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- Comment on The problems Mothers have to deal with 20 hours ago:
Jesus however
- Comment on Petition to demand Ofcom investigate GB News's Trump interview nearing 70000 signatures 3 days ago:
They have a broadcast licence. I expect them to be held to the standard required to maintain that licence or have it revoked.
- Comment on This makes more sense 3 days ago:
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
- Comment on Graffiti 4 days ago:
- Comment on Graffiti 4 days ago:
Being part of the racket has nothing to do with it. It could be an advert for anarcho-communists and it would still be an advert.
I specifically said I have no problem with it. But a signature is still a form of advertising and there was a complaint that it wasn’t shown, which I just thought was funny considering the premise.
I think it should be the norm to display a discrete signature on comics. I just thought it was a funny comment in this specific scenario.
What a way to kill the fun.
- Comment on Graffiti 4 days ago:
Whoever cropped the… advert?
I have no issue with signatures, there’s more to their purpose than just to advertise. But they are also a bit of an advert so it’s funny considering the message of the comic.
- Comment on UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record 1 week ago:
sdgs.un.org/goals/goal15#targets_and_indicators
More farmers need to wake the fuck up and reject current capitalist, agrochemical, maximum yield farming or they’ll end up with nothing.
Drought and soil degradation have been known about for years, this is their job, they have no excuse for being ignorant.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 week ago:
Free at the point of service was a founding principle for a reason. A levy doesnt fix the root cause of the issue, and produces a myriad of other problems.
- Comment on Disability Charity Sacks Employee for Palestine Protest, Citing ‘Brand Reputation’ 1 week ago:
“Sense have a wide range of stakeholders including the wider public to consider when safeguarding the Sense brand reputation and hold and be seen to hold a neutral position,” the outcome notice said.
How’s this sacking doing for their brand reputation?
Will the people who did the sacking be sacked for also damaging the brand’s reputation? Y’know, for neutrality.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 week ago:
Just because you sold your soul to the devil doesn’t mean others necessarily will.
If anything, doing it in your 60s is even more morally reprehensible because you should have enough world experience by then to understand what militaries truly are. Both the atrocities they commit regularly on behalf of politicians and vested interests, and the lies and manipulation they perform during recruitment to get young people enlisted.
- Comment on UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades 1 week ago:
At 4,961,538,207 shares of National Grid PLC available on the London Stock Exchange, and their latest dividend payout of 16.35p per share, that would be £811,211,497. Or £811 million in easier terms.
It fluctuates each year.
Also bare in mind each individual energy provider which also profits from infrastructure investment.
Also also bare in mind that both National Grid and the energy providers are usually multinationals with shares in more than one stock exchange.
- Comment on UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades 1 week ago:
Correction:
to pay for shareholders profits
- Comment on When ducks fly here illegally from Canada 1 week ago:
It’s just the one swan, actually.
- Comment on Corpo free money glitch - pay to hide your phone number, but 2nd party can pay some more to undo that 1 week ago:
Thank you for non-imgur link <3
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 1 week ago:
Pfft, the wayback machine saves 1,200,000,000,000,000 bits every day! That’s way more impressive then your piddly 150,000,000,000,000.
- Comment on Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security 2 weeks ago:
Speaking on climate, Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at the Universities of Manchester, Uppsala and Bergen, said: “The choice is between deep, rapid and fair decarbonisation of modern society, and an organised-ish technical and social revolution; or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise]. And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.”
On nature, Nathalie Seddon, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, said: “We are facing a national emergency not only because the climate is changing, but because the living systems that protect the climate are breaking down.”
She added: “This isn’t about choosing between the economy and the environment. It’s about recognising that the economy is embedded within the environment, and that the health of the nation depends on the living systems that sustain us.”
And yet, despite this, we still get “Drill, baby, drill!” in our budget.
- Comment on Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill 2 weeks ago:
But The Economist just told me this is a left wing government from a left wing party!
I’m confused, why would they capitulate to business interests if they’re so left wing?
Tap for spoiler
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- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 2 weeks ago:
The games developers have discovered us and decided we’re ripe for advertising to.
Buy! Buy! Buy! Consume! Obey! Do not think! Buy!
- Comment on Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’ 2 weeks ago:
Asked if Farage therefore believed those who made the allegations were inventing them, the spokesperson said: “I’m saying there is no primary evidence. It’s one person’s word against another.”
It’s 20 people’s words against one, you snake oil salesman fascist. Along with a letter from 1981 stating he was racist and fascist.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Violence is justified if it prevents greater harm or in self defence.
Do you support WW2 veterans? They perpetrated huge amounts of violence, to prevent the Nazis performing greater harm.
Violence is sometimes justified.
We haven’t seen the evidence, I’m willing to concede if the video shows unjust use of force. But they haven’t released the evidence to us yet, and in my eyes seem to have put a huge deal of spin doctoring on this story to illicit an emotional rather than rational response.
At the moment, without the evidence ourselves, cops bash people’s heads in every day, who cares if the reverse is done to them whilst trying to stop the machinery of war and genocide?
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 3 weeks ago:
Aye, I understand my disdain of policing isn’t the norm. I’m not even completely against having a police force, but there is a severe lack of accountability and consequences for the current police in their many unjust, often illegal, actions.
I think the only constructive thing left to say, without seeing the evidence ourselves, is two things.
