James105

I remember watching a news report or a YouTube video or something and someone bought something like butter from a grocery store and it was $7 or something outrageous. GDP is for politicians. Price of goods and services relative to wages (cost of living) is what people really judge an economy on. They clearly judged the Biden administration to be a failure in that regard. Getting rid of the divisive woke nonsense is probably just a welcome bonus for most people.

Indeed. It's no coincidence that Labour in the UK are partnering with Blackrock now and want to keep funding this war using taxpayers money on their behalf. More destruction = more profits. I'm starting to think that the UK Labour government are just trolling at this point to see how far they can push the citizens of the UK before there really is civil war there.

So that inheritance tax she introduced for farmers just about covers the money we send to farmers abroad as foreign aid. They must be doing this on purpose to enrage people as this cannot just be a coincidence.

I disagree. I feel its important to highlight the intolerance of leftists as for too long now this group have been claiming moral high ground when the intolerance is almost exclusively found on the left. Bluesky is no doubt a cesspit of intolerance now since the leftists have moved over there. It really is just as well there is a 2 tier justice system in the UK as the prison population would double overnight if the same standards were applied to leftists as they are to those on the right.

Sherlock Holmes is not required here to ascertain location and political leanings of this individual. Since nobody in the UK would have any idea who Nancy Mace is then it would be a reasonable assumption this is an American. Since leftists all use the same group think echo chambers for LBT2QGS+ issues, climate, Hamas, Trump, face masks, lockdowns etc then it is a safe bet this guy is a leftist and Harris supporter, no doubt with "be kind" in his bio on social media too. Unlike the UK America has freedom of speech so I doubt anything would happen to this guy anyway, other than the appropriate bans from social media.

Sigh. Selling weapons to terrorist supporting countries is not unique to Russia. The UK and USA also do or has done this as it is profitable for the weapons manufacturers. In fact the USA left significant amounts of arms and weapons of war behind free of charge for the Afghanistan terrorists to use which they gratefully accepted. I suspect the women of Afghanistan are not happy about this. Don't think there is a moral high ground you can take on that one. If that is your argument that this is a "fight for freedom" then you need a better one.

The TV tells you this is a "fight for freedom" and Russia bad Ukraine good but really its a territory dispute and "don't park your missiles on my doorstep" dispute that should be settled with negotiations. The problem with that approach is that nobody gets to profit from selling weapons of war, the war mongers don't get to experience the glee of seeing people dying at the behest of their corrupt leaders and its all a bit too peaceful. Fighting for freedom is fine and all when it is actually a fight for freedom. This isn't it.

Or another good idea I have heard that they might implement is that they will require them to actually work 5 days a week in the office compared to the 1 in 5 they do now. This would spark many a resignation I would think.

Easy to call people cowards and demand they fight for freedom when you are at your keyboard and perfectly safe. Would you go and actually fight or be prepared to see close family members go and fight and die over a bit of land in Eastern Europe? I wouldn't be prepared to do that and would rather disputes be settled via negotiation. Ukraine is not 100% innocent in all this and is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. The longer the west funds this war, the longer it goes on, the more people die and the end result will be what it always was going to be, Russia claims back a bit of Russian speaking land from Ukraine.

We are still winning 4-1 though. You have to put up with Piers Morgan, James Corden, John Oliver and Meghans husband Harry. I'm concerned that Trump is going to charge us tariffs on these exports as this one of those examples of unfair trade deals he talks about.

Yet more global embarrassment provided by the UK Labour party. "Summon" Elon Musk. Absolute clown show of a government. It would be nice if Musk could take some time out to educate the Labour party on what free speech means and the historical dangers of authoritarian censorship, and why UK citizens who do not hold the correct views should not be jailed for social media posts, but I highly doubt he will give them the time of day.

I think the correct terminology here is that she Self Identifies as a comedian, in much the same way a man would self identify as a woman. Ok America fine, so long as you keep James Corden, John Oliver and Meghan Markles husband.

