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@duncan_bayne @Zaktor can someone tell Keir Starmer as well

@ZILtoid1991 @MicroWave the Tories did that to the NHS here and then we had a pandemic.

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@hotdogcharmer It’s not that they’re not used about men, it’s that people don’t consider likeability in men as an important factor when determining their competence as a leader. And in terms of aggression: men who are “aggressive” are “strong leaders”. Women who are “aggressive” are “unlikeable”. These terms work together. Aggressive can be used about both but it is only a pejorative for one.

@hotdogcharmer @leadore I absolutely assure you likeability is an issue for women in the workplace in the UK. Signed, a British woman.
Look up “likeability trap”, though - it’s the name of a campaign tactic used against women in politics. It’s an ongoing problem.

@cybervseas @MicroWave a few quotes here from various people: https://theweek.com/articles/470542/obamas-second-term-case-immigration-reform

@danc4498 @return2ozma https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx005vdgg5yo ooh Farage tried that same one here. Nice.

@UnderpantsWeevil I think Khan basically had to exist as the national example of Labour in high places, when parliamentary Labour were taking themselves down over how to respond to a completely self-inflicted national disaster like narrowly voting in Brexit. Oh, hey, a parallel.
If Khan had been shit I think it’d have been harder for Labour to get such a big majority.

@Horsey still its nation’s richest city

@UnderpantsWeevil @frankiehollywood Out of context, I thought you were talking about London then. Can’t say the world has shifted on its axis since Khan took over 9 years ago. Although he and Trump really openly hate each other…

@CharlesDarwin @phoenixz same. But it will take a lot of Americans to turn it round, and until/unless that happens the rest of the world has to work out a backup plan, brace, and leave them to sort it out.

@desmosthenes but to go back to the first point - if they want to have a company in the US they will do it whether or not they’re resident. Can’t very easily employ thousands of Cayman Islanders in your billion dollar business. A Way would be found. But by structuring the business in such a way as to avoid whatever restrictions there are, there would at least be a small reduction in their cut. And a small reduction in billions is not insignificant. Plus… One fewer tax haven reduces options.

@desmosthenes they also buy food and drink from your local town, rather than designer limited editions from Paris.

@desmosthenes a lot of it is more likely to go into the Cayman Islands or investing in media they can control or buying politicians. Give $1b to one man or $20 each to 50 million people - bet you more money makes it into your local economy the second way.

@desmosthenes @technocrit why does that matter if they’re not contributing anyway. But also https://taxjustice.net/press/millionaire-exodus-did-not-occur-study-reveals/

@anomnom @UnderpantsWeevil through a good guy, with a gun.

@MutilationWave @chronicledmonocle fun fact: old printers didn’t have it in their font sets so they used to use a Y which is why “Ye” exists as an old-fashioned “the”

@_core @RestrictedAccount like watching the modern American equivalent of the British right-wing press in action. The Daily Mail was openly fascist until WWII started. Say what you want people to think while it’s profitable, but if the worm turns, find a new opinion…
It’s a good thing. He’s not as bright as he thinks and has few morals to speak of, but he’s a good bellwether.

@Almacca @renrenPDX an escalator, surely

@grrgyle yeah you can follow Lemmy topics on Mastodon - every comment in this one is auto-boosted by @politics and I can click in to see the whole conversation.