What? Ooohhhhh was I being autistic again?

You shouldn’t have started your comment with an insult to their intelligence and then immediately talked bollocks. Now I’m duty-bound to correct your arrogant nonsense.

the sky is blue because it reflects the water

Nope. It’s blue because the atmosphere filters out bluer light.

It only works with sunlight

Nope. There’s nothing special about sunlight, you can reproduce the effect experimentally with a torch and a tube of water

everything would look blue if you stood in a small room with water, air, and the sun.

What? How you gonna fit the sun into a small room?

Yeah some of them have shown promise. Burnham does. Even Starmer showed promise.
It’s the problem that they seem to turn into zombies as soon as they get into power that’s the problem. Let’s see what happens with this next one.

That’s the question!

AFAIK Starmer has done nothing to reduce Trans rights.

From Wikipedia:

“In July 2024, UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer stated that trans women should not have the right to use women-only spaces, even with a gender recognition certificate.[14][15][16] He also ruled out allowing trans people to self-ID.[17] Starmer also said he would continue the block on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland.[18] In December 2024, Starmer followed through on this by making the ban on puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria in under-18s permanent on the basis of “independent expert advice that there is currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children.”[19] Despite the assertion that puberty blockers are unsafe when prescribed to children, they remain available for the treatment of precocious puberty.[20]”

You are making a giant straw man argument, would it make a difference for Starmer to merely say Israel is committing genocide?

Yes, it would. Gaza is on the ballot.

Invading peoples privacy was implemented by the Conservatives.

The Labour party voted for the act, and have overseen its implementation.

While you IMO have a point about Palantir, the goal is to improve management and analysis of health data. It is not about “selling” data.

The NHS’s goal is to improve management and analysis. Palantir’s goal is to accrue and sell data. The problem is that the contract was awarded to Palantir - by the Labour gov.

You are basically just proving my point, as you fail to point to anything Starmer actually did wrong.

Reality begs to differ, see above.

Starmer is mostly unpopular because everything has gotten worse after Brexit, and Starmer is unable to turn it around quickly.

Starmer is unpopular because he’s an appalling politician. And -to be as kind and equable as can be- a dishonest shit rag. Blaming Brexit for Starmer’s failures is like Trump blaming the Democrats for the reflecting pool.

More so than other religions do you think?

Why the fuck were you expecting him to be Muslim?

He said, convincing no-one.

More bad faith nonsense. You’ve had your chance.

I’m sorry, the “crappy blog” that is Owen Jones’s dropsite? Gtfo, you obviously don’t know that the hell you’re talking about. I’m not going to engage with someone arguing in bad faith.

The irony levels are through the roof, because you’re doing what you claim I’m doing, and not doing what you claim you’re doing:

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage

You’re defending the crappy source. You’re not looking at the merits of your source.

Again, the prerogative is a formality. If invoked it would be immediately rescinded. Parliament is sovereign in this country, not the monarch.
Because I know the history of this country better than you do, I know how this particular law is applied.
You seem to be having a bad day, so I’ll just stop there.

The acceleration of the collapse, yes. It’ll be too late to stop it then. Might be already.

Haha those “limeys” (haven’t heard that in a good while) are deluded if they think the situation is any better here, or that people are any better at standing up for themselves here. The only edge we have is that generally people don’t have guns to win arguments with.

Inconsistent. You stated that the king in Britain has the power to stop laws, and you’re using the fact that he has more influence than the average citizen to support that claim. Those two are not equivalent, sorry.
The king demonstrably did not have the power to stop laws from passing. People educated in Britain are taught this fact at the age of 11-13.

I like the concept of fascism as essentially militarised narcissism, although I think it risks oversimplification. There’s also the risk that we consider the two equivalent and start to empathise with fascists (a choice) similar to how we should with narcissists (a mental illness).

There’s similar risk in highlighting misogyny as a proto-bigotry, or template for bigotry. All we can say is that misogyny seems to be the most common irrational prejudice. Claiming others are add-ons or based upon it is not rigorous, and would suggest that misogyny is special in some way. In this way a hierarchy of bigotries begins to emerge, which is complete nonsense, except to examine their rate of occurrence. Precise language is extremely important on this point, else we appear to be saying misogyny is the “best” type of oppression.

I agree that narcissism has no brake, another parallel with fascism, and that is because both modes of thought are devoid of reasoning! However, there is the interesting phenomenon of the narcissistic collapse, where the narcissist can no longer maintain their self image and is forced to see themselves clearly.

the point is the quality

Information hygiene

links to a BBC article reporting on Israel

Is it a lack of self-awareness? Denial? Or just DARVO? It’s an extraordinary act of mental gymnastics in any case. Some people have really taken the plunge into this “post-truth” thing.

Right wing ideas are genius. For the people currently at the top of the hierarchy.

I’m not trying to score points against you here when I say your comment is incoherent. I cannot parse a lot of what you have written. Maybe if you stuck to simpler sentence structure, your message would come across.

They knew