It seems to be a pattern right across the Anglo world...
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It seems to be a pattern right across the Anglo world...
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There's a pattern in the Anglosphere...
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Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦♂️
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This just in...
Peter Bassett: the mystery man behind cycleway vs pipe blog is a ‘pseudonym’
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A curious update from the original poster: “I will be addressing the matter in full in my next newsletter.”
Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock
If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time
it cannot be emphasized enough that the only reason Donald Trump was the first person to try to bomb Iran into submission is that he was the first US president dumb enough to try
The usual coal-rolling suspects would rather chop off their dicks than downsize their vehicles.
Hahaha oh man just wait til normal people figure out the gas prices will affect everything from groceries to delivery apps. Oh Christ it’s going to get messy.
Worth trying to get a vote on this imo. No president should have nuclear first strike capability but Trump especially should not.
Turns out the global economy is based on some very fragile shit.
An edited version of the XKCD comic #2347 titled "Dependencies" It shows a large stack of irregularly sized blocked stacked on one another. They are labelled "The Global Economy" In the lower right there is a single small block that is clearly supporting the entire tower above it. It is labelled "A Very Narrow Strip Of Water Between Iran And Gulf States"
With apologies to XKCD (xkcd.com/2347/)
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
Government cuts are directly responsible for people dying. This government’s thirst for landlord tax cuts is killing people.
ALSO Luxon changed the bright-line test from 5 years to 2 and then sold properties. He directly benefited from changing the law and essentially got away with it. The reality is we need public services and we need to pay for it via taxes and everyone else does it except the wealthy.
"Many Americans seem to have forgotten just how catastrophic US regime change wars have been in the past. So, with the risk of history repeating itself once again, here is Zeteo’s list of seven of the US’s most disastrous attempts at regime change, ranked"
Hasn't Parnell always been a bit of an Epsom clone?
Counter proposal: zone Parnell only for density and leave the rest of Auckland alone.
Forever Wars Stand Back and Stand By
As activists in Texas face decades in prison for zines + attending an anti-ICE protest, Republican organizers in group chats are planning for "acts of extreme violence against Black people, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
As always...
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Well, well, well. Perhaps the Fordrolet F-420 Ultra Ram V8 Predator Duty 6WD wasn't the ideal prepper vehicle after all.
Just a few more weeks, and the Hungarian public have their big chance to unseat a Trump toady.
Scene from Hungary tonight as crowds rally against the Russian-backed Orban regime.
That’s 👇
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" no longer washes. Hell, did it even wash to begin with?
What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?
Look folks, reality can sometimes be hard to accept. We all want freedom for Iran. The regime was a horrible, nasty pack of religious zealots for whom terrorism & murder was always the first option. Their revolution started by killing 400 people in a theater with arson & chained exit doors. They sent thousand of kids to their deaths with toy keys around their necks promising entry to heaven if they just walk in to Iraqi minefields. I’ve tracked IRGC terrorism across Iraq, Lebanon, Syria & Yemen and even fought them in the PG, They almost killed me in 1988. The Islamic regime needed/still needs to be destroyed … that said: People are getting upset with why I assess this war will likely fail to topple the regime. Because it is a fantasy based in Trump’s head using lethal tools we prepared for 47 years for the right moment. That moment likely has passed. Trump has no idea what he’s doing. Because he has contempt for the people who know what they’re doing & the history of what came before him. If Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires then Iran is the funeral home of empires. It dresses you up and lays you into the coffin neatly. Then closes the lid. Trump cannot understand why Iran hasn’t surrendered … “Lookit all them bombs,” he shouts “They should all love Trump!” That’s it. That’s the Iran-War strategy. He does not care about the people of Iran. It a score settling grudge match egged on by Netanyahu’s 40 years of promises that war will change the regime if we just drop enough bombs & assassinate its leaders. So If you want to live in a fantasy world where we are suddenly being greeted as liberators by the 93 million Iranians … feel free. You are now set up for earth shattering disappointment. You have to account for the fact that Trump could have attacked in support of the protesters in January. He didn’t & he let them be killed. He was completely indifferent. The 30k dead were a one-day talking point.
Right now, none of these attacks will liberate Iran without a populist uprising or invading ground forces. Worse case is a sectarian Civil war. If that happens the only outcome is that it will kill a lot of people, splinter the country & take down the global economy. Trump will sleep soundly & demand he be made Ayatollah. This is literally his mental illness masked as foreign policy This war may give some Iranians hope but it’s a false one. Gird for a horrible chain of dramatic events but rest assured Trump doesn’t care about the people of Iran. He only want its oil. He said so. I’m sorry folks, but my job is to deliver reality based assessments, not promise you sunshine in a swirling hurricane of flying bullets, bombs, excrement & razor wire. That is all.
@malcolmnance.bsky.social claps back at those who think he's an Iran regime apologist. And this hits: "If Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires then Iran is the funeral home of empires. It dresses you up and lays you into the coffin neatly. Then closes the lid."
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