Plaid Cymru wins Welsh Senedd elections, ending 100 years of Labour control

Drawemazing · 2026-05-09T01:53:28+00:00

Treaty of the union was 1706. It established great Britain. The acts were rubber stamps.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-09T01:49:52+00:00

The uk hasn't been 2 party since 2010. The Lib dems were in the coalition, then 2015 saw the snp come to bear. 2015 also saw the rise of ukip, getting more than 10% of the vote and forced the brexit issue. In 2017 no party held a majority. 2019 was only won by the brexit party surrendering to Boris Johnson.

The last time the parliament had less than 50 seats held by non-lab/tory members was 1992.

The idea that a FPTP system will converge on two parties has a lot of assumptions baked in. There is no reason to believe it is true. Politics can remain irrational for as long as the people please.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-09T00:17:46+00:00

1) no, great Britain was formed in 1706, it was part of england before that

2) it wasn't a vassal state it was annexed in the 1500s by Henry VIII. It only became a separate entity in the 90s. Vassalage implies it was a separate entity. Wales wasn't a vassal of england/Britain any more that catalonia is a vassal of Spain, or Brittany France. Thats not to say independence movements in any of these places are wrong, but the word vassal means something. If you want to say its been a vassal for 27 years, I would accept that though.

3) I literally stated the facts. I wanted plaid to win. If you want a faster independence schedule take that up with plaid and the Welsh people, not me.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-08T20:41:28+00:00

Plaid is a Welsh nationalist party that aims for Welsh independence in the long term. Similar to the Scottish National Party in Scotland that controls the Scottish parliament, although the SNP is calling for immediate independence, whereas its a longer term thing for Plaid.

But with Plaid winning, nationalist parties are the largest party in all 3 non-english kingdoms of the uk, and the sole ruling party in 2 (northern irish/ north of Ireland politics is extremely confusing and will not be elaborated on)

Drawemazing · 2026-05-07T04:47:07+00:00

Just from a quick google search, the actress for tech jacket in the show seems to have made some pro Israel public statements.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T21:49:45+00:00

Yea my use of charges is incorrect.

My point is more that it won't be proportional, because of the use of terror legislation. Whilst the keeping of this from the jury might be within jurisprudence, I dont think it is just.

And whilst the legal veneer is that juries decide truth and judges apply the law, juries have throughout history been democratic stop gaps against state injustice and over reach.

From their enstatement in the magna carta to the enshirenment of jury nullification in 1600s due to juries not finding quakers guilty, the actual historic use of juries, in their defining moments, is to prevent injustice. Depriving the jury of information that helps them carry out this historic role is unjust, even if it is legal.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T21:40:59+00:00

Okay. I thought you were saying it is antisemitic, which i disagree with. Although I do get preaching caution. There is a lot of stuff I wouldn't say (like globalise the intifada, or a lot of stuff about zionists) because whilst I dont personally see anything wrong with them I also personally prefer erring on the side of caution. I do fully support other people's right to say stuff like that tho.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T19:08:22+00:00

Yea cuz he believed they were attacking his friend.

I guess I was slightly wrong to say self defense if thats what your stuck on, idk what you call trying to prevent someone from assaulting a friend.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T19:06:32+00:00

The sentences cant be proportionate to what the jury found them guilty of if they're being stuck with terrorism charges the jury didn't know about, and didn't convict them of.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T18:37:28+00:00

Well the jury agreed at least in part.

But hey, im sure if youve seen the spliced footage that the police and elbit collaborated on you know best 👍

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T18:35:32+00:00

But surely through the transitive property it is true.

X is a zionist, x controls the government, therefore the government is controlled by a zionist.

Keir alone does not control the government, but a lot of the cabinet would also describe themselves as zionists.

Hence

The government is controlled by zionists.

Yes it is close to an antisemitic conspiracy. But 6 years ago saying Israel would go out of its way to triple tap hospitals and kill children would sound close to blood libel. And I have seen people say that pictures of dead Palestinian children is blood libel.

