China has been here for 5000 years and most of the time, there was no United States"
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@ajwillshire Trump is betting that it will hurt the rest of the world (including China) more than it will hurt the US, and hes probably right. They will be dragged into it at some point.
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It is so obviously in the interests of the UK and Europe to keep the Straits of Hormuz open to traffic that to not do it can only be because of anti-Trumpism.
Yes, it's closed (at least partially) because of actions that we did not take. So what? You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. The important thing is the response, and we should be responding for the good of our own countries.
Consider this - if Trump / the US Senate put export restrictions on American oil and gas, it'll primarily be Europe who will be screwed by the closure of the strait, not the USA.
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
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@birdabo Useful quantum computers dont exist. What is more likely happening is a financial scam.
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🚨UK just invested £2 billion to quantum computing
here’s the actual full story - they’re not just funding research. the government is buying quantum computers from “British companies” to deploy at massive scale.
first country in the world to do this btw.
> prevents US/China buyouts.
> keeps IP British.
> creates anchor demand.
£212B economic impact by 2045, 100K jobs.
government starts ordering next week. chosen designs get built and deployed nationally by early 2030s.
the uk is trying to win the quantum race.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: UK to invest over $1 billion into quantum computing research.
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