Spendrill

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

"I'd like to give them some fucking stimulus."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you want to insure yourself against capital flight go for a Land Value Tax. Let 'em shove a hectare of land in their luggage.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (12 children)

OK so it's time to say the quiet part out loud: the reason that governments have so far held off on taxing billionaires at 1% or 2% is the fear that they might spend 2% or 3% against those governments in revenge.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

General Zod: I like the globe...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

What ever happened to him?

Well, he pulled it on Rorschach, and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft.

 

Seriously, did they just go down the Westminster Jobcentre?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Even worse than that, the far right, as represented by Reform, did better than they have previously done and could yet cause us more problems come the next general election. It's possible that the centrist government that's just been elected will manage effectively enough to kill a lot of the sense of grievance that is currently being harnessed by Reform and directed against immigrants but it's equally possible that another global recession could tank that entire programme.

Still and all I appreciate you coming in here to talk with me about how your thinking has changed. I agree that the French very much did what you say they did. I don't know if there are still people alive who remember the Vichy government but it could be that amongst the traditionally conservative people in their seventies and eighties there's still a horror about what the Nazis wrought.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

What happens when a Tory learns about empathy?

Cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Only way I can imagine Suella chasing a trans voter is with a cricket bat.

 

This gave me a big belly laugh:

Another Conservative said: “The answer is we need to find a way to appeal to voters we lost to all parties. I don’t know how you do that on policy, but Keir Starmer showed you can do it by looking competent and serious. But I don’t know if any of the candidates we have at the moment can do that.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (8 children)

The butter won't make him fat but the pasta will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's pure maths. The Tory votes plus the Reform votes is a bigger sum than the Labour vote. Listen. I have to live here with these fucks so I don't like it any more than you do. But without the collapse in the Tory vote it wouldn't have mattered what Keir Starmer or Ed Davey did.

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Old Sarum in Wiltshire (upload.wikimedia.org)
 

The original settlement of Salisbury was known as Old Sarum. The population and cathedral city had moved in the 14th century to New Sarum, at the foot of the Old Sarum hill.

 

Turns out they're capitalists too...

 

To them it's hilarious that all of our suffering was caused by someone else praying for it.

 

A former Conservative MP has asked to be removed from an award-winning academic's research presented in a TEDx Talk that connects her to a slave-owning ancestor

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