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Irrelevant post time, mods will delete it, I don’t care though, I just want to say this.
UK politics make me genuinely sad. The UK is by all means a fine country, it’s got a solid welfare state, it’s approaching clean energy. But its political parties are all shit. Reform is Reform, Tories are Tories, Labour is straight up authoritarian, Greens are very dumb and Lib Dems don’t believe in anything. But Andy Burnham’s gonna fix everything, no he won’t. He’s literally just another Keir Starmer, he agrees with current govt positions on everything, he still opposes free speech. People being arrested for carrying signs say “I support Palestine Action” meanwhile Rupert Lowe actively incites racial violence and forms an ethnonationalist party. Labour going draconian on immigration. It’s so sad in all ways.
It just makes me genuinely sad to think about. The UK is becoming the most boring authoritarian state in the world where trans rights are constantly under attack and kids have no access to social media and the govt has an AI surveillance state, it’s all just gross to see happen under a “centre left” govt it’s so gross and there’s no hope. None at all. I can’t see a path forward for Britain, nobody’s willing to say what’s gotta be said without going way too far, I’m just genuinely so depressed about it and I feel really sad for the utter backsliding of human rights under Labour.

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New uneducated proposal: everyone gets $4,000 on their birthday, paid for by 5% land value tax

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I know it’s not really a typical thing to talk about on this subreddit, but I think it’s important, and I’d like to see the general consensus.
Thomas Massie is a far-right American Republican congressman. He worked with progressive liberal Ro Khanna to get the ball rolling on releasing the Epstein Files, and he opposes sending aid to Israel. He is, by all accounts, one of the last true libertarians. He votes with his party about 90% of the time.
He just lost his GOP primary because of those two things: releasing the Epstein Files and ceasing aid to Israel. Those two in tandem were enough to warrant over $15 MILLION in AIPAC money and active campaigning from the POTUS himself, in order to deseat probably the most popular Republican in Congress.
Let me be clear here: I do not support Thomas Massie. He is a pro-life, pro-gun, anti-*all* foreign aid, far-right American Republican. I would not vote for him under any circumstances.
HOWEVER.
This shows to me that the GOP stands for absolutely nothing. For all his faults, for all his failures, for everything he is and is not, he is a conservative in every way.
So this is MAGA. This is today’s GOP. They’ll defend neo-Nazi group chats, antisemitic slurs, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, misinformation, anything else really. But they draw the line at being anti-Israel and anti-pedophile.

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