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I think the end state of this will be when Trump links prosecutions like this to tariff deals, and Kier Starmer will have to choose between mean words on the in
by gadders 1y ago
I think the end state of this will be when Trump links prosecutions like this to tariff deals, and Kier Starmer will have to choose between mean words on the internet or further damage to an economy in already bad shape.
- observationist 1y agoStarmer doesn't have very long, and he seems to be trying to accelerate his relocation out of government.
- gadders 1y agoI think he is stuck, like the Prime Minister of France. He has a party that won't tolerate spending cuts of the required scale, and an economy that can't tolerate further tax raises. He also has the charisma of a wet sock, which doesn't help.
- TimorousBestie 1y agoSo another thirty years of Tory rule (or worse) because Labor did a dog that caught the car. Hurray.
- pqtyw 1y agoOr Reform... considering that Conservatives are third in the polls currently. If there were elections now according to the current projections Tories would get less seats than the Liberal Democrats.
- TimorousBestie 1y agoYeah, I consider Reform worse.
- jen20 1y agoStarmer has longer than Trump all things being equal - he doesn't even need to call an election until July 5th 2029. He also has a massive majority, making a government collapse by other means highly unlikely.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoCurious why Trump would even care and, if so, why he wouldn't lean toward his constituency that is largely in favor of these laws (see Texas, Florida, Utah, etc.).
- gadders 1y agoI think there is a difference between straight p0rn, and a discussion forum that often posts NSFW images. 4chan is also the originator of the Pepe the Frog memes, and claims (whether people believe it or not) to have meme-d Trump into the Whitehouse in 2016.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoYou saying that 1. since 4chan is a message board Trump might change his tariff policy to save it where he would't if it was a porn site and 2. Trump feels he owes them for 2016? I think neither a murky ideological battle nor a decade-old debt matters much to the president. And it probably matters that the UK made a tariff deal already, so changing terms would be a big act of self-sabotage.
- gadders 1y agoI guess time will tell who's right?
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- EasyMark 1y agoI can see Trump looking at this as a great policy if it will give him more power. I wouldn't count on him -ever- choosing less fascism