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That assumes you live in one of a small number of countries for which politics significantly shifted after one of those countries was attacked.

And also that you’re at least old enough to have had a reasonable mature understanding of the political landscape before 2001, so as to appreciate how things changed. Let’s assume that’d make you at least 20.

…So, we have to be at least 43 years old, and American, or you’ll assume we’re children?

That’s what got me thinking.

Look, the guy might have been fantastic and sharp years ago, but mental decline at that age happens and happens fast sometimes.

The question I’m asking isn’t what will be the fate of the world if he gets reelected, such an old man in office, my question is what might be mismanaged or handles poorly NOW, because we just saw how incapable he is of pretty basic stuff, and he’s already at the helm of a huge counter making gigantic decisions that affect billions one way or another.

I don’t wish him any I’ll will, but I think there should be an age limit on political office, not to mention far stricter cognitive testing. We need our world leaders to be the sharpest, quickest, on-point minds the country has to offer.

I adore this website! So much! ❤️

Lots of people have issues with the concept of voting based on policies, for valid real world reasons,

but this survey does a great job of making you sit down for the better part of a hour to compare all the high-level policy promises and weigh then against each other, and at the end giving you an idea of which party at least claims to be more your cup of tea.

It’s an educational tool, and a way to get the brain working and thinking about the election a little differently.

Will I vote for who I got in my results? That’s between me and my ballot, but I certainly found the results eye opening! :-)

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So that’s how it works! I’m relieved someone finally filled me in.

Do you mean half of the world’s children, or half of the children in your own, unspecified country?

Literacy in my country is over 80%, which is still too low in my opinion, but fast better than half, thankfully.

Get out there and vote on July 4th!

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Harry Potter actor? This man is the Doctor.

He’s a national treasure.

Colin from Portsmouth is on the line hello Colin!

That’s very illegal in the UK and EU, oh my.

Why would anyone pay for viewing a website?

Or to put it another way,

Why would anyone pay for using a service that costs money to provide?

I don’t get it?

… You don’t iron your clothes?

Do you just go places looking like you just got dragged through a bush backwards?

Why not just open the door with the key like every car ever

We are at capacity on the west coast mainline

Don’t worry, as we continue to price people out of rail travel (poor people were priced out years ago, we’ve almost cut the whole lower middle class out too, just a little further, I believe we can do it!), fewer people will travel and that’ll reduce the hit on your capacity.

All part of our genius plan 😎🍹

Before clicking the link I assumed it was some YouTube creator guy with a weird name.

That was my first reaction too, but then I realised this is the least annoying watermark I’ve ever seen on one of these things, the brain quickly filters it out and ignores it because of how it’s stationary and laid out.

Pretty good!

Ah yes, global news is propaganda now because it’s not about, let me guess, America?

But if labour can afford to live, how will we minimise their ability to focus what little energy we leave them with at the end of their shift on improving their situation?

Paying a living wage is a slippery slope that ends in things like healthcare, education and opportunities being available to all, and that’d make them more than just our bought and paid for production labour, that’d make them our rivals.

I don’t think people are “refusing”, it’s not like it’s mandatory or anything. Nobody’s trying to force you to drive a car.

I know I’ll never be able to afford a car, they’re incredibly expensive to buy and operate, and most of my travel is already covered by our excellent Trams, Buses and Trains, which can get me basically anywhere comfortably and quickly.

For the times I need something special I can ask someone for a lift, but that happens only a handful of times a year. A car would be a big, expensive, risky piece of equipment to just leave sat around for someone to steal…

It’s absolutely very important I agree, and a long term goal (decades of work), but I’m talking about recovery for individuals and families struggling to hold things together right now, today. The kind of recovery that needs to happen within the next 5 years at the absolute maximum, lest it be too late.

While such impoverished groups have always existed, never before in post WWII have they grown in such numbers and continue to grow terrifyingly rapidly due to the bottom falling out of every service and institution the nation relies on. The general public don’t seem to fully realise just how bad things are.

If we lose multiple back to back generations of people to poverty, lack of education, opportunities, bad health and misery, if we completely break that chain, there won’t be a first world nation capable of prioritising the environment, period.

We will be a third world nation, only capable of being in triage mode forever, just trying to hold itself together through its slow, many decades long collapse.

Other nations won’t come to our aid to build us back up into a first world nation, if we can’t do that ourselves, it won’t happen. This is the reality for many countries, we just think it can’t happen to us because we’re special. We’re not.

We need to repair our broken institutions and face the core reasons for those failures today, so that we can focus more heavily on climate and environmental issues tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that.

Just to reiterate, I’m not saying we shift focus away from those very important issues entirely, or that we do so for decades and decades, pushing them far away as Boomers did to become someone else’s problem, just that - as the title of this post asks - this election (and the next 5 years of major national focus) aren’t focusing as heavily on climate issues because we’ve got far more immediate, unprecedentedly serious crises (multiple) that simply can’t wait any longer.

What we do in the next few years will decide the fate of this country.

It’s sad that it’s come to this I wholeheartedly agree, but we must play the cards we are dealt, and triage the problem, one disaster at a time, until we’re back on our feet and can handle more.