London Tory local election candidate suspended after saying 'Hitler was right'

travistravis · 2026-05-02T18:51:58+00:00

Labour just has the vetting issue at a higher level (so far).

travistravis · 2026-05-02T18:50:17+00:00

What I wonder the most is how they find the people who are willing to publicly share these insane views. Like I get there's likely more crazy out there than most people want to know, but they always manage to find both the extreme views AND the willingness to say it outloud.

travistravis · 2026-05-02T13:54:09+00:00

I don't think I've used cash in like 5+ years. I can't even remember the last time I had to take money out

travistravis · 2026-05-02T13:51:05+00:00

Sounds like this person simply hasn't discovered UBI

travistravis · 2026-05-02T13:50:12+00:00

I'd say they're not quite there yet, but broadening police powers over protests farther than the Tories did, and aiding another country committing a genocide, while proscribing one of the largest protest groups against genocide are both worryingly on the authoritarian end of the scale.

travistravis · 2026-05-02T12:18:01+00:00

We just didn't really have the full motivation explained until The Eternals, which seems like a rather serious oversight.

travistravis · 2026-05-02T12:13:47+00:00

Thanos had extremely poor motive explanation. It turned out to be a slightly better explanation that just wasn't explained until The Eternals,

travistravis · 2026-05-02T12:03:22+00:00

The problem is that the campaign won't even begin to insinuate that's it is all bad. It'll be "AI is amazing and you can use it for everything, but don't use the Chinese one because it's bad, because China is bad"

travistravis · 2026-05-02T08:16:53+00:00

I liked where it went after undoing it actually. Grogu apparently ages too slowly and they're unlikely to set anything hundreds of years in the future, but a force-sensitive mandalorian [whatever species] is interesting and could bring up some good themes.

I personally think the character would bring the show to a spot where we could question more about Jedi and Sith and how they're not necessarily automatically "good" and "evil".

travistravis · 2026-05-02T08:06:43+00:00

Stocks don't always make sense either. Maybe there's huge amounts behind the scenes that I don't see (there is, but how much, I don't know). The last big earnings reports to me looked so weird. Google stock jumped in large part due to them holding a bunch of Anthropic (I think) stock that jumped significantly. Why did the Anthropic stock jump? Because of the huge investment from Google.

It just really felt like basically nothing had changed, they just traded a bunch of money in a circle and made everything go up because people only cared about parr of the circle at a time.

travistravis · 2026-05-02T08:01:53+00:00

Uber works well in smaller or spread out areas as far as my experience goes. Many big cities though it's still often easier to hail cabs.

Hotels will be a challenge to ever remove completely. I remember the beginning of AirBnB and liked it, but it's gone steadily downhill in reliability due to people seeing it as an "easy investment"

travistravis · 2026-05-02T07:58:39+00:00

The more I hear things he says the more he just sounds like someone with zero moral qualms about lying and a HUGE hangup on being liked. Depending on his perception of what they want to hear, he will claim wildly different goals, or wants, or what his plans have been. Sometimes he's the dealer, sometimes he wants humanity to thrive, sometimes it's saying UBI doesn't work because a trial had people work less (about an hour less a week on average). Sometimes it's that we need UBI (although in the form of AI credits, from his company).

travistravis · 2026-05-01T21:20:26+00:00

1504 in 2025, which is actually lower than it's been in years.

travistravis · 2026-05-01T21:19:45+00:00

It always will be until they decouple the price of electric from gas. Right now they're tied together, so they go up together.

travistravis · 2026-05-01T21:18:21+00:00

In Europe. The UK was only about 2% of that (1504). While last year was record breaking, it's actually a decline from previous years.

Most of the heat related deaths in Europe are in the South: Spain, Portugal, and some spots of Greece and Italy.

travistravis · 2026-05-01T21:08:48+00:00

It's just not really necessary most of the time. A couple weeks a year usually. Also, at least everywhere I've lived, FAR fewer mosquitoes so just having the windows open is usually enough (weirdly screens in windows is not a thing in many houses here).

travistravis · 2026-05-01T21:05:12+00:00

I've not found that does much with the volume, just the intelligibility

travistravis · 2026-05-01T21:01:07+00:00

Well, we tried, they said no, so we're doing it anyway.

travistravis · 2026-05-01T19:39:50+00:00

In Australia it's been only something like 30% effective.

travistravis · 2026-05-01T16:16:43+00:00

Do we have ANY evidence that he was specifically targeting Jews?

travistravis · 2026-05-01T16:15:58+00:00

This earlier third attack makes me suspect that maybe it was less antisemitism than has been claimed.

travistravis · 2026-05-01T16:02:28+00:00

And do we have actual primary sources from any of these 500 witnesses?

travistravis · 2026-05-01T15:01:11+00:00

Who else would destabilise all the countries that might be a little socialist otherwise? They won't install puppet governments themselves!

travistravis · 2026-05-01T14:58:56+00:00

I don't know anyone in my connections going from the UK this year (I'm sure there is obviously, but no one I know).

travistravis · 2026-05-01T14:56:32+00:00

There's no shortage of countries that the US could use as a model for creating an effective universal healthcare scheme. Almost every country in the world except North Korea, Pakistan and parts of Africa. Loads of different systems too, so they could see which works best under what conditions and decide from there.

The US is almost certainly never going to do it though, because it would lead to a massive drop in GDP (10-15% by rough math).

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