• hector@lemmy.today
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      Unfortunately farage is the only one running for popular reform, nevermind they are full of shit on changing anything for the better we all know the voting population doesn’t know that.

      People know they are being screwed, and labour, the “good” option, is cancelling the magna carta and instituting total internet surveillance, masterbaitorbases of every page you have considered whacking off to, and secret social scores by palantir type companies. Illegalizing protest, bad faith terrorism designations and bad faith false equivolence of protesters with the proscribed group, disallowing of legal defenses to the protest laws, what else, they’ve done more damage than the tories in the last ten years.

      There is zero chance starmer keeps the far right allied to the us president out, and zero chance they restore the former glory of the republic before oligarchs ratfucked it.

      Popular reform would take it, but we don’t have that, and labour will make sure corbyn types don’t succeed in doing that in a new party, because preventing popular reform from the “left” is their raison de etre, not beating the other parties.

      The fascists, far right, allied with the US and Russia, plan on fixing elections everywhere. So them getting in could be a rather final problem. It’s not just a few years of bad leadership, it’s decades of the worst leadership, across the west.

      Seriously, labour is the Enemy.

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        Seriously, labour is the Enemy.

        You write that like there can only be one enemy. Labour are being rubbish just now, but Reform UK the party of Putin would be worse. Reform is the biggest enemy.

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          Obviously yes, but people on these threads think that labor are the good guys and not the controlled opposition to the oligarchy that is throwing us into the arms of the Reform Party that believe it or not plans on fixing elections just like the United States whether they know it yet or not.

          It is the exact thing in the United States with the democrats, in France with their bullshit parties, and the netherlands, everywhere. The far right is the only reform option and Society is degenerating into plutocracy and everyone knows they’re being screwed but not necessarily by whom.

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        labour is the Enemy

        This is a fucking shit take when the current poll leaders are reform.

        Labour are a bit crap, but reform are truly awful. You sound like the idiots who thought Kamala was the worse choice.

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          Cancelling the magna carta, freedom, surrendering your populations to big tech companies and putting Thiel’s palantir and their ilk in charge of making secret social scores on you from every scrap of information, IS the danger. You surrendered.

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    Why was Farage at a World Leader conference? He doesn’t run any countries? Just another excuse to not be in his constituency I guess.

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      It’s not a world leader conference, it’s a meeting of assholes, grifters and criminals, and some of them are also world leaders

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          I wasn’t trying to rank them

          There must be 1000s of people that lead a state that aren’t there (given ~200 countries). What makes this guy’s presence so special? Or, perhaps, his presence is also out of place

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                As a Californian, I really wanted to jump in with the “Fuck Newsom” crowd.

                But California’s economy rivals most countries. Last time I checked there were only five countries with larger economies.

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              My grammar is admittedly pretty farm boy, so I thought I’d check. This might be saying the sentence was fine. But either way what your suggesting is nothing like how I hear people speak

              Some authorities prescribe that restrictive relative clauses (where the relative clause is part of the identification of the noun phrase) should only use that as the introductory pronoun, and non-restrictive relative clauses should only use which or who/whom as the introductory pronoun. In practice, either pronoun is commonly used to introduce a restrictive relative clause, including in edited prose. In contrast, it is not usual in edited written English to use that to introduce a non-restrictive relative clause, though there are occasional rare attestations.

              https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/that

              I saw at least one typo there and figured I’d leave it for you

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            California is 2/3 the size of the UK.

            Farage is an MP of a constituency of 75 thousand, and won the election for that position with 21225 votes. He’s not a minister, he’s not an appointed leader of anything, he’s not even the leader (or any official part) of the official opposition in the UK parliament. Hell he’s not even doing a passable job at being an MP given he’s missed like, 70+% of parliamentary meetings, and hasn’t held any significant surgeries in his constituency either. He’s the literal definition of paid for doing nothing politician, shuffling around Fasc-a-Lago hoping to earn some favours by having his nose so far up Trump’s ass he could diagnose the tangerine tyrant’s appendix…

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                Drop in session/office hours type deal for constituents. Our mps can help citizens (usually by writing strongly worded letters) with small civil matters like planning/building regulations, issues with county council (local government) and so on. It’s also an opportunity for people to lobby their mp about national concerns too.

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              California is 2/3 the size of the UK.

              In population, that’s true.

              In terms of GDP, California’s is a bit over $4 trillion, while the UK’s is $3.6 trillion. And in land area, California is 1.6 times larger than the UK.

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                Yeah, my pedantic unnecessary retort was going to point out the GDP thing but then note that there’s some interesting commentary around saying “size” when five Canadian provinces are larger. But mostly that was me still being annoyed at the Davos soundbites

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          That’s pretty funny. Both that I didn’t get his name right (I’ll put it down to him being irritating in a way I block things out); and that I got three comments effectively pointing out that California has a GDP higher than most countries without pointing out the name was wrong.

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      Farage owns the Reform Party. The leader of Reform in Wales just got a 10+ year prison sentence for taking Russian bribes to promote Russian agendas. Nigel often speaks favourably of Russia and Putin and regularly made paid appearances on Russian television before sanctions made that impossible.

      It seems highly likely that Farage has also been well paid by Russia for his lifes work of disrupting UK-European relations.

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      So which one of those guys is going “(omg) I’m voting I’m voting I’m voting” and which one is going “puki puki puki puki puki”? I can’t tell just by looks, could go either way

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    The world would be a better place if Trump and Nigel Farage were fired off into the sun.