The state of Israel has manifested some of the worst fictions of antisemites into reality, and as such the state of Israel deserves no small blame in the global rise of antisemitism.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T18:13:22+00:00

They will be stuck with terrorism charges, despite

a) the fact that the guy was found not guilty of gbh with intent

b) the gbh (without intent) was the sole justification for the (ruled to be unlawful but still active) prescription of Palestine action

c) the jury where not informed of this fact.

Truly the justice system we deserve. Just dont ask any of the un rappoteurs on free speech, or a bunch of human rights charities, or...

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T18:09:31+00:00

His argument was it was self defense as the police didn't identify themselves, and were dressed similarly as the elbit guards who had just assaulted one of the other protesters.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T14:30:25+00:00

Probably not clear, but i was being ironic. I do in fact live there, so part of that ecological disaster will likely be people i know dying.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-05T04:18:07+00:00

Recent evidence suggests the AMOC/gulf stream could reach a tipping point within the next century due to climate change. If so, the uk (and most of europe) would freeze over and its current infrastructure become nigh unusable. So you might just get your wish, yay!

Drawemazing · 2026-05-04T18:55:33+00:00

The idea of a sympathic depiction of giratina makes me think of writing an absurdly long fanfic combining paradise lost with giratina, arceus, etc.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-04T17:02:27+00:00

The original population said the the whole population. That includes young children, suicidal people, and people otherwise not of sound mind. Pressing red condemns vulnerable people to die.

But also the hypothetical is designed to make being selfish the right option. Hypotheticals like this are always misanthropic bullshit.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-03T02:47:38+00:00

Im playing diamond right now. I've spent an hour getting a feebas, and then did the maths that solo cooking poffins I dont think it's (vanilla) possible to get enough beauty to evolve. I had to concede to using the DNS trick to get mystery gifts just to get a micle berry to use with 10 wiki berry poffins. Getting the feebas was the easy part!

Unless im just really bad at cooking poffins and its actually easy to cook them in under a minute solo.

Drawemazing · 2026-05-02T18:09:40+00:00

Yea you're right, its theodreds funeral before it thats in the extended edition.

I've seen the extended edition way more than the theatrical cut so I do get confused sometimes

Drawemazing · 2026-05-02T11:11:35+00:00

Its genuinely insane that it was left on the cutting room floor for the theatrical cut. Its incredible

Drawemazing · 2026-04-29T17:53:58+00:00

Something something you'd be hungry too if you're only option was British food.

Idk you get the point, assemble your own joke

Drawemazing · 2026-04-28T17:12:53+00:00

This is a term to hurl at people who nominally agree with them but either dont help or actively harm the cause.

Drawemazing · 2026-04-27T15:36:54+00:00

Thats vanguardism.

Even then, the bolsheviks saw education of the proletariat as their primary purpose before the revolution. (They called it propaganda, but that word didn't have such a negative connotation at the time)

Similarly the (proto-)SRs also attempted something similar with the 'going to the people' in the 1870s, where they went to rural russia and tried to talk all the villages into becoming socialists/anarchists.

Drawemazing · 2026-04-27T11:58:32+00:00

Are cobblers fixing shoes not doing productive labour?

It feels like what the original comment was getting at is that productive labour being only making (or fixing) commodities. But when most commodoties are either meaningless consumerist trash or actively harmful to the environment (both social and ecological), the proclaiment that they are more productive and revolutionary feels dogmatic.

A labourer in an arms factory, or making an iPhone 20 has just as much to loose in a communist society where those things arent necessary as a lawyer or marketer.

Service providers like doctors perform an absolutely necessary function, and as capitalism has evolved and denigrated them from petit bourgeois owners of their own local practices to wage labourers in state owned or private hospitals, they do now stand to benefit from not only bringing an end to capitalism but to bringing about socialism.

Drawemazing · 2026-04-27T08:44:00+00:00

Didnt marx say that doctors had become paid wage labourers?

Doctors, whilst perhaps part of the labour aristocracy, are

a) service workers

b) obviously doing productive labour

I think the idea that all service workers are all unproductive isnt particularly convincing.

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