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Yeah, but it’s those politicians who’ll send their compatriots to war.

If instead they’d started walking the propaganda back rather than lighting fires under everyone and getting everyone mad, it might have averted this. (Past tense because it might already be too late by the look of it). And one way to convince blood-thirsty ivory tower dwellers that war is a bad idea is that room I mentioned.

I mean, I saw a video the other day of children at a kindergarten or primary school where a little boy declared that he wanted to see the destruction of the other country. I forget now which country the boy was from, but it doesn’t matter. The politicians on each side have been fomenting hate for decades when they could have been doing the opposite, and that, unlike money, actually does trickle down.

Gina, you’re a woman (apparently), and in Trump’s world order, women are second-class citizens who should keep their mouths shut. As a fan of his policies, therefore, you should do just that.

Here’s a song from the '80s about that sort of Afrikaner

Here’s an idea: Let’s take the five or six middle-aged male politicians (because it’s almost always middle-aged male politicians) from each side who want to send their own people to war and put them in a big room with baseball bats.

My bet is it will be like those viral videos where dogs bark at each other when there’s a gate in the way, but if someone opens the gate, they just stare at each other and look nervous.

Whatever happens in there, it’s to have absolutely no bearing on their countries or the rest of the world, but they’re not allowed to come out until they all need a hospital.

And if they still want war after that, they go back in the room.

Unfortunately, from the outside it looks very much like the anti-Zionists are taking the position of “once the Zionists have done all the Zionism, we’ll give them a very stern telling off.”

This may not be how it actually is, but as long as Yahoo and people of his mindset are in charge, it won’t look any better than that.

Too cheap. It needs to be “the immediate resignation from office of anyone in the US who would want to purchase or otherwise take control of Canadian territory”.

Preposterous!! Whoever heard of a president’s son being elected president?

Because that would require the two nations to stop acting like children. They’re both more than capable of it, but as soon as they get together, they act like siblings reverting to childhood rivalry.

And when slap-fights and arguments over who gets the teddy bear escape the metaphor to nation size, people literally die.

“Just the tip, I promise”

Gotta wait for Nigel Farage and other gammons to not be quite so much of a threat before that decision can be addressed properly.

In the meantime, things like this are the probably the best way to go about it.

“Mooom, he’s on my side of the car! He’s touching me! Make him stop!”

“I’m not touching you! You’re on my side of the car! You’re touching me! Mom, it’s all his fault.”

Only enemies of Israel conflate anti-Israeli sentiment with anti-Jewish sentiment. (If you have a “but what about…” to that, read it again.)

“He sees it the way we’ve told him to see it. Absolutely masterful following of instructions.”

The quotes were because “home” both is and isn’t the right word. There are a lot of people in this world who might still think of the house they grew up in as “home” on some level, but in many cases, that property is in the hands of strangers now.

For example, I have a relative who not only lived in but was born in a house that remained in the family until a couple of decades ago, and I think they’d dearly love to be able to go back there. Even so, I don’t think the current occupants would be best pleased if my relative decided to go “home” without some kind of arrangement, especially if they decided they were going to move in.

Feel free to generalise or pick apart this metaphor.

Israel does not have to be Zionist Israel.

Now, I’m sure the Palestinians would rather have it that, after WWII, people hadn’t come “home” to settle in the area in the first place, but if it had been handled better, and without, you know, all the genocide, they might have been more accepting of the idea.

Maybe not much, but definitely way more accepting than they are now.

It may be worth noting that this is in The Telegraph, occasionally referred to as “The Torygraph”, a nickname earned for being the slightly less rabid, but still very much right-leaning newspaper. “Tory” being used in the pejorative sense.

In that newspaper, the thought of the UK being untrustworthy or that Brexit was a bad idea must be carefully skirted at all costs. Then again, that seems to be government policy no matter who the government is these days.

This is just based on vibes, but I don’t think Starmer thinks he can change Trump. He’s being as non-committal as possible and treating Trump with the same sort of respect he’d like in return. Trump’s used to the cold shoulder or barely concealed anger from - ostensibly anyway - politically opposed politicians, so he actually reciprocates.

But, nice as this all is, it’s almost certainly a scorpion and frog situation. I expect Trump will be looking for some way to exploit this, and I don’t think Starmer’s blind to that. Starmer’s hoping we can get to the other side of that particular river, like, say, the best possible outcome in four years, without anything terrible happening to Britain (that hasn’t already).

Any obvious attempt at preparation for the worst will be taken as an act of subterfuge* and almost certainly hasten any unpleasant behaviour on his part.

* I’m not sure whether Donny knows that word, but he damn sure knows the meaning of it.

Your first two lines need a caveat: … at a local meridian as chosen by the will of the people*.

Otherwise you end up in situations where every individual location sets their clock by local noon, which varies by longitude. If you think it’s bad there are a handful of different time zones across your continent, wait until it’s different from one end of town to the other.

The British invented (or popularised) standard time to avoid those sorts of problems. Problems that didn’t exist until high-speed long distance travel became a thing. And time zones were a later addition because Britain didn’t need any, but they’re also somewhat necessary.

* for “will of the people”, read “will of the ruling class” as necessary. See: China.

The only plan Russia and its allies will accept is one that has Ukraine’s complete, immediate and unconditional surrender. Anything else will be “dismissed” in similar fashion.

Many white supremacists believe in the One-drop rule. Basically, to them, if you have even a single black ancestor within the last three or four generations, you’re black even if you don’t think you are, and should be treated as such.

Obama didn’t even have the good grace to look white* so his ancestry doesn’t even matter. To them he was black.

* I am, of course, being sarcastic here.