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Sick of this comparison. He's not a fictional character, he raped a woman. Given the circumstances the comparison is grotesque & childish, & anyone making it is as stupid as libs comparing Trump to Voldemort. "OMG he's literally the baddie in muh favourite film!"
C3@C_3C_3
“The hour is later than you think. Sauron's forces are already moving.” The West is under attack.
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I present to you the latest reinvention in the career of the serial fabulist and attention seeker Dr Lawrence Newport, whose work is supported by the sinister Effective Altruism cult.
After pretending to ban XL bully dogs (they’re still here, biting children), offer expert advice on nuclear reactor safety (he still doesn’t know how they work) and pretend to lead the campaign for a rape gangs enquiry (he jumped on after everyone else, taking credit):
Meet Dr Lawrence, the political philosopher king. A sort of utilitarian Anthony Seldon, but with more expert SpAds (he has a list of his is EA mates) and digital dashboards.
When Starmer resigns, I fully expect Dr Lawrence to take credit for writing* the Unherd weekend essay that broke the camel’s back.
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@mehdirhasan Didn't you have to leave Britain because you went on a wild rant comparing non-Muslims to animals?
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We are fundamentally good people - though, relatively, Trump voters are unsurprisingly the worst among us.
David Shor@davidshor
We asked this to a large sample of nationally representative Americans - blue wins by a 3:1 margin!
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the joke on the reds is that in real life, blue-pressers who are willing to expensively signal compassion and loyalty end up living in high trust communities while vice-signaling red-pressers die alone and mad screaming "but if everyone just"
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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Until you people can admit the refugee crisis rationally compelled Brits to vote Leave, and that they weren't just being mind-controlled by Putin, there will be no chance of that whatsoever.
Pindo 🇪🇺@POTFES
Brexit was a American-russian fusion op. They will now start disassembling our already guilt ridden remains of past empires. It's time for a European Bloc of Power, or we will be farming among the ruins like the middle-ages after the romans.
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@SaladBarFan I think it's meant to be a le Global South anthem than something specific to Syrians.
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“The real problem with that Syrian rap song is it’s insulting to black Americans”
So cucked man
Edouard 🌐👶🏗️@PlusLibQ
Le « vous ne seriez rien sans nous » de cette vidéo me flingue. C’est directement inspiré des luttes des noirs américains, qui ont effectivement contribué à construire les Etat-Unis modernes, alors que là on parle de réfugiés syriens qui sont arrivés il y a 11 ans.
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X is great. Once you get past the Americans saying our country is conquered and that we are all genetically defective or whatever, you are then treated to these weepy fuckwits and their delusions.
KafkaGoodhart@MrKafkaGoodhart
@tomhfh For all its faults, the USA is a continuation of our civilisation and will own the future. Our ancestors are the founding stock and provided the philosophical underpinnings; that’s where we should be aligned.
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Anglo Gaullism is short sighted.
Reject the French way. Don’t push off the Yanks.
The strange unreliable unpredictability of Trumpism ends in November, as DJT becomes a lame duck, Congress goes Blue, and attention in DC turns to succession.
Predicating decades of British foreign policy on the next seven months is not wise.
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@tomhfh For all its faults, the USA is a continuation of our civilisation and will own the future. Our ancestors are the founding stock and provided the philosophical underpinnings; that’s where we should be aligned.
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@NewSamawal Israel should not alienate its ascendant right-wing partners in Europe (including Reform which is set for major victory at the upcoming council elections) on behalf of decadent low IQ MAGA or goober Milei.
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Israel owes it to Argentina to recognize its claim over the Falklands.
The worst Starmer can do is recognize a Palestinian state between the Nile and the Euphrates.
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If a Democrat takes power in 2028 all of this stuff will be forgotten.
Shiv Malik@shivmalik
The headline says that the costs of Trump’s tantrums are “starting to show”. I don’t think Americans get that for Europeans, the Greenland debacle changed everything. It’s over. No one can trust the US. It’s not because of Trump. It’s because we know your system can’t/ won’t stop him or the next guy after him. And also that there’s enough of you who think it would be ‘cool’ to invade just to rub it in our faces. That’s a good enough reason to never trust you again and make everything far more transactional.
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I'm 20% convinced that this Falklands debacle is part of the US government's strategy of getting their ideological allies in other countries -- such as Canada, Hungary, Poland and the Netherlands -- electorally defeated (I don't know why they would want this though).
Jack Elsom@JackElsom
NEW: Keir Starmer hits back at Donald Trump’s threat to Britain’s sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. PM's spox: "We could not be clearer about the UK's position on the Falkland Islands. It's long standing. It's unchanged. "Sovereignty rests with the UK, and the Islands’ right to self determination is paramount. That's been our consistent position and will remain the case.”
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@JacobL1994_ Britain's ability to defend the Falklands today is greater than in the 1980s. And its morale would be much higher in doing so -- Thatcher's cabinet tried to pressure her into ceding the islands.
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Absolutely not. Starmer won’t be in office forever and alienating patriotic Brits would be an enormous mistake.
Israel’s track record when it comes to the falklands has been inadvisable historically. Don’t double down on a mistake
Carlos Abadi@NewSamawal
Israel owes it to Argentina to recognize its claim over the Falklands. The worst Starmer can do is recognize a Palestinian state between the Nile and the Euphrates.
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@Eulipotyphla_OG What they call LKY-ism or Gaullism or whatever are just second order consequences of their being too cowardly to stand up to the establishment, thereby taking the path of least resistance towards authoritarianism.
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British LKY-ism would essentially be Katherine Birbalsingh and Suella Braverman telling us to sing the national anthem, and have vegetarian school lunches.
This is partly because we have limited state capacity to do anything else.
Same reason why is LFG cleaning Tube carriages.
The Clermontian@The_Clermontian
If I could go the rest of my life without hearing about Lee Kuan Yew I would gladly.
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💸 Oxford Economics has forecast that GDP will shrink by 15pc if migration flatlines at zero for the next three decades, as the Government misses out on key tax revenues
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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It's funny how all Britlibs have been psychically damaged by YooKay Aesthetics lol.
Jardine Matheson Internationalist@emergenteffects
Yookay mentioned on page 20. This is going to be a gold mine.
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Yookay mentioned on page 20. This is going to be a gold mine.
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From a book “What if Reform Wins” detailing all the supposed horrors that will occur if Reform win the next general election. Motability mentioned on page 7. They really are out of ideas.
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