If they don’t do whatever the European equivalent of TACO is, this will drastically change the landscape of the digital world.

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      Meanwhile the UK Government hires Palantir to run national infrastructure.

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        Palantir needs to be outlawed, their data destroyed, and all the executives tried for treason, crimes against humanity, conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity and hanged.

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          Can we start with the hanging?

          By their entrails?

          On live television?

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            Live TV? OK a bit old fashioned, but we livestream it, too.

            We could make a game show of it, too. Called ‘Cause of Death’. How it works is you do a hanging via strangulation and not neck breaking and you have someone who is a poor marksman volunteer to fire a few rounds at the palantir exec. Then they wait until vital signs go flat for a few minutes.

            Then we take bets on the cause of death. Was it the gun shots? Or the hanging? A live autopsy shows the results.

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          He has been leading in polls for a long time now. It looks like a good chunk of the British people are confident that after neoliberal austerity and national self-isolation have failed to improve their lives, a good dose of corrupt MAGA-style fascism will save the country. And in the face of this Starmer is determined to pave the way and make the eventual fascist takeover as easy as possible.

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            I’m not English and I don’t live in the UK. I also don’t follow the British news specifically. I thought he was doing alright by what I picked up left and right, even though that wasn’t much.

            Sad to hear that’s the direction it’s headed for in the UK.

            Thanks for the insight!

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          Well given the Starmtrooper you’ve got as PM, I guess people are saying “why settle for the lesser evil?”

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      The problem isn’t and never has been Trump.

      The problem is Americans and the deep cultural rot they’ve allowed to set in. Trump is a symptom of the USA’s problems, not the cause.

      Trump is, at least, and quite inadvertently, a friend to the world, however. Because of him the rest of the world got to see the USA’s real face and is now doing the right thing: disengaging.