Ah but the capitalist has to sacrifice the short term and play the long game of not over harvesting. And nothing matters more to a capitalist than short term profit

Phew, for a minute there I thought no one was profiting from this

I think that’s pretty much impossible to achieve. One persons far-right content, is another’s “common sense”

Hey give some credit to America’s other enemies: China, North Korea, and Iran

It partly is but also that they’ve just ran out of “talent”. Anyone who was any good was there at the start and they’ve just not been able to replace them.

You’re missing that they are just incompetent and awful at politics

I wonder what the split would be for a dictator doing what I want vs going against what I want

While I’m not saying the farmer quote shares this belief but it’s hard to take when there have been so many “farmers protests” about changes to subsidies linked to reducing emissions and planting more trees

I think it’s because people are less polarised than in the US (despite the media’s best efforts). Most people fall somewhere near the centre and so the conservative leadership is somewhat scared of its MPs dragging it further to the right.

I will add that the Tories are in a bit of a shambles at the minute and so they will swing randomly between centre-right and right-wing due to inept leaders

Public executions used to be common and yet people still murdered. It clearly isn’t a deterrent and worse case you execute an innocent person.

What problems would it solve?

Wind has provided ~55% of the energy for the past week according to here

Smh, not wearing reflective clothing or a helmet. Surprised it wasn’t ran over sooner.

Someone un-virgined the olive oil