This is one of the most illuminating posts I've seen on here. In the bleakest and most terrifying way.

Considering they spent the last cycle courting the endless wars & unlimited genocide caucus, it would actually be an improvement tbh

Traffic through the Suez Canal has fallen from around 2,000 transits per month before November 2023 to around 800 in August,

Greece-based Conbulk Shipmanagement Corporation stopped Red Sea voyages after its vessel MV Groton was attacked twice in August.

Torben Kolln, managing director of German-based container shipping group Leonhardt & Blumberg, said the Red Sea and wider Gulf of Aden was a "no go" area for their fleet.

An executive at a third shipping company, which has also received a letter, said they decided to end business with Israel in order to be able to continue to use the Red Sea route.

The Houthis have not stopped all traffic and the majority of Chinese and Russian-owned ships - which they do not see as affiliated with Israel - are able to sail through unhindered with lower insurance costs.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/houthis-warn-shipowners-new-phase-red-sea-campaign-prepare-be-attacked-2024-10-03/

I dunno what gave you the idea that the UK was less racist than the USA or France. Race relations are... different here in the UK than in the states. British identity is coded exclusively white. There is an assumption that "British values" are a thing that exists, and that, for example, Islam is incompatible with them. In general, the conception of what makes someone British is very narrow, whereas US identity is necessarily broader. On the other hand, our cops don't generally make exterminating non-white people their primary goal.

I distinctly remember a Labour MP - I think it might have been Yvette Cooper actually - going on BBC Newsnight... This was maybe ten years ago... And saying, point-blank, that multiculturalism had failed. This was in the context of David Cameron banging on about instilling British values in prospective immigrants and the need for "integration" (conformity) and the like. It was the moment Labour lost me and become a for-the-whites party. This was before Corbyn even. Labour saw their record on immigration as something to apologise for.

For the past five years, to distract from the terrible failures of neoliberalism and austerity, both main parties and our entire media establishment have laser-focused on the few thousand "small boat" refugees that arrive on our shores from countries we've bombed and sanctioned. It was, for some reason, the dominant issue of the election, and prior to this, the key benchmark on which the Conservative party was being judged was in their ability to enact a performatively cruel plan to deport refugees to Rwanda while their claim is being processed (keep in mind, for example, that some of these refugees will be turning up because they're gay, and Rwanda does not enshrine their protection against discrimination and public attitudes towards homosexuality are negative). Both parties pledged to "stop the small boats". Keep in mind, the spectacle of small boats only exists because the UK refuses to allow people to claim for asylum from afar. Anyway, on the first day of these riots, what were people chanting? "Stop the small boats". The media's response is to suggest that it's all Russia's fault.

But yes, also as Awoo says, there is a violent subculture that exists within British society that is always itching for a fight regardless, and that might be a key difference as well.

The idea is that if you can receive live television, you have to pay it. The license funds the official state propaganda apparatus.

They like to make a lot of threatening noises about how they can detect that you're viewing live TV or whatever, but it's all nonsense. They send "officers" out to check (these are people most likely employed by firms like Crapita that magically receive all government contracts regardless of the nature of the work). People don't have to let them in, although the officers like to pretend otherwise. In rare cases they can get a warrant to enter, in which case they are accompanied by pigs.

I believe we're allowed to avoid paying even if we have a TV as long as the TV isn't hooked up to a device that can receive live television. The existence of the internet makes this confusing.

Here we have the king of libs himself admitting that his most erotic fantasy is to see democrats rally around a republican.

Is this in the constitution too: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110577439/zelenskyy-has-consolidated-ukraines-tv-outlets-and-dissolved-rival-political-par

Seems like a bad constitution in that case.

Alternatively, they have been forced to adopt a brazen and unapologetic posture because their facades cannot stand up to even the mildest scrutiny anymore. Nobody is seriously buying what they are selling, but some continue to pretend that they do believe it just because they are team sport-brained. We are at a possible inflection point. The truth has no longer has any believable denials obstructing it.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/war-cabinet-set-to-huddle-as-blazes-sparked-by-hezbollah-attacks-scorch-north/

Meanwhile, the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese news outlet al-Akhbar reported that Britain has warned Lebanon that Israel will launch a large-scale offensive in mid-June whose extent and duration are not known and advised Beirut to “make the necessary provisions for the war.”

Dronerbox is with him as well I think. You know, just in case we want to objectively and scientifically measure the potential funniness that Hamas could inflict.

I saw a lib just now say that Trump would be worse than Biden because at least Biden is getting aid into Gaza lmao

DIE GERMANS