A Political Thread pt. 2

[AlRums]

Donald Trump warns Tesla protesters as he buys one of Elon Musk's cars

Speaking alongside Tesla's Musk, Trump expressed support amid recent "Tesla Takedown" protests and the company's stock decline.

www.newsweek.com

Strumpet now wants to declare Tesla protesters domestic terrorists.

 

[AlRums]

US shunned by European allies for top security summit

Europe continues to support Ukraine as France holds a security summit for Kyiv and does not invite the U.S. amid tensions.

www.newsweek.com

 

[AlRums]

Karoline Leavitt shuts down AP reporter after 'insulting' question on tariffs

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back on Associated Press reporter Josh Boak during a press briefing on Tuesday over a question on economics.

www.foxnews.com

MAGA intelligence

 

[AlRums]

Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience.

Maine said it wouldn’t break state law to follow President Donald Trump’s order barring transgender girls from playing girls’ sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats targeting the state’s federal funding.

www.propublica.org

 

[Which Tyler]

The thing is that strumpet just won't understand that's he is alienating people not just governments.

He will blame governments and threaten tariffs and more tariffs who's only reception will be people will just get more ****** off and the boycotts will continue and expand.

Hopefully it will come to a point that strumpet will eventually realise that nobody will by products from the US because of him and him alone.

The things Tantrump doesn't understand is a long and exhaustive list.
When it comes to foreign policy, what he doesn't understand is that there's a limited supply of foreign countries. Diplomacy is not like property development. In one, you can screw over your contractor, and they'll refuse to work with you again, but there's always another contractor to work with next time. In Diplomacy, if you screw over your ally, and they refuse to work with you again, then you will rapidly run out of allies.

 

[General Melchett]

they'll never learn, they'll just make him a martyr "he tried to save us but "they" were too powerfull"

I think he's itching for foreign leaders to reach the end of their tether and start slagging him off on X so that he can tell MAGA "You see, they don't like us" as part of a pathetic pro nationalist siege mentality thing. I like how Trudeau and Ford chose their words carefully and addressed American people saying it's not them but their leader who is the problem. I do like the cut of Doug Ford's jib. A likeable no nonsense bloke.

Political leaders flip flopping used to be a sign of weakness. Scandals and criminal charges used to end political careers. How times have changed.

 

[Weldit]

I think he's itching for foreign leaders to reach the end of their tether and start slagging him off on X so that he can tell MAGA "You see, they don't like us" as part of a pathetic pro nationalist siege mentality thing. I like how Trudeau and Ford chose their words carefully and addressed American people saying it's not them but their leader who is the problem. I do like the cut of Doug Ford's jib. A likeable no nonsense bloke.

Political leaders flip flopping used to be a sign of weakness. Scandals and criminal charges used to end political careers. How times have changed.

As the saying goes "Never argue with an idiot. They'll just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

It's sad, but kind of fascinating to see how all those concerns over China, Russia, N.Korea etc and they end up being their own worst enemy.

 

[Weldit]

NHS England to cut workforce by half as Streeting restructures

The health secretary will shrink NHS England’s workforce to save money and avoid ‘duplication’

www.theguardian.com

While we were watching Trump, this was revealed. Utter madness. What is that red Tory doing.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

NHS England to cut workforce by half as Streeting restructures

The health secretary will shrink NHS England’s workforce to save money and avoid ‘duplication’

www.theguardian.com

While we were watching Trump, this was revealed. Utter madness. What is that red Tory doing.

Absolute insanity... We just replaced blue Tory with red Tory.

 

[Weldit]

Absolute insanity... We just replaced blue Tory with red Tory.

I honestly think if the tories had a chance, most of labours members would have joined them first. Say what you like about Corbyn, he was far more inline with labour values than these.

 

[Which Tyler]

‘Boycott USA’ : Consumer revolt spreads across Europe

French and Danish consumers have been turning their backs on US products, launching a growing boycott movement in protest against Washington’s foreign and economic policies. In France…

brusselssignal.eu

I'm in - wherever reasonably possible.
Mains one are Qwant instead of google as default search engine; using Amazon the way I used to - to find a product that I'd then buy elsewhere; and switching away from using Morrisons as supermarket-of-choice
I will also look at brands of stuff I regularly buy - but that's getting more intricate and will take a bit longer to enact.
Obviously, these all require sacrifices, mostly of convenience.

