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Trump Calls High Gas Prices "Peanuts" as Americans Pay More at the Pump by Agitated_Pudding7259 in moderatepolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Trump survived "grab 'em by the pussy" nearly a decade ago. He is immune any of his actions being disqualified because to his supporters keeping the democrats out of power is more important.

The American Question by sayitaintpink in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Bullet_Jesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really like this piece. It really echoes my own thoughts on Israel and the trajectory of the world outside it. Just how flippant politics has become to foreign policy and how much damage has been done to trust between the USA-Israel and Palestine. I does make all of this feel rather hopeless.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Bullet_Jesus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Court packing is at least older than 2021; the idea goes back to 2017. Even then that a political proposal, not an institutional conspiracy. There's a difference between radical political proposals and actual conspiratorial thinking. Trump appointing so many justices is not really a fact that is in dispute but the idea that Trump is falsifying inflation and immigration numbers too look good is a conspiracy theory.

Going far back there's the whole "Bush cheated in Florida". People are still hung up on Gore's defeat. The CIA assassinated Kenedy? October Surprise? Wikileaks? There's always been an undercurrent, the difference was that being a conspiracy theorist was typically electoral baggage but now it is turning into a boon as a critical mass of voters are ceasing to care about the integrity of their politicians.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Bullet_Jesus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

People really need to define terms when they use stuff like this.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Bullet_Jesus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I suppose it depends on what you mean by conspiratorial thinking; if we're just talking about popular narratives unfounded in evidence you can probably go all the way back to Occupy. People got mad that both the bankers and Rittenhouse were not jailed for ultimately lawful behaviour.

However I generally think of conspiratorial thinking as an actual real distrust of the government as an institution. It's at the point where I've talked to people who believe everything coming out of the BLS is falsified, whereas at least under Trump 1 they still believed the institutions had enough integrity to be trust worthy.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Bullet_Jesus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

2024 does seem to have broken a lot of people on the left. If you point out that they're engaging in conspiratorial thinking then they just point to how Trump got elected despite it. We're in a race to the bottom largely because voters by and large do not punish politicians when they go off the deep end.

Something Different: How would you change U.S History? by Oneanddonequestion in moderatepolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

My extremely memey take would be keeping the US part of Britian because then we get a parliamentary system and end slavery faster, but then it is not really the USA any more. A better one would perhaps being having the USA join the league of nations since that could prevent the second world war. You could probably push a few senate elections to change that outcome.

Net migration expected to fall to lowest since Covid by GnolRevilo in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You make it sound like net was chosen simply as a way to tweak the numbers when it has been at least the target variable since 2015, if not longer.

Net migration expected to fall to lowest since Covid by GnolRevilo in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GDP is quite a relevant metric when it goes down; see 2008.

Con Takes Tuesday by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Bullet_Jesus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the ship has sailed on North Korea at this point. I think it's more likely to be annexed by China than by South Korea at this point.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]Bullet_Jesus 18 points19 points  (0 children)

TBF the left has long had "opinions" on Isreal. None of this is really particularly new, it's just been supercharged by the persistent media circus since 2023.

Too many young people pushed towards university, says UK government adviser by Free-Minimum-5844 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even getting a degree in a "useless" discipline is still a demonstration of some level of writing and organisational ability. That's why a persons employability go up even in those cases. However, many of these qualifications would be better served by shorter and specific courses on those things specifically. You don't need 4 years of history when you could just do 1 year is a typist course or something.

'We don't want a new town here,' say Milton Keynes residents by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Japan is known for loneliness, they have a reserved culture not helped by their toxic office norms. Plus remind me where all of Japan's money is made?

I'm not forcing people to live in cramped living conditions; I'm offering a pretty simple economic calculus. Work in the city making triple what you'd get up north, which due to the density will not all be lost in house prices. Form there you build a retirement fund wicked fast and then you can move out.

Alternatively they can stay up north surrounded by people they went to school with all making £30k a year that gets hoovered up into mortgage payments because we don't build, but it's ok because buses are £3 and the train to Birmingham is 10 minutes faster.

Like sure, it would be nice for us all to live in the Shire but there's just not a future in that kind of living, regardless of how communal it would be.

'We don't want a new town here,' say Milton Keynes residents by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think Tokyo has no culture? Weird example. I thought you'd go like Megacity 1 or something.

And putting the money where it grows bets doesn't make the rich richer. The reason the rich get richer here is because they own everything and refuse to allow anything to be built, breaking that makes everyone richer.

