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- Comment on Trump Strengthens Grip on Kennedy Center as 18 Trustees and Chairman Are Removed 1 week ago:
Only non-degenerate arts approved by the Führer will be permitted from now on, with performers who are genetically pure examples of the Aryan race.
- Comment on Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary 1 week ago:
Some can perhaps afford to give up 20% of their salary. Good for them. Many of us don’t have that wiggle room.
- Comment on Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says Palestinians Should Move 2 weeks ago:
He doesn’t care about the price of eggs. That was a distraction.
- Comment on US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246 3 weeks ago:
Funny way to spell Nazi.
- Comment on ‘I was a multimillionaire, I had a beautiful girlfriend, I was unhappy’: the ups and downs of a supertrader 3 weeks ago:
“The rich have got a choice,” he says. “They can lend the money to the government or they can buy the assets. I know what I’m doing.”
“OK, what’s that?” I ask, trepidatiously, knowing the answer.
“I’m buying the assets. Stocks, gold, commodities, property, everything. The rich have got a lot of money, they can buy everything. The government has got to compete with that. They can’t. They’re trying to play chess with no pieces.”
This sound like the activity of a leftist. But it’s an interesting question, to what extent you can play the capitalist game while still claiming to be a leftist? When are you undermining from within and when have you just gone over to the other side, no matter how you conceive of yourself?
- Comment on Trump Administration Fires U.S. Coast Guard Commandant 4 weeks ago:
And, according to the article, wasn’t sufficiently biased towards white men.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Your taxes, straight into the pockets of needy folk like Sam Altman and Larry Ellison.
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 weeks ago:
Large chunks of the EU are hurtling rightwards too, unfortunately.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Even if you’re right, why bring this up in every single thread? What’s it contributing?
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 5 weeks ago:
How dare people want to balance his quality of life with their own!
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 5 weeks ago:
Don’t buy BrewDog beer. Got it.
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- Comment on A Nation of Homebodies: A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic. 5 weeks ago:
I saw a naked man masturbating on a unicycle once. So that’s always an option.
- Comment on A Nation of Homebodies: A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic. 5 weeks ago:
Makes you wonder how much the rise of conservative evangelical Christianity and megachurches has to do with sheer social desperation.
- Comment on A Nation of Homebodies: A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic. 5 weeks ago:
That chunk is getting bigger though.
- Comment on A Nation of Homebodies: A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic. 1 month ago:
Maybe they’re exhausted after working 3 jobs to pay rent.
- Comment on A Nation of Homebodies: A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic. 1 month ago:
Maybe US cities lack public spaces and no one can afford to do things in the private spaces?
- Comment on Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election 1 month ago:
The worrying development is that he’s starting to pump serious money into far-right politics in Europe. Nigel Farage should not still be a thing, but he’s going to be the best-funded politician in the UK, and quite possibly Britain’s Trump once Keir Starmer’s government out-Tories the Tories in uselessness and unpopularity.
- Ed Miliband pledges ‘most ambitious reforms to UK energy system in generations’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines | Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s. 2 months ago:
And today we learn that RFK’s lawyer has petitioned the FDA to revoke approval for the polio vaccine.
- Comment on RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval 2 months ago:
The USA’s self-sabotage is starting to make Brexit look mild.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 2 months ago:
Let’s hope that allows many kids access to the care they need. If there’s a real concern about the safety of puberty blockers, then clinical trials are exactly what’s needed to find out. I’m not entirely convinced this is really due to medical concern though. It smells like Labour trying to out-bigot the Conservatives, just to prove they’re not lefties any more.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 2 months ago:
I think allowing a child to make a decision that may impact them for the rest of their lives is a grey area to say the least.
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It’s not a child making the decision. It’s typically adults making the decision for the sake of the child, and based on the child’s needs.
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Deciding to go ahead with puberty is also a decision that impacts a child for the rest of their life. In cases of gender dysmorphia this can cause psychological trauma that won’t just clear up, and prolong the agony by forcing the person to live into adulthood with a body that feels deeply wrong. At this point, transitioning can be more difficult because the body may already have taken on pronounced characteristics associated with the wrong gender.
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- Comment on Water firms push for higher shareholder returns as Ofwat considers bills increase 2 months ago:
They’re not talking enough of it, just piping it into a river near you.
- Comment on Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK 2 months ago:
Maybe next time they’ll really stick it to the man by moving to Facebook.
- Comment on It has nothing to do with your right to work 2 months ago:
Next you’ll be telling me that war isn’t peace and freedom isn’t slavery.
- Comment on CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room 2 months ago:
Apparently it’s OK to beat kids if they’re autistic.
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- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 2 months ago:
Remember when Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek, said that it essentially cost nothing to produce “content”? Then he tried to walk it back when people pointed out what it said about his attitude to musicians who dedicate their whole lives to making music at great cost to themselves.
This word “content” needs to die. It conflates art with crap, because execs see both in terms of dollars and are too ignorant and incurious to tell the difference.