HowManyNimons @ HowManyNimons @lemmy.world

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Exit Poles.

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That's your toxoplasmosis speaking.

(Black)

Now I want to play through Untitled Goose Game again.

Such a fucking tool.

and the experts you need to talk to aren't necessarily available at the time you need them to re-answer a question for you

But you were just starting to make sense

You realise that LOL isn't a convincing reply?

Anyway, to address the points you bothered to make:

No monetary payoff, no. I see now that money is what's detaining you.

Any payoff at all? I'll take anything.

The Rwanda scheme isn't an increase in the reprehensible behaviour of government, it's the same amount of reprehensible behaviour as has always been displayed, before and after Brexit.

I see it as a new low, though YMMV. My opinion is that in general, the last few years of government have been the most destructive in living memory.

His tiny ear!

Where can I buy a T shirt with a belly hole?

Please try to understand; it's very important. Every trade agreement we make costs us sovereignty. You want a publicly owned NHS? Too bad. It's on the negotiating table when we deal with the Americans. In secret.

EU directives around human rights, environmental protection or animal welfare are not trade agreements.

They are effectively terms of a trade agreement. Goods traded in the EU have to meet standards.

The cost of leaving the EU is money well spent.

To what end? Nothing is better. Many things are worse. Is there any payoff at all?

This just seems absurd to me. I see no such increases.

Exhibit A: The Rwanda scheme.

you want less corruption, less cruelty, more respect for human rights, and you're happy to give up degrees of democracy in order to have that.

I simply don't believe we will have "more democracy" outside the EU. We elected our MEPs. We do not elect our trade negotiators, nor those with whom they negotiate. In terms of democracy, we're swapping a pittance for nothing. So I'll take the reduced cruelty and corruption, the human rights, and the pittance of democracy please.

Here's the thing: the UK needs trade agreements in order to thrive. The EU may be only minimally democratic, but the fact that the people get any say at all in the terms of that set of trade agreements is considerably better than the say we'd get in any other trade agreement. Especially given that we would be the minor partner an any trade agreement we made with powerful partners: we'd be letting the USA, for example, dictate to our government. If we ever do an agreement with the USA, you can bet that it would come with rules about generic drugs, and allowing them to buy up our schools, hospitals and prisons -- and the people would get no say at all.

Meanwhile the EU, for all its faults, has rules based around human rights, environmental protection, animal welfare and mutual prosperity. That's the type of trade agreement that we want. Nothing on offer outside the EU will be as kind to us. Nothing.

Not only that: being out of the EU has cost us 5% growth per annum. Our exposure to global catastrophes has been worse, and our recoveries slower, than EU countries and comparable economies. Our labour market is a mess, our exporters are inundated with paperwork, and our governments, without the leavening influence of the "undemocratic" EU, have been more corrupt, more cruel and less respectful of human rights.

And that helps them how?

Pika pikaa??

I too enjoy boobs. So refreshing to meet a fellow enthusiast.

*New fetish unlocked.

I remember back in those days we had time to go to the greengrocer as a separate trip.

More than 50% of people are using Win10 and M$ are about to stop supporting it. That's trouble brewing.

Different countries have different sources of information about candidates.

I don't live in the US but absorb quite a lot of political media from there. Number 1 rule is not to back Republicans, especially if you can't find much information on them. There are Republicans up and down the ballot who are trying to implement a Christian Nationalist agenda, many of them on the down-low, and if you have no evidence either way it's better to assume they are.

Next step is to google/bing/ddg the ones you're considering and see what you can dig up on them and their opinions. Do they have a history of unsavoury social media posts? Do they go to church? Who is their pastor? What do they stand for? Are they incumbent, or have they previously held office? What did they say / vote for before?

Thank you for taking an interest in local and down-ballot races. Your participation is vital to keep fascists and lunatics out of school boards and sherrif's offices.