I keep thinking about the observation someone made a couple of weeks ago that politicians are not the same kind of people as us. They aren't informed about politics. Worst time for it.

Does anyone seriously think a Kamala/Newsom type is going to put in the work to fix everything like this? You need visionaries who aren't fascist. Build a new society in their own image. Not the the sort Dems who take advice from Starmer's people. ("Repair nothing, die in flames, ?????, profit")

Bit of an issue that there's a coherent political bloc you can define as "Unable to think through consequences". Seems illiberal to say their voice should count less than mine. Conundrum.

Any #snp fan supporting this line is attacking Holyrood democracy. Swinney is an idiot.

Absolutely remarkable thought process, treating the Holocaust as orthogonal to morality. Jon Favreau recruited her for Obama.

This is a declaration of war on Scotland. Immigrants to Scotland become Scottish before they become legally British. The Westminster government would be deporting Scots.

if you give one single shit about ‘securing borders’ you’re either a mark or a racist. nobody with a working brain cares about ‘securing borders’

Diva. I noticed this before. Rogers keeps the spot. Tuchel doing everything right so far.

England desperately needs civic nationalism to counter its lazy slide into darkness. And Scotland needs a stronger leader than Swinney. theconversation.com/syrian-scott...

The same policies from a pragmatic liberal, who is simply adapting to the present state, might work.

You think "That's a good result" and then look up the teamsheet and wonder how they never won anything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLK...

They haven't realised they're a government with a 161 majority who can just do things.

I've made money on every Jake Paul fight and every Anthony Joshua fight. (I've lost every fight except one of Dalton Smith and Dennis McCann - some guys are just easier to read.) Jake has always wanted respect as a warrior, there's been great value in fading the conspiracy. He would love to see r2.

I go on about this. English ethnic minorities unwittingly side with the far right, by agreeing they can be British but not English.

Once Starmer is replaced, Farage will likely be value again. Status quo bias all over the place these days.

Everybody should just pirate everything. Download all the ROMs you can, play old games that Nintendo wants to charge you $60 for the privilege of playing again, anybody who has a problem with this has incurable cop-brain and you shouldn't listen to anything they say

Anti-AI people are bluesky's legion of Nazi blueticks. Just utterly wretched groupthink.

As a pragmatist this stuff is obvious, but as you get older you realise that's a minority view.

Rederealignment: What happens when the commentariat are blinded by status quo bias?

It is remarkable how normalised Islamophobia is, across America and Britain.

intense discussions result in Starmer hailing Zohran Mamdami as a 'fellow Arsenal fan' in a weirdly constipated congratulatory tweet. Commenters gibber and hoot, call for his public disembowellment.

People surprised by Schumer after he already said what his job is.

Anti-AI and anti-gambling people are this generation's Mary Whitehouse.

A certain group of female MPs have been obsessed with choking porn for ages. You can't find it by accident. It's not one of categories you'll be offered on any porn site.

Sturgeon would've smacked this guy all over the place. I'm not sure Swinney has it in him. We'll find out. Good luck to leaderless England. Zack trying his best there.

Remarkable stupidity.

Back-of-enveloping tactical voting models until chatgpt chokes. (commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...)

US-China agreement: no one can be worth over 100 billion dollars. The excess goes to the state or you get shot. Applicable all over the world, nowhere to hide.

Exactly! I've been going on about this.

I think Paget Brewster would like me.

Imagine Americans being able to recognise value at 1.10.

This is a great point. The Evil v Shit framing will take a public battering before the general election.

Seems quite a meaningful index.

Does increasingly seem like the current epoch of capitalism is nearing a close.

Worth noting that people like Lam aren't psychopaths. They're normal humans who only care about their own 'tribe'. That's why we still have genocides, and why we need to either make AI superhuman or breed autistics (hat tip Musk).

It's messed up that this uncertainty is what mainstream society wants.

I'm concerned that Scotgov don't recognise the situation we're in. From 2029 Westminster will be violently deporting immigrants to Scotland. Our people. Our government needs to be prepared to break Westminster laws. Managerialism will no longer cut it.

We'll know the cost of living is really biting when full fat milk costs more than semi-skimmed.

Same.

The only purpose of that "ceasefire" was to give the so-called morally superior European governments an excuse to halt any meaningful action that they were being pretty much forced to take against Israel (such as sanctions). Same with the cowards running UEFA, Eurovision, and the like.

Oligarchs are global so the far right is global, so the response has to be global. Domestic politicians have been suckered into a "the world is anti-globalising" narrative, by listening to racists instead of observing the people controlling the racists.

As I've been saying, Holyrood needs to be on a war footing with Westminster. Farage WILL be PM and will adopt policies like these. Make or break time for the SNP. Managerialism will no longer cut it.

Ange should become the Scotland manager. Last time we tried to attack, under Vogts, we didn't have the talent. The fans have suffered ever since.

Taking a bit of Starmer to be out this year. #GAMBLING

Surely it won't happen, because if it kicks off after Starmer pushed it through then he's finished. The far right believes if he resigns it triggers an election (because they can't count), so they'll make sure it kicks off.

Working out a clear way to talk about marginal taxation (or whatever better system) ought to be one of the government's highest priorities.

Zack is starting to really impress me. Hardly anyone in the English left is saying this, but it's very much the direction of travel (because empires don't generally revive):

Youtube pushing videos like this on the Casio F91-W. It's a hipster's watch. For less than ten quid more you can get an F201-WA. Better light, better alarms, better screen, same aesthetic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPAb...

John Candy documentary is good. I was sad when he died.

Scotland have been dire under Clarke but he keeps his job because we have enough good players.