Unhinged FT Comments

FT comment: Excellent and analytical Howard ... So the ANSWER is 6, 7. Doh

First Gen Alpha FT user?

"Irish man who supports the New England Patriots NFL Team" might be the best username I've ever seen on here

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani set for Oval Office face-off Meeting marks the first in-person meeting between the US president and New York City’s mayor-elect

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FT comment: These two have at least 10 things in common: 1. Both love scapegoating and belittling small groups of people. 2. Both love making spectacular promises that no smart voter would believe, yet sadly the use of brains are in the minority these days. 3. Both love to win by fueling anger and divison, 4. Both are kids of rich parents. 5. Both spew selective outrage about the oppressed, ignoring others. 6. Both come from outside real New York: DON THE CON from Queens, Mamdani from Uganda and South Africa. 7. Both pretend to be 'of the people'. 8. Both use religion to divide. 9. Both wear masks: Mamdani has an eternal grin and DON THE CON lots of orange makeup and Stormy-yellow-bleached hair. 10. Both love raising money, mostly from poorer people too stupid to know better. Oh, and both love Middle East Money, even though neither are from there. FT reply: But none of them a cut and paste champion .

I feel like I'm having a fucking stroke

FT comment: The number of stories readers can comment on is diminishing by the day. FT policy is slow strangulation and then a sudden withdrawal of comments altogether

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains

Recession indicator: I've been enjoying looking at the FT comment section less recently because it has been getting a lot more bloodthirsty

FT comment: Japan has already given away far too much of its own culture. They let Chinese immigrants impose their writing system on the country and let Korean immigrants import a foreign religion - one that originated in India! This has got to stop. One of the few places where original Japanese culture is still safe is Hokkaido. Let’s hope the real Japanese Jomon heritage can stay intact. Reply: for goodness sake Japan's dna is largely Korean as for culture, nothing much was 'given away' but a lot was certainly imported (China and latterly the West)

Plato and Aristotle debating in the Renaissance painting "The School of Athens"

Learning a lot about, cultures,

France in fresh political and market turmoil after prime minister resigns Sébastien Lecornu, who quit on Monday, is asked by Emmanuel Macron to quickly negotiate a stability plan

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FT comment: The state of a nations capital city is often a reflection of where society is. Visiting Paris not long ago, I witnessed huge societal decline. Once beautiful buildings, covered in graffiti, street vendors selling knock off Eiffel towers, aggressive harassment of tourists into buying junk. Litter strewn streets and an epidemic of bedbugs. It was like something out of the medieval dark ages. And the French population? Tired. Angry. Rude. A shadow of their former selves. One only had to walk around the military museums to see this was a great power, all be it, it must be said they did lose to Britain, but credit where it is due they were powerful. They gave their country away to woke. Now? now we see the fruits of such a failed political ideology and it is the next generation of French who will suffer as the country falls further and further from grace

Woke has ruined France. Street vendors sell knock off Eiffel towers. Back when De Gaulle was in charge they would try to sell you the *real* Eiffel Tower.

Have we passed peak social media? As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

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FT comment: Is screen time going down by a corresponding amount? If not would be interesting to see where the time is being shift to. Ai apps perhaps? Reply: Or, the FT comments section.

Sorry, my inclusion in this study has been skewing the data

The good news is that people are coming up with solutions to this problem (taken from @piperformissouri.bsky.social)

FT comment: City boys FT. Not only is yer photo corn, but the old man is merely getting on (or off) his vintage tractor. Three city slicker errors at least! Can't you correct the photo? Or the caption? Or is telling falsehoods about farmers just fine in London, New York, and Tokyo? You want to know why the middle of the USA voted the urban coasts out of power? Look in the d@mn mirror. "It's just a photo..." may satisfy your conscience. But Middle Americans see disrespect like this and take deep offense. Another - "deplorables" comment by the ignorant press. Ignorant of farms. Ignorant of rural peoples concerns or feelings. I hope ignorant - one would not want these offensive lapses to be intensional?

