Jump to content

The Anti-Targ

Members
  • Posts

    14,528
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About The Anti-Targ

  • Birthday 07/03/1969

Profile Information

  • Level 20 Social Justice Mage, with melee ability
  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Aotearoa New Zealand

Previous Fields

  • Name
    Greg

Recent Profile Visitors

11,764 profile views

The Anti-Targ's Achievements

Council Member

Council Member (8/8)

  1. I always had to sneak vegetables into our meat sauces for pasta so the kids would eat it, usually by grating carrot, courgettes and mushrooms so they basically disappeared from view. More recently throwing in brown lentils has been good to extend the volume esp as meat prices have been higher than they used to be but again barely noticed. Can't call it bolognaise since I almost never use pork. My new thing the last few months has been spaghetti all'assissina. Possibly the best vegan dish in my life.
  2. Arnie and Rod putting literal (roading equivalent) of band-aids on the pot hole problem. Which countries don't have pot hole problems? I'd guess the ones that have well engineered roads and that have a decent road maintenance budget.
  3. It's a bit old, but some of the 1%ers appear to get it, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jun/30/uk-super-rich-beware-pitchforks-torches-unless-they-do-more However as I've said a few times, higher taxes, esp in countries like the UK with floating exchange rate sovereign currencies, aren't necessary. Different taxes, for sure, but for the average schmo there is no justification for a bigger tax burden, indeed for the average schmo there should be less tax. Tax what is harmful (fossil fuels as an easy example) and unproductive (buying and selling existing houses and the passive income derived from renting such houses); don't tax (or lightly tax) things that are beneficial (building new houses) and productive (growing food sustainably, wages and salaries).
  4. So is the Mordaunt conspiracy legit, is there going to be a new PM, who gives up all her PM powers to be a sock puppet for the just one faction of the Party?
  5. I watched the King Ralph documentary, even being a quintessential American bozo doesn't disqualify you. Harry is fine...though people are getting shot by random people all the time in that country.
  6. So basically no viable alternative to the Obama nuke deal, is what I'm seeing. So do nothing, and we're seeing what do nothing is doing.
  7. Delaying what seems to be inevitable provides more time to move the country further towards moderate-ness and consequently preventing what was once thought of as inevitable. We'll never know what Iran would be like if the deal had remained in place, but we can be pretty certain that nixing the deal made Iran more well disposed towards come hither looks from Russia and China. But let's not delude ourselves, Trump axed the deal simply because it was Obama's deal not because of sound foreign policy rationale. Unless there was a clear alternative course of action more likely to succeed then doing something was definitely better than doing nothing. Nothing is what we have right now and Iran doesn't seem to be moving in a desirable direction.
  8. What was objectively bad about it, or was it just the vibe of the thing?
  9. I guess the level of threat this poses depends on how Putin defines Russia's existence. If it extends to Crimea and the more recently annexed parts of Ukraine then there is basically no reassurance at all that nukes won't come into play.
  10. Couldn't a witness speaking publicly about the classified documents case possibly harm the prosecution? Maybe the prosecution doesn't think this witness adds much value to their case, so they don't care if he goes public. But it probably means they should remove him from the witness list for the trial.
  11. I guess once some people have decided that a person is being witch hunted by the deep state it doesn't matter what the truth is about their alleged crimes, any conviction will be dismissed as illegitimate and proof that the deep state is out to get anyone who dares to defy the woke agenda. The deep state seems to be doing a pretty shit job if Andrew Tait is a big scalp.
  12. Accidentally, or accidentally on purpose? Is that streamer a friend of / apologist for Tait?
  13. The main problem with running on an improving economy is that while taking a look from orbit it's clear the economy is doing pretty well, when you zoom in the benefits are uneven (which has been the case for decades of economic growth), but when you combine the last couple of years of inflation and the ongoing uneveness of the benefits of growth you get the temperature in the bot being used to boil the frogs suddenly turned up, so the frogs are feeling it more acutely than back when the slow erosion over the last 30 years. Biden can run on the economy if he has clear and easily understood policies for how to translate growth and stability into more wealth for the low and middle income majority of the country. If he doesn't have that then running on the economy is going to fall on a lot of deaf ears. And you can't just say the rich will pay their fair share of tax to preserve the benefits that currently exist. People need more, not more of the same.
  14. I'm all for simplified pronunciation for things like Worcestershire to wooster, plenty of letters and syllables missing but at least the order of sounds that remain is the same. But how do you get the M and L backwards going from Cholmondeley to Chumley? Royals having affairs should be as surprising as finding out most people eat breakfast most days of the week.
×
×
  • Create New...