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- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 4 days ago:
In the past, yes, certainly. And I’m of the view ACAB. However, the Equality Act passed years ago, LGBTQ people are legally not to be discriminated against. The police showing support is therefore a good thing. It solidifies their commitment to uphold this law and treat LGBTQ people as equals in a country that still has a discrimination problem amongst the populace. It reminds both bigots and police officers which side police forces are now on and that there will be consequences for acts of discrimination.
To push them away will not help the cause.
These rights took decades, many people fighting tirelessly, and sadly many deaths and injuries to achieve. Why would you want to throw all that away? Just because you dislike cops? They’re finally on the right side with this. Yes, they’re twats for a myriad of reasons, but in this regard they’re in the right. This is very important support to have, because there are people in society who are doing what they can to overturn this progress. The cops being on side helps prevent that.
Also, remember, that just because something is illegal doesn’t mean that law will be enforced. Police forces have previously chosen to decriminalise things like personal amounts of cannabis by just refusing to bother enforcing it. It’s still illegal but if no cop arrests you, is it really? They could do the same with regard to the Equality Act if they choose, decriminalising discrimination again. It’s harder for them to justify doing that if their vans are covered in Pride livery. It’s harder for individual officers to tolerate discrimination if they have a personal positive view of LGBTQ people.
This isn’t America, Peelian principles are still at least vaguely adhered to. Community policing is still a thing here.
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 4 days ago:
What’s the admin password? Is it *******?
- Comment on Don't mess with me bro 1 week ago:
Nazi in Chief was a vegetarian, so there’s that. Whether there’s anything beyond that I dunno, I’m not OP nor German
- Comment on Scottish University agreed to 'monitor' students for weapons company supplying IDF, emails reveal 1 week ago:
What’s with the obscurity in the title?
Heriot Watt University.
Call them by their name. Name and shame them.
Heriot Watt University care more for weapons manufacturers, whose weapons are used to commit genocide, than they do their own students.
Heriot Watt University are therefore pro genocide.
Heriot Watt University.
- Comment on Gregg Wallace fired from MasterChef as 50 people tell BBC of fresh allegations 2 weeks ago:
I can, mental health services in this country are shit and taboo. But being autistic doesn’t excuse being a deviant arsehole.
Pulling down a colleague’s trousers and then going “it’s because I’m autistic!” only solidifies that he’s an arsehole, trying to hide his actions behind a label that he thinks now makes him untouchable.
Concessions and understanding should be shown to autistic people. Sudden changes in plans, for example, may cause a strong emotional reaction that “neurotypicals” wouldn’t experience, but it doesn’t mean autistic are free to completely do as they wish without repercussions
Actually, what am I saying? Yes, it should allow autistic people to be above the law! Brb, I’ve got a left wing government to install, nobody can stop me!
- Comment on It was inevitable 2 weeks ago:
Never thought I’d be on the side of the redcoats, but alas you make a good point.
I understand now why so many traitorous Scots put on the coat.
- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 2 weeks ago:
How have the Conservatives done on key issues? Slow progress has been made on social housing. From 2013 to 2023, the number of social rented homes fell from 4.0 million to 3.8 million, according to an estimate by the UK parliament. By 2022/23, just 15% of new affordable homes were for social rent. Before 2011 it was over half. In the 13 years before the Conservatives came to power, 362,000 new socially rented homes were built. In the 13 years from 2010 to 2023, this fell to 171,000.
All this combines to create an acute housing shortage. The National Housing Federation estimates there are 4.2m households in England with unmet housing needs.
bigissue.com/…/tories-lost-election-result-politi…
The number of social homes being built has fallen by almost 90 per cent since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, new official figures have revealed.
Just 1,409 of the lowest-cost homes were started in England in the 2017/18 financial year - down from 39,402 in 2009/10.
independent.co.uk/…/social-housing-uk-labour-tori…
Not to mention a revolving door for housing minister, with 16 people being minister within a 14 year period.
- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 2 weeks ago:
Hmm… Why would the party of private interests and profit result in a downturn in building and higher profits for private interests?
That’s a tough one.
- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 2 weeks ago:
Notice that drop between 2010 and 2020. Fucking Tories.
- Comment on Bank of England to redesign banknotes - and wants your help 3 weeks ago:
The important tasks are being prioritised I see.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
Aye that’s fair. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” and all that.
Just to clarify though, owning your own car and stereo falls under personal property, not private property. See my comment here for a brief distinction of the two: feddit.uk/comment/18187961
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
Communism (from Latin communis ‘common, universal’)[1][2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,[1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.[3][4][5] A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes,[1] and ultimately money[6] and the state.[7][8][9]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
Let’s see how the USSR performed against this definition of communism.
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Common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.
Kind of, the state owned most means of production and distributed products. Arguably based on Russian need rather than any other Soviet republic’s need. Let’s be generous and say partial pass for this one. -
Absence of private property and social classes
Presumably this is private property as in the distinction between personal and private property set out by Proudhon. In that regard, as the state owned most all private property, in a way it was absent. But the state still owned it, and the state is counter to communism. Social classes still remained. -
Ultimately money
Still existed. -
The state.
That definitely still existed.
So what part of the USSR was real communism? Kind of common ownership of the means of production and kind of the absence of private property. All other criteria were failed.
