u/Odd-Currency5195

The American (MAGA) dream/delusion versus why are so many white working class men into Farage?

I sort of 'get' why there was always this 'grifter' respect in the US, and how if you work hard enough you too could be a millionaire thing. The American Dream. And obviously just that because 'gestures' what it is today - only after, what, 300 years? And all that founded on no-wages re built on slavery. Yet still 80% of US people are poor and from 'pay check to pay check' as they say. Their healthcare is tied to employment (like NI) and they still have to pay in anyway (like NI) but there is no access to it unless some insurer says they can have that cancer treatment and, no, an ambulance will cost extra. They pay all that, and get shit.

So how the effing fuck, since our life since the mid 20th century is founded after years of fighting for it on different things - on welfare, caring for people who don't have enough, social housing, decent education - are Reform voters falling for the guff that Farage is spouting from the US and also from the barbaric state of Russia, which has basically fallen between both 'things' and is neither, other than a country of corruption in and between all their people, whether rich or poor?

I don't get how none of the politial parties are doing simple flow chart social media to explain this shit to them.

I really wish they would.

Edit: I didn't address the 'men' bit in my splurge. Sorry. Just they are all (mostly) just angry white men. No idea. Why isn't that anger being directed towards rich bastards?

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u/Odd-Currency5195 — 14 hours ago

Email response from Electoral Commission re the 'We'll build detention centres in your constituency if you don't vote Reform' announcement.

The context:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/05/grotesque-parties-criticise-reform-uk-plan-to-set-up-migrant-detention-centres-in-green-voting-areas

[My emphasis]

>Good afternoon,

>Thank you for your recent email to the Electoral Commission regarding the complaint you made in respect of a Reform UK policy announcement on 4 May 2026. Your concerns do not fall within our complaints remit but I would like to provide some more information which I hope is helpful.

>The Electoral Commission does not have the power to investigate the electoral offence of undue influence.

>Concerns about undue influence at elections are for the police to consider and determine whether any offence has been committed. Anyone with concerns that a criminal offence has been committed should always report these directly to the police and should be prepared to provide evidence to substantiate those concerns.

>Specialist police officers have assessed allegations they received in relation to the Reform UK policy announcement on 4 May 2026. Following legal guidance, police forces which received allegations have established there is no prospect of a criminal prosecution in these circumstances.

>We take allegations of electoral fraud very seriously and provide information to voters on our website about how they can report allegations to the police.

>The Commission encourages all campaigners to undertake their vital role responsibly and our Code of Conduct for Campaigners provides a guide to what is, and is not, acceptable behaviour. Concerns that the code has been breached should be raised directly with the political party, candidate or campaigner in question.

>Kind regards,                                                                       

So straight to the police next time ... not that they did anything, mind.

u/Odd-Currency5195 — 5 days ago

El Nino bits and bobs

I saw this on a 'the world's going to end' sub that came up in my feed. I can't find the link now back to the sub. So if anyone else saw it, let me know because then I can credit the original post. Something like r/deadbywednesday!

This was the article it linked to:

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-2026-record-breaking-intensity-forecast-weather-impacts-united-states-canada-europe-fa/

From my arts graduate style amble through it, it seems to be saying (engage M&S advert voice in your mind) this is no ordinary El Nino but a Super El Nino.

They make a comparison to effects over Europe to 2015/2016. (Apparently effects occur late summer and then into autumn and winter in the year in question.)

So I had a look back and they were quite interesting years...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/03/british-summer-was-the-coldest-in-three-years

^ British summer was the coldest in three years

(Heat dome klaxon though about 3/4 of the way down the main report linked at the top.)

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.2823

^ The meteorology of the exceptional winter of 2015/2016 across the UK and Ireland

I just thought it was interesting and we can obviously see how it plays out.

PS. I'm not mocking the doom and gloom of the sub where I got this post in my feed. They seem to have a point...

u/Odd-Currency5195 — 7 days ago

What's going on here?

I have been overwatering I think? I know the pot is prob too small. I got it at a local fair off a stall a year ago. Yeah, I prob need to get some cactus potting stuff and so on, but have I been over or under watering it?

https://preview.redd.it/8lqbk23uo60h1.png?width=772&format=png&auto=webp&s=622938e80d894806af934fe8416d72430610b506

I thought the leaves were meant to be plump and so on. This was after I gave it a drink. Did I do the wrong thing?!

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u/Odd-Currency5195 — 11 days ago

Maybe I break my arm but ...

Night after sorrow you are my song.

A shitty TV programme's amazing anthem works here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uplj5bs94Ic

70 years ago a few people were born who's grandparents and parents had lived through two world wars.

Their parents and grandparents were so fucking poor they couldn't do a thing. But they had it good post WW2, due to socialist policies, econoic manipulation, and those boomers born into the world their parents were given, free healthcare and social welfare, are now voting for Reform. Because potholes and being terrified by brown people.

Fuck Farage and fuck racist BOOMERS! Yes, really.

Edit: These are my parents and my siblings. Our job is to not bail them out or support them if they voted Reform.

u/Odd-Currency5195 — 12 days ago

I'm probably the only person in the world who doesn't know what this song is, but what is the song that's sung in the opening credits?

I searched for it and I got some lovely tracks on Spotify but not that song that they sing in English and Welsh. As in all the atmospheric soundtrack music is there.

I suspect it's a choral version of a famous song but I don't have the lyrics to search for it right now.

Thanks.

Edit: 1.47 into Mosaic. Go it. Patience. Tingles. That's it.

Under Salt Marsh was really good.

Edit: Found it: https://youtu.be/gqP7OPxV-Q4?si=jjZGFrLO2_qUtkMh

u/Odd-Currency5195 — 17 days ago

We are here individually confronting nonsense coming from the US, and fueling Farage. It's not about boats and migrants, with him being in the pocket of Putin and Turning Point - playing both, but both the same.

I actually felt like there was a bloke, Charles, telling off Trump and saying more widely as our 'king', head of state, whatever, and untouchable, that he (Trump) is wrong, wrong, wrong and he is just a blip.

I hope the 80 year old too much pension and not worked a day mother in law someone posted about recently who is voting Reform cos pot holes will have watched and done some personal reflection and contextualised what he said in the context of centuries rather than minutes.

Yeah, no. But we literally had our king give Trump an arse whooping and talked of nature and the world and global issues and global allies and how the US was just one bit of that and 'executive powers needing checks and balances' and cited every decent president and what they achieved and said and did.

So that's over there and far away, and we have Total Prick standing as a candidate, who is 'yeah, flags' close and near. But I feel strangely proud and pleased about that speech. Let's use what he did in it to put things into that bigger context and not be driven by pointless petty hate-filled agendas about how many boats but actually it's about your third generation Asian GP too.

Big and bold opposition to bollocks by Reform about our lives and our country and asserting what it should stand for. Let's do it. Whether you campaign out there or just fancy saying something withering to a person/friend/relative who says something. Do it. Make your own little or big speech. Fuck Farage.

Edit: I have struggled with the spelling of whooping or whopping.

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u/Odd-Currency5195 — 22 days ago