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There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.
At some point on TF I mentioned my friend who was once dating a girl who used to kiss her dog on the lips and one time after she kissed her dog she kissed him, and he was pretty sure there was a dog hair in his mouth. Anyway it turns out said woman’s dad is now running as a reform councillor
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.
And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.
so the £10k payments to asylum seekers to incentivise them to leave is pretty much a BNP policy from 2010s, the only difference being that the payment is worth a lot less in real terms now
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
As expected the far right is not actually against war if they’re allowed to brutalize brown people at home.
I’d actually send him some kimchi as a thank you gift
Possibly the funniest (stupidest) outcome would be a Qajar restoration
I actually think I would be fine getting interviewed by Isaac Chotiner. If anything we’d probably become friends afterwards
Going to be kind of funny to see Reza Pahlavi get fucked over by Trump, who absolutely sees him as a pathetic loser not worthy of his respect. I imagine he’ll probably try start a podcast at some point
Since we’re now 100% ignoring international law, here’s a piece I wrote for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social about how we fucking got here www.welcometohellworld.com/the-destruct...
They’re saying the wind is halal
I love working at the local sharia court where it’s my job to whisper into the wind, therefore making it Muslim
What did you think being a reactionary was? YouTube videos? Twitch streams?
Matt Walsh is having an absolute public meltdown today.
The Conservatives are, after all, well placed to know a lot about this morass, since they introduced it. In 2012, the coalition government launched the Plan 2 system of student loans and raised university fees across Britain to £9,000 per annum. To put Plan 2 in simple terms, loan repayments were laid out via a seemingly innocuous series of calculations. The first to consider is the threshold at which repayments begin. If you left education with, say, £27,000 worth of debt, you would only start paying it back once you met a predetermined salary. On its face, this might not seem like a particularly onerous demand. “Low-earning” graduates would avoid being saddled with repayments before they were financially able to begin making them, while their “high earning” peers could start chipping away at their debt, and provide an income stream for the state.
As any of my fellow literature or history graduates will tell you, however, the devil is in the details. For one thing, the threshold at which someone becomes a high earner was never particularly high and, following years of inflation, is now preposterously low. Rachel Reeves’ announcement that the government are freezing the threshold at April 2026 levels (£29,385) for a further three years only makes this worse. The real living wage for London is currently calculated at £28,860, which means that any London-based graduate making just £40 more per month than the minimum needed to live there will automatically begin paying their debt. In real terms, this means practically any graduate in any form of full-time work will be paying as much as 9 per cent of their income to the state, and for a very, very long time. Worse still, the amount owed by those graduates below the threshold does not remain static – it accrues interest, year on year, whether you’re working for low wages, volunteering, taking a career break or on maternity leave, ensuring that if you do pass the threshold some time later, you will be returning to find your original £27,000 much enlarged.
If the state’s attitude to what constitutes “high earnings” makes you think it’s oblivious to the concept of inflation, let me put your mind at ease. When it comes to the calculation of student loan interest, they are very conscious of inflation indeed. Each year, the interest charged on student loans is calculated by two components. The first is the Retail Price Index (RPI), which generally records a higher number than the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Governments prefer the latter, lower figure for many of their other calculations, just not when it comes to adding extra debt to every graduate in the country. To this is added a second component, a percentage tied to each graduate’s earnings, meaning that as your salary increases so too does the interest you’re paying on the loan you took out. If you think this seems like a predatory and punitive way to bilk students for as much money, and over as long a period of time, as possible, then you’re just about up to speed on this scandal, which amounts to a regressive stealth tax on every graduate in the UK. One which, it’s calculated, you would need to be earning £66,000 per year to pay off in anything like a timely fashion.
The debt burden of UK students is one of those things where, the more you look into the details, the more insane and predatory it is. So I tried my best to explain the numbers involved without making my, or your, head explode.
Saying a prayer for the influencers.
One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan
What a deeply evil and pathetic time
incredible, he did the joke
This is why they killed him
Regardless of what the man did, I will miss Ayotollah Khameinis book reviews
No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook
It’s called a shituation
Patrick Bet David
The basic argument is “would you like to survive and have institutions that work even at a basic level” and that will be refuted by a sizeable % of people saying “no”
Mine is that I’ve over promised on a lot of assignments and may have to come to terms that I can’t reasonably do them