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- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 1 day ago:
WorkersNations of the world unite - Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Lemmy would be a better place if we didn’t publicise every thing this fascist says. Any publicity is good publicity!
We should be focusing our attention on the people we support, not the fascists trying to grab our attention by any means necessary.
“Flood the zone” is a political strategy in which a political figure aims to gain media attention, disorient opponents and distract the public from undesirable reports by rapidly forwarding large volumes of newsworthy information to the media.[1][2][3][4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
Both left and right wing outlets can’t help but talk about him, whatever random thing he’s said that day, drowning out the opinions of those we actually care about. Don’t let the bastard win.
- Comment on The UK’s new dual citizenship passport rules for 2026 explained – including the date that the changes will come into effect 3 days ago:
Paywalled.
Available here: archive.is/XAx23
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 5 days ago:
Flying a flag isn’t patriotism though, it’s virtue signalling. Virtue signalling on the behalf of racist agitators.
Also, the vast majority of these flags are made from polyester or nylon, neither of which are good for the environment so why should they be tolerated to be littered everywhere? We wouldn’t tolerate bin bags being littered everywhere, but because they’re colourful bin bags it’s fine?
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 5 days ago:
Holyrood doesn’t get additional money though. That’s my point. Barnett is a scam. Even the BBC’s ex Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders, concluded that Scotland breaks even. That’s somebody who is staunchly against independence and had a high level position in an organisation which was proven to have had an anti-independence bias.
If that’s her analysis, with all of her biases, what do you think the reality is? What do you think the situation is now, now that we’re 12 years on from then, with advancements in renewables and Scotland’s geography being incredibly good for wind, tidal, and hydro power? With water becoming a scarcer and scarcer resource, and Loch Ness alone holding more water than England and Wales’ rivers and lakes combined?
The line has been drawn for as long as anybody who is alive has known. Scotland, England, and Wales have had well defined borders for quite some time. If the north of England wishes to join a Scottish independence movement then fair enough, but they’ve made no real manoeuvres for such a move.
What if Aberdeen declares independence? What if East Kilbride declares independence? You’re getting into silly reductionism now. Holyrood has always argued it’s a matter of self determination and has no military means with which to force any regions, so what do you think would happen? Do you think John Swinney will ride into Fraserburgh on a tank while Russell Findlay fires artillery at him? Or do you think a proportionally representative parliament would hash something out? Holyrood, being proportional, doesn’t have the issue of a tyranny of the majority.
- Comment on How Bandcamp became the "headquarters" for video game soundtracks 5 days ago:
If you give an inch they’ll take a mile.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 6 days ago:
benefit from Barnett consequentials
And you said you’re from Aberdeen?..
Jesus Christ. When was the last time you saw the gold paved streets of the silver city? It’s really benefited immensely from 50 years of oil wealth! It’s just swimming in money. Union Street definitely isn’t in disrepair and filled with bookies and the like… It has so much money it’s decided to open 5 more libraries just for a laugh, none have shut down, honest.
If you think Barnett is a net benefit to Scotland then I’ve got a bridge to sell you. This isn’t an emotive issue, it’s an issue of self determination. About getting a chance at real democracy, not FPTP, winner takes all, tyranny of the majority. You said it yourself that Westminster is fucked.
If this movement were emotive why would it be supported by everyone from anarchists, communists, socialists, and social democrats? Populism hasn’t been the tactic of engaging the population, as would be expected from an emotive issue. Rational reasoning has, which is why it’s garnered support from a broad spectrum of centrists to leftists.
Maybe think on where you get your information about independence, what biases you’re exposed to, what opinions you’re hearing from colleagues and friends who have no stake or say in the matter but will provide an opinion anyway. Ignore the fucking BBC on this matter, they are not impartial.
Return to my previous comment and click the link at the bottom. Read. And get your head out your arse for dismissing an entire political movement which has had widespread support since 2007 (breaking a proportionally representative system’s expectation of no majorities) as just an emotive issue.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 6 days ago:
Utter shite. It’s on a basis of self determination, not us vs them. There is zero anti-English sentiment behind it, despite what the Tories attempt to portray. Anti-Westminster? Absolutely. Anti-Tory? A fairly large amount, yes. But if you can’t be anti-political opponent, then what the fuck can you be against?
There is no ethnic element to it. It’s not Scotland for Scots, like other nationalist movements. Except on the basis of anyone who lives here and pays taxes can regard themself as a Scot. Whether they are white, black, brown, gay, straight, cis, trans, disabled, religious, atheist, none of that comes into consideration. It is not a classical right wing, ethnic, nationalist movement. It is a movement for self determination and proportional representation under a broadly left to centre left banner.
There is no harkening back to William Wallace or Robert the Bruce, or any other mythology. There is no preconceived notions that we all lived happily in harmony in the past until the Evil English™ invaded. Clan warfare is clearly understood. Rivalries between families and various landed elites is well understood. The Highland Clearances are clearly understood to have been a mixture of Scottish and English landed gentry causing atrocities for profit.
The fact you call it Scots Independence and hark to your Isles ancestors makes me question whether you even live here and understand this movement. I would be more inclined to guess you’re an American cosplaying because your great grandad once had a fart on The Royal Mile.
For more information about the independence movement, written by the people who are actually campaigning for it. See here:
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 6 days ago:
If you have no understanding of politics, nuance, or history, then yeah, sure, nationalism is still nationalism.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 6 days ago:
Some of these flag shaggers did the same up here in Scotland but with the St Andrews flag. Unfortunately for them, that flag is associated with the independence movement, not racism, so they haven’t managed to portray the message they’re after.
Most councils responded with “we’re not going to explicitly go out to take them down but they’ll be removed during routine maintenance”. So now, instead of a racist dog whistle we have free independence decorations!
