The UK's downturn is a warning for Europe(lemonde.fr) |
The UK's downturn is a warning for Europe(lemonde.fr) |
So yeah, Europe should learn lessons from what’s going on in the U.K., but there’s little evidence they are doing so.
commenting on others that have seems fair enough
> This is in bad faith. Please don't slander a story posted presumably in good faith.
this seems way out of line (and deeply ironic)
maybe you can point out where I slandered something?
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics
a more on-topic place consisting almost entirely of doom-and-gloom stories about the UK would be /r/unitedkingdom
Cost of living crippling people? NHS in emergency mode at it's quietest period? Soaring inflation? Nah, business as usual. Let's pass some laws about imitation and cancel culture. Oh and look at the Queen, isn't she marvellous? Carry on.
I, for one, had no knowledge of the strikes going on in the UK, and I'm rather more plugged into politics than most.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Granted this is arguable in this case, but that's why I'd guess it was flagged.
American influence from Trumps Steve Bannons Cambridge analytica THRU american corporation Facebook led to brexit.
so it is what some americans wanted, so now they have it, so go complain to these people britain.
It did not. A minority of voters voted "yes" in an advisory non-binding referendum. But this result was milked for propaganda purposes to drag the country into a downward spiral, which has been the plan all along.
> this result was milked for propaganda purposes
It amazes me how this is almost never said when arguments of the type "the public has spoken", etc. appear. Whenever I bring those up, I tend to get blank stares.
It was crazy if you ask me but it's hard to argue it was against public sentiment.
But so far there seems no practical compromise that works for UK, Ireland and the EU.
* Disaster capitalists like Jacob Rees-Mogg, who extract money from the economies being destroyed.
* Media moguls like Rupert Murdoch, with the goal to control who is in power.
* Corrupt politicians like Boris Johnson, who want to live large while passing taxpayers' money to their allies.
* Oil/gas industry, for reasons that are pretty clear to everyone by now.
* Russian government and its paid agents like Aaron Banks, who want to see EU, UK and other western powers as weak as possible.
* Hi-tech companies like Cambridge Analytica, Palantir and Facebook, who receive huge sums from the above groups to subtly manipulate public opinion and directly affect elections.
People who dismiss different opinions via implication of some kind of "negative vibe man" are not worthy of debate.. sorry.
You are insinuating that this story about politics and economics should not be treated in good faith because the poster is tainted in some way via linking to their comment history. Your post on the other poster's comments seems in bad faith imo. Plus, I find "negative vibe man" comments are not ideal.
you really don't you see the irony here?
> Plus, I find "negative vibe man" comments are not ideal.
well the mods seemed to downweight the story, then the community flagged it (killing it all together)
it seems if anyone's out of place here it's you, not me
(tories bad!)
You contradicted your own terms of debate trying to taint a commenter as "political" while having a history of commenting on similar items. I pointed that out as not consistent using your comments as evidence. Mildly ironic but no.
> it seems if anyone's out of place here it's you, not me
Negative vibe on isle five officer!! The very idea that technology is not adjacent to economics, politics, and demographics is silly. If the forum mods don't think that then boo!
maybe time to find another website to post your vaulted insights on then
You will continue to intermittently post about politics and economics on here which judging by your comment history you do. I will also. Goodbye.
P.S. how is this a vaulted idea or not relevant to "tech"? We are discussing a country that swims in its own pooh because the government (de-facto) controlled companies turned off or removed sensors at the beaches, misreported data, and couldn't buy chemicals at adequate levels because of Brexit. Seems like almost ALL of the issues described in the post are at the nexus of economics/politics and technology.