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Dont the LibDems usually lose support between elections? So stagnation might be an unususlly good performance from them.

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If no one is allowed to build a house, the only way to get one is to take it from someone else.

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All these complsints about housing costs, and yet none of them want to make it easier to build a house.

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ad99.bsky.social @ad99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thatcher did not do much worse than Labour among the young. Or Cameron. It is Brexit that cratered their support among the anti-Brexit generations.

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Not everyone can charge at home.

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ad99.bsky.social @ad99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They can say that when the law is passed. But most people will have forgotten by the election.

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ad99.bsky.social @ad99.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One thinks of the fellow who said Effective Altruism is hated by the Right because they are against Altruism, and by the Left because they are against Effectiveness.

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ad99.bsky.social @ad99.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is there any country in which this is not true? The people the voters always prioritise, are the voters.

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ad99.bsky.social @ad99.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Surely being a Starmer loyalist only requires you to believe he has a claim on your loyalty?

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I do not see us getting all the opt-outs again. They would be foolish to let us back in on those terms.

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In what way does your vote count if everyone knows who will win before you vote?

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I did not say otherwise. But if one betrays those that trusted it, it is going to be less trusted in future than it was. No amount of declaring that other countries are not perfectly trustworthy will change that.

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Then they are not reliable.

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The standard for "reliable" is whether they will return a favour. If you do not trust someone to do that, you do not trust him, regardless of whether you trust someone else.

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ad99.bsky.social @ad99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In what way does that argument make the US seem more reliable?

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I seem to remember a lot of articles abiut the psycholgy of Covid alarmists in early 2020. I seem to recall that the alarmists were right to be alarmed about a pandemic.

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ad99.bsky.social @ad99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

VCRs did, in fact, become common. Just not that particular brand.

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If the voters are "post-material", why do political parties keep promising them goodies for free?

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Charging people for restaurant reservations seems logical.

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Thank you for the motive. You are the first person in the discussion to mention so much.

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An irrational act, generally, is one that makes no sense, given the situation and your goals. It suggests an inability to think straight. A lot of cities were rationaly burned down during the world wars.

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I have not seen the end of the show, so do not really know. But i wish people would distinguish between an irrational act and one of which they morally disapproved.

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What were the mad things? Violent evil things, perhaps. But that is not mad.

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Oh look. Anothrr decades long project on which a fortune has been spent on paper will be cancelled while the government pretends to care about infrastructure. What a surprise. Who could have seen it coming?

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