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Ibime:


Calm down. Reform.wont even win 30 seats at next election talkless of Farage becoming Prime Minister

Ibime:


Calm down. Reform.wont even win 30 seats at next election talkless of Farage becoming Prime Minister

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.”
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

- Winston Churchill

PDPGuy:
Absolutely ridiculous! Na gucci cups dem be?

IjeBos:


I remember a while ago there was an article about the government spending millions on study of shrimp in the ocean or something(can't quite remember). The right wing media was lambasting it. So, I looked up the study of the shrimp and was surprised that it had very long term practical applications esp. for the military of how things move in fluid motion in deep water.

Just saying, somethings look and sound crazy, but always aren't.

In this case, these cups are a "bespoke self warming mug that is used for heating liquids and beverages on very long service missions on a particular military airplane." (based on reddit). It seems these mugs have to plug into these planes for power and not interfere with the highly specialized electronics in these airplanes.
Here is an article from that thread of someone trying to find ways to make it cheaper.
https://www.travis.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/1566000/travis-developing-new-hot-cup-handle-design-could-save-air-force-thousands/

So, it's not just a coffee mug you can get at a grocery store. It has to be specially designed for each plane and tested to make sure it doesn't interfere with it. It may still be somewhat overpriced though, but there will be a lot of outrage before people look into why it may cost so much.

IjeBos:


I remember a while ago there was an article about the government spending millions on study of shrimp in the ocean or something(can't quite remember). The right wing media was lambasting it. So, I looked up the study of the shrimp and was surprised that it had very long term practical applications esp. for the military of how things move in fluid motion in deep water.

Just saying, somethings look and sound crazy, but always aren't.

In this case, these cups are a "bespoke self warming mug that is used for heating liquids and beverages on very long service missions on a particular military airplane." (based on reddit). It seems these mugs have to plug into these planes for power and not interfere with the highly specialized electronics in these airplanes.
Here is an article from that thread of someone trying to find ways to make it cheaper.
https://www.travis.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/1566000/travis-developing-new-hot-cup-handle-design-could-save-air-force-thousands/

So, it's not just a coffee mug you can get at a grocery store. It has to be specially designed for each plane and tested to make sure it doesn't interfere with it. It may still be somewhat overpriced though, but there will be a lot of outrage before people look into why it may cost so much.

cococandy:
I read about that too.

Much like scientists often experiment on mice because they’re mammals. We can tell how things might affect us by how it affects them. Like the current popular weight loss medications (the glp1s) that have been found to reduce obesity at far drastic rates than any medications of their kind. Also now being studied to cure other problems like alcoholism and chronic kidney diseases.

They have to test first on mice before proceeding to human trials.

If you leave it to the right wing who only know how to propagandize, they’ll say the researchers are spending millions to help mice loose weight.

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cococandy:


I don’t know about the UK but that’s what people thought about Trump too in his first time. “Surely that many people won’t vote for the well known New York City con man over a more qualified candidate just because the other candidate is a woman?” And sure the did. Even while he lost the popular vote then, it was astonishing to see how many people couldn’t get past we don’t want a woman president mindset.

We often underestimate how people’s biases can erode their reason. I’ve heard it being called the normalcy bias. As a person you don’t want to cause yourself distress by thinking that there could possibly be that many racist or prejudiced people around you. So you dismiss it by saying surely that can’t happen. And then it happens and leaves you confused as to why such a huge number of people still harbor presumably archaic biases even to the point where they’ll vote against themselves to hold up those biases.

I saw the videos of the attacks on black people in the UK. Would I be surprised if some of the same black people who possibly feared for their lives at that time still vote for the party behind the ideology that caused the attacks? No I wouldn’t be.

GloriousGbola:


we are in the disinformation age

we saw how people were hoodwinked into voting for brexit

in the aftermath it was clear a large amount of people had no idea what the vote was actually about, what the outcomes were - o even teh truth about the nonsense farage posted on buses





you are assuming people will think rationally when all that will happen is someone will push their buttons.

right in front of us, trained auditors are defending this doge bs and elon musks outbursts. something that will get an entry level auditor sacked - broadcasting unverified information that will impact on their employers reputation as a competent organization

Ibime:

lol una no Sabi UK.

There are 650 seats in UK.

107 are already off the table for Reform (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) who always vote for their National Independence parties or Labour.