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- Comment on Hell yea brother 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England 3 weeks ago:
Join the club, our communities have never recovered from it, but the lords made plenty of money
- Comment on I'm doing my part 4 weeks ago:
The best bit of your nonsense is where you say composting isn’t composting
I’m not maintaining most of my shit, half-assed maintaining some, and meticulously maintaining some (veg patch).
The meticulous part doesn’t do well unless the unmaintained part is left to do its thing. When people interfere it suffers. That’s how nature and biodiversity work. Leave it to do its thing and generally it works out itself. Every now and then you may need to intervene if something is becoming problematic and choking out everything else, but generally nature knows what it’s doing.
The thing that makes not maintaining your shit some great intentional effort, is the constant battle against other humans who wish to cut everything down and maintain order. If you’re a sole owner you can tell them to fuck off, but if members of your family disagree or it’s a communal space, that may be far more difficult.
Funny you chose those plants in particular though, because dandelions and various types of thistle are both recommended by the Royal Horticultural Society as being of particular aid to pollinator insects.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 4 weeks ago:
Abuse of terrorism laws to repress opinions the government disagrees with. Who could have seen this coming when those laws were introduced!
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 5 weeks ago:
Not according to ICE.
- Comment on Workers in UK need to embrace AI or risk being left behind, minister says 5 weeks ago:
Ministers can fuck off unless they’re willing to be replaced by AI too.
- Comment on Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’ 1 month ago:
And a scheme to charge the phone, and a scheme to replace your phone if you drop it, and a scheme to criminalise you if you forget your phone at your mates or down the pub.
This scheme is an authoritarian over reach into day to day life.
- Comment on Wiltshire PCC supports calls to reclassify cannabis as Class A - BBC News 1 month ago:
Mr Wilkinson added: "The idea that cannabis is a harmless drug is a misconception. Its cultivation and distribution are often controlled by organised crime networks that exploit vulnerable individuals and perpetuate violence.
Yes, because it’s illegal.
Make it legal and regulated like alcohol and these issues disappear. Moving it from illegal to SUPER DUPER illegal won’t change anything. Moron.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 1 month ago:
Fair point, however by your own source:
although permanent effects in body chemistry can sometimes be seen, as in the case of bone density loss increasing with length of use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA).
In men… …side effects of some drugs may include depression, suicidal ideation, hot flashes, anemia, infertility, increase in body fat and higher risks of cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis.
In women… …side effects include the deflation of breast glands, expansion of the size of the nipple and shrinking of bone mass.
My original point was about wrongful conviction but fuck, even if the person is guilty, that is cruel and unusual punishment.
State enforced depression and suicide ideation? No thanks. That’s Josef Mengele style shit, the Nazi SS Angel of Death
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 1 month ago:
How do you reverse a chemical castration if it’s later revealed the person was wrongfully convicted?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-47973826
New figures show that 84 people were wrongly convicted of crimes between 2007 and 2017.
Charges ranged from murder to rape and included people serving life sentences.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 month ago:
Objection m’Lord!
I present to the court, exhibit A: youtu.be/bpEy-Mpm6AI
- Comment on Rhubarb 1 month ago:
Relevant: youtu.be/l3U4W9KIZdc
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 1 month ago:
Some of us dirty foreigners have learned how to use the internet too, not everyone online is American.
Love and kisses, feddit.uk
- Comment on Google Wallet lets UK users turn their passport into digital IDs 2 months ago:
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.
- Comment on Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive 5 months ago:
Cruel and unusual punishment from a Labour government. Great.
Interesting that £1k of benefits cheating will give the government carte blanche to look through your bank accounts but fraud and tax avoidance by the richest in society and HMRC can’t do a thing. Funny how that works…
- Comment on Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles 6 months ago:
Please stop bending over backwards for the corporations. The customer shouldn’t have to control the taxi when they’re calling for emergency support like this. Should he just crawl into the front seat and drive the thing for them as well?
He was on his way to a flight. Flights are expensive. Of course he wants reassurance that his costs will be covered if he misses it due to their failings. He has no idea for how long he’s going to be continually going in circles and we don’t know for how long he’d already been going in circles.
This is a customer in distress and you’re shitting on them because they had a stressed tone towards the mega-corp representative? For shame.
- Comment on Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show 6 months ago:
The solution is a varied diet.
We need to be eating random things, not the same protein, carbs, and veggies that we know we like and buy on routine.
How much of the fruit and vegetable aisle do you actually purchase from? I think many of us get in a routine of buying the same things over and over because we know what we like or we’re on autopilot from work burnout. But, for example, if instead of buying apples each week, we buy a different random fruit. Or, if the budget can stretch it, buy apples and a random fruit. Then our nutritional variety has just increased.
I’m being a bit of a hypocrite here because I myself like to buy the same things over and over. I like chicken, I like apples, I like the same granola I always get. But during each shop, I try to add at least something random that I don’t normally get. A vegetable I don’t normally cook with or tofu instead of chicken, whatever. We need variety.
There’s also the talk of nutritional content reducing in supermarket goods as they’re produced for profit. So growth speed and shelf appearance are prioritised, a way to combat that is to start growing some of your own. Obviously, this is highly dependent upon living situations, but even some herbs in a windowsill will help. Personally, I think vegetable gardeners are some of the most punk people out there, sustaining themselves, entertaining themselves, and learning new skills all for the price of a bag of dirt and some seeds. Be punk!
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 6 months ago:
Any chance somebody knows how to find saved comments on the Boost android app?
I’ve saved this one to listen to that Manila Road cover later but can’t find where they’re stored so commenting here instead. Sorry!