I've no doubt that Raab is as incompetent as the media is portraying. But clearly he isn't the only one and the Tory media machine is kicking into gear to protect Boris yet again. He's the one presiding over everything.
Damn, my MP seeking re-election just came to the door and I had a chat with him. One thing that was annoying was he said they didn’t pass electoral reform because they were too focused on dealing with Trump re-negotiating NAFTA lmao like what. Sir, please, don’t bullshit me like that. Otherwise I told him my biggest concern is, surprise, housing affordability.
Seems like an okay guy but I’ll be voting NDP this go around because the Tories aren’t even running a candidate in my riding so there’s no need to vote strategically this time.
Seems like an okay guy but I’ll be voting NDP this go around because the Tories aren’t even running a candidate in my riding so there’s no need to vote strategically this time.
so we left over a hundred ppl in afghanistan
lol. austin and milley need to resign. unreal clusterfuck
lol. austin and milley need to resign. unreal clusterfuck
By LFMartins86 Go To PostBank robbers in Brazil tied hostages to the getaway cars. This is fucking madness.
Not all they did, they spread bombs throughout the city, and used drones to track police movement.
Brazil is a mess.
Must be nice
Rest of the civilized world is gonna be working 4 days meanwhile you have that Chase CEO saying you need to week 100 hour weeks to master your craft
Rest of the civilized world is gonna be working 4 days meanwhile you have that Chase CEO saying you need to week 100 hour weeks to master your craft
By Laboured Go To PostI imagine it will be a huge success and the US will still not implement it
By Laboured Go To Postim tired, robbieIt's not Rod's first time reviewing a Kanye album: https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/11/patently-insincere-kanyes-jesus-is-king-reviewed/
Grade: B–
Kanye West has found Jesus Christ. Lucky old Christ. If I were Christ I’d have hidden out a while longer, frankly, but there we are. The most lauded (mysteriously) performer in the world right now wishes us to believe that he has been reborn, as a kind of cross between Billy Graham and the Revd Ian Paisley. The man who previously requested his girlfriend to perform oral sex upon him so that he didn’t get ‘spunk on his mink’ is now instructing people not to have premarital sex. The man who recently described himself as ‘beyond all doubt’ the greatest artist in the entire history of the world is now suffused with humility, as befitting a Christian proselytiser.
You can believe this latest schtick if you want; I don’t. It’s just another multicoloured cloak for Kanye to wear and shock the world, for there is nothing more shocking than a bad-ass rapper shouting at you about Jesus. I like him for wrong-footing the liberals at every stage, with his previous words of support for Donald Trump and now this. But I don’t quite buy it.
So, a gospel hip-hop album with a few decent tunes and an absolute absence of profanity, unless you find, as I do, the patent insincerity more profane than any number of growled muthafuckas. His Sunday Service choir performs a fractured and rather joyless gospel intro in ‘Every Hour’. ‘Follow God’ has a nice vocal and a sweet church organ. ‘God Is’ may be the stand-out track, a keened ballad recalling Percy Sledge. But there’s still the clunking, declamatory verbiage to wade through, no better now than when he was just boasting in a secular manner.
So, a gospel hip-hop album with a few decent tunes and an absolute absence of profanity, unless you find, as I do, the patent insincerity more profane than any number of growled muthafuckas.Legitimately great writing
But to be clear, while the Supreme Court has let the Texas law take effect for now, it’s possible that in the next few days it could grant emergency relief and put it on hold. Even allowing it to take effect temporarily, however, is significant — especially given how obviously unconstitutional it is.Everything sucks
“They’re sending a message that the court has changed,” Kolbert says. Among the intended recipients of that message are GOP-controlled state legislatures, who will now look to come up with creative ways to stop women from being able to access abortion.
The result — barring the unlikely eventuality of Democrats passing legislation at the national level that undoes these laws — is a new and more restrictive era for women’s rights.
“This is all about control,” Kolbert told me. “It’s not about medical care. It’s not about helping women. It’s not about religion. It’s all about control. The courts are sending a strong message that we don’t really care. We are going to control women however we want.”
It kind of is kind of isn't. Just sayin' random gets it, this gets it, life gets it, rona gets it. Seems like it might be a good idea to just have a place to be like "btw this is fucked today."
I've put natural disaster and climate stuff in the random thread before. Might be good to have the distinction
By Fenderputty Go To PostWhat about a weather / climate catch all? So not just major events. Would likely be more active.Make it
By reilo Go To PostMake it
👍🏼 When I get home
specific events/disasters get their own threads all the time but generally horrific loss of life stuff and catastrophes being in Poli *usually* indicates a please-limit-shitposts-and-lazy-humor disclaimer - but depends I guess
basically I really don't care to see another disaster porn coverage live feed. not stopping anyone tho
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basically I really don't care to see another disaster porn coverage live feed. not stopping anyone tho
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That’s why I wanted to make a general weather / climate thread. You need a place to complain about the cold too
By Fenderputty Go To PostThat’s why I wanted to make a general weather / climate thread. You need a place to complain about the cold too
Who the fuck would complain about the cold.
Heat is the enemy.
But until recently, getting a well-maintained, rent-controlled apartment straight after school is something some Swedes have just taken "for granted", argues Liza, a 37-year-old tech worker, who didn't want to share her last name.🤔
She moved to London from Stockholm last year, and believes Swedes complaining about housing shortages would do well to put their struggles in a wider context.
"In the UK, apartments are often super old and not of good standard, even though the rent would be much more than in Sweden."
Been thinking about this kind of thing since COVID-19 started. Feels indeed like we are in a turning point and moving away from neoliberal austerity politics and “‘market-driven solutions” that dominated since the 1980’s.
Difficult to say what will come next though, and I’m sure there will be resistance from the ruling elite in moving away from the past, but in terms of liberal democracies and elections, I don’t see these ideas winning elections anymore. Especially when COVID-19 stimulus policies and government spending to drive economic growth has been broadly popular across the board in every country that’s implemented some form of it.
Turned into, yes. Dude was winning Pulitzers with his reporting and doing good work on corruption in Brazil until recently when he decided right wing money on Substack is too lucrative. Maybe he was always a prick but at least he was a serious journalist with meaningful work. Now he’s cut from the same cloth as loons like Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan.
By Perfect Blue Go To PostHe needs to black up, it worked last time.
Trudeau is fucking it
I mean it's been a pretty fucking competitive year where the topic of "very Priti Patel things" is concerned, but this might just top it.
By Hitch Go To PostCrack = badSquare of a negative is a positive
Hippies = bad
Hippy x crack = bad²
That's just maths.
By Laboured Go To PostI mean it's been a pretty fucking competitive year where the topic of "very Priti Patel things" is concerned, but this might just top it.Phew, thought it said nitric oxide and she was about to ban yoga as well, wouldn't put it past her though.