‘I feel utter anger’: From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading

Tesla sales are falling and apps and online groups are springing up to help consumers choose non-US items

www.theguardian.com

I should note to the above, that there are also US companies that are more woke, and I am happy to continue supporting those - so I'll be sticking with Duolingo over Busuu, for example.

 

[BrokenWing]

As the saying goes "Never argue with an idiot. They'll just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

It's sad, but kind of fascinating to see how all those concerns over China, Russia, N.Korea etc and they end up being their own worst enemy.

Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to **** on the board and strut around like it won anyway.

 

[General Melchett]

Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to **** on the board and strut around like it won anyway.

If it does then surely it will suffer the same fate as Speckled Jim.

 

[Amiga500]

As noted previously in the NCAA of 550,000 there only 10 trans athletes. If like the UK 0.5% of people are trans you'd expect 2,750 even if there was parity. To get to 10 means the evidence shows they are vastly underperformed. Sure that 2,750 should decrease for trans females but it isn't going to be 10.

Yet where do those 10 fall in the performance metrics?

I'd feel pretty comfortable guessing they are far above the median.

If you'd swapped out underperform with underrepresented then I can understand where your coming from. But otherwise, simply not and its an extremely dubious basis to use representation as a performance metric in a field where performance is not associated with just representation.

 

[Yulia]

so I'll be sticking with Duolingo over Busuu, for example.

What language do you learn there?

 

[Saintjay]

Absolute insanity... We just replaced blue Tory with red Tory.

I can't see how anyone is particularly surprised. If the talk of PIP cuts come in then you potentially have hundreds of thousands of people going into poverty.

I think there are quite a lot of welfare cuts incoming anyway. As some people are taking the "Mickey" according to the government.

 

[BrokenWing]

If it does then surely it will suffer the same fate as Speckled Jim.

Trump definitely talks a lot of gobble a duke.

 

[ncurd]

Yet where do those 10 fall in the performance metrics?

I'd feel pretty comfortable guessing they are far above the median.

If you'd swapped out underperform with underrepresented then I can understand where your coming from. But otherwise, simply not and its an extremely dubious basis to use representation as a performance metric in a field where performance is not associated with just representation.

10 people out 550K isn't anywhere close to a statistically viable group in terms of performance against the group and you claim to be smart enough to know that.

I do think think there is correlation between underrepresentation and underperformance but only in the other 2,740 you'd expect to be in competiting

By yours and Ragey's assertations with zero evidence to what you said, loads of trans women should tearing it up at the top end of the NCAA.

I'm quite disappointed in general at forum on this one on most other subjects we'd be pushing against that kind of confirmation bias but instead claims with zero backing got tons of likes.

 

[ncurd]

While we were watching Trump, this was revealed. Utter madness. What is that red Tory doing.

I honestly think if the tories had a chance, most of labours members would have joined them first. Say what you like about Corbyn, he was far more inline with labour values than these.

Absolute insanity... We just replaced blue Tory with red Tory.

I'd be very careful in whats said compared to what happens
For instance last week everyone thought that workers rights bills would be watered down it was being reported that way everywhere and social media was full of angry lefties.
Then this was massively underreported

UK unions welcome moves to bolster workers’ rights bill

Unions delighted there has been no watering down of plans, which will apply to England, Scotland and Wales

www.theguardian.com

I think with all these things the devil will be the actual detail so until we get it we shouldn't panic.

 

[ncurd]

Few concessions to business have been made in the bill after five consultations with employers and unions, though the government confirmed it was not proceeding with any legal guarantees on the right to switch off, which had not been in the original bill.

Instead, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has added a slew of extra employee protections in the latest version of the bill, including extending a ban on exploitative zero-hours contracts to agency workers, guaranteeing sick pay to 1 million of the lowest-paid workers and bolstering enforcement powers against rogue employers.

One union source said the trade unions had "got almost everything we asked for".

Unite, whose leadership has been deeply critical of Keir Starmer and had previously accused the government of watering down the bill, said the government had "listened and acted" to improve the bill in favour of workers.

The union's general secretary, Sharon Graham, said: "For decades, workers' rights have been pushed down the agenda. This is the first time in a generation that workers' rights have been taken seriously."

The Unison general secretary, Christina McAnea, said huge improvements had been made to the bill and it was "what working people and decent employers have been waiting for"