Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)
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IdleRich
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In fact this is the fundamental problem with western democratic systems isn't it? That the system picks people who are good at winning elections rather than those who are good at running a country. I don't really see any particular reason why those two things should be correlated. So now I think about it a bit more, it seems pretty likely that any leader is gonna be a ninja in the PR/winning bit and it's pretty much fifty-fifty whether they turn out to be good at running things or not. So I reckon the contradiction you identified is in fact likely to be what's going on about half of the time, before we even talk about individuals, purely cos of the way the system is set up.
Leo
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that was kind of my point: they aren't as clueless and bungling as lots of progressive media like to portray them to be.
but trump and Boris are in different situations: Boris won recently and made brexit happen, whereas trump hasn't run in four years, is under water regarding approval rating and his party got creamed in the biggest mid-term election lost in history. incumbents often see their party lose in mid-terms but this GOP loss was huge.
Mr. Tea
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I saw a photo of Johnson the other day after he came out of hospital - he looked like absolute shit. If there was any chicanery going on, they did a masterful job on the makeup.
But whatever really happened, he's made good capital out of it: 66% say he's doing well or very well compared to 26% saying badly or very bady.
But whatever really happened, he's made good capital out of it: 66% say he's doing well or very well compared to 26% saying badly or very bady.
Mr. Tea
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Classic Dom!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Regarding those 128 fake <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NHS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#NHS</a> Staff accounts posting for 'Herd Mentality' and support of the Govt that were set up by <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSCgovuk?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@DHSCgovuk</a> or their marketing agency ...<br><br>Posts were sent using Hootsuite, a mass-posting tool. Account registered to 1 person with 4 assigned contributors. <a href="https://t.co/r7fRFQaFwG">pic.twitter.com/r7fRFQaFwG</a></p>— John O'Connell (@jdpoc) <a href="">April 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Regarding those 128 fake <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NHS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#NHS</a> Staff accounts posting for 'Herd Mentality' and support of the Govt that were set up by <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSCgovuk?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@DHSCgovuk</a> or their marketing agency ...<br><br>Posts were sent using Hootsuite, a mass-posting tool. Account registered to 1 person with 4 assigned contributors. <a href="https://t.co/r7fRFQaFwG">pic.twitter.com/r7fRFQaFwG</a></p>— John O'Connell (@jdpoc) <a href="">April 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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luka
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That's the thing that feels mostly darkly sinister and deliberate. The treatment of the hospital staff. (Are they all NHS? I doubt it. Bet cleaners etc are subcontracted)
Mr. Tea
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It's all part of the branding of the attempt to contain the disease as a "war". Johnson as the new Churchill, and all that. Fills the void left by Brexit, which was also a "war", as was the economic crisis before that. Keep Calm and Carry On, because We're All In This Together.
Mr. Tea
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Reminds me of that interview with Aaron Bastani where he says he would be happy to publish stories about Tories being racist or homophobic or whatever that he knew were false. But he represents a kind of self-consciously 'bad boy'-ish part of the left which - their fanatical pro-Corbyn stance notwithstanding - doesn't have a great deal to do with the Labour party.
Damned if you do (and face charges of hypocrisy, not least from your own side), damned if you don't (and fight with one hand behind your back). I think notionally progressive parties are at a massive inherent disadvantage here.
Have you seen the oil price?
It's negative.
Dear Russia, dear independent Scotland, any comment?
It's negative.
Dear Russia, dear independent Scotland, any comment?
Mr. Tea
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Holy shit, I thought you were being hyperbolic but it actually is. Fucking hell.
And the price of a litre of fuel on a UK forecourt drops by all of about 25p of course, lol.
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