Starmer's vision quest

[Deleted member 49]

https://x.com/kimleadbeater/status/1724862515631309306?s=20

mature politics

Matured a fair bit since last year.

View: https://twitter.com/Obsayxx/status/1724867296844276069?t=6PAj9fVyVSIBvrEt7RgJhw&s=19

 

[Deleted member 49]

Anybody who can actually stomach watching the news, then thinking that this is about defence needs to give their head a wobble....fecking international law really ?

View: https://twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1725565466293285305?t=OL3SrAxR2N-Ja51feOCr9A&s=19

 

[theclaud]

Anybody who can actually stomach watching the news, then thinking that this is about defence needs to give their head a wobble....fecking international law really ?

View: https://twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1725565466293285305?t=OL3SrAxR2N-Ja51feOCr9A&s=19

Shifty MF.

 

[multitool]

It's weird isn't it.

That ethereal space between understanding what is, and understanding where one needs to position oneself to have any meaningful impact over what is.

So hard.

 

[fozy tornip]

As long as I gaze on
Meaningful impact
I am in paradise.

 

[theclaud]

to have any meaningful impact over what is.

Explain to me like I'm five years old what meaningful (positive) impact a Starmer government is going to have. Let's just ignore for the moment the baleful influence to date of his tenure as LOTO on the sense of political possibility in the UK.

 

[multitool]

Explain to me like I'm five years old what meaningful (positive) impact a Starmer government is going to have. Let's just ignore for the moment the baleful influence to date of his tenure as LOTO on the sense of political possibility in the UK.

Five years old, you say?

OK.

Glugly googly googly googly

Wiggly woggly woo

 

[theclaud]

Glugly googly googly googly

Wiggly woggly woo

TBF it's by far the most convincing argument for a Starmer government I've seen this far...

 

[theclaud]

I did say 'five years old' not 'five months old', but never mind. Another question:


View: https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1725510254950023426

 

[multitool]

There is an allusion in that piece to the Iraq war, and how trying to remain glued to America's hip led us into the biggest foreign policy mistake of half a century. Very true, and it was avoidable. France opposed it, in much the same way that France has been outspoken in its criticisms of Israeli violence. But then France had a very good reason to oppose the Iraq war...they'd just signed a huge oil deal with Saddam Hussein, along with Russia, and a war rendered the deal void.

We all like being able to heat our houses and put fuel in our cars. We all like having jobs. Sometimes in industries which require huge amounts of energy at a price that makes our products competitive, and therefore safeguards our jobs. France's opposition to the Iraq war had nothing to do with morality and everything to do with securing energy supply and therefore the security of the French.

It's an ugly world. You and I have the luxury of being able to voice our opinions freely, but those in charge of voicing for the nation have the entire geo-political picture to consider, and our place within it.

The truth about French, Canadian and Irish pronouncements on Israel will be that they are able to make them at no cost to their own national interests. Otherwise they would not have been made.

 

[fozy tornip]

Israeli oil. I won't lube my drivetrain with anything else.

 

[multitool]

Yeah. I mentioned Iraqi oil.

Therefore the second part of post where I mention Israel, but not oil, must be about oil.

 

[fozy tornip]

Israeli orange juice.
I won't fill my bidon with any other country's citrus produce.

 

[multitool]

I only arm my drones with Elbit and Rafael missiles

 

[fozy tornip]

Note to self: buy Turkish drone munitions.