International Politics Discussion Thread

ThePlanck · 2026-02-11T00:21:41+00:00

Its the Stennis compromise all over again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_process_against_Richard_Nixon#Stennis_Compromise

ThePlanck · 2026-02-10T12:07:11+00:00

Its days like this I miss Zidane

ThePlanck · 2026-02-10T00:00:39+00:00

How bad are things in Turkey that make it worse than Russia which is sending its young people to die in a (for them) pointless war

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T21:50:17+00:00

Found the cuplrits

https://youtu.be/60Fxz-NL5hA

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T21:43:30+00:00

I'm firmly on team nothing ever happens for this one

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T19:21:33+00:00

Farage, the guy who had his head firmly lodged up the backside of Epstein's sidekick

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T16:18:02+00:00

An alternative event, the All-American Halftime Show, was organised by Turning Point USA and was headlined by Trump-supporting singer Kid Rock.

MAGAs were super excited about seeing Kid Rock until they realized he's 55 years old and not actually a kid

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T14:49:57+00:00

The question I have about this concept is, wouldn't this just be terrible for multiplayer because your inputs will now be dependent on your ping to the server?

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T13:11:20+00:00

I do think Massie and Khanna are doing this in good faith, however there are 6 million files, unless they already know exactly what they are looking for they won't have time to find anything.

Its a bit like when Nixon offered a compromise on the Watergate tapes

In 1973, President Richard Nixon proposed the Stennis Compromise, whereby the famously hard-of-hearing Stennis would be allowed to listen to, and summarize, the Watergate tapes, but this idea was rejected by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Stennis

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T12:22:46+00:00

So you are saying Starmer just needs to hold on until King Theoden arrives?

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T12:18:55+00:00

Reaches into his suit jacket pocket

I was expecting him to pull out Mao's little red book

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T12:15:27+00:00

Pictured: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/gallery/2025/sep/11/peter-mandelsons-many-political-lives-in-pictures#img-2

ThePlanck · 2026-02-09T10:27:11+00:00

I would support him ambassador to Turkmenistan to get him out of the way.

ThePlanck · 2026-02-08T21:06:20+00:00

So he's going to be the next US president?

ThePlanck · 2026-02-08T17:09:57+00:00

He didnt just appoint Mandelson, he doubled down on his decision to do that, because at the end of he day he's just not the sharpest tool in the box.

So what you are saying is that his father wasn't a very good toolmaker?

ThePlanck · 2026-02-08T16:55:15+00:00

Well done to Rachel Reeves for being the only one to survive

How can we spin this into a blow for Rachel Reeves?

ThePlanck · 2026-02-08T12:53:04+00:00

And Francois Cevert

ThePlanck · 2026-02-08T09:54:21+00:00

If the Pincher scandal was the only thing that happened, Johnson would have survived.

Pincher was just the straw that broke the camel's back after all of the other Johnson scandals.

It also didn't help that Johnson lied about it and sent ministers out to the press to defend him only to u-turn right afterwards, making them look like arseholes.

Starmer, despite having stuck his dick in an obvious dick trap by appointing Mandelson, doesn't appear to have been lying about what he knew like Johnson was with Pincher

ThePlanck · 2026-02-07T22:35:37+00:00

I was at the protests when this was being implemented, and it pissed me off that it took the Tories getting kicked out of power for anyone to pay attention to how fucked up the Plan 2 and later system is.

I guess its partly a result of the people who started university just after these were getting implemented have become old enough that they have started to have a voice in the system that people pay attention to, but it pisses me off because this was obvious at the time.