Tricky one. I'm certainly not going to set myself up as an arbiter of obnoxious drivel. But if a perfectly decent site gets swamped with such obnoxious drivel you do yearn for someone to make it… (View Post)

Not even that. The other players are complicit in letting him win. It's the same as deliberately making mistakes playing draughts so the five year old can win. (View Post)

Harbinger? Local elections in Finland see the vote of the semi fascist Finns Party cut in half. Good result for the Centre Left. https://bsky.app/profile/jmkorhonen.fi/post/3lmqztorzw22i (View Post)

Indeed. For all its many bad acts, the American hegemony was better overall than what preceded it and also what's likely to replace it. (View Post)

A highly compelling case for Brexit. I'm won over. Long term, we're dead, of course, but when our time comes we can die happy in the knowledge that while nothing good came of Brexit, there … (View Post)