If the US dumps NATO, that’s all the more reason to increase defence funding. Either that or start learning Russian.

If the UK had ranked choice voting or proportional representation, they’d have a chance of bringing up the left flank, and possibly even having the clout to force Labour to compromise. Though under first past the post, they’ll find it next to impossible to break through in most seats, at best holding seats their high-profile founding members already have (Corbyn’s not going anywhere) and fighting the Greens for Brighton and Bristol (which would probably result in Labour picking them up due to the progressive vote being split).

The Sandman is essentially Goth BoJack Horseman.

Given his non-WASP name, he’d be under constant pressure to demonstrate that he’s one of The Good Ones. Being the most loyal Trumpist even as his loved ones are fed to the gators is part of that.

You love to see it.

They mean Klaus Barbie, of course.

Loyalty to the leader, and implicitly knowing whom to ratfuck to climb the ladder.

A social liberal is a neoclassical liberal who has been arrested. A neoclassical liberal is a social liberal who got a larger than expected tax bill.

There was also one in Stockholm, presumably from the same meteor shower.

Maybe then they can finally plan cross-border rail links that line up and work, rather than wrangling separate national rail systems into some sort of uneasy cooperation.

A step in the right direction. Operating a car should be as strictly regulated as operating any similar piece of heavy machinery (with the proviso, of course, that society should be organised to not require driving a car to fully participate in). Though it’s cheaper to let people who wouldn’t be given a forklift certificate in a million years drive a Land Rover to the shops if they prefer and accept a level of road deaths as the inevitable price of progress, so that’s what we’re stuck with.

USA #1! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

You made the right call. The ball is in his court if he wants a good relationship with you, and had you not done that, there’d be nothing telling him that maybe performatively being an asshole is not an acceptable life choice.

Is Jesus wearing a bra?

Surely Alba’s next logical step is to merge into Reform.

That’s probably the only way her major label would release it. The majors hate CDs as you can rip them and listen to a perfect digital copy as much as you like without generating a cent of streaming revenue (not to mention pirate them), so have been doing away with them, much in the way that Netflix won’t sell you an offline copy of your favourite show. (Vinyl is OK: it’s a premium-priced collectible, recordings of it sound like garbage, and while the buyer may give their vinyl record a ceremonial spin on special occasions, they’ll mostly stream it on Spotify or Youtube, generating revenue, as that’s more convenient.) A transparent novelty CD that only kinda works as a digital audio carrier but makes a collectible conversation piece fits the bill nicely.

Most normal lemming pick-up line

If anyone other than Israel did this, it would probably have been a war crime. Though, as it is, there is no way of determining whether it constitutes a crime.

IIRC, Spotify watches the system volume and doesn’t pay for streams playing when it’s muted. Physically unplugging your speakers should work, though.

Sometimes discretion is the greater part of valour.