A conservative politician who cares more about corporate profit than actual people. Shocker.
He's actually a Liberal Democrat. Or was. David Cameron's whipping boy.
Potayto, potahto. Kind of like trying to distinguish our local (and now collapsing) CDS (Christian Democrats) from PSD (Social-Democrats). It’s all “Tory-like” toffs, the entire lot.
For context, those are Portuguese parties, and it’s kind of appropriate, seeing how our new mayor (a PSD leader-in-the-making, supported by a coalition including – you guessed it – CDS and other gems such as PPM, a monarchist party in a country that’s been a republic for 111 years now) is a class-A hypocrite, who used to parade himself on a bike while being a EU commissioner in Brussels, and hinged his entire mayoral campaign on suppressing a controversial (but increasingly popular) central bike lane. Either he goes forth with his plan, which will make him objectively a terrible politician as he’ll eventually end up with literal blood on his hands, or quietly shelves it, which all but confirms how much of a hypocrite and a liar he is.
And now it feels very fitting that he should host an also controversial event (for added context, that Paddy Cosgrave bloke has acted towards us, the actual citizens of this city and this country, as a weapons-grade insensitive idiot, by having the gall of even entertaining the thought of inviting the neo-fascist Marine Le Pen to WebSummit a few years ago), and that we should be graced with the presence of such a fine LibDem specimen because of it.
By the way, I'm sorry for posting a duplicate comment, but the forum software would't let me commit to edits to my original one. I'm getting this at the end of the text input field instead of the regular “Cancel / Save Comment” buttons, maybe because I put an emoji at the end of it?
True, the Lib Dems will align with anyone who gives them the time of day, be it Tory, Greens or Labour. Many (most) politicians are only really in it for themselves and can't put themselves in anyone else's shoes. But then also people who are slighted by the politicians (even those that are doing what they said they would when being voted in) viciously attack them online and face to face - despite it being something people voted for. Apparently attacking politicians is fine, but woe betide you criticise the ideology of a non-political person. That's libel, slander and racism. Apparently.
But yes this forum software is complete shit. It doesn't support Unicode properly so the editor shows that weirdness. But save and it usually sorts itself out. Either that or everything gets totally screwed and your reply gets mashed into the quote of the previous person. Then you just give up.
First Spotify (probably not first, but earlier), then Epic, and now Facebook, complain about Apple’s «Dominant Position». Others are sure to join the clamor. They want to force Apple to do their bidding, i.e. not denying them anything, by weaponizing antitrust investigations against Apple. However, Apple’s «Dominant Position» is around 15% of the global smartphone market. Beware codewords like that. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271496/global-market-share-held-by-smartphone-vendors-since-4th-quarter-2009/
Failed politician working for and defending the most horrible cimpany on planet earth. Not surprised about his statements. Yeah, Meta, Facebook or whatever it is a non profit organization!
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But yes this forum software is complete shit. It doesn't support Unicode properly so the editor shows that weirdness. But save and it usually sorts itself out. Either that or everything gets totally screwed and your reply gets mashed into the quote of the previous person. Then you just give up.
No wonder Meta-Face-Book love being in bed with governments and candidates who treat citizens like cattle.