73 are off the table in London

Add Liverpool (die hard Labour), Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and half the seats are gone. As in no chance of picking up even 20% of the vote in any parliamentary seat in these Cities.

We've not come to many other towns yet

Then of the half the seats that's left we have die hard Labour and die hard Conservative towns. Even if they take Conservative votes there, they are going nowhere.

Reform is dead on arrival. If they take more than 10 seats at the next election, it's been a great election. With Kemi leading the Conservatives, they could possibly do better and go up to 15. 30 is a number I will put my house on.

Ibime:




lol una no Sabi UK.

There are 650 seats in UK.

107 are already off the table for Reform (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) who always vote for their National Independence parties or Labour.

73 are off the table in London

Add Liverpool (die hard Labour), Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and half the seats are gone. As in no chance of picking up even 20% of the vote in any parliamentary seat in these Cities.

We've not come to many other towns yet

Then of the half the seats that's left we have die hard Labour and die hard Conservative towns. Even if they take Conservative votes there, they are going nowhere.

Reform is dead on arrival. If they take more than 10 seats at the next election, it's been a great election. With Kemi leading the Conservatives, they could possibly do better and go up to 15. 30 is a number I will put my house on.

bemeruca:


For some reason you think the polls are only for London and those countries are not involved

Ibime:


Which polls?

We talking proportional representation you talking polls

bemeruca:


So polls cannot show how good reform is doing and if they are going to secure more seats?
you don start oh

Reform is on track to win more than 100 seats. they just past 200k members.
the party has the momentum and we may see partnership with conservative

"A day in the Life of Sue Republican.

Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Sue gets it too.

She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Sue's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the shower, Sue reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body and how much it contained.

Sue dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

She walks to the subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Sue begins her work day. She has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Sue's employer pays these standards because Sue's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Sue is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.

It's noon and Sue needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Sue's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Sue's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Sue has to pay her Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and her below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Sue and the government would be better off if she was educated and earned more money over her lifetime.

Sue is home from work. She plans to visit her father this evening at his farm home in the country. She gets in her car for the drive. Her car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.

She arrives at her childhood home. Her generation was the third to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

She is happy to see her father, who is now retired. Her father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Sue wouldn't have to.

Sue gets back in her car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Sue enjoys throughout her day. Sue agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm self-made and believe everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."’

Ibime:


100 seats out of 650 will not get you anywhere near Westminster even if those come true

bemeruca:


you said they won't even see 30 now you are saying 100 won't get them anywhere. you are all over the place. they are expected to flip 114 seats as labour continues to sink their chances increase. lets not forget labour will also lose seats to other parties. So tell me if the chance for them to lose power is not highly possible

Ibime:


I am using your numbers to show you the unlikelihood even if we use your numbers.

UKIP (Nigel Farages previous party) polled 18% in a previous election and came up with one seat.

All that happens is their vote will be like 10-30% across many seats but not enough to take the seat.

What they do is dilute Conservative numbers and allow Labour a victory.

All it takes is to change Kemi to an old boy Conservative and they'll abandon Reform and come back.

Now if Reform get 100 votes, I hope you know that the only party that will partner with them is Conservatives

100 is not enough for you to be given mandate to seek partners to form Government. The party with most seats will be given that mandate which should be around 270 plus seats. Now the only party that will agree to partner Reform is Conservatives. But if Reform has 100 plus seats, guaranteed they took so many of them from Conservatives that Conservatives won't be the ones with 270 plus seats and the mandate to form a Government. That means if would likely be Labour, and every party except Conservatives and Reform will agree to form Govt with Labour. This includes Scottish National Party, Liberal Democrats., Welsh Party, Greens etc.

Mind you I don't mind Reform as they are not a nasty party like American Republicans. They regularly sack party members caught making racist comments unlike Republicans and you could see during the riots that Farage was not down with the racists that made Apartheid Boy Elon Musk call for his ouster.

bemeruca:


Labour has produced the worst prime minister in history. Starmer and the labour party are going down. How do you even compare what happened last time to what is going to happen in the future when the whole country is pissed with labour.

You have to embrace reality sometimes. Now they are posting videos of them deporting illegal migrants. Why is that? Reform party and conservative are looking popular with immigration right?

Conservative and reform are likely gonna have a deal to remove labour.

