Problem: local councils have to much power and use it to block construction. Solution: give local councils the power to steal people's property and hope they use this power for good? Someone explain this to me.

the only thing that will actually prompt a full recovery is Congress reasserting its power over taxation so the markets can actually be sure we won't do this song and dance again in a few months.

A slightly weaker form of meth is one of the best substances that exists. Many more people should try it at least once just to see how you like it.

That was me! One of my proudest moments in fandom tbh.

A lot of what sucked about the Soviet Union wasn't an inherent feature of communism, it's just the natural result of them being quite a poor country. Obviously they were poor because of the communism, but you can reach the same ends by other means.

Wow. If it were not for President Trump, 1/3 of the US population would have died in the last 100 days.

I'm sick of the AI scam. They aren't actually capable of reasoning. They simply use a huge amount of training data they have available to trigger a process of anamnesis, by which their souls remember what they ALREADY learned during their previous life in the world of forms

That's the great thing about "reform", we can all agree we want "reform". We can assemble a huge diverse coalition who all agree on "reform" but who would all violently disagee on any actual proposal for change.

You fully do not have to hand it to Netanyahu at all. However this is an incredible thing to do to the president of the united states.

As HS2 grinds ever deeper into calamity I note that it was in many ways what a big majority of "experts" say these things should be. Cross-party consensus, with independent expert input, and a long-term joined-up plan overseen by a strong central government.

If I saw people dressed like this, with ski masks covering their faces, throwing someone into an unmarked van, I would assume a violent gang of kidnappers just abducted an innocent bystander. Nope. It’s how ICE operates in June 2025.

If it's profitable to turn the best farmland in the country into housing why does any farmland exist at all? Terrible use of resources.

Yes it’s dumb, but it’s a better policy pattern - the government directly funding an outcome it wants - than the British state’s method of pushing its policy goals as obligations to private business (S106, net zero, Martyn’s law) ‘Gov groceries’ net costs will be a clear line