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Emrys

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18. Yeah, I've had to explain the US political setup to folks in the UK before,
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 03:16 PM
Tuesday

not least when Obama was president and was being blamed for actions and inaction that were the result of machinations in congress.

But with Reddit, you're dealing with a self-selected minute subsample that often harbours extremist views, so it's as ridiculous to assume it's representative of anything as it is for its moderator to assume to speak for "the rest of the world". Fuck his presumptiveness.

Farage has already done untold harm to the UK and not exactly helped the situation with the EU. The fact he's currently just a poisonous bit player on the world stage is little comfort when we have poll after poll showing that all that's likely to stop Reform UK's progress is its own implosion that I think will happen in due course.

I still haven't heard any realistic ideas about what more Americans could do at the moment. I look forward to being potentially surprised, but I don't see the prospects of a general strike in the US as being realistic. Even if it happened, I can't see it would cause much more than a blip.

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