• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    19 minutes ago

    In a way I’m bummed that I probably won’t see any of the space sci-fi come true where everybody sounds British.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 hours ago

    I see the delusion is progressing.

    There’s no point trying to make sense of this, she’s nuts, and just in a sad depression way, not in a fun entertaining way.

    • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
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      6 hours ago

      Usually, terraforming includes belching greenhouse gases to melt polar ice caps. Arrival with Charlie Sheen plays on this.

      We currently are with fossil fuels.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Couldn’t even beat a lettuce, but still dream of beating on people who already decades ahead of space flight.

  • Bromeliadventures@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    What’s really frustrating about Liz Truss is she is too stupid to understand how stupid she is. If she could wrap her head around that, she might just shut up and we’d never have to hear from her again.

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      10 hours ago

      let’s see you become britain’s second female prime minister.

      EDIT : OK, I guess

      1. The joke that she was already britain’s nth female prime minister didn’t go well
      2. Theresa May was britain’s second female prime minister, truss was the third
      3. to be clear, she achieved nothing and to hell with her.
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          8 hours ago

          the joke is "oh, you think you’re so much better than her? Let’s see you achieve the only achievement she has (becoming the third female british prime minister) when you can’t become the third of anything AGAIN.

          I guess it all got fumbled and was shit to begin with.

          • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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            8 hours ago

            Probably US Defaultism didn’t help. heh. I watch panelshows so I know a little more news than the average, but it still whooshed me.

            I think it wasn’t so much poorly done as just didn’t land quite well AND once anything gets a downvote or two, it snowballs. heh.

            Thank you for explaining. I may not be falling down laughing, but I am quite amused. <3

      • threeonefour@piefed.ca
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        7 hours ago

        My favourite joke was to refer to her as “Conservative party backbencher, Liz Truss” but after looking her up on Wikipedia, I see that she has since lost her seat, so even that doesn’t work.

  • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    I’m more likely to lob a head of lettuce to the moon than the UK gets to Mars before the end of this century.

    She’s a fucking loon.

  • GreyShuck@feddit.uk
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    14 hours ago

    Well, if the tories - and Truss particularly - had remained in power until then, I can imagine that a lot of people would be taking extreme measure to get away, so I can see her point.

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      14 hours ago

      They’d be sent up as indentured servants, as that would be many people’s only way of survival in perma-austerity. Those who got close to putting away enough company-store credits for the voyage back would find their oxygen bills algorithmically surge-priced upwards.

  • 58008@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I feel somewhat bad for her getting the glass cliff treatment, but then my pity evaporates when she continues putting herself out there, saying the most imbecilic things imaginable. She can’t admit that her premiership was completely contrived and desperate on the part of her colleagues, and that she would never have gotten a look in under any other circumstances, and so she has to dream up conspiracies and dark forces to explain how she failed almost instantly. And the delusion simply grows the more her imagined self slams face-first into reality. She would have been the best if we’d just given her a proper chance, ya know?

    Paperback edition of a human.

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      7 hours ago

      There’s no glass cliff in a country that had Maggie Thatcher in power for a decade half a century ago. Truss was a fucking idiot.