catonkatonk [none/use name]

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

The weird thing is that all the liberals in question were reading the polls and explaining why they think the polls were wrong.

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

There is the unfortunate fact that I do think the American people are just genuinely more right wing on certain topics than we care to admit, I.e. immigration and trans rights.

I don’t think these reactionary ideas fell out of a coconut tree.

We can only ever expect the managerial class to double-down on mediocrity.

The Labour Party that won 33% of an election that had an almost record-low turnout. lmao.

Good.

Our noble child touchers

Democrats can dress atrocity in just enough respectability to placate libs. Sure, there are terrible things happening in the world, but the Leader is so sad about it, so it must be that the terrible things are unavoidable and therefore everything is as okay as they can possibly be.

Trump, enacting the same policies but also revelling in their cruelly would make steam come out of a lib’s ears.

So they’re not even going to bother to defend the oil fields around West Asia, am I understanding this correctly?

“Honesty on economy” means that they admitted that they had “no choice” but to economically spank the country. Luckily, Britain’s really into that.

IIRC, the architect of UK austerity, George Osbourne, was writing about how we needed to cut government spending well before the financial crisis. Possibly while the government was still posting surpluses (which it has not done since austerity began lollol)

The starvation will continue until the economy fattens.

That’s happening already.

They should ask how that’s going in the UK. (which is currently drowning in sewage and I’m not even referring to the cuisine)

I want to believe it represents the UK itself.

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/

That interview is infuriating. The suggestion at the end that Palestinians are responsible for their own subjugation is genuinely shocking to me.