Your analogy is a little off. If I were in the slightest danger of defaulting on my mortgage, you may be assured that even my closest family would be getting handwritten free hug vouchers for christmas.
It's not about being debt free, it's about not using your debt for stupid things.
I think you're pretty much on the money as far as sources go (and on the matter of letting things grow organically while it's still a small community) - something specific about multiple posts though:
When news breaks, it’s exciting, and everyone wants to post. This can mean discussions getting fragmented.
I think @Noit@lemm.ee or @NuPNuA@lemm.ee has been in touch with you about long-running megathreads already - in the politics sphere, at least, these do tend to absorb a lot of the "oh god what's Suella done now" and "but why can't we election now boohoo" chatter. That in turn tends to mean that little things and breaking news naturally gravitate into them, which helps keeps things tidy.
As an added bonus, as a community grows, they also serve a really useful purpose in letting people form a picture of who the people on the other side of the screen are, and keep the pixels humanised, if you see what I mean - which is particularly important when discussing Serious Business like politics, of course.
So in conclusion, I think you should do megathreads in the politics space; thank you for attending my Thread Talk.
It makes me wonder whether Labour will even arrive in time to turn things around.
One suspects this may be central to the government's resistance to an early election - the longer the place declines, the better the chance of Starmer being a Callaghan rather than a Blair or even - be still my beating heart - an Attlee.
hopefully we’ll get an autumn general election
No chance. They're dug in for the duration now.
Right up there with Politics4Ali. I actually don't know whether this one is legit or not, but it does pop up a lot. Who knows? 🤷
...but I don't think she's going to get the boot. She's still the backbench headbangers' golden girl, and if she gets bounced then real fissures begin to open - since the name of the game at this point is "tough it out and keep the salaries rolling in till January '25", she's sitting pretty.
that totally normal corporate financing
The point, I think, is that it perhaps ought not to be.
Its an excellent scheme if you’re an amoral lizard.
Well hey, you'll never guess who built the system...
Ah, the state of the gender paygap. It's 2023 and still a woman can't be fairly compensated for tanking an essential public service into the ground smh.
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