Alisdair Calder McGregor

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Local Group Brain: Labour People hate every other party
Universe Brain: Labour People hate all political parties, including Labour

Need to persuade someone it should be pronounced like the start of margarine

The Turks are going to fucking explode at the state of this. The literal core Turkish policy and the reason they are in NATO is to ensure that neither the Kurds nor the Armenians can advance their separatist/irredentist causes.

Basically see this thread up & down

bsky.app/profile/esqu...

It's basically a holdover from the way mental health professionals used to assess gay men about 30 years ago. A lot of the gay men who are now up in arms about it are the ones from that era of homophobia, and haven't caught up to the current realities (including the updated MH diagnostics)

most annoying thing about the stupid "huh have trans people tried being gay instead" take is that like, basically all trans people I have ever met have had mostly queer friends, would have been hard for them not to be aware of "gay" as an option on the table

Operation Land War In Asia

I would love to see a proper "rank these parties in the order you would vote for them under a Preferential Voting System" poll

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

Of course they are. If there's a disastrously boneheaded path to take the country down this labour government's urge to scramble over each other to be the first down it is their one defining feature

The first 2 paragraphs are gibberish, but the final sentence is on the money. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, I guess.

Loyalty to the money, more like

Ahhh yes, Cereal. The Breakfast option that was specifically created to be as unsexy as possible. Definitely very manly.

(this is a fact: Kelloggs Cornflakes were meant to be so boring people would lose interest in sex and masturbation)

Got a green in my mentions telling me to leave the lib dems because I'm criticising the leadership and... it's part of lib dem culture to criticise the leadership.

And I've read the greens' membership code of conduct. Couldn't do this as a green.

Now I can understand that not everybody looks on...

Return to Office mandates are getting out of hand.

This meeting could have been a Zoom call.

Oh well would you look at that

The bit before that - "birthplace did not appear to significantly affect voting intention"; taken together those mean "2nd and 3rd generations of immigrant families are just as much part of this voting shift as the initial immigrants themselves, right?

Small subreddits are great. Large subreddits... much less so.

It's all down to the impossibility of moderation at scale.

I’m not Muslim and I’m pretty sure it’s in britains national interest to stay tf out of another American war

They also, IMO, underestimate just how motivated a LOT of people are to get out and defeat them.

I also think one mistake they made was to assume that Labour not selecting Burnham was going to be the key story of the by-election.

It was a huge strategic mistake by Reform to stake so much on this by-election, and with such a high-profile candidate.

Even an 50-50 Green-Lab split would have defeated Reform.

There simply isn't enough right-wing votes to *ever* win that election. No matter who the candidate or which right-wing party!

The thing is, though, that Reform's concept of winning relied of sneaking through the middle with a split left-wing vote between Green and Labour.

That failed, but NOT because of the uneven split; it failed because the Reform vote was less than half the combined right-wing vote.

When the worst person you know has a great point...

Right out of Putin's playbook

So anyway the point is that European countries are heavily involved in globalisation, profit hugely by it, but are therefore vulnerable to global shocks causing negative economic issues.

KOF Globalisation Index The KOF Globalisation Index measures the economic, social and political dimensions of globalisation.

More data tables can be found here: kof.ethz.ch/en/forecasts...

This is entirely true; it's because European countries tend to be much more highly globalised than anywhere else in the world.

The rankings (study by the Swiss Economic Institute) shows the highest ranked non-European country is Singapore at 17th

www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/kof...