Sampson

Purple and green definitely US centric today. If people need a de-Americanised clue to help - think of “carton” as “cup” and “Boardwalk” as “Trafalgar” in British English.

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I really don’t understand your argument- the Labour have lost 33%+ of their 2024 votes to Greens and LibDems, both vocal pro-eu parties with party policy to rejoin the eu - the polls have shown for 4 years an overwhelming favour of rejoining, so it’d be too risky for Labour to do, because of… Reform? A party they’ve lost about 7% of their 2024 voters and who get votes largely in only one specific demographic (men over 60) because they’ll bring out lines again which everyone knows now are false? Labour have way more than “one hope” - if they actually promoted big ideas and a coherent vision there’s plenty of people who vote for them. People have no idea what the stand for, because they can’t decide their position on anything and go back and forth between growth and taxes and are ducking around the edges with tax policy at a time where the world order is rupturing bigger than any time since WW2. Big institutional ideas like that are what voters are crying out for.

But they did that because they could offer what they like, because no one knew what being outside the eu looked like, we got the full on hard Brexit. The difference is people have seen it with their own eyes. Secondly the vote was extremely divided by age, 10 years have passed. I doubt all those under 55 now are suddenly going to change their mind enough for a 23 point swing. For the record, the last you gov poll last month was: Rejoin EU 52% Stay out 29% Undecided 19% Thirdly, Labour aren’t going to win the election as it stands. It’s big plays like this which will help them. I don’t really get the opposition to it, polls show it’s popular with voters, especially 2024 Labour voters who’ve changed to Greens and LibDems. Electorally I don’t see how it can get any worse for Labour right now, so I don’t get why it’s naive at all.

Labour are struggling because they lost all their voters to Greens and LibDems who are pro-EU parties not Reform. I’d say they’d personally win way more votes back from the pro-EU parties than lose to Reform and Labour aren’t going to win the next election if they don’t pull out big risks with big narratives like this anyway, I’d say things like this are exactly what Labour need to do in these times. Plus rejoin the EU has been about 15-20% ahead of stay out in the polls for years now. Regardless of rejoining the EU proper, it’s most of the public when polled think that Boris’ hard Brexit has been shit for the country and the world and Europe is a very different place than it was a decade ago - I hear Brits use “Europe” to refer to ourselves and the rest of the continent about 100x more since Putin invaded Ukraine - and rejoining the single market and transitioning to a soft Brexit would be popular according to polls.

There’s probably way more alien species than there are grains of sand on earth so it’s probably a bit of a broad question. There probably are alien species so advanced that AI is standard fare to them

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But that’s irrelevant when the rest of the nation aren’t standing up against it and the checks and balances aren’t working. The president shouldn’t have the power to start a war, but he just did - where are congress? the judges? Where are the other Republicans or the protestors? Nowhere. Leaders and regimes don’t need to speak for the majority of people if the instutions designed to stop them being too powerful don’t do anything about them taking over the courts, the legal system, the media and the education systems. Soldiers are trained to do what’s told of them, they’ll have no qualms invading Greenland.

How is Britain and Europe alienating America? And not the other way round? I’m sorry but all your posts just come across as so stuck in your camp you can’t see what’s in front of you. How many times do we have to keep say the obvious that’s right in front of all our faces that some people still cannot see yet - Trump is on the side of Russia and Putin, not our side. He won’t protect us from attack. JD Vance has spent 18 months literally saying he hates Europe over and over again. The US told us they wanted Europe to increase spending and take over more of the back up to help Ukraine (fine), they then try to cut a deal with Russia which would make Europe have to pay to rebuild Ukraine while not being allowed military presence there (which obviously contradicts this - how do you expect us to rebuild our military by crippling us both economically and err… militarily?) but America and Russia get to cut off all the profits of minerals between them (hmmm). He’s literally spent months saying he wants to invade Danish territory and said we had no men who fought on the front lines in Afghanistan. Then when asked if NATO still stood and if he’d go to war if Estonia was invaded, which should be the easiest question in the world - (as NATO works if the Russians believe it will work, so it doesn’t actually mean he will, but the illusion of saying it will costs nothing and is very effective) - every other US president in history would’ve said “we are unequivocally committed to NATO” but Trump basically unmed and erred in a way that strongly indicated “no”. NATO is already dead as far as the US is concerned and how is it in British interest to pretend the US will come to Europe’s aid when they have spent 18 months saying they won’t and actually want to attack us in Greenland? America has alienated itself from Europe, not the other way round. I’m sorry but how far with your head in the sand do you have to be to try and put this one on Britain or Europe by this point and still blindly think the US is a reliable ally.

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I was on a streak of 7 straight wins before but just couldn’t see it today, I agree sometimes I see things that look like groups based on gut feeling or vibes and I get them even if I don’t know the reason. There was one the other day where I was down to the final 8, 4 were one word clues and 4 were 2 word clues, I just guessed all the 2 word clues together and was right. Cant remember the grouping but it made sense they wouldn’t be explained with just 1 word together when I saw the a see.

Because the reason international shipping has closed down is because of America and Israel’s impulsive war. Why should British men risk their lives for this? Why should British military equipment be risked for this? Why is it our responsibility? Why aren’t America and Israel sending their own ships to be blown up and risk their own men’s lives clearing it? Why didn’t they plan for any of this and let us know beforehand? You don’t just start a war out of the blue and then tell your allies to drop everything and come along, that’s not how alliances should work. Allies should be consulted at all stages and be there to come to your defence, not just start a random war then panic when things don’t go how you thought and demand they come along afterwards.

A lot of countries allies or not coming out now and basically saying they aren’t going to back the US up - China, UK, Germany, Japan, France, Australia, Netherlands, Norway. Even South Korea very non-committal. This is starting to feel a bit like America’s own Suez crisis when they’re starting to see first hand they don’t have neither the hard nor soft power on that they used to have.

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Sorry to read this. Good luck with the process!

Maybe they thought Squid Game was an instruction book and not a satire.

I’m thinking more the humans from Wall-E.

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