Don't give us that "job creators" crap. AI proliferation is a strategy to minimise employment.

Keeping a new generation poor and uneducated is the only way they can secure votes for the future.

Dictatorship is always weak and vulnerable. It can only survive with the support of other dictators.

I sincerely hope you're right.
America under Trump has, sadly, become the very definition of 'bad faith'.

In the past, when an unhinged despot has broken international law, Western governments have responded with economic sanctions, travel bans and asset seizures.
So, that's the response we can expect against the current US regime, right?
Right?

There's an old hippie adage from the days of the Vietnam War:
"Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?"
I dearly hope that proves to be the case with the Trump/Netanyahu assault on Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon.
I just weep for the suffering already caused by this illegal action.

Our evolution conditioned us to view the 'other' with fear and suspicion.
You and I need to evolve beyond that primitive conditioning, and realise that there is no 'other'.

If you think you are something distinct from that family you see, with the unfamiliar language and different complexion, then you are deluded.
We only exist at all in our relationship with the entirety of our surroundings and all the beings therein, and they are the same.

Hard to disagree, assuming you are not a MAGA cultist...

Let nobody pretend that Iran's power plants are a legitimate military target.
To target civilian power supplies is to target hospitals, food production, refrigeration, so many things on which people's day to day survival depends.

Another week, and Trump has done nothing but disgrace himself and his country in the eyes of the world.

Oh no! Commander Bone-spurs, whose family has done no military service in 150 years, is calling us "cowards" for not being complicit in his illegal war! However will we cope?... sorry, my sarcasm button has broken.

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser. econ.st/4lA7lEQ

Great pack! Followed all new folk.

'Christian Values' for your conformity, not for their criminality.

That universal healthcare is not profit-driven makes it 'anathema' to the capitalist belief system.

My 'passionate plea' was supposed to be a parody of Trump's 'Rise up Iran' tweet. Sorry if that didn't come across 🙂.

I am a Humanist, because I believe religion has no place in government. Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu, you should leave that at the door.
Any reference to "God's will" belongs in the Dark Ages.
The will, and wellbeing, of the people is the only belief that should be upheld in those chambers.

72 countries in the world have some form of universal health care. There is no a shortage of tested models.
There just needs to be the will.
The fact that it is not profit-driven makes it anathema to the capitalist regime, but they can find billions of dollars to execute illegal wars in your name.

Point taken 🙏. We have insurance companies and private care, which is fine if you want prompt, comfortable service, and you're free to argue with them about coverage.
It's not either/or.
But universal healthcare provides for you, your family, your employees. There is no such thing as medical debt.

I will always wish you'd talked to me, before you did what you did.
So now I'm resolved to do what I can to be there for the other you's, to see you, and to listen.

So, I've just had scheduled thyroid surgery on the National Health Service and an overnight stay in hospital, and it's not costing me a penny.
American people, I urge to to rise up! You may not have another chance in this generation!
Thank you for your attention in this matter.

I have zero respect for our monarchy - the whole concept is primitive and ridiculous- but I will have less than zero if their visit to Washington goes ahead as planned, after the orange ape has been petulantly throwing poop at us for the last month.

I dunno, you talk sh*t about your fellow NATO members, you hit all your trading partners with heavy tariffs, and now you're all indignant because they won't help with the illegal aggressive war that you started.
Are you trippin', or just bone stupid?

Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’ In comments to NBC News, US president also deflates hope of deal with Tehran, saying ‘terms aren’t good enough’

Trump is a sadistic, power-crazed dictator who treats war like his own video game and is shaming America in the eyes of the world.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Just noticed - my stupid fault for not checking - that Waitrose is still happily doing business with a genocidal regime.
Let the buyer beware.

Sorry, but does he think he's going to get credit for stopping a war that he started?
The syphilitic emperor rants again.

Anyone else think Donald is being premature in declaring the war to be "very complete, pretty much"?
I mean, shouldn't he check with his Israeli boss first?

It seems a dreadful pity that Armageddon, if it happens, is likely to be a self-fulfilling prophesy brought to us by the religious maniacs who have too much influence the US and Israeli governments.