• Esoteir [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    lmao, the fucking "evil xi is coming for your toothbrush" on the top right to distract from domestic issues

    • RION [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yes, home grown oligarchs might be tossing your country in the shitter, but have you considered that foreign man bad????

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      :xigma-male: hand over the brush whitey I must clean my armpits

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      The threat Xi poses at home and abroad

      meanwhile, the current PM taking a turkey saw to the guts of the UK social safety net and tax base

      I have to wonder how long it will be until Economist readership is impacted by the number of Brits who can afford to buy the paper.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          Even the Weekly Standard couldn't survive without a subscribing readership.

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            I'd have to go back to listen to the episode both episodes where Will dances on its grave but iirc it had more to do with factional changes in the GOP?

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              2 years ago

              The neoconservatives being jettisoned from Trump's party and forced to life-raft over to the Dems, yeah. Bill Kristol survived the journey but his paper of record did not.

    • TBooneChickens [they/them, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      But.. the entire cover is dedicated to the idea that Britain is a sinking ship. How on earth do you claim they're trying to distract from that?

      • Esoteir [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        after they've read all of the lovely ways britain is falling apart they can go to the advertised xi section, shrug at everything else they read and go "at least truss isn't communist china man who poses a threat both at home and abroad"