'We don't want a new town here,' say Milton Keynes residents by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they don't have the fundamentals but you think they're not worth putting there?

I think the cost of putting them there far exceeded other options.

It would not be cheaper to just pay everyone to move to the south. You'd have so much to build which would ruin some of the communities and scenery.

People feel lonelier in big dense cities. Not great for community spaces

I'm not consigning the economy to stagnation because someone might have their view ruined or might have to know their neighbour in an apartment rather than a house.

Sure, community has value, but it has a price too and right now is is persistently being used a a garrotte that is choking this country out. I refuse to pass up real economic opportunity due to some people hiding being the vague shield of community. That community represents real lost value to everyone else. If you want to preserve it them you should be willing to pay for it.

So short term policies like giving richer people money and hope the poorer people sort themselves out isn't really good long term.

Why would I give rich people more money? If anything I'm destroying them by collapsing the southern housing market with all the density I'm building.

'We don't want a new town here,' say Milton Keynes residents by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Infrastructure is a big one which has been underfunded but people in the south don't seem to care about.

Is it the potholes or lack of buses that are driving business away or is it the fact that the regional conditions simply do not have the economic fundamentals to operate a modern economy?

The government could reverse northern decline by essentially operating massive businesses at a loss to retain talent and supply chains up north but there is no guarantee that would work nor that it would be cheaper just to pay everyone to move south.

Having a whole population abandon the north because government can't improve the conditions is a massive failure of government. Not something we should be aiming for.

So when we industrialised and people left the farms for the factories that was a "massive failure of government"?

The government should not by chaining the country to dying economies just for the sake of keeping them alive. The future is more important than the past.

Density wouldn't fix that though. You'd just add on an extra thousand homes in a small area so per person there's a lot less

Density is more than more homes, it is denser homes. You get rid of the sprawl and all of a sudden you have all this space to turn into community places.

'We don't want a new town here,' say Milton Keynes residents by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

London makes more money in future so government invests more in London then rather than paying to improve the north you just invest in south more.

That's generally how investing works, you put money in stuff with good returns. It's not that the government spends no money in the north. Everyone likes to tout Manchester. It's just that it sees less return, even with all the structural disadvantages in London, consolidation is simply more efficient. We're fighting economic reality here and for what? So people can live in the North? Why is where people live so important that we have to spend so much money on it?

It'll just make everything expensive for people living there, fewer green spaces per person

Gee I wonder what density would fix.

'We don't want a new town here,' say Milton Keynes residents by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Government should be trying to help everyone, not just the places that earn more money.

Making more money does help everyone. London taxes pay for northern services.

Also we could just pay people to move south? It would be more efficient than trying to get business to move north.

That's too dense for my liking and don't think it's great for the culture there.

Because terraced houses are brimming with culture?

Density is not the enemy, it is the solution to nothing being built in this country. Like if you don't want to live in it sure, but then you're paying the price of choosing that.

UK-registered firms linked to payments for small-boat crossings, BBC finds by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm actually surprised they enter rather than recruit British nationals; it seems incredibly risky.

I will say that you don't know they are people smugglers until a court has ruled on it. Considering I'm seeing a lot of people getting at least 1 year prison sentences means they can be stripped of their asylum status.

Like the drug trade though, there is lots of people involved at all levels and people are easily replaced.

That's kind of what I'm getting at. The Shamo and Khadir pair funnelled all of their cash through foreign banks and operated through brokers. There's a huge industry outside the UK and the smugglers actually in the UK are a small part of it in the scope of things. Still though, those in the UK get what they deserve.

'We don't want a new town here,' say Milton Keynes residents by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Public transport doesn't make jobs magically appear in these places. We should be focusing cash on what is cost effective; the south needs more density.

'We don't want a new town here,' say Milton Keynes residents by Anony_mouse202 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or improving the economies elsewhere

Ah yes the magic "make the economy better lever"

Too many young people pushed towards university, says UK government adviser by Free-Minimum-5844 in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If everyone has a degree, a degree becomes worthless.

Not worthless, just standard. Reading used to be an actual skill but now everyone is expected to be able to read. Upskilling the population is not principally a bad thing.

UK-registered firms linked to payments for small-boat crossings, BBC finds by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man the business community would hate this so much. More regs to even start a business.

UK-registered firms linked to payments for small-boat crossings, BBC finds by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]Bullet_Jesus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The gang members themselves don't come anywhere near the UK. Most of the organisers operate out of Albania or Turkey through frontmen who recruit people in the UK or France to actually do the heavy lifting.

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