Welcome to the 5th Gen Warfare Tribe.
Given that we are experiencing rapid changes in our culture, it made sense to have a place to track the populist movements / battles as they occur, and not necessarily under the banner of politics.
For instance, Gamergate, Occupy Wallstreet, Maga Movement, and now the Wallstreet bets have all been "battles" with something in common: They cross political lines and share a common, populist root.
Here we can talk about the greater culture war and discuss the big picture for players and actions.
@First-light Whats even better is, Labour have already made their grave, they just haven’t moved in yet.
They bled votes to green, meaning to regain their vote they would have to lean left - and polling suggests less than 1% of reform voters would now vote labour so appealing right is futile.
They’ve lost, and continue to lose the support that props up the centre.
That being said, we’re looking at years of hung parliaments and shoddy coalitions that won’t hold water. If FPTP continues, there will be a desert of functional governance coming to the U.K. at the next GE.
To compound this even further, Plaid Cymru swept up, and the SNP fortified I believe too, as well as Sinn Fein in NI. With weaker and weaker governments or none at all in Westminster, the shouting for independence will only become more and more justified.
Well, I’m no Nostradamus but that appears to be the beginning of the UK balkanisation.
…and I didn’t even mention the uplift in Muslim independents voted in this round.
Read More@Stigma Its certainly about to get very interesting. Reform will struggle to govern as they have no experience and a lot of untried ideas. Who knows if the conservatives can resurrect by moving right instead of slowly moving left like they have for a century?
Last time there was a coalition, there was a wonderful opportunity for the people to see how impractical a load of lefty ideas are. The liberals have never risen again since then. It gives one hope that in the struggle of tight parliaments good ideas can win by natural selection.
Starmer is showing us that even if you have the most thumping first past the post majority, you can still fail to govern.
@Bozza This all looks positive. Just got to actually convert it to parliament.
The left still call reform "right wing" or even "far right" because they want to use magic cancelling words and make the bad blasphemers go away. This works great on a green voter who hates "far right fascist pigs" but he/ she /it/ they were never going to vote reform anyway but really the old left/ right dichotomy doesn't apply to reform.
Reform are taking votes from rural conservatives but they are also taking old labour votes in grim northern cities -people labour considered hereditary voters who "had" to vote labour while labour worried about everyone else who was gay or disabled, anxious, female or foreign -in fact anyone who didn't labour much and wanted free shit.
Thigs are shifting one feels. Its about bloody time too!
Read More@Bozza thanks for update I have seen Farage smiling on some news flash but missed the context.
I was hearing his political stance and needs of repairs softening, the biggest catalyst of him "coming out" being R Lowe.
I wonder is he just an another head of the exactly same hydra. After all he is embedded into British politics since forever.
Today was the UK local elections. it doesn't mean too much politically, as most of these seats are for local councils with limited power. Their power is mostly fixing the roads, trash collection etc. But it's somewhat analagous to the US midterms in terms of a bellweather for political opinion.
Well, the right won massively. Given reform didn't even exist a few years ago, this is an earthquake in british politics.
The greens (fringe left) had a lot of hype and support recently, turns out most of that was hot air.
Reform - right (leftists would call hard right) Labour - left (incumbent government) Liberal Democrats - centre left Conservative - right Green - hard left
Also based Rupert Lowe with Restore, won 10/10 of the seats he campaigned in. Beating Reform by a landslide.
Chinese database for spying on Taiwanese leaked
China has developed a network-mapping project targeting political figures and parties in Taiwan to monitor public opinion during elections and to craft tailored influence campaigns aimed at dividing Taiwanese society, according to documents leaked by Chinese technology firm GoLaxy
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/03/18/2003854013
@MentORPHEUS The IDF has been at a near constant state of war for years now. They have reached exhaustion and if they don't slow down it is going to get much, much worse for them. Not shedding any tears about that. I have had it with their shit.
What we are doing to Iran is what we did to Iraq in the first gulf war. I fought that one. Even did some fragging for the air campaign. Iraq actually had a better track record with their missiles that Iran is having now, keeping a pretty good tempo until about this point. It tied up almost half of the non-combat support air forces. Iran was able to keep that tempo up for about five days. Now it is just random shit they pop off when they can. In return their country is literally being deconstructed. Most people that haven't participated in such a campaign have no idea of how destructive it is. Fifty years of building up an industrial capacity while under sanctions, quite a feat, will be gone by the end of the week. So they have some choices to make.
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