If you look at the dietary laws, the injunctions to monotheism, and the laws concerning sexuality and marriage it suggests that the prime concern was with providing the numbers to outcompete other nations, and I am using the word in its original meaning of an alliance of closely related tribes or clans. Israelite Nation, who are the people we have to thank for the Abrahamic religions, could see that it was a pure numbers game. If you could prevent food poisoning and other biological hazards and could also provide an extensive system of laws to adjudicate disputes without the need for violence within the tribes, then you could get everyone faced the same way. You had a growing population so that once the warriors killed the neighbours you could then quickly settle and colonise with the civilian contingent who could then produce more supplies for ever bigger military campaigns.

Reminds me of the time that Disney had to send round a memo ordering their staff to stop referring to the studio as ‘Mauschwitz’ on social media. The staff complied, changing the name to ‘Duckau’.

This guy is a liar himself, look how he distorts the evidence. For example: Trump is an awful human being and a terrible leader and I’d go as far as to say that his January 6th shenanigans were treasonous but to pin the rise in the murder rate on him and him alone seems to be a wilful neglect of the other circumstances. Covid isolated people within their own houses and there are a lot of guns in those houses as is outlined in one of the links in the article.

File under: more Conservative hypocrisy.

Edit: Almost complete list here.

I didn’t know the difference so I looked it up: https://www.spinny.com/blog/index.php/awd-vs-4wd-the-difference-explained/

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“I’d like to give them some fucking stimulus.”

If you want to insure yourself against capital flight go for a Land Value Tax. Let 'em shove a hectare of land in their luggage.

OK so it’s time to say the quiet part out loud: the reason that governments have so far held off on taxing billionaires at 1% or 2% is the fear that they might spend 2% or 3% against those governments in revenge.

General Zod: I like the globe…

Monty, you terrible cunt!

What ever happened to him?

Well, he pulled it on Rorschach, and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft.

the ability of professional journalists to locate these specimens.

Heave half a brick out of window and you’ll hit one.

Even worse than that, the far right, as represented by Reform, did better than they have previously done and could yet cause us more problems come the next general election. It’s possible that the centrist government that’s just been elected will manage effectively enough to kill a lot of the sense of grievance that is currently being harnessed by Reform and directed against immigrants but it’s equally possible that another global recession could tank that entire programme.

Still and all I appreciate you coming in here to talk with me about how your thinking has changed. I agree that the French very much did what you say they did. I don’t know if there are still people alive who remember the Vichy government but it could be that amongst the traditionally conservative people in their seventies and eighties there’s still a horror about what the Nazis wrought.

Well that was more entertaining than I thought it would be.

What happens when a Tory learns about empathy?

Cognitive dissonance.

Only way I can imagine Suella chasing a trans voter is with a cricket bat.

The butter won’t make him fat but the pasta will.

It’s pure maths. The Tory votes plus the Reform votes is a bigger sum than the Labour vote. Listen. I have to live here with these fucks so I don’t like it any more than you do. But without the collapse in the Tory vote it wouldn’t have mattered what Keir Starmer or Ed Davey did.

That’s not what happened. The right wing vote got split by dummies wanting to vote for a party further to the right than their normal brand and the centre voted for the party that was still in the centre. I mean it was a good result in that the Normal Dummy Party got kicked out but if you look at the history they have been in control for most of the past two centuries because the electorate of this country are mainly right-leaning dummies.