If you are a man, there is no real danger. Congratulations. If you are a female, then there is a risk. There are many examples of the thing that never happens happening, here is one. https://apnews.com/article/loudoun-virginia-lawsuit-transgender-bathroom-sexual-assault-a26168568cc20c2aa6cec9bef50e7c3f

Leftists say this sort of thing but it doesn't pass the eye test though. The Taliban took control after the shambolic withdrawal of Afghanistan by the Biden administration, and look at how the women are suffering there now. What did North Korea do when Trump was in office? Nothing as far as I can recall, now they are assisting Russia under Bidens time in office. Other than Afghanistan there was no wars in the middle east. It still was cesspit of dictatorships and religious barbarism whilst Trump was in office (not sure what you expect one man to be able to achieve but you seem to hold him to very high standards on this) but maybe in his second term he can resume the progress that went backwards under Biden.

Wishful thinking and not going to happen. Everything will have to be settled as part of the negotiations and seizing assets after negotiations have concluded would (rightly) allow Putin to once again attack Ukraine as the deal would have been reneged on.

Biden was a very weak president. It's no surprise that bad actors in the Middle east and Russia took advantage of this fact. Maybe my memory is incorrect, but I don't recall such wars starting when Trump was last president, and even seem to recall some kind of peace agreement in the middle east when he was last in office. I'm expecting to see a new era of de-escalation and perhaps even peace over the next 4 years and hopefully beyond. Not good for the war mongers and those who profit and take glee from wars, but good for everyone else, especially those who are sent to fight and die in these wars.

... by controversially preventing men from using women's bathrooms. The USA used to make history by venturing into space and landing men on the moon. This is what counts as "history making" today. What a time to be alive!

I doubt that Japan are thinking about increasing the number of illegal immigrants now are they? People do not mind legal immigration so long as it is in low enough numbers that the legal immigrants assimilate and they bring skills the country needs. This topic is about deporting illegal immigrants. No country wants them as the first act they commit when arriving in the country is a criminal one, which shows they have no respect for the country's laws that they are trying to get into. Only people that can take advantage of the illegal immigrants want them so they can profit from their slave wage labour. That includes middle class liberals who like to avoid paying people properly for mowing their lawns.

Of all the arguments about why its a bad idea to deport illegal immigrants, I think this is the worst one and has been going on for way too long now in the west. The view that Americans are too good to do the "cotton picking" and this has to be done by colored people from another land for "slave wages", is an archaic view that should be abolished along with slavery. I cannot speak for farming technology per say, but I thought we had moved on a bit from humans doing repetitive laborious work and invented machines to handle most of this. Once upon a time in the UK if someone wanted to get their car cleaned they would pay someone to wash the car by hand. Then the automated car wash was invented and no-one needed to pay someone to wash their car by hand. Then the illegal immigrant was invented and now automated car washes are nowhere to be found and its back to washing cars by hand, presumably as human labour (when illegal) is cheaper than buying a machine.

Wishful thinking in the same way that I think that China should be paying reparations for Covid. Let's just file that in the box of things that will never happen. The sooner people come to accept there is no perfect outcome from this and peace negotiations will no doubt lead to concessions from Ukraine that leaves a bad taste in the mouth, the sooner that the people from both Ukraine and Russia can stop dying unnecessarily at the whim of their leaders who do not really care about them.

I don't mind people playing poker and bluffing, but I do object to someone at the end of their presidency in the US and the idiotic war mongerers in the Labour UK party escalating a war that was on the verge of de-escalating just to test this theory. The left have labelled Putin an evil deranged facist dictactor on one hand, then claim he is far too sensible to use the arsenal at his disposal on the other. Which is it?

Don't be silly planes are not big enough to have gendered toilets, especially as (someone earlier claimed) genders are a 'spectrum' so that is theoretically infinite genders! A more realistic example is a gym where people get showered in communal showers. How many gendered spaces do you think there should be in gym? Would a 2 spirit be able to share with androgynes, or do they each need their own separate space?

Interesting. I presume this must be the same for all biological lifeforms since it is based on medical knowledge. How does one tell what gender a cat is for example?

So educate me. How many genders are there?

Maybe it would be better if you don't get your political viewpoints from teenagers? I think its better if you ask an adult if you are confused about genders.