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23, He/Him. Social Liberal, train-loving YIMBY 🏘🚆🚉🏗, also a Sufjan fan
Canterbury, mostly
Joined March 2015
Alternatively, we could choose to not be unbearably twee
OK, let's settle this. 🚆.
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@neighborrunner Satire is good but it'd be way better if at the end of the satire the satirist turned to the camera and said "I am a communist now" and then specified they were the exact same kind of communist that I am.
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Stratford Station commands the full pentarchy of London transport modes, now they just need to run a tram to it
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In 2014, France dramatically restructured its internal borders, creating 13 powerful new regions across the Metropole with average populations of around 5 million. Taking this as a blueprint, here's my idea of how a similar comprehensive restructuring could be done in England.
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Around the world, an entire generation is being locked out of home ownership — and governments don’t know how to fix it
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@Trey_Explainer New Twitter's great because once, if I looked through the replies to a prompt like that, the first ones I'd see were generally quite funny, whereas now it's just endless bluechecks, none of whom are funny and most of whom respond with entirely unrelated screenshots of old memes.
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Ebbsfleet International, with three high speed trains per hour to St Pancras (20 minute journey), is literally next to a big empty field!
Thamesmead deserves quality transport but housebuilders need to actually build when billions is spent on transport. Still vast empty space around Abbey Wood, North Greenwich, Ebbsfleet and nothing on top of the Jubilee extension stations 24 years on. 🏘️
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@deltaVelocity_ He's like one of those hypothetical humans that evolved to withstand car crashes.
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@IRHotTakes America's industrial capacity is massively understated in vanilla HOI4. Germany (after conquering its neighbours) and the Soviet Union both have way more building slots and tend to have more factories late game.
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I tire of this entire discourse, but this is exceptionally silly. Under US Law, if any American is ever tried at the Hague, the US President is authorised to invade the Netherlands. If the US were somehow part of the EU, Leave would win 80-90%.
Part of why I am not so confident the UK would be a reliably blue state if admitted to the US…
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@_wayneburkett @peer_rich In the case of Germany, that's mostly because Americans work longer hours, and many have virtually no paid leave. Europeans don't accept that tradeoff, and I'm glad we don't.
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Malthus has been dead for 186 years, 'The Population Bomb' discredited for 50, and still we repeat their mistakes. Overpopulation will not be a significant problem in this century, and by 2050 underpopulation will be a bigger problem in many parts of the world, including the US.
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Worth reminding the Russians that the EU also has a mutual defence agreement, in the Treaty of Lisbon. War with Finland or Sweden would be a war with the rest of Europe and, almost inevitably, with NATO.
Russian foreign ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova warns Finland and Sweden they would 'face some military and political consequences' if they tried to join Nato.
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@henryzcohen America built dozens, backed up by the most extensive transit infrastructure in the world. Then it unwound almost all of them into the car dependent cities we know today.
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@rohanarezel The root cause of the housing crisis is a shortage of housing. Supply and demand are the fundamental economic forces at play, and YIMBYs arent the ones who ignore them.
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Why? China is the global centre for illegal wildlife trading, China failed to regulate wet markets, China silenced whistleblower doctors, China blocked foreign experts, and China downplayed this for weeks despite knowing about it since last year.
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@saltysauerkraut So many accounts on here that are just. evil. Not always in a truly shocking way, they're just really, really bad people. It doesn't even make me angry, it's just depressing.
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@RepealTCPA1947 People having access to a sausage roll after 10pm will cause crime. I am very serious.
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Good! That's good! Every one of them will have paid thousands in international student fees, and (by their nature) every one of them is a highly skilled immigrant. We should have the vision and ambition to recognise that this is one of our great strengths, not some kind of flaw.
50,631 Nigerian students brought 51,637 dependants to Britain last year.
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I'm somewhat supportive of the idea of big publicly-owned enterprises operating in rail, power, and water, but I find the trend towards naming these proposed companies "Great British _____" really tacky. They aren't gonna be Bake Offs, so the right label is just "British".
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Open to persuasion, but this seems like a very reasonable, even-handed response by the professor and I don't really understand why so many people in the replies are outraged.
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Bernie was wrong to oppose the First Gulf War, and he wasn't standing for peace - he was standing for the Iraqi invasion of a sovereign country.
This is Bernie speaking against the First Gulf War to an empty House of Representatives. When it was hard to stand for peace, Bernie was willing to stand alone. It has never been easy for me to trust politicians, but #ITrustBernie to do everything he can to stop war.
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@_SalmanAnwar @metpoliceuk He's a menace, but I also can't imagine anyone easier to arrest and prosecute - he's literally documenting his crimes himself! Met should've acted already.
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@keewa There's an immense literature in economics demonstrating that increased supply lowers rents, and there are a huge number of current, recent, and historical examples of this around the world.
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@GeorgismFan I have no idea who it appeals to, just screams insecurity and a lack of self-respect.