Useful idiots.
Also, these dumb fucks wouldn’t know patriotism if it shat in their mouth. Patriotism is helping your neighbour, your community, your country. Improving living conditions in this country, making life worth living here. Not being angry at foreigners and putting up a piece of cloth. If they genuinely cared they’d read a fucking book and learn how to make this country better, but they just want to be angry and validated for it. Pricks.
- Comment on Age Verification: What’s sold as “online safety” means surveillance via ids checks or face scans. 1 week ago:
But Twitter doesn’t and didn’t fly under the radar. Every politician and journalist and average Joe knows about it. It’s been headline news for days.
They’re taking their sweet time because Musk has power. He has vast amounts of money (richest man in the world, rivaling some countries), he has very close ties with Trump and the American government, and controls other services which the UK has contracts with (e.g. Starlink). Not because that’s how Ofcom works. Ofcom can and has responded quickly to laws in the past. What sort of bullshit paedo apoligism is that argument?
You’re making excuses for CSAM distributed by the richest man in the world, why?
The rule of law is not being applied the same to Twitter as it would any other website. My quote stands.
Flying under the radar is not the same as being known and ignored. Flying under the radar explicitly means it’s unknown. If the state were made aware of these sites they would act.
- Comment on Age Verification: What’s sold as “online safety” means surveillance via ids checks or face scans. 1 week ago:
Oooh, big scary threats! What have they done though?
Do you think piefed.social or Feddit.UK would be up long if they were doing the same thing? They would be immediately blocked and the admins arrested. No such thing has happened to Twitter.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
We are ruled by Red Conservatives.
- Comment on Age Verification: What’s sold as “online safety” means surveillance via ids checks or face scans. 1 week ago:
Such online safety that when a website almost every politician and journalist is on has publicly visible CSAM, fuck all is done about it.
- Comment on Kneecap back in court as CPS seeks to overturn rapper terror case dismissal 1 week ago:
Fuck everybody who votes Red Tory!
(Even if this music style isn’t to your taste I recommend reading the lyrics in the video description)
- Comment on Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog 1 week ago:
Not to mention that many within the Labour party, the neo-liberals, used antisemitism to perform a coup and cull of the socialists.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
Support of genocide?
- Comment on Self-Care 1 week ago:
- Comment on Ofcom investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualised AI images 1 week ago:
This has been dragging on for far too long. If Feddit.UK were caught doing similar @flamingos@feddit.uk would be having their door kicked in about now and their hardware seized.
The only silver lining is it removes any facade of “protecting the children” from the new internet laws and will wake some people up to the bullshit surveillance that they are.
- Comment on We are all the same, y'all stop it. 1 week ago:
I guess I need to work on my mass manipulation communication skills…
- Comment on Self-Care 1 week ago:
Someone’s made an edit
- Comment on Self-Care 1 week ago:
In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, antisocial behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
You’ve pretty much exemplified this but with doomerism instead of crime. Just because things are turning to shit doesn’t mean we should encourage other problems that we know need tackled. There’s enough plastic around us, everywhere, all of the time, without encouraging people to go out and buy more to spread around.
Your clothes are likely plastic, your food is in plastic, your phone is plastic, your water bottle is likely plastic, almost every item of the modern world has plastic somewhere. Even if it doesn’t look like plastic, it could be plastic. It’s fucking disgusting.
- Comment on Self-Care 1 week ago:
👀👀👀👀👀
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
nato does not have any democratic principles in its rules because was assumed that everyone in it wants the same thing, so everything needs to be done with full agreement.
Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which participants work together to develop proposals for actions that achieve a broad acceptance. Consensus is reached when everyone in the group assents to a decision (or almost everyone; see stand aside) even if some do not fully agree to or support all aspects of it. It differs from simple unanimity, which requires all participants to support a decision. Consensus decision-making in a democracy is consensus democracy.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
Consensus is far more democratic than majority rule, which is the norm in most Western democracies.
- Comment on Self-Care 1 week ago:
Yay! Spreading plastic arbitrarily around the environment, what fun!
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
and showed me how to put on a condom.
Decades later and I’m still emotionally scarred. *shiver*
I really hope that’s just poor phrasing…
- Comment on Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together 2 weeks ago:
Labour government confirmed part of the American paedo cabal?
Oh wait, they already have been!
- Comment on Drivers over 70 to undergo eye tests every three years under plans to improve road safety | LBC 2 weeks ago:
Looks pretty obvious to me that something needs done about old folk’s driving.
- Comment on Let them fight 2 weeks ago:
Calories in calories out, except, fast food has minimal micronutrients therefore the body craves micronutrients and asks for more food.
You eat more fast food and the body is satisfied because it’s been fed. But then it digests the food and goes “damn, I need more micronutrients, more food please!” so then you eat more. The body is satisfied because it’s been fed. But then it digests the food and goes “damn, I need more micronutrients, more food please!” so then you eat more. The body is satisfied because it’s been fed. But then it digests the food and goes “damn, I need more micronutrients, more food please!” so then you eat more. The body is satisfied because it’s been fed. But then it digests the food and goes “damn, I need more micronutrients, more food please!” so then you eat more.
Suddenly you’ve put a lot of calories in and now you’re unhealthy because you’re deficient in a bunch of things and have eaten far more salt, sugar, and fat than you should. Now you’re fat and getting healthy is even more difficult. So you eat some fast food to feel better about yourself…
- Comment on UK economy showing signs of 'zombie apocalypse,' says think tank 2 weeks ago:
Finally, my time has come!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
God damn American recipes are insane.
How many onions in 1/2 cup?
Who fills a cup with cheese? It comes sold in weight, you can guess (or measure!) how much x weight is based upon how much weight you have, without having to dirty additional utensils.
