Yeah something like that probably would be sufficient. But maybe Starmer’s statement was more flattering because he really wants the US-UK relationship to work. Europe perhaps doesn’t need to be so flattering, especially since Europe is a much bigger bloc, so it can throw its own weight around a bit more (e.g. if the EU introduced tariffs on US goods it would presumably hurt the US more, compared to if Britain did the same thing).
Maybe I’m wrong, I dunno.
Realistically perhaps Britain just needs partners, with the US of course being a major partner (Five Eyes for example).
If we weren’t so closely tied to the US then maybe Starmer could be making a statement similar to that of Macron and Scholz today:
Trump holds grudges so maybe he would insist on only meeting Starmer and not Lammy. Who knows.
Maybe something that hurt Kamala was her use of top music stars… maybe average Americans feel those celebrities are out of touch with average people. I saw this on BBC News:
And of course the people who run Lemmy.ml are the people who made Lemmy.
On the websites of many open source projects over the last 2 years there have been messages of support for Ukraine, but I guess that’s unlikely to occur with Lemmy.
Yeah fair enough. I probably won’t block them because I find it interesting to see other people’s views.
No I didn’t know until you tagged me. Seems like they’ve had a strange reaction to my post. I think what I said in that post is true but I will admit I’m wrong if somebody can prove so. Here are a couple of articles which seem to back up what I said:
Regarding the invasion of Crimea in 2014: “Incognito Russian soldiers appeared throughout Crimea… The Kremlin initially claimed the soldiers were local “self-defense” groups but later admitted they were professional Russian soldiers”.
Regarding the invasion of the Donbas in 2014: “A London-based digital forensics agency says it has gathered an enormous body of evidence that Russia’s military was deployed in the August-September 2014 fighting around Ilovaysk, in eastern Ukraine”.
you need to be serious about inflicting permanent harm on politicians
I don’t think you phrased that in the best way… I hope you mean punish them at the ballot box
Maybe Jenrick could do what Starmer did - make some radical statements to win over the party and become leader, then soften your stance to become more electable to the general public later on.
Maybe those views constitute more than the fringes when it comes to the Tory party.
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You accuse others of racism but you’re racist yourself. Talking about stereotypes that “you people” hold. You’re generalising across westerners, and perhaps you mean white people in general.
Anyway, there is nothing morally wrong at all with objecting to the PRC government.
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Criticising a government is not racism.
Tories aren’t civilised
I agree about a change to the voting system. I think proportional representation would be better.
On !leftism@lemmy.world they’ve been suggesting that Harris went too far to the right to try to capture moderate Republicans, and that’s why she lost, but yes I think this OP image makes sense.
Arguably though you could say it’s not as simple as left/right. Maybe the Democrats should look at which specific demographics they did badly with, and then figure out how to better appeal to those demographics.