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@rythehellnot It's moments like this that I painfully miss Vine. Those 6 second clips were long enough to be hilarious and memorable but too short to spread increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories.
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Tenants didnt unionize in Mao's China, they brutalised and killed millions from a very large class of rural landowners, many of them barely more than wealthy peasants. About 2 million were killed, about 5 million were deported to prison camps. Mao memes are fucking disgusting.
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@86josepharmour @panoparker Very disingenuous, they briefly peaked at 7x (a level lower than we have now) in the aftermath of World War 2, then a concerted building effort brought them down to 4x by the mid-late 50s, a level at which they roughly hovered until the early 90s. Since then, it's doubled.
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Design principles -.Regional borders should aim for historical, cultural, and economic coherence, balancing these factors against one another. Regions should be similar in size to the devolved nations and each other. Region names should be anchored in deep history when possible.
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@JettTrj82099 @TheOmniZaddy Who can forget when President Bush sent 700,000 troops into Los Angeles?.
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Why build HS2 when we can just build a second high speed rail line?.
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@vanillatary After realising they couldn't push up birth rates, the Chinese government opted for a "size over quantity" approach. Each new baby now has the strength of two infants 💪🇨🇳.
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@hectorcrosbie @RishiSunak The RSPCA aren't experts, they're a lobby group advocating an extreme position in spite of data that makes it abundantly clear that breed matters.
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1) Calling Pete homophobic will definitely work. 2) The choice was between Joe Donnelly, a moderate Democrat, and Richard Mourdock, who described rape as something "God intended to happen". 3) Does this mean we can say "Socialists hate liberals more than fascists"?.
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@tenebraehue @Missysartbook Benedict Cumberbatch should scuttle around in shame forever because of the crimes of his ancestors. I am very progressive.
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Great answer from Ed Davey. It is clearly true. It's been the consensus of the medical and psychiatric professions for decades, it's been the position of the law since 2004, and it's the lived experience of thousands who deserve decency and respect.
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Remember when Erdogan's bodyguards brutally assaulted American protesters on American soil in DC? Remember when they did it again in New York?.
The racist and fascist approach that led to the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis as a result of torture has not only deeply saddened all of us, but it has also become one of the most painful manifestations of the unjust order we stand against across the world.
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@Simon_El_Gato__ That's not what happened at all. The modern tuition fee system was introduced under New Labour and hasn't changed in its basic structure since. Lib Dems campaigned on abolishing fees in 2010, then u-turned in government and increased the fee cap (for future uni starters).
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Describing depression as "feeling depressed" is one of the classic tells that someone doesnt understand/respect mental illness.
'If you're feeling depressed. It doesn't mean that we should assume you can't work.'. PM Rishi Sunak outlines his five key welfare reforms. 'The first is that we should be more ambitious in assessing people's potential for work'. 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
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I remember watching this in the cinema in 2010 and being really puzzled why all the adults laughed.
This sight gag from Despicable Me has no right being this funny.
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The actual rate of population growth in Britain today is lower than in much of the 50s and 60s, and it's falling. We built enough housing then and we can build enough again. The housing crisis shouldn't be used as yet another excuse to bash immigrants.
Immigration is too high. If more young adults could engage with this fact, we would be able to apply more political pressure. There's no way the UK can build at the rate people are moving here. Rent will go up until we accept this.
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Dont draw Taiwan as part of China ffs.
U.S. diplomatic cables warned of Wuhan lab safety issues. The world needs answers, @JoshRogin says. Watch:
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The average human has literally never been less likely to die from violent conflict. Inaction in the world is also a strategic choice, and it often creates much more suffering for more people than US engagement.
NeoCons NeoLibs. \ /. 🤝. |. War, forever.
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Chinese virus ❌. Xi Jinping Thought on SARS with Chinese Characteristics for A New Era ✅.
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@johnmichaelw @georgeeaton People have always moved to London in search of new opportunities, the difference is that in the past we were actually willing to build housing for them, whereas now we have an ever increasing pool of housing demand chasing after a supply which is growing too slowly.
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Lastly, regional devolution would neither require nor imply major constitutional reform, but it would offer a natural template for projects like House of Lords reform or a UK-wide AMS voting system, and it would address the size disparity that confounds proposals for federalism.
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British lamb and beef is not produced to higher standards than in Australia and New Zealand. It's more expensive, and it's the single largest obstacle to the revival of natural environments in one of the most nature-deprived countries in the world.
🗣️ "“UK consumers say they want to buy British, but when it comes down to it, they are going to buy the cheaper product because of the pressure on the purse.". READ MORE: @LizWebsterSBF | @SaveBritishFood
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Regions of this size would strike the right balance between institutional capacity and local autonomy in many fields - rooted and invested in the life of local areas, but large enough to be capable of many functions on their own including, crucially, major infrastructure projects.
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Repeal the Jones Act now.
EXCLUSIVE: In unpublished document, USMC Commandant says "replacing ships lost in combat will be problematic. In an extended conflict, the United States will be on the losing end of a production race." @paulmcleary with more:
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