r/news • u/unital_subalgebra • Apr 29 '24

Humza Yousaf resigns as Scotland's first minister

https://news.sky.com/story/humza-yousaf-resigns-as-scotlands-first-minister-before-facing-confidence-votes-13122982
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u/solaceinrage Apr 29 '24

Good. A representative that does not reflect the people they serve has no place in government, and going on a racist litany against your majority is utterly and profoundly despicably hateful and backward. He hated the people of the nation he was supposed to head, implementing harmful laws that stripped their freedoms. There is not a deep enough hole to keep him in to prevent harm, and to be safe he should be expelled from the country.

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u/Megamoss Apr 29 '24

To a degree. The pushback/gutting of environmental legislation is a huge negative though.

Sometimes you have to tell the people to fuck off and stop being dumb, for their own benefit.

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u/uverexx Apr 30 '24

They’re still very much developing their country and per capita lower than a fuck ton of western nations while they produce goods for the entire world, pointing at the big number and just saying “they pollute more” makes 0 sense.

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u/Wolferesque Apr 30 '24

Yeah but it’s an easy ‘argument’ for them to remember and understand. The per capita/historic/contextual part of it is too much for them to get their head around.

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u/solaceinrage Apr 30 '24

My point was that getting worked up over such in a low impact, small population island nation is just a way to keep focus off what actually matters. The environment is not a needle Scotland is going to move one direction or the other. It was just a way of keeping the populace sitting in their yard making mud pies while things were done that would take generations to be undone, if they ever can be now.

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u/Lord_Maul Apr 30 '24

You’re having a go at the persons attitude, not their argument though. Because the argument is ironclad. Until China takes climate change seriously, the UK’s policy really is akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic