A Political Thread pt. 2

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Rishi Sunak asks Royal Mint to create NFT

Treasury wants to show Britain is at cutting edge for new technologies with cryptoasset launch by summer

www.theguardian.com

lololololololol

Why are all these governments getting into crypto like 10 years after it was a thing? Almost every city in America is exploring it. Miami has already launched one.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Gotta make back the lost funds since they've had to cut back oligarch cash
Get all the gullible fools invested in BritCoin then rug pull and put the champers on ice

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

From what I've read he's changed the elections rules to benefit himself massively. Not sure if it's truly representative of the Hungarian people.

Like dozens of leaders globally now Orban follows the far right playbook to success.

- blame everything on an entity that has no media presence in your country (like the EU)
- let the rich get on with their wealth inequality and/or corruption quietly so they don't oppose your manouvers via their media influence
- have eye catching populist policies for the plebs
- make the electoral system as unrepresentative as possible
- have your media pals only give minimal air coverage to political rivals, at say 7am when nobody is watching (an Orban favourite)
- erode media independence at every turn by appointing cronies and creating obstacles for independent media
- dont discuss policy areas where you arent strong, get your media pals to run wall to wall stories about migrants and gay people
- erode the independence of the legal system through favouritism and/or intimidation
- undermine higher education, purge independent thought (Orban is actually handing over much of the higher education system to China)

When you factor in that the pro-Putin Orban gets a landslide at a time like this, and after ballsing up Covid, you can see how strong the pull is. Turkey, India, Russia, Brazil, Poland, Serbia all thoroughly cemented with the far right undermining liberty and democracy. US, Britain, Italy, Spain, Korea all having major flirtations with it. Homo-sapiens just love to hate.

Britain is ticking a lot of these boxes already. Here is another step today.

Channel 4 privatisation to go ahead

The BBC is told the money made from selling the broadcaster will be reinvested in the TV industry.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Like dozens of leaders globally now Orban follows the far right playbook to success.

- blame everything on an entity that has no media presence in your country (like the EU)
- let the rich get on with their wealth inequality and/or corruption quietly so they don't oppose your manouvers via their media influence
- have eye catching populist policies for the plebs
- make the electoral system as unrepresentative as possible
- have your media pals only give minimal air coverage to political rivals, at say 7am when nobody is watching (an Orban favourite)
- erode media independence at every turn by appointing cronies and creating obstacles for independent media
- dont discuss policy areas where you arent strong, get your media pals to run wall to wall stories about migrants and gay people
- erode the independence of the legal system through favouritism and/or intimidation
- undermine higher education, purge independent thought (Orban is actually handing over much of the higher education system to China)

When you factor in that the pro-Putin Orban gets a landslide at a time like this, and after ballsing up Covid, you can see how strong the pull is. Turkey, India, Russia, Brazil, Poland, Serbia all thoroughly cemented with the far right undermining liberty and democracy. US, Britain, Italy, Spain, Korea all having major flirtations with it. Homo-sapiens just love to hate.

Britain is ticking a lot of these boxes already. Here is another step today.

Channel 4 privatisation to go ahead

The BBC is told the money made from selling the broadcaster will be reinvested in the TV industry.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[The Seeker]

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Isn't there a weird disconnect that Hungarians are actually pretty pro-EU but elect this lot? At least that's what I read last time this came up.

Yeah, met my friend in NYC who moved from Budapest. He says there's a weird balance whereby politically and economically they're progressive and socialist but massively racist and homophobic too.

He never got used to the imbalance.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

hmm sounds like a combination of nationalism and socialism . . . see how that plays out

looks at Hungarian soccer match . . . oh

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Priti Patel’s immigration bill suffers multiple defeats in Lords

Peers find fault with many aspects of nationality and borders bill, in particular proposal to divide refugees into classes

www.theguardian.com

 

[ncurd]

It's okay with the cost of living crisis, a war and a scandal about how the rule of law doesn't apply to the PM. We've decided the really important to concentrate on is selling off Channel 4 for reasons....

Someone tell me ideologically reasons for this one because I get it when it's about failing institution's be C4 really isn't. I fact isn't it being successful on the financial model they want to move the BBC to? (Although the BBC is even more successful not being on it).

 

[Which Tyler]

Someone tell me ideologically reasons for this one because I get it when it's about failing institution's be C4 really isn't. I fact isn't it being successful on the financial model they want to move the BBC to? (Although the BBC is even more successful not being on it).

Here you go

Channel 4 News boss says media have right to call politicians 'liars'

Channel 4's Dorothy Byrne says journalists must say when a politician is not telling the truth.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ncurd]

Here you go - though isn't C4 being bought up, rather than sold off?

Channel 4 News boss says media have right to call politicians 'liars'

Channel 4's Dorothy Byrne says journalists must say when a politician is not telling the truth.

www.bbc.co.uk

I have no idea of the ins and outs the government are selling their stake in it what that actually means I have no idea.

Reading Dorries statement on twitter it still makes no bloody sense surely the best way to invest in those things is having a for profit successful station that commissions all the stuff she wants to put money from the sale into.

Oh I know the real reason why its happening C4 News sad mean and nasty things. Dorries didn't realise until a few months ago C4 wasn't funded by the license fee. I'm trying to understand that Tory justification for this to be sold to the public and the party more usuallys its the these things are vadly run and would be better done by private sector or some other such spiel but that's simply not the case with C4.

 

[BrokenWing]

hmm sounds like a combination of nationalism and socialism . . . see how that plays out

Can't be that bad can it?…


Can it?

 

[Which Tyler]

Well ****.

RIA NOVOSTI has clarified Russia’s plans vis-à-vis Ukraine and the rest of the free world in a program like article: What Russia should do with Ukraine? - Центр громадянських свобод

Back in April last year, we wrote about the inevitability of the denazification of Ukraine. We do not need Nazi (read Ukrainian), Bandera type of Ukraine (read Ukrainian), as the enemy of Russia and the West’s tool for the destruction of Russia. Today, the issue of denazification has moved into...

ccl.org.ua

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Should come as no surprise to anyone but satellite imagery shows the body's that the Russians claim were fake were in the streets before the Russians pulled out.

The Russian state is ******* disgusting. Not sure what further consequences could be though. All those that will take action against Russia already are and all those that aren't will not change their stance based on this.

 

[Reiser99]

Isn't great when the government is well informed and know what they are talking about.

 

[Which Tyler]

Isn't great when the government is well informed and know what they are talking about.

Yes, but currently, they have editorial freedom, and say mean things about us; so we need to sell them to a party donor so that they can become British Fox.

GB News was supposed to do this, but became a laughing stock... before even starting, so we need to weaponise C4's reputation and competence.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

so that they can become British Fox.

Possibly a bit tin foil but I saw someone reddit post an article saying the government expect to make $1.3bn from the sale, and another article saying Murdoch is currently raising various loans to the sum of $1.25bn

2 + 2 = ?

 

[ncurd]

Possibly a bit tin foil but I saw someone reddit post an article saying the government expect to make $1.3bn from the sale, and another article saying Murdoch is currently raising various loans to the sum of $1.25bn

2 + 2 = ?

Isn't part of the issue Murdoch had with Sky News is we heavily stringent rules on what can be broadcast on television as actual news? C4 News has a left bent in editorial stance for sure but it isn't allowed to outright lie or promote them like the papers.

No I don't know how GB News get away with it, I think they say they are infotainment or some other such dross rather than a news outlet.

 

[McTallshort]

Looks like lard is about to come back into fashion

 

[General Melchett]

Looks like lard is about to come back into fashion

It's already occupying 10 Downing St.