Global politics

[Psy-Fi]

Brazil police arrest 5 officers over alleged coup plot, plans to kill President Lula

[jimmy jazz]

Farmers protesting because they can't pass on millions in assets to their kids tax free.

I'm finding it hard to have sympathy here lads.

They're only going to be paying half of what everyone else has to pay, and it can be paid over 10 years. That's a good deal.

Am I wrong for thinking they are cheeky twats?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj71zyy934o

[DeepMinder]

uploaded just now^

[jimmy jazz]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7nwnw1e32o

An 18-year-old Briton faces up to 20 years in a Dubai prison for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old British girl while the pair were on holiday in the emirate, a human rights campaigner has said.

Marcus Fakana, of Tottenham, north London, was on holiday with his family when he began a secretive holiday romance in September with another Londoner, who has since turned 18, according to Radha Stirling, of campaign group Detained in Dubai.

After returning home and seeing pictures and chats, the girl's mother reported the relationship to Dubai police, who then arrested Mr Fakana at his hotel, Ms Stirling said.

[DJChameleon]

Wasn't the age of consent something like 14 a few years ago? Sucks to be that guy messing with a girl that has a petty mother like that.

[jimmy jazz]

Wasn't the age of consent something like 14 a few years ago? Sucks to be that guy messing with a girl that has a petty mother like that.

Dunno, it's 16 here and 18 over there.

Absolutely no common sense shown here.

[DJChameleon]

Dunno, it's 16 here and 18 over there.

Absolutely no common sense shown here.

They have very strict consent laws so when you travel there you have to abide by their age of consent law not the one where you come from.

[jimmy jazz]

They have very strict consent laws so when you travel there you have to abide by their age of consent law not the one where you come from.

Not disagreeing. I wouldn't go there and I don't think anyone else should.

Deportation would have been appropriate imo.

Either way, 18 year old looking at 20 years for consensual sex with a girl the same age. Crazy.

[DJChameleon]

Not disagreeing. I wouldn't go there and I don't think anyone else should.

Deportation would have been appropriate imo.

Either way, 18 year old looking at 20 years for consensual sex with a girl the same age. Crazy.

It's just a lesson he has to learn the hard way about researching countries laws before you visit but idk that wouldn't help in this case because he thought she turned 18 already. She was a few months away.

[Psy-Fi]

Philippines vice president publicly threatens to have nation's president assassinated

[DeepMinder]

https://x.com/prestonstew_/status/1860731240707453025

[Psy-Fi]

Thousands of Imran Khan supporters converge on Pakistan capital

[jimmy jazz]

That petition for another general election is the most pathetic thing I've seen in British politics.

https://news.sky.com/story/starmer-rules-out-another-general-election-after-petition-reaches-two-million-signatures-13260436

For those who are not aware, a petition has been set up because people think Labour are shit and they want another election.

After 14 years of Tory rule and 'yeah but Labour' every time a Tory scandal came to light or they lied about something or fucked the working classes up the arse, Labour only have to fart and the Brexit means Brexit democracy defenders demand another election, just four months since the last one.

Bunch of gimps suddenly developed a conscience when pensioners (the wealthiest demographic in the country) got hit with a means tested reduction in benefits yet called for cut after cut after cut for the jobless, disabled and parents.

They called anyone objecting to Brexit or wanting a second referendum a 'Remoaner' and are now doing the same thing if not worse.

Piss-taking hypocrites of the highest order.

Make me sick.

You can have another election in 2029 you whingeing cunts.

[Saulaac]

Totally agree. They are bloody hypocrites if they are calling for another general election just because they're not happy with how things are turning out. Queensbury rules.

The Tories somehow fucked the country right up. I mean, the GDP is still quite healthy but the majority of UK citizens, from young parents to pensioners, are struggling to meet basic costs. How the fuck do we make sense of that?

But I do think modern politics is a bit Orwellian. And usually I wouldn't normally comment like this about the UK 'cos I don't live there now, but I see similarities with the local farmers here in France who being constantly pounded on the one hand by lower prices from the supermarkets and then targeted by higher taxes by the government on the other. It's like a joint spit-roast party by Macron and Monsieur Intermarché. It's just annoying that governments throw out a very wide net in order to catch the investor class who may have invested in farming but do not farm, but are hitting the more working class farmers who toil.

Some people like Dan Neidle (former tax lawyer turned 'truther') are questioning the IHT stuff, which I'm looking at.

You know what is actually happening on the ground a lot more than me, JJ. 

[Thelonious Monkey]

I feel sorry for Americans. I can't imagine how they are feeling. The closest I could imagine is Brexit, this is basically Brexit on acid for you guys. Stay strong Americans. Please don't tax the shit out of us.