It is increasingly evident that #America's #democracy has been #captured and sullied by #bigmoney #political #donations to the extent that a #criminal can be re-elected as #POTUS & #antitrust #laws repeatedly trampled. Nowhere on earth does money talk louder than in #USA. The ROW can only hope that the US-style #corruption of #politics stop with #UK & doesn’t infect any more countries.

The #Americanisation of British political donations
"Nigel Farage’s Reform party..."🤔
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/the-americanisation-of-british-political-donations

The Americanisation of British political donations

A £9m boost to Reform UK from a crypto investor raises questions about the influence of big money in politics. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times

Le Socialiste Anonyme sur la destruction nécessaire du périurbain pavillonnaire et de la “France moche”.

Bénéfice : En ces temps de Trumpisme, ça fera la bite à Mc Do.

#FRPol #Américanisation #USGoHome

Ainsi débute l'habituelle #américanisation de fin d'année :
- Halloween
- Black Friday
...

Mais " attention c'est les #Chinois [qui] vont bouffer le monde", hou la la !

Ou "les #Russes qui veulent nous rendre dépendants", etc...

#doubleStandard #EUA #USA

Posts I wish would specify country #1,567

#americanisation

Australia's HECS-HELP debt has topped $74b. How long does it take the average student to pay theirs off?
#ATO has released the country's 100 largest #HECS debts through a Freedom of Information request – and the highest debt is a whopping $737,000.
The second-biggest has ballooned to nearly half a million dollars, with the third coming in at $387,000. The lowest in the top 100 was more than $219,000. #freeeducationforall #auspol #boganNation #AMERICANISATION

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-15/hecs-help-debt-financial-advice-indexation-student-loan/102218826

Australia's HECS-HELP debt has topped $74b. How long does it take the average student to pay theirs off?

Those with some of the country's biggest HECS-HELP debts would be more than 100 years old before even coming close to paying them off without voluntary extra repayments.

ABC News
One million people in NSW living in poverty as inequality in Sydney deepens, research shows

New research based on census data indicates another 100,000 people in NSW have slipped into poverty since 2016 — and over half of them are aged over 65.

ABC News

Just got an email from Facebook urging me to "Uplevel your social media marketing with Meta Business Suite".

Uplevel? Really?
#marketing #americanisation #doublespeak

3/ It displays the impact of American culture on Hereward, while re-inforcing Hereward's cultural impact on British children.
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And a third thing - Australians kicked the extreme right hard, and are still resisting the #américanisation of our #politics. (Here are a few ZZzzs for my US friends, I refuse to change my spelling.)

https://unherd.com/2022/11/how-britain-became-an-american-colony/

What do we think? Has social media made us so Americanised that we don't even notice? Am I the only person left who winces at "leverage" used as a verb with a short E?

Closer to home, does the fediverse feel more culturally diverse than birdsite? Is this as important as being free of Space Karen?

#unherd #Americanisation #leverage #51stState #fediverse #birdsite #SpaceKaren

How Britain became an American colony

We must resist our brutal imperial overlords

UnHerd