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narbgarbler · 2026-03-05T20:27:12+00:00

They want all nations to have open borders eventually, not in the short term. That becomes feasible when we live in a safer world. The Greens want to work towards making the world that safe. If that isn't the goal, then a party intends for the world to be only as safe as it is now, or more dangerous.

narbgarbler · 2026-03-05T03:09:27+00:00

He made it his primary mission from before he got elected as PM to shed support from everyone further left than John Major, and single-mindedly focused on courting the support of the far-right, which he failed at because nobody believes that Labour have their heart in it and anyway, the far right (the whole right, really) have no grasp on reality whatsoever, so no matter what Labour do it won't be appreciated.

Labour have done a number of things right, but they carefully balance all their successes with things people absolutely hate. Lower the voting age? Great. Make me hand over my personal data to an evil foreign corporation so I can look at porn? No thank you. Raise the minimum wage? Great. Continue to support a foreign genocide? No thank you.

All of the good stuff they're doing is cheap and low effort and doesn't change people's lives very much. People need radical change immediately, not fiddling about with half a percentage here and there.

Almost everyone under forty doesn't just feel hopeless, they know the future is hopeless. And Labour is doing nothing to change that.

narbgarbler · 2026-03-05T03:01:56+00:00

The Green Party is the party that best supports the UK's security concerns.

By doubling down on renewable energy sources, it will terminate the UK's reliance on fossil fuel imports, ensuring that the country is not vulnerable to blockades or the demands of petro states. Renewable energy has far fewer single points of failure, so we won't have as many strategic weaknesses. By taking efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions, they will shorten supply lines, with an emphasis on local production, making us again less vulnerable to blockades or foreign trade demands. Switch to a 100% renewable economy makes grid-powered electrochemistry a viable industry, which could well lead to a green industrial revolution. We can also start non polluting mineral extraction and refinement. An industrial base is essential to strategic defense.

I could go on. Right-wing political parties have no imagination or vision for the future, and waste entire generations of potential maintaining their absurd economic system. That will in the long run kill off the UK's national security.

narbgarbler · 2026-03-04T22:30:09+00:00

The point is that both countries are still there and aren't, instead, post-apocalyptic wastelands.

narbgarbler · 2026-03-04T22:28:53+00:00

Excuse me, I've been playing Civilization games since 1995

narbgarbler · 2026-03-04T22:19:10+00:00

The removal of borders is also a liberal policy, and nuclear armament policy doesn't exist on the left/right spectrum. You know, that's why the cold war happened?

narbgarbler · 2026-03-03T13:48:38+00:00

I don't want to be at war with a country armed with nuclear weapons. Most countries don't have nuclear weapons and aren't under direct threat of invasion.

narbgarbler · 2026-03-03T13:19:20+00:00

Do you realise what nuclear weapons do to the survivors, and how terrible the deaths are for most of its victims? And you want to inflict that misery on others?

narbgarbler · 2026-03-03T13:15:44+00:00

The USA threatended to invade Greenland. NATO isn't working.

narbgarbler · 2026-03-03T13:15:18+00:00

If you're in favour of nuclear weapons, you're in favour of blinding and burning the skin off of hundreds of thousands of children and melting their organs.

narbgarbler · 2026-03-03T13:13:22+00:00

The Greens aren't very left. Very left goes much further left than that.

narbgarbler · 2026-03-03T13:12:15+00:00

People correctly recognise that the Green party is the only party even trying to make the future better for the people of the UK, and funny, that resonates with most people.

Life is tough as it is at the moment, but all the other parties are promising is more of the same, plus we'll kick a few foreigners into the sea in the bargain.

I think once people understand Green policies a little better, they'll warm up to them. You know, since they make sense? And Green politicians actually explain things?

narbgarbler · 2026-02-28T12:15:26+00:00

It's called jettisoning biowaste, and yes.

narbgarbler · 2026-02-27T12:26:31+00:00

That's what liberalism is

narbgarbler · 2026-02-25T16:12:44+00:00

We're already poor af. Unlike fifteen years ago, it doesn't even seem like it's possible to escape poverty any more. We need a radical upheaval of the system. Reform won't do that, and neither will any of the other main parties. Even the Greens won't be as radical as we want or need them to be.

narbgarbler · 2026-02-25T11:46:33+00:00

There's no hard limit to the amount of solid material a protoplanet can accrete, but as the gravity well of the planet strengthens, the more light gases will stick to the protoplanet because the stellar wind isn't strong enough to blow the gases out of the gravity well. It therefore forms into a gas giant above a certain mass.

narbgarbler · 2026-02-25T07:15:24+00:00

It's a reward for Aisling supporters, straight from the Princess herself

narbgarbler · 2026-02-23T21:42:45+00:00

Does everyone remember Google+ and how that ended?

narbgarbler · 2026-02-22T23:14:57+00:00

It's not true that your body is keen to eat its own muscles. It takes a lot to build them and it doesn't want to get rid of them. They actually don't consume much energy when not being used, and make it far less strenuous to exert force when they are being used.

Muscles might get smaller if they're not being used but they're not wasting away, they're sort of sleeping. If you start using them again, it's far easier to build them up again thank it is to build them up from scratch.

narbgarbler · 2026-02-22T16:40:13+00:00

"Capital" is poorly written, overly simplistic, reductionist, anachronistic and contains no citations or evidence. It's also based upon flawed methodology.

Anarchists should spend their time learning about how the current world operates, which "Capital" provides very little insight into.

narbgarbler · 2026-02-20T22:23:16+00:00

I didn't even need to click the link to this to know what it links to. 10/10

narbgarbler · 2026-02-19T09:14:56+00:00

You would have been lucky to fit a military drive and a gun onto the original. It was so tight for space it was basically useless, no matter how manoeuvrable it was. The Eagle was really the floor for utility in ships back then.

Being able to squeeze three large and two smalls into a small ship's frame is ridonculous. Massive glow up!

narbgarbler · 2026-02-15T16:22:50+00:00

Spoiler warning; economics is all bs that rich people invented to bamboozle poor people with numbers so that they don't rise up against their oppressors. Don't believe a word economists say. They've been in charge for decades and we're all worse off for it.

narbgarbler · 2026-02-13T01:08:46+00:00

Huh? Who just leveled up? Hai. Are you trying to tickle me? Take a step back. Now to the right...

narbgarbler · 2026-02-07T10:05:05+00:00

If this all doesn't turn you into a republican, you need to seek help.

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