I don't like this group, I find them vaguely suspect for reasons that have little to do with Palestine. But in terms of the actual effects of this act it is transparently obvious that the actual effect has been to jail a bunch of elderly people as jihadists!

Nice of him to get the date for his resignation in the diary early

Ha! I'm still on iOS 17

At the time? It defaults to Vicky3 I think because it was the only game I played on release. Even though it was awful on release so it feels wrong to say that. Now, it is Heaven Burns Red, which is an amazing VN with a gacha game attached. Though you won't like it if you don't like anime.

Surely this is obvious

Can we stop playing the Ashes in Australia. Just concede in advance. It’s too embarrassing

The kind of person who would rightly go 'sorry, are you insane? What does a kosher delicatessen in Golders Green have to do with the Gaza war?' going 'well, look, if someone from Afghanistan gets on a boat, you can't expect people not to start being racist towards black Britons', and vice versa:

Oh but thinking Russia intends to onvade Europeannstates is a paranoid fantasy, is it

Wow, wonder if this would be more affordable if you, say, did broad based tax rises instead of a smorgasbord of tiny little ones to try not to break a promise that the electorate, correctly, already thinks you've broken.

Same old Aussies I see. “Operator error” indeed. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

I know we can all see the train coming down the tracks but it’s probably inevitable that a wipeout needs to happen before Lab/Con change their leader

10%?????!!!!!

Random biphobia jumpscare when accidentally swiping on to the discover page

lollllllll lolllllll this country man

Not saying we could solve all of our problems by making Super Mario Draghi God-Emperor of Europe but we could solve a lot of them

From a professional comms perspective, I'd say a good start for Labour combatting far right rhetoric would be to stop repeating it, saying they "understand it" or including its stock tropes in official documents pretty much any time they talk about migration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My general feeling for the last month-ish is I need to go lie down in a darkened room somewhere for a very long time

I know I should just brush this aside as the having of opinions by a professional opinion-haver, but it is as offensive as it is ignorant to suggest that people in Poland, of all places, are in the grip of a delusion for fearing the very real possibility of Russian invasion.

“We might elect the far right in the future so let’s leave the Baltic states wide open to invasion”

I think I’ve only played Factorio and Genshin of 2020 releases. I had 200 hours in Factorio early access and I’ve doubled that since full release. Incredible game

“a state which struggles to conquer territory with strong cultural similarities - and a recent history of voting for candidates advocating strong ties with that state - is going to get nowhere in territory where none of this applies” was literally the argument made against reacting to the Anschluss

You said this about Ukraine

you could describe at least 1/3 of pre-invasion 1939 Poland in this way as well; the question for Owen should be - should you?

It's more socially inept to mock someone for vulnerably admitting to having trouble dating/making friends than whatever is wrong with that person in the first place. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/dont-doubl...

The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor. A belief in biodestiny, in short.

Yep. It’s been grim for a while. The combination of high employment and hard to fire means hiring people without proven skills becomes hard to justify. Continental labour markets have had this insider/outsider dynamic for ages and economists consider it bad so obviously Labour wants to copy them.

Just don’t think these minimum wage rises are a good idea

And economic inactivity - about which we seem to be having a national panic - doesn’t look dreadful.

Sure am glad Starmer spends all his time sucking up to Trump. Look at all the benefits!

My PC is almost 5 years old now and beginning to show its age (it was mid-market when I built it). Was considering upgrading but not any more

cc Keir Starmer

FE3H. Instant classic. I’ve played Outer Wilds for a couple of hours but bounced off it. The time-limited nature of the objectives is too stressful

Continue to think this is a nuts policy, and I don't understand, quite frankly, how anyone who *had a job* when they were 18 to 20 does not immediately go 'oh, this would have really screwed me over at that stage of my career'.

Self-declared heterodox thinker who preaches 'an organic society' realises his allies in this belief do not consider him to be a part of that society. Begs people he spent years shitting on to come back and rescue him, despite being warned of this repeatedly for years.

Paradox Interactive did not "mold" the far right come on lol. There are as many trans girls who like those games as there are fascists

Rishi Sunak, who I criticised for many, many, many things, kicked Lee Anderson out of his party. We cannot say what his Downing Street would have done in a hypothetical 2024-5. We can, and should judge this government for what it has overseen.

Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!

Of 2018 release games I only played Subnautica and Rimworld at the time. Subnautica I found simply too scary to enjoy (this is a compliment), so it went to Rimworld. Since then I’ve picked up Vermintide 2 which is excellent but I prefer Rimworld for GOTY still

Good point for Leeds there

No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.

I invite all the people who were like 'we can sell digital ID by making it about stopping illegal immigration' to have a 5 minute conversation with the woman I can hear from the other end of the carriage loudly complaining about how 'if you don't want digital ID the government says you're racist'

Burned all my notebooks What good are notebooks They won't help me survive

Right but no-one’s disputing that which is why we’re attempting to prepare for it

is this not the cancel culture by easily offended snowflake students the right was complaining about ten years ago

Love that yanks think cameras for traffic enforcement are somehow discriminatory

I think we might be going down this year ngl

Big difficulty of this government is Downing Street identifies a £20bn problem, correctly, then puts £2bn behind it. The only place where its policy matches its rhetoric is child poverty, where it had to be dragged into it, protesting that adequate policy was 'un-Labour' all the way.

Not hugely convinced by it. The revealed preference is that voters get even unhappier when governments try to reverse "neoliberalism" via e.g. tariffs or more regulation, because these things are inflationary

More evidence if any was needed that Chomsky is a scumbag

Still laughing at this. Cannot imagine a more self-discrediting argument for socialism than “under socialism, you should be able to gesture to your crotch, tell a customer to suck it and keep your job”.