I was first an inpatient for two weeks when I was 25 with a 50/50 chance of major life-changing surgery. The majority of patients were a fair bit older than me. I feel your pain with this.

Guys have also fought over it in karaoke bars in Asia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_...

Exactly. How many times have Arsenal previously been in both the semi finals of the champions league and top of the premier league at the same time? Zero. It’s tough but some perspective please.

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories …

This is certainly something that resinates with my experience with my father, who has recently taken to praising Lowe and spouting racist views.

But there is one topic that is notably absent from the piece that’s a gateway drug to far-right views. Can you guess?

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Starmer says it is ‘staggering’ and ‘unforgivable’ he was not told Mandelson failed vetting

Being kidnapped to another country where I knew no one and couldn’t speak the language. No one knew and no one cared, so I learned not to talk about it anymore. I think today we call it CPTSD.

Peter Magyar displaying a ruthlessness that Biden and Starmer seem devoid of

He ought to eat unseasoned grain and abstain.

The final sentence in that post is a sign that they’re not asking this question in the best of faith.

It started as a niche issue on the left and now has institutional capture of the judiciary, media and politics. Most people don’t care either way, but the relentless negative barrage and few trans voices has had some cut-through with the public at large. It could get worse before it gets better.

The amount of buck-passing among the Yanks today really shows that their president is no aberration. A feeble, joke nation.

A discussion of living under fascism is useless. Fine. Easier to just blame everyone who speaks English I guess. Have a nice day

I get that that’s a very progressive reading of history but it’s not very reflective of the world as it exists in its complexity today.

My partner is Spanish, my grandfather fled Germany in 1939, so I kind of get what happens when trust breaks down and you get a cult of personality. Yes, the rot is deep and there’s not an easy solution. But it is the responsibility of the United States largely, not a kind of world responsibility.

I want Americans to stop whining like they’re the victims in all of this. Do whatever you need to cope of course, but people who are directly affected by this stuff can read what you say and it’s insufferable.

No, I don’t even think half of Americans are psychotic! The problem is most of the other half are pretty comfortable, complacent and largely ignorant of the specific social issues that allowed this to take hold.

I mean, you could have a look at how people resisted in other militaristic dictatorships throughout history. The whataboutery and blaming other countries thing tends to be more what apologists for those dictatorships do.

Herman Göring used the “what about the British Empire” defence too. It took a generation for German people to accept some responsibility for what they had done. Although to be fair to Germans, they never elected Hitler with a popular vote in a free and fair election.

So even if that were true, which it’s not, it doesn’t include the guy you quoted.

When Americans talk like other countries’ histories absolve themselves of guilt, or that they’re the main victims of the American government, they sound exactly like Germans did in 1945.

Very good to know. Thanks!

I didn’t know this! Presumably the pharmacy would follow this up with the GP though so I wonder if there’s any risk of a fine? Curious, as I am eligible, but my partner who actually got long covid, is not.

Quite embarrassing lack of oversight by the BBC given their own key role in the 1953 coup.

It’s probably mostly template stuff anyway, but congratulations on getting it!

I obviously don’t think you’re responsible for what’s happening, you just sound like a. Russian intelligencia, and b. In complete denial about what’s actually going on in your country.

Ironically, defenders of the British empire have used similar rhetoric to deflect responsibility. “We weren’t the worst people doing it and if someone else had done it, it would have been worse.”

No, I don’t think accusations of hypocrisy somehow mitigate what the United States is doing to the world right now, as comforting as that might be for you.

It took Germany a generation to level with what it had done to the world, despite the CIA’s attempts to rehabilitate the worst of the einsatzgruppen.

These posts echo the grievance politics of Trump but from a progressive perspective. No one benefited more from US hegemony than the US themselves. While the wider West benefited too, the game has changed when US oligarchs are kowtowing to Trump while simultaneously undermining democracy over here.

Just because decoupling takes a long time, doesn’t in fact mean it won’t happen, even if it will take years, maybe decades. The US has proven itself an autocratic and oligarchic state, an unreliable ally more akin to a mafioso bully, and US liberals are in denial about the extent of this.