The thing is this isn't even neoliberal ideology. It's not any ideology. Huge tax cut when you have inflation running away and interest rates are going to have to go up? What, no. If neoliberal ideol… (View Post)

Just to say I was totally and utterly wrong about Truss, I assumed she was just telling the members what they wanted to hear and she'd pivot when she got the job. My general mental model of British p… (View Post)

She can get the best of both worlds. The people who supported her are mad and/or incompetent so she can reward them for their loyalty, then sack them when they do something mad and/or incompetent and… (View Post)

The populations of these provinces were like 6 million people or something before the war, they'll be even lower now. Most of them were in Ukraine-controlled areas before the war. Let's exaggerate ma… (View Post)

OT video on the twitters of the Ukraine flag flying over Balakliya, the town the offensive yesterday surrounded on 3 sides. Claims of fighting getting close to Kupiansk, the key road/rail hub. (View Post)