@AdameMedia America has given up it's role as leader of the free world.
When it gets back to acting rationally, it's traditional friends and allies will still be here.
We won't be quite so dependent, which may be no bad thing.
We'll all, including the USA, be poorer, though.
@JulienHoez@AnnelieseDodds I agree that Russia's assault on the Ukraine was an assault on the west and needs to be defeated at all cost.
Our position in the rest of the world can't just be switched on and off, though. The cuts we make now will take decades of focused priority to rebuild. If we ever do.
@JulienHoez@AnnelieseDodds The cuts to aid won't be anything like enough. Taxes are going to have to rise anyway.
Abandoning the rest of the world to China and Russia just doesn't seem very clever.
@nessumsarkirneh@faniaoz Of course it is necessary to keep the flickering light burning in the chaos and darkness of Twitter.
But if you're looking for a constructive conversation with people of good will, I think you'll find a higher proportion of them on BlueSky.
@faniaoz Your voice of sanity is one of the few things I've regretted missing since moving to BlueSky. Keep up the Good Work!
And though Twitter's need for you probably IS greater than BlueSky's, it would be great to see you over there. It feels as though that's where the grownups are.
@GoodwinMJ Or is it more likely that this decades long problem has something to do with government subsidy of low wage, low skill employment in order to keep the unemployment numbers artificially low?
#Workfare
@JeromeAPinzon @JonathanPieNews No. He's saying that in most cases, the "homeless" really have homes (there's no other way to read "....homeless...is a lie"), along with mental problems, drug addiction and violent behaviours.
Changing behaviours of the homeless, or anybody else, is hard. But they ARE homeless
@An0therGift @BrinkMusicMCR @McNolf@jamesrbuk Most people with pensions will have some investment in some Blackrock funds. If you are contributing to a pension scheme, you should be able to get a statement from your scheme administrator.