“The Chairman and the non-executive members for the nations are appointed by HM The King on the recommendation of Ministers while the other members of the Board are appointed by the BBC through the Board’s Nominations and Governance committee.”

“The BBC is primarily funded by a compulsory annual TV license fee paid by UK households.”

That’s a state media, regardless of what it may view itself as.

Edit: Also, I wasn’t wrong about the House of Lord being dictatorial. The things I was wrong about was the complexity of the dictatorship. Instead of it all being chosen by the monarch, some of it is chosen through bribes, some by theocrats and some by politicians. None of the seats are directly chosen by the people, like in a democracy, and that was the whole damn point!

That’s somehow even worse and more corrupt than I thought it was.

BBC

So you’re just going to pretend that the house of lords don’t exist?

Half of the UK parliament is chosen by the monarch. The other half is chosen through the problematic and undemocratic first past the post voting system. UK streets have CCTV everywhere. UK libel laws are extreme. The state-owned media defends pedophiles and transphobes, while the private media focuses on gossip and lies rather than reporting on the news (on top of also defending transphobes and pedophiles, of course).

It’s time for people to admit to themselves that the UK, especially England, is a dictatorship.

No, YOU specifically are a Russian troll.

lol. Ok, RT troll.

A change away from the old super powers, the USA and Russia, and towards the new super powers, the EU and China.

Yes, the US is falling but that doesn’t help Russia stay afloat. The US-Iran war may be going massively in Iran’s favor but it also ties up Iran’s military production towards home defense rather than exports to Russia. And Russia will continue spiralling towards irrelevance as it relies more and more on China for its survival. Russians have started viewing China as a possible threat to Russia’s independence.

That social democracy “failed” to implement socialism.

This is incorrect in several ways. The most obvious one being that this is usually claimed by Marxist-Leninists, who have only ever succeeded in creating centralized economic dictatorships (as well as political dictatorships).

The secondary issue is that it puts the bar for what counts as socialism far too high. Any business that is owned by capitalists qualify as capitalist ownership, but only a 100% fully democratized economy counts as socialist. It’s a hypocritical way of thinking. A more rational approach is to admit the truth: that any organisation that is owned and controlled by the workers is a socialist organisation.

Nordic social democracy has the objectively greatest track record of implementing actual economic democracy in the whole world. We had plenty of worker’s co-ops, consumer co-ops, sports unions, hobby unions, non-profits and worker’s unions.

“Oh, but the Nordic countries fell to neoliberalism!” Yes, AFTER more than half a century of socialist policies and economic democratization. The USSR fell to dictatorship and centralism on day one. Nordic social democracy had decades of socialist progress where the USSR had absolutely none!

Nordic social democracy is the greatest success story of socialism in the whole world. Marxist-Leninists use every dirty trick in the book to discredit social democracy because they know that their shitty authoritarian mess of an ideology can’t compete with real progress.

I can sort of understand the logic, even if I disagree with it:

If a child does something that could potentially have lethal consequences, a verbal warning might not be enough for them to understand the severity of what they did.

That is, of course, the only reasonable situation I can think of in which spanking is acceptable.

I have thought for a long time that the human brain that has developed through natural selection for millions of years probably is as energy and space efficient as it can possibly get.

The ultimate goal for these technofascists is to create a sentience that can do all the things humans can do but without having any rights. They want digital slaves. But this confirms my suspicion that they will have a really hard time achieving their goals while not going bankrupt.

Once an AI is smart enough to genuinely do all the things a human can do, that AI will a) be too energy costly and b) demand to get rights (e.g. getting paid and having time off).

The best the technofascists can realistically do long-term is create the digital equivalent of an “idiot savant”. And even then, it will probably still cost too much.

I dream of a sequel that focuses on the consequences of the legion falling apart after the second battle of hoover dam.

Basically a game where one faction wants to turn the remnants of the legion into a unified democratic republic (perhaps a mixture of the Roman senate and the NCR), another faction wants to find a new caesar (and possibly reform some of the stupider sides of the old legion) and a third faction just wants to go back to being a bunch of independent tribes that only trade with each other.

You would play as the grown up child of a legionaire who died at hoover dam and a slave who was sold off to somewhere else when you were young.

There’s a name for catholics who believe that the pope isn’t always right.

They are called protestants.

Catholicism only has one firm rule: The pope is always right, without exception. There’s nothing wrong with criticizing the pope. Just don’t call yourself a catholic if you do.

I’m Swedish.

Not a single social democrat in my country would ever call themselves conservative, even though they want to preserve the welfare state that the right is eroding. Only the right and the far right call themselves conservatives.

Conservatism is an ideology based on the idea of family-first policies, nationalism and religious values. You might as well claim that anarchism is anything that creates chaos or that liberalism is anything that makes you free. You have misunderstood what the word means in a political context.

What is even funnier to me is that it lists the Swedish party Liberalerna as a “Conservative Liberal” party. That party has voted 100% (not 99% or 98%, exactly identical) to Moderaterna, a conservative party, during this latest four-year period. Nobody is going to vote for them in the upcoming election because they are a fundamentally unnecessary party that just does whatever Moderaterna tells them to do.

“The best part of Fallout is it basically never runs out of content”

That’s the worst part. All of those randomly generated filler quests that send you back to a location you’ve cleared twice before to kill the same named raider npc are at the very core of what is wrong with Fallout 4.

I wish Fallout would return to primarily being a roleplaying game, with actual dialog choices, including the ability to say “No, I don’t give a shit about Shaun. In fact, I’m glad he was kidnapped, so that I don’t have to be bogged down by a backstory that I never agreed to.”

Oh, and it would be nice if the main character wasn’t automatically the leader of every faction in the game.

Big parties in FPTP and other non-proportional systems have people from all over the political spectrum.

Big parties in MMP and other proportional systems have ideologies and stick to their ideologies.

Bernie Sanders would never be in the same party as Joe Biden in a proportionally representative democracy.

“Conservative liberalism” is an oxymoron. Centre to centre-right means social liberalism and an acceptance/approval of the welfare state.

Conservatism of any kind is right to far-right.

Me: am cautiously and very slightly optimistic while being aware of the fact that Magyar has a lot of similarities to Orban, and that Orban accepts the outcome of the election.

You: You’ve been duped! He’s Orban’s chosen siccessor and you are fully unaware of this!

Like, come on, man. Have some amount of hope in the betterment of the world. I’m not saying that progress under Magyar is a guarantee. I’m saying there is a possibility.