Whoa there buddy, you’d better ease up on those pragmatic and reasonable opinions there! That’s far too rational for round these parts. ;)

I think it’s going to be increasingly difficult to not pull your hair out over the next four (at best) years. I remember breathing a sigh of relief when Biden got in, not because I agree with his politics (I’m not American and don’t live there either), but because I was so tired of looking at whatever the orange idiot had done the day before and thinking “why would you do that”?! This time will be worse.

I hate how stressful it is for everyone else in the planet when the world’s largest economy is being run by a toddler

No, he genuinely has a face like an ai-generated thumb. He’s the kind of prank bellend that’s going to get shot eventually, and absolutely no one will care, he’s a gimp

I’d think that the smart ones will desert as soon as they can

As does having a livable planet for the rest of us, and being able to exist as anything other than a rich white straight-in-public guy in the US. How so much has ended up in the hands of an orange nazi dementia patient in a first world country is pretty astounding

The fact it goes on to talk about pink coke shoes they’re conflating two different things.

You’ve conflated the military control of the area with the setting up of the conservation areas. Charles Clover, a reporter and conservationist, writes a detailed account of getting these areas set up in his (frankly brilliant) book Rewilding the Sea, by badgering and leveraging contacts within the admiralty, coming to agreements with local fishermen to ensure their livelihood and financial security, and generally fighting an up-hill battle to set up a world-first conservation area. He addresses the controversies around the Chagos island in his book, and states that while he wholeheartedly disagrees with what is essentially a military occupation of the islands, he’s not above using that situation to achieve the environmental protection he was aiming for.

I really hope that this doesn’t affect the ocean nature reserves around them.

Now that is a silly hat

It took me a second to understand that. I thought that you meant that the thing with the eels was a pretty typical sentence in English

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Exactly this, it was a weight of my shoulders!

As opposed to the conservatives, who just connive and scam and destroy public services. Labour have been in power for a couple of months, and have twelve years of the worst government imaginable to try to correct. The utter incompetence, corruption and mismanagement of the conservatives have left them with a multi-billion deficit to try to correct, I’d be shocked if they got everything right in trying to steer that sinking ship