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Wow he really thinks a lot of himself doesn’t he?

And since they cut food stamps we should make a reference to that.

We could call it the Hungry Games or something. I don’t know, maybe we can workshop the idea

Really efficient sentencing. Kind of like that scene in Andor.

Guilty, next case.

It would be kind of ridiculous for them to publicly announce that. You can call Iran a rogue state because what are they going to do about it?

Publicly calling out the US is a bit more dangerous.

It’s always funny when the BBC report things about themselves. They always talk about themselves as if they’re a third party.

“The BBC understands that the BBC is been sued”

Despite this glowing endorsement the BBC can be kind of shit at times, especially with political stuff. But the reporting on US stuff is normally ok because they don’t have any dog in that race.

That’s mighty considerate of them, I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the current president of the United States is undoubtedly all over the files.

As is the online safety act. But at least that can be circumvented pretty easily

They’re not remotely the same and thing claiming that they are is entirely disingenuous.

Many digital-only forms of ID already exist. Apple wallet, TIN/SSN, that Covid passport thing, Biometric residence permits.

All of those are not controlled by the government, cannot be used to track people, or are entirely made up. I don’t know what this covid passport thing is.

Also are you even British, you’re talking about SSN’s, we don’t have those.

it makes me pretty grumpy that people are happy enough to have corporations like google, amazon, facebook, et al know everything about them, but somehow a government ID is a bridge too far.

People can make the choice to engage with those companies, but the government want to force the matter. Plus of course I can always just stop interacting with the companies if I decide they have got gone too far. They won’t get any more data from me then. But I can’t opt out of governmental ID cards.

Yeah because the Nazis weren’t stupid enough to alienate their own customers. MAGAs are.

The idiot leader was too stupid to provide contingencies. And the ICE goons are too stupid to understand them anyway.

Well yeah, it stayed on topic the whole way through

He really has got porridge for brains. It amazes me he can manage simultaneous walking and talking.

Why on earth would foreign companies want to invest in the US right now? He is the one that’s making it less likely, there was plenty of foreign investment in the US under previous administrations then this moron came along and ruined it all.

AH yes, the famous Russian air force. Everyone knows having dead pilots in crashed planes is a tactical advantage. I’m sure the west will find them most challenging.

Putin on Friday said any guarantees that involved boots on the ground would violate Moscow’s longstanding objections to Nato troops in Ukraine.

What does that even mean? How do you violate someone else’s standards that you didn’t agree to, that’s not “violating” anything, that’s just them not liking it.

What does his commanding officer do just roll his eyes in point at things?

Due to his inability to understand the language and his complete lack of any military experience, I have to assume he’s more of a liability than an asset.

I was thinking on the same lines.

It’s just a numbers game.

He would expect people to learn English before arriving in the US so the inverse should also be true. And yeah learning Russian is hard, but that’s his problem. It’s not like he had to leave in an emergency, the threat that he was experiencing is entirely fictional.

Well Americans would probably do best to learn Spanish. The problem is it’s not so clear-cut in the UK, in theory we should learn French, except the French don’t appreciate it and speak English anyway. The Spanish and Germans also speak English so again there doesn’t seem to be an obvious language to learn.

If you’re going to learn a language that want to give you the maximum ability to communicate with new people it’d probably be Japanese but realistically no one in the UK is going to learn Japanese.