mannycalavera
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk
- Comment on Digital IDs to buy alcohol by the end of the year – here’s how it could work 5 hours ago:
Cue comments about the government monitoring your drinking habits.
Oi m8, u got a license for that drink?
- Comment on ‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected? 1 day ago:
The police are too busy arresting Disabled Grannies Against Genocide to enforce any laws.
- Comment on British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK 2 days ago:
Let’s be honest, this is never going to happen. You have to understand the real politique rules that exist here: if you’re brown and join a fighting force overseas - terrorist. If you’re white - woah woah woah let’s not get carried away here maybe they’re just doing medical or logistics roles.
British citizens will still head over to Israel and fight for the IDF and then happily return freely to the UK afterwards. And not a damned thing will change 😥🙃.
- Comment on Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies in prison attack 3 days ago:
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- Comment on UK: Foreign Secretary says China does pose a security threat to Britain, says she is ‘deeply frustrated’ at collapse of spy trial 4 days ago:
I’m surprised she hasn’t said, “If you knew what I know about China you wouldn’t object to the government proscribing them as terrorists”.
Seriously what’s the difference? Oh yes. She’s has zero principles and is an idiot.
- Comment on Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister 4 days ago:
I can’t think of two bigger sleaze bags. Cleggers can fuck right off back to Facebook.
- Comment on Britons travelling to EU to undergo new biometric checks at border from Sunday 4 days ago:
The messaging is clear here. If you travel to the EU and plan on committing crimes… then you best be an EU citizen so that you can get away with it.
- Comment on Defence ministry spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh 1 week ago:
The answer is simple. Don’t have children. There. Problem solved.
- Comment on Landmark study shows 1.4m Britons have a gambling problem 1 week ago:
I can quit whenever I want.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 1 week ago:
Is the news stale and not current. Yes.
So what are you on about? Please address this point directly instead of deflection. Thank you for your cooperation.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 1 week ago:
LOL pretty stale “news” no? 🤣🤣😂
- Comment on Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse 1 week ago:
Bothsidesing is the worst thing you can do as a news site.
Bothsiding ? Oh we’re turning it into a verb now are we? OK. Cool.
I have to disagree with that. Not pretending to world is simple and presenting a balanced view of a story is a mature aged responsible thing to do as a news site. Obviously people will disagree but to hide information or distort it is not news. It’s dirty propaganda.
We need less of these kinds of site that amplify hate towards others and pretend the world is simpler than it is. No wonder we’re so fucked and divided as a country. The exact same thing Farage is doing to right wingers, sites like these are doing to left wingers.
I have easy answers for you. Oh and by the way everyone that disagrees with me is some form of evil.
FFS.
- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 1 week ago:
You obviously don’t remember Tony Blair fawning over Bush. Rode with him into battle. Oh wait, no. Started an illegal war that we’re all still paying the price for.
- Comment on Starmer used land tax dodge to avoid inheritance tax 2 weeks ago:
Guys… his mother was a nurse and his father was a tool maker. Doesn’t that count for anything anymore?
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 2 weeks ago:
Hmm 🧐 seems I was suckered into the government propaganda machine. I can’t help but think Nandy’s comments this morning were calculated to cause confusion in the government’s favour.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 2 weeks ago:
I carry my driving licence too, but by choice.
Lisa Nandy was just on Sky news and explicitly said that it is optional to carry it. You’d apparently “have an ID” but you don’t have to carry it.
I’m not sure what that means for why they need it. Apparently to check work eligibility easily instead of one of several means that are, in her words, “more easily forged”.
You could quite easily develop a system like the driving licence check (for when you rent a car, for example, to check your driving status and points) to provide extra information anonymously like age range or work status or whatever you wanted. In fact if we were still in the EU we’d be able to participate in the beta that Spain is spearheading for age verification: ageverification.dev. It’s goals are explicitly privacy focused so I’d encourage people to read the details.
As a technology challenge I don’t think there’s a good argument not to have such a system rather than the patch work one we have now that was designed and built close to hundreds of years ago. However politically selling something like this to British people is always going to be the hard part.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 2 weeks ago:
40? ID says he’s 18, I swear! He’s old enough!
- Comment on UK recognises Palestine as an independent state 3 weeks ago:
About time.
- Comment on Musk's fellowship of Royal Society in doubt after rally address 3 weeks ago:
How the fuck is he a fellow of the society in the first place?
- Comment on Scottish Government considers quitting X following owner Elon Musk’s use of platform to incite violence 3 weeks ago:
They need to think of an alternative way to reach their racist voters.
- Comment on First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty 3 weeks ago:
😬 not sure you’ve understood correctly my comment. There’s a good Wikipedia article on the subject. Here you go.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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- Comment on Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza 4 weeks ago:
What nobody has properly explained to me is why… why these Western governments fall over themselves to help Israel when they are clearly hell bent on genocide?
Like what is the risk reward for them? Are they being paid stupid amounts of money? Is everyone in power blackmailed by Mossad? What is it to these countries like the US, UK, Germany, etc ? If Afghanistan or Iran came to us and said “Hey can you give us weapons and train our military so we can clear out these pesky people on the edges of our country and buy our goods and services made from occupied land for a shit ton of money” would we do that?
I think I know the reason for this: good old fashioned racism. But it constantly baffles me why the UK risks being associated with Israeli genocide like this.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 4 weeks ago:
were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications
It’s just performative. An exercise to waste time and make it look like the police and state are “doing something”. They probably take their cues from the Home Office.
- Comment on First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty 4 weeks ago:
Overton window.
- Comment on The Stop Trump coalition published this video 4 weeks ago:
people need to watch that movie “v for vengeance” again
V For Vendetta?
- Comment on The Stop Trump coalition published this video 4 weeks ago:
We need to decide this with a “Great British Brit Off”. I’m sure Channel 4 will commission it.
The decider will be who makes the best curry. The winner gets to claim real Britishness.
- Comment on Musk’s Grok AI bot falsely suggests police misrepresented footage of far-right rally in London 4 weeks ago:
It’s comical how powerless we are to combat musk’s bullshit. There’s literally no sanction we could apply to him.
Seriously go after the companies that advertise on his platform. That’s the only way. Cut his funding (when it’s not the US taxpayer).
- Comment on Police seek man who called for Keir Starmer to be ‘assassinated’ at far-right rally 4 weeks ago:
In the past I would have thought this nutter is just… well… a cunt. And nothing will come of his insane words