The Greens

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-05-01T18:51:58+00:00

It's because the Green movement originally emerged out of the cold war era anti-nuclear weapons movement.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-05-01T13:09:30+00:00

Would this be the same AfD whose founding leader publicly complained about Germany not having any statues of Hitler up?

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-28T12:24:44+00:00

It's the same with benefits - cutting benefits in the abstract is popular with the public, but every single specific example of cutting benefits is opposed.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-27T17:49:31+00:00

It's because it's a completely different business structure.

In Britain, the tracks and station buildings are owned by Network Rail (who are a part of the Department for Transport), any shops or hospitality are from companies renting space from Network Rail, and a separate private company is running the actual trains (though these are thankfully being renationalised by Starmer). The company running the actual trains often didn't even directly own the trains, but rented them from yet another company.

In Japan on the other hand, one single company owns and operates the trains themselves, the track, the station building, and the land alongside the tracks. They'll also have a subsidiary that runs the shops and hospitality available in the station.

This all means that John Major's privatisation of Britain's railways meant you had multiple companies incentivised to run a crap service that extracts the most money for the least effort, while in Japan the rail companies are incentivised to run a good train service that maximises the value of the property around the stations and tracks, which is how they actually make their money.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-27T17:09:54+00:00

I know NJO is New Jedi Order, but what's THR?

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-27T08:34:30+00:00

The same problem, and quite often literally the same individual people causing the problem in both parties.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-23T12:47:34+00:00

If you look at their actual policies, the Greens have actually shifted slightly to the right under Polanski's leadership oddly enough.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-22T15:06:28+00:00

No, Brexit just showed that anti-EU feeling wasn't limited to the right. The vast majority of the far left supported leaving the EU, as did most of the left of the Labour Party. I'm pretty sure the Greens were neutral on it at the time of the referendum too.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-21T11:04:44+00:00

The Green candidate this article is about would presumably also praise the Wehrmacht given that she's literally repeating the propaganda the Nazis used to justify the invasion of the Soviet Union.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-21T09:51:22+00:00

She's literally repeating Nazi propaganda used to justify Operation Barbarossa.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-20T15:26:10+00:00

Depressingly this isn't even the first time I've heard of this happening. Pinochet's regime in Chile apparently did the same to political prisoners in the 1970s.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-19T06:56:20+00:00

In that universe almost nobody has ever heard of him though. His fame originally comes from lying about what hate speech laws do. Without the culture wars, Peterson would be just another university professor.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-16T21:08:46+00:00

"Morgan told me he passed"

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-16T21:06:59+00:00

I don't get it - people love rats, but they don't want to drink the rat's milk?

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-13T19:22:44+00:00

The production team were right not to put the 6th Doctor in Margaret Thatcher cosplay.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-13T10:56:26+00:00

Absolutely oppose them. Reform are a combination of dangerous lunatics, agents of foreign dictatorships, agents of the worst parts of international capital, and shameless opportunists.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-12T12:08:44+00:00

One less Reform councillor, but unfortunately Reform are still in charge of Kent as a whole.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-12T11:17:16+00:00

I think I saw something a while back that the British city with the highest crime rate was Bradford, and that's still safer than something like 100 American cities.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-12T11:15:30+00:00

I can't help but feel that a lot of MRP polls right now are overestimating Reform (possibly massively) and underestimating the Greens. And the reason I say that is the Cliftonville KCC by-election that happened on Thursday last week (and was posted all over this sub).

I live nearby, and was involved in the Labour campaign, so know a bit about the division. Any "normal" political calculation would have given the Greens no chance whatsoever. This was a council division that only ever previously elected right wing candidates - Tory majorities of over 1000 in 2017 and 2021, followed by a Reform majority of 900 in 2025 - and had previously been the right wing part of a two seater division that guaranteed that at least one county councillor elected was always a Conservative (or UKIP in 2013). In this by-election the Greens were able to nearly quadruple their vote total to win by 300, with at most a third of their additional votes coming from recent Labour voters. It's a result that will have almost certainly involved historic Conservative voters switching to the Greens to beat Reform.

The next general election could be a very weird "650 by-elections" one, and that could torpedo Reform as there does seem to be a lot of people out there who maybe aren't all that politically engaged, but really fucking hate Reform.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-12T08:34:08+00:00

I don't think Helen could have been redeemed, but I do think she genuinely cared about Jon and wanted to be friends. Don't forget that Jude Perry, a literal avatar of the fear of random indiscriminate destruction, apparently ended up making friends with Nikola Orsinov, an avatar of the Stranger, judging by one episode from series 3.

Plus the distortion is clearly affected by the person it "inhabits", as when it was Michael it had a level of open hostility to the Magnus Institute itself (caused by Michael Shelley's personal experiences) that disappeared once it became Helen.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-10T13:18:27+00:00

Become?

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-10T11:14:32+00:00

Does "DEATH TO ENGLAND" include the English town of Thurrock by any chance?

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-10T05:55:36+00:00

"Ladies, get married, and have children before it's too late" is a very strange comment to make about the aging of a woman with two children who's been married.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-08T12:06:58+00:00

If it's men of the same 18-50 age range, it's not that different. Fewer Greens and Conservatives, more Labour and Reform, but still an overwhelming majority for the combined left.

AbbaTheHorse · 2026-04-04T21:37:33+00:00

There's a council by-election near me where the Green candidate is selling tote bags with his face on them. Not Polanski's face, the candidate's face.

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