The UK does not have only 3 parties. Reform and conservative are polling high. Labour is losing this.

Ibime:


According to X I guess

How does Liz Truss compare to Starmer?

Look, Conservatives were always going to be changed after 14 years in power and the inflation of 2021 to 2023. We are just happy that Starmer was in power at Labour when it came to their turn and not an extremist like Corbyn.

Starmer hasn't done much wrong except not supporting your Tommy Robinson race riots. He is the first Prime Minister since my favourite Cameron to take the budget deficit seriously and is trying to plug that gap.

In an alternative universe, you could have a Labour leader in power who is in hock to the Unions, anti-Jewish, spending money like a drunkard on Social Welfare etc. Starmer is doing none of that and is governing with fiscal integrity, not borrowing for popular policies and leaving the burden on future Prime Ministers.

A whopping six in ten (61 per cent) people said they were 'dissatisfied' with the PM's track record — including more than a third (39 per cent) of Labour supporters.

bemeruca:


are you sure you are in the UK?

you don't even understand how dissatisfied people are with labour. 6 in 10 are not happy with the party.


Only 27% approval and i believe it is the shariah community

Ibime:


Nah it's people that want him to spend like a drunkard on social welfare

They thought they were getting a real Labour Prime Minister after 14 years of Conservatives only to find he cares about balancing the books

So his party people (social welfare labourites) don't like him, and of course he won't get any support from Conservatives, hence he won't poll well on both sides

But he's an honest man who's ready to damn the consequence and balance the books even if it harms his electoral chances. My only beef with him is his Green policies agenda.

bemeruca:


the bold is contradictory. He claimed to be something else and they voted him only to see he is a POS but you said he is honest after saying he deceived people.

Ibime:


Nope. People vote Labour when they want freebies from Govt and that's their expectation. But he has integrity not to put the future of the country at risk to satisfy them. He is more fiscally conservative than all Prime Ministers since Cameron or maybe Theresa May. He found a £20 billion black hole in the finances unaccounted for and said he will not be following through on typical Labour agendas, na why them dey vex. That's leadership, not populism.

He doesn't look like the kind of person that wants power for power sake. He just wants to do the right thing financially, if you like or you no like, e no consign am. He is happy even with one term so long as he does the right thing. Mind you nobody has good favourability here cos there are too many parties

Ibime:


Nope. People vote Labour when they want freebies from Govt and that's their expectation. But he has integrity not to put the future of the country at risk to satisfy them. He is more fiscally conservative than all Prime Ministers since Cameron or maybe Theresa May. He found a £20 billion black hole in the finances unaccounted for and said he will not be following through on typical Labour agendas, na why them dey vex. That's leadership, not populism.

He doesn't look like the kind of person that wants power for power sake. He just wants to do the right thing financially, if you like or you no like, e no consign am. He is happy even with one term so long as he does the right thing. Mind you nobody has good favourability here cos there are too many parties

bemeruca:


He was voted to tackle Immigration and he is doing the opposite. he is in no man's land now. as you can see, he is the worst PM in modern history.

Ibime:


Nonsense. Nobody votes Labour when they have immigration concerns

bemeruca:


Also, I don't want to post the nonsense disgraceful pandering he was doing around august last year. We saw the double standards

bemeruca:


Well, that was one of the reason they voted him since Boris and others were messing up so they skipped Farage and move to labour, since all these parties have been given and chance and they burn the public, Reform is now looking a lot appealing

Ibime:


Nonsense. He sacked all the anti-Semites in his party including former party leaders. If you say PIM about the Jews, he sacks you. He is strongly pro-Israel. You racists in the American far-right are just angry because he did not join in mob action against Muslims, expecting a Prime Minister to behave and speak like a common tout. You guys are so racist, you even called for sack of Nigel Farage for not joining in your mob action.

IjeBos:


What's paradoxical? A typing error?

Fam, don't start. Your intelligence don't reach.
Stick to trying to be smartest MAGA in this thread.

Android17:


A line from Mode9's rap track called "Contradictions". He employs paradoxes in each bar that sort of make sense given the whole theme. "Heaven knows I'm as nice as Hell" - an example of a line from the lyrics. He ends the song by saying what I posted above which is funny if you think about it. The paradox ended even though he claimed it never would. Anyways I digress.

You were contradicting yourself. That was my point.