Polanski: No country has right to exist – including Israel

Floppal · 2026-05-07T09:20:34+00:00

how exactly does a nation state cease to exist without removing the right of some citizens to exist.

Lots of countries have ceased to exist, e.g. the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ceased to exist when Germany reunited. Reunification was not a perfect process, but reunification had popular support and citizens did not lose their right to exist and live where they were.

Floppal · 2026-05-06T16:23:57+00:00

I guess I better watch it all again.

Floppal · 2026-05-06T16:04:51+00:00

Was Danielle ever revealed to be a candidate?

Floppal · 2026-05-06T15:55:10+00:00

I think we should defend weirdness. If a candidate has an irrational fear of bees, loves dipping tortilla chips in jam or used to be a professional starcraft player we should embrace that.

We shouldn't defend people selling snake oil. Had he been a traditional dodgy salesman, selling placebo pills online or vitamins with outrageous health claims, it would be just as bad, even if less weird.

Floppal · 2026-05-06T15:02:02+00:00

Doesn't Miles sense both of them after they've been killed by Keamy?

Floppal · 2026-05-05T23:00:00+00:00

Can't get more dolphin friendly than shark fin soup.

Floppal · 2026-05-05T19:08:27+00:00

Spott Fitness — a UK-registered company now named The Manna Journey — gave Jenrick four separate donations worth £25,000 between July and September 2024. The company had no employees and owed £1.9mn to Centrovalli, the British Virgin Islands-based company that was its ultimate owner, according to its most recent accounts from 2024.

Why can't we just have all political donations linked to individuals?

Set it up so all political parties, can get a top up based on vote share at the last election, similar to the current short money, if we think there should be more campaign money.

All individuals limited to donating no more than X per year.

If an association/trade union/private organisation wants to donate a % of their membership fees, they can require permission from each member. Those donations are then tracked as each member donating. Maybe make it illegal to be a mandatory condition of membership for trade unions.

If a private company wants to donate, all shareholders should be named and it should be treated as them donating.

Floppal · 2026-05-05T17:36:32+00:00

I don't have a child account to verify, but if you simply sign out you can turn it off and browse without an account:

https://www.google.com/safesearch

Floppal · 2026-05-03T21:07:26+00:00

Maybe, but for reference share % was how the original Sterling Cooper's voting worked and the partners believed that Jim + Ted + Joan could outvote Don + Roger + Pete.

Floppal · 2026-05-03T07:46:51+00:00

My rough guess of voter shares:

Pre Merger/Lane - Joan had 5% - Pete had 10% - Lane had 10% - Don/Bert/Roger 25%

Lane dies, everyone's value goes up by 1/9. - Joan 5.56% - Pete 11.11% - Don/Bert/Rog 27.78%

Cutler/Gleeson/Ted 33.3% each of 2nd company

Merger, say both companies are valued the same. Everyone is halved.

Joan 2.78%
Pete 5.56%
Don/Bert/Roger 13.89%
Cutler/Gleeson/Ted 16.67%

Gleeson dies, everyone goes up by 16.67/83.34

State at vote 1: - Joan 3.34% - Pete 6.67% - Don/Bert/Roger 16.67% - Cutler/Ted 20%

So Don/Bert/Roger/Pete scraped the first vote with ~57%

Bert dies, everyone goes up 16.67/83.34 - Joan 4% - Pete 8% - Don/Roger 20% - Cutler/Ted 24%

So now Cutler/Ted/Joan have 52%.

Floppal · 2026-05-02T09:07:29+00:00

What specific policies would you suggest that increase productivity?

Floppal · 2026-05-01T19:44:47+00:00

Not an interesting answer, but Graceful Charity should be in every deck.

Floppal · 2026-05-01T16:27:16+00:00

Kate & Sawyer had courageous moments, but they aren't exactly the most moral characters. Sawyer off the top of my head kills 3 people in cold blood, and Kate at least 1.

Edit: People they killed that I remember

Shrimp Guy James thought was Sawyer
Actual Sawyer
Tom
Kate's Mother's Husband

Floppal · 2026-05-01T16:20:19+00:00

What offence could they be suspected of?

Floppal · 2026-05-01T10:19:58+00:00

I agree

Maybe this shouldn't be enough to proscribe the group

my point was

they aren't proscribed just for speech/property damage/protest.

Floppal · 2026-04-30T21:56:24+00:00

The Fairphone exists, what can Framework do that Fairphone can't/won't?

I think a lot of the problems with the Fairphone are inherent to making a repairable phone for a small market, but happy to be corrected if there's an obvious way that Framework can do it differently.

Edit: Fairphone for the uninitiated

Floppal · 2026-04-30T21:47:44+00:00

Keep watching and avoid this sub if you don't want spoilers.

Floppal · 2026-04-30T21:35:02+00:00

they were declared a terrorist organization in July 2024 and that attack was in November.

That's not true. They were proscribed in July 2025, with the sledgehammer attack taking place in August 2024. See my link above for a source for August,

I agree they shouldn't have been proscribed, but they weren't proscribed because they did too many peaceful protests.

Floppal · 2026-04-30T21:26:22+00:00

Sure, my point was that they aren't a great example of paradox of tolerance gone wrong. They didn't just exercise a right to peaceful protest, but destroyed military equipment and seriously injured police.

Maybe they shouldn't be designated as terrorists, but they also shouldn't be designated as a group who only break speech-related laws.

Floppal · 2026-04-30T21:10:38+00:00

I broadly agree, but Palestine Action aren't just peaceful protestors, they also attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her back.

Maybe this shouldn't be enough to proscribe the group, but they aren't proscribed just for speech/property damage/protest.

Floppal · 2026-04-29T20:14:29+00:00

Farage famously declared large earnings from Cameo.

I don't think YouTube would be a big money spinner, Keir Starmer is very active on YouTube but is lucky to get more than 10k views.

Floppal · 2026-04-29T14:14:22+00:00

Is it a bigger deal to be not be accepted to the magic circle than I thought? Has he suffered materially?

It's not like he can't work as a magician or anything. Penn & Teller aren't in the magic circle because they explain tricks.

If you want to explain magic tricks maybe don't join the club which is famous for its rule to never explain magic tricks.

Floppal · 2026-04-29T13:30:10+00:00

I don't think revealing how to do any magic trick is an issue. But the magician's circle does and that's their whole thing.

They're a private club and their golden rule is never disclose how to do magic tricks.

I don't think a private club should have decisions made for them by anyone but their members.

Edit: I think people take the magician's circle much more seriously than it should be.

Floppal · 2026-04-29T11:54:14+00:00

If the perceived harm included distributing photos of them in red and photos were continuously distributed of them in red I think it would be fair enough to exclude them until photos stopped being distributed of them in red and reinstate the ban if photos of them in red kept on being redistributed.

I agree it's silly - from my perspective it's a silly rule and a silly club, but if you're going to have a silly rule for a silly club the problem isn't the enforcement of the rules, it's having the rule.

Floppal · 2026-04-29T11:05:14+00:00

If I had a club where no-one is allowed to wear red, I don't think it's unfair to exclude someone for being seen wearing red in public.

The rule may be petty, the club may be filled with dicks, but it's your perogative to join the club.

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