If a deal does not go through, it makes Labour look bad.
No it fucking doesnt. Not giving a fuck about US demands is the most popular thing you can do right now.
And also the correct thing, from any position of reason.
Trying to control the way other countries are run is fucking wild, the notion of which should never even be remotely entertained.
Or they could tell Trump to go fuck himself.
I like that idea better.
What exactly do LGBT issues have to do with trade policy? Why is this on the table? Is there supposed to be some big gay conspiracy to devalue currency or something? It’s all so idiotic.
The cruelty is the point.
It’s an attempt to normalize the fear/hate of LGBTQ+ people on an international level. As long as the administration continues to constantly press this issue, much like the “mere exposure” advertising effect, it doesn’t matter if people believe it nor not, the more times people hear a thing, the more likely they are to adopt that belief or feeling, even to a tiny degree.
That tiny degree, when continually pressed, when continually exposed, over large populations, influences a large number of people.
As long as they have an enemy group they can pin their problems on, they will keep going and keep ramping up the atrocities until we see mass graves. Again. (Seriously, how many times do we have to see mass graves in our nations before we decide that our leadership needs to be thrown down a well.)
If you guys care, please don’t just rant on Lemmy or other internet spaces. Go talk to your family members. Talk to your friends. If you don’t have friends, GO MAKE FRIENDS. GO MAKE ENEMIES. Our anti-social, paranoid, self-absorbed internet shut-in culture is making all of this tragedy possible.
Guys, you HAVE to push through those terrifying feelings of engaging with strangers. You HAVE to get social again. We don’t win this behind keyboards.
The very Un-American US President Trump and his administration are trying to Americanise the rest of the world.
Fuck. Right. Off.
“No free speech, no deal. It is as simple as that,”
did i warp into the onion without realizing?
Look at all that free speech the USA has, where people are being disappeared to an overseas concentration camp for saying genocide is wrong, or having the FBI investigate them for speaking critically about Trump, or imprisoned at the border for criticizing him online. Whereas in the UK, these days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re English, don’t you?
“No free speech, no deal. It is as simple as that,”
So he’s going to push this condition onto everyone that they deal with right? Saudi Arabia and Israel for example.
This is the point of Trump dealing with the UK over the EU. They’re more isolated since Brexit and therefore more easily intimidated.
Saudi Arabia and Israel both already have the type of freeze peach this fascist desires.
Israel is USA, and SA can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they pay up (i.e. produce oil, buy weapons, whatever).
Putin needs Saudi Arabia to not start an oil price war, which Russia would loose.
The US support of Israel is making the US less popular around the world.
Being in Scotland, it hurts to think how close we were to being able to avoid this shit
It hurts so much. I hope the people who voted no are looking at what’s happening and thinking “oops” I was wrong. But that’s not likely.
Aaahhh the good ol American influence.
Previously bombed into your backyard, but now you have this fifteen year old with a beard and tears in his eyes feet stomping on the floor during his meltdown “I wahaaaanna insult the gaahaaaaaayyyyysss”
We must throw our people under the bus, and that will allow us to lick some US boots!
Does anyone trust the UK government not to do this?
Onion headline: Trump accuses China of DEI practices for having too many Chinese workers
IMO, everyone in UK should be protesting and demanding to rejoin EU. Russia successfully was able to make UK withdraw through disinformation, and this only made UK weaker.
Remember Cambridge Analitica, most of whose money came from wealthy Americans?
Maybe they were or maybe they weren’t in cahoots with Russia, but sure as hell it was the very same members of the American “elites” who supported Trump’s rise who also bought Brexit.
Britain’s careless openness to American influence makes it easy for Americans to play it like a fiddle.
Take a look at content of this book (published in 1997): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Content
It was unthinkable that brexit would happen back then. But a lot of things described happened, because Putin is following this plan.
War in 2022 kind of put things sideways, but now it’s resuming with trump.
Those oligarchs have no loyalty to the countries they live in, they do whatever makes them richer. They are the most bribeable people.
He wants to turn the whole world into a fascist dictatorship
Just once I’d like to hear a foreign country’s avatar say “fuck yourself trump - right in your big shit smelling ass”.
Capitalist nations do not care about their people.
They’re all capitalist nations.
So, UK has to become a US colony for trade access?
What the fuck are you doing uk!?
What a useless fucking position for Trump to take. Pick your battles you orange buffoon. Gay folks can’t hurt you, or won’t. Just fix the economy.
Just fix the economy.
He can’t. That trust is never coming back in my lifetime.
