If you think England out of all the countries in Europe is most like the US, or is really similar in general, you need to learn more about Europe and England

Or a kidnapping of Netanyahu

There are people here trying to justify this? I can’t find a single comment that is

Totally just vibed out that conclusion there eh?

“We didn’t get them enough extra plays and new fans last time, let’s give it another go”

Well the most widely accepted main reason why Sapiens survived is actually because we were better at social learning, which led to us being more cooperative, forming larger groups, gaining knowledge and passing it around more easily, amongst other things. Not to say we didn’t have a hand in wiping out the Neaderthals but us being more violent wasn’t the reason why we’re still about

The “patriotic” mentality is also helped along by Russia too

This made me wonder do uncontacted peoples have microplastics in them in large amounts like we all do? Like say the Sentinelese, for instance? I’m sure they do have some at least, despite them not using it, but maybe not nearly to the extent we do? This isn’t me advocating for using uncontacted peoples for studies and so on, obviously that’s not a moral way to go at all. Just a curiosity thing. If so, then if this is the huge ticking time bomb we suspect it might be then maybe we’ll all die off and they’ll be pretty much the only ones left. Maybe even unaware for the most part that we all died off. Yeah I’m just rambling at this point…

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Thanks for the productive discussion. I’ll take these well thought out and explained points of yours against my own and think on them

Have you considered a career in politics? You’d be so good at convincing people and not just sitting on a supposed “intellectual” high horse while what you want to happen doesn’t

Yeah I have to agree that simply labeling people as this is reductive and doesn’t help things. There are valid reasons for not being in the EU from a left wing perspective, and the reasons for voting for Brexit are wide. I believe that it was wrong of us to leave. But we shouldn’t simply attack and insult people for voting for us to leave when there are various longstanding socioeconomic conditions that have led to it. Racism/xenophobia was a big factor, sure, and the people that voted for it based off that are bad. But it’s far from the only reason. The problem is that so much of our situation, or what could have been our situation, has been put down to us being in/not being in the EU. We can address those socioeconomic conditions that led to the leave vote winning without being in the EU. Unfortunately we haven’t had a government since the vote that’s been willing to do what needs to be done

Knew it! DS2 stans vindicated

I imagine it’s meant to look cyberpunk or whatever. But it just looks like something a teenager would scratch into a school desk

Very true. The government is full of ways to funnel public money into rich people’s pockets by design. And then they do their best to convince the not-rich that it’s the marginalised in society that are causing pretty much all of our problems, actually

Not soft, not me. It’s best we all suffer so that some can suffer even more than others. Now to go to the pub for the fifth time this week to bury my emotional problems. Spending on mental healthcare? Sounds like “benefits” to me

Don’t talk about spending money early in a preventative manner that benefits society. That’s illegal here. We let things get bad and end up spending way more money in a reactive way that usually brings the worst outcome. And we’re proud of it

The “We value your privacy” line really is the slogan of the tech world for these times. Keep seeing it everywhere so it must be true

Ahh I see fair enough! Yeah you’re right that Corbyn’s opinion isn’t the law of YP but that’s still encouraging. As much as I see issues with YP I don’t see them as an overall bad entity at all. And in my opinion the priority needs to be an antifascist coalition, in both the electoral and community levels. I’m sure there are many (hopefully most) in both parties that feel the same

Are they a very centrist membership, especially since Polanski became leader and the massive influx of new members after that? He won with a huge majority over the centrist candidates and the amount of members has almost trebled since he won. And has he had a particularly centrist political history? He used to be a Lib Dem sure but he left them in 2017. If he’s still pushed for centrist policies in recent years then I’d like to know about it. But either way he clearly isn’t a centrist now. The difference between him and Starmer is that the Greens are far more democratic than Labour and the members can make the party have a left wing agenda, regardless of the leader’s views. Starmer won the leadership on a centre-left platform and then showed he’s actually right wing further down the line. But any left wing Labour members have very little power to influence party policy

And also have Your Party said they’re willing to have electoral agreements with the Greens? From what I’ve seen so far the implication from YP is that they wouldn’t. But I’d be happy to be wrong

Your Party are an explicitly socialist party and want to replace capitalism with socialism. The Greens are a social democratic party (actual social democrats, not the faux ones that the majority of “social democratic” European parties are). That isn’t to say there aren’t socialist members of the Greens, probably most of them are. I’m one of them. There’s just a lot of reasons not to support Your Party even if you are socialist, as I see it