FT article with a picture of an old man on a tractor surrounded by crops

No I think he was on to something with the last sentence, the FT's editor definitely used a photo of a corn farmer as a middle finger to people working in the soy industry

FT comment: Better for me to inherit a filet mignon than for 1,000 people to get a single cracker with the same proceeds, especially if my dad owned the cow. Reply: After they steals your family’s cow, how many more will you raise? Where will tomorrow’s crackers come from? If all the annual income of America’s billionaires were seized it wouldn’t cover one year’s deficit spending. If all of their wealth were seized it would cover only 25 percent of the outstanding debt. Then what?

Showed up today at the forced metaphor factory and someone tortured the foreman to death in his office

FT comment: "Kudos to him. There are many coffee influencers in this space. Nice to see a Brit make it to the FT. Watch his review of Aldi coffee maker. The intro must be one of the best roasting on a machine I have ever seen"

"Nice to see a Brit make it to the FT."
IT'S AN ENGLISH PUBLICATION

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Guess the news story

FT comment: All graphs show that France is not the problem. Brexit Britain is the biggest threat to the entire region! The EU should impose severe sanctions on Britain; basically seal it off economically so that its implosion does not contaminate the region.

Thank you for the advice, Chumbo

Thinking back to the good old days,

FT Comment: Re the opposite of a "dead cat bounce." How about a "dazed bat dip."

I don't think this one is going to catch on

FT comment: "Using CRRC maglev technology it would be possible to construct a Confucius bridge linking Chinese cities with Taiwan. It’s important that this is a cultural, not a political gesture. It could incorporate academic exchange, cross-strait ecological research, joint Confucian cultural centers and neutral infrastructure with multilateral oversight, perhaps including ASEAN or international observers. It would succeed only if backed by Confucian ideals including respect, dialogue and mutual benefit. It would need to be a vision of connection without coercion, emphasizing peace, harmony and cultural values. An 180km Taiwan Strait crossing could cost about $100 bn including maglev and earthquake resistance. As an example, Beijing and Shanghai are 1,318 km apart by high speed rail. A new maglev service can reduce this journey time to 2.5 hours"

"Confucian maglev"

FT comment: "Reduce expenses, cut every unnecessary expense, sell everything unessential. In the words of Bruce Lee: be like water The man that needs next to nothing cannot be bought."

Idiots spend thousands on financial advisors when the FT comment section is free

dear god

FT comment: "If we wanted to boost the birth rate... the NHS maternity ward would feel more like a hotel than an episode of M.A.S.H after the helicopters have landed. Once you've done that once, you never choose that again..."

What did they mean by this

FT comment: What a great man. Yes, all the phd's in the press are the commentariat (phd- "pull him down") will enjoy writing sarky comments, but really, he deserves feted, celebrated and admired.

Applying to a pull-him-down program in underwater basket weaving

Several consecutive FT comments: "I once emailed a haiku as a breakup letter. Maybe an LLM would have suggested a longer form... or could have condensed it to a couplet?" "Given correct instructions Madam ChatGPT can be brilliant 🤩🙊" "How to break up with a vegan: “it’s not you, it’s meat.” …. Thank you, I’ll be here all night."

The FT comment section is a great home for digital romantics

FT comment: People need to stop pretending folks like Mamdani aren't just pretending to be "socialist" because it's their best shot at destroying Israel. They really don't give a fig about grocery stores or daycare. And they need to stop pretending it's not antisemitic to destroy the planet's only Jewish state.

White people love to be named, "Mortimer Salamander"

FT comment: Wow. NYC close to electing a democratic socialist to Tamanny Hall. Expect the exodus to continue. They want city gocery stores ? They can't even run the subway properly. Houston and Dallas beckon.

I'm not sure that's what Tammany Hall is,,

FT comment: "Looking at it from afar I like Mayor Adams is there any chance he could carry on?"

Most deranged thing I've ever seen in the comment section

FT comment: Teflon Don Pedro is a lame duck leader, saying anything and everything to stay in power. This is a demand from his partners in the government (Sumar), who know that the current government are days away from calling an election due to corruption and lack of support for legislation. Pure political posturing.

Legally changing my name to "Teflon Don Pedro"

Though I guess I have assigned myself that role, haven't I?