Reform leader says he agrees ‘strategically’ with Trump but adds that views of Greenlanders must be respected
    • porcoesphino@mander.xyzEnglish
      35·
      16 hours ago

      I wasn’t trying to rank them

      There must be 1000s of people that lead a state that aren’t there (given ~200 countries). What makes this guy’s presence so special? Or, perhaps, his presence is also out of place

      • fonix232@fedia.io
        16·
        15 hours ago

        California is 2/3 the size of the UK.

        Farage is an MP of a constituency of 75 thousand, and won the election for that position with 21225 votes. He’s not a minister, he’s not an appointed leader of anything, he’s not even the leader (or any official part) of the official opposition in the UK parliament. Hell he’s not even doing a passable job at being an MP given he’s missed like, 70+% of parliamentary meetings, and hasn’t held any significant surgeries in his constituency either. He’s the literal definition of paid for doing nothing politician, shuffling around Fasc-a-Lago hoping to earn some favours by having his nose so far up Trump’s ass he could diagnose the tangerine tyrant’s appendix…

          • Mike D@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            11 hours ago

            As a Californian, I really wanted to jump in with the “Fuck Newsom” crowd.

            But California’s economy rivals most countries. Last time I checked there were only five countries with larger economies.

        • porcoesphino@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          My grammar is admittedly pretty farm boy, so I thought I’d check. You seem like a bit off an ass but someone else reading this might take it as legitimate:

          Some authorities prescribe that restrictive relative clauses (where the relative clause is part of the identification of the noun phrase) should only use that as the introductory pronoun, and non-restrictive relative clauses should only use which or who/whom as the introductory pronoun. In practice, either pronoun is commonly used to introduce a restrictive relative clause, including in edited prose. In contrast, it is not usual in edited written English to use that to introduce a non-restrictive relative clause, though there are occasional rare attestations.

          https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/that

          I saw at least one typo there and figured I’d leave it for you