One) is to note this article is written almost entirely from the state’s perspective which illicits an automatic sense of right and sympathy in readers.
Two) is to reiterate that we have, as a society, no qualms about the thought of people being smashed over the head with a police baton, but when the reverse happens it’s viewed as barbaric.
If the video is released we can judge for ourselves, but at the moment, I’m firmly in the camp of “they do it to us regularly, in the name of preventing genocide why can’t we do it back?”
If video evidence proves otherwise, fair enough. But they’ve not released it and seem to be making a huge deal of the term sledgehammer when it could be any blunt force instrument.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
The police are the state’s internal violence department (the military being the external violence department). The state however has a terrible track record of using violence appropriately. Why should we accept this as okay and normal?
Yes, the police have other roles that are deemed noble like arresting rapists and murderers, or mundane like giving speeding tickets and littering fines. But their principal role throughout their history has been violence. Not what you see in The Bill, Heartbeat, or the hundreds of other police propaganda TV shows in the UK, but hitting people with sticks and dragging them into isolated concrete cells. Sometimes that may be the appropriate response, but throughout their history, very regularly, it has not been. It’s not as bad as America, but our cops do have still quite a large degree of “qualified immunity”.
I’ve even met off duty cops who bragged about beating up the “hippies”. They love a good protest because it’s an excuse to let off some steam and bash some skulls. Much the same as football hooligans but state sponsored and approved.
Palestine Action are a direct action protest group who targeted military sites to try and stop genocide. They did this fully aware that they will be met with violence. State sponsored violence and potentially privately funded violence. It appears, to me at least, that they brought the sledgehammer to destroy equipment and when met with state violence they panicked and used what was in their hand to defend themself. After all, they are opposing state sponsored violence which results in thousands of daily deaths, how can they not expect to receive similar from a state which is supporting that?
Was it wise? Probably not.
Is it the terrifying, weapon wielding, hark back to the middle ages, violent attack it’s been portrayed by those it benefits to portray in that way? No.
If they had a baton in their hand instead of a sledgehammer when the police stormed in it wouldn’t be so catchy a headline. It clearly wasn’t brought just to fuck people up, it clearly wasn’t used at its full potential or there would be officers dead.
A protestor in the name of preventing genocide was smashing military equipment with a hammer, and when attacked by the state violence department for doing so, used what was in their hand to defend themselves. Those that have never wielded a sledgehammer may view this as terrifying but those that have used them can see that the police’s portrayal doesn’t add up (I used to use them regularly for work). A sledgehammer brought for the purpose of violence would result in far more considerable injuries than what happened here.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah he’s a man. Till you say something he don’t like and all his toys are out the pram. But that’s a man, innit?
- Comment on Mountain of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field contains rubbish from councils 3 weeks ago:
Multiple lorry loads dumped during the day over multiple days, with the land being excavated by diggers beforehand.
Sounds like this has been unofficially officially approved.
About sums up this country to be honest.
Corrupt and full of shite.
- Comment on UK hospitals bracing for once-in-a-decade flu surge this winter 3 weeks ago:
Also, I’m not a statistician so I may be well off here. But if it didn’t occur last year or the year before when they predicted it would, doesn’t that mean it’s more likely to occur each year that passes that it doesn’t? If it’s a regular occurrence like the headline implies.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4 weeks ago:
The word cult is derived from the Latin term cultus, which means ‘worship’.[1] In modern English the term cult is generally a pejorative, carrying derogatory connotations.[2] The term is variously applied to abusive or coercive groups of many categories, including gangs, organized crime, and terrorist organizations.[3]
Sociological classifications of religious movements may identify a cult as a social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices,[5] although this is often unclear.[6][7] Other researchers present a less-organized picture of cults, saying that they arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices.[8]
In its pejorative sense, the term is often used for new religious movements and other social groups defined by their unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals,[11] or their group belief in a particular person, object, or goal. This sense of the term is weakly defined, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and in academia, where it has been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.[12][13] According to Susannah Crockford, “[t]he word ‘cult’ is a shapeshifter, semantically morphing with the intentions of whoever uses it. As an analytical term, it resists rigorous definition.” She argues that the least subjective definition of cult refers to a religion or religion-like group “self-consciously building a new form of society”, but that the rest of society rejects as unacceptable.[14]
🤷♂️ It seems to fit?
Although the article does then continue with:
The term cult has been criticized as lacking “scholarly rigour”; Benjamin E. Zeller stated “[l]abelling any group with which one disagrees and considers deviant as a cult may be a common occurrence, but it is not scholarship”.[15] Religious scholar Catherine Wessinger argued the term was dehumanizing of the people within the group, as well as their children; following the Waco siege, it was argued by some scholars that the defining of the Branch Davidians as a cult by the media, government and former members is a significant factor as to what led to the deaths.[16] However, it has also been viewed as empowering for ex-members of groups who have had traumatic experiences.[15] The term was noted to carry “considerable cultural legitimacy”.[17]
- Comment on Trump just gave an interview to GB News 4 weeks ago:
Fuck giving this American fascist on Fascist News the attention of this community. It’s about as relevant to the UK as Macron saying he farted in Cornwall once.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 4 weeks ago:
Fuck the monarchy. Fuck this snivelling pathetic show of fealty to someone who doesn’t know nor care about your existence. Fuck saying this is on behalf of everyone at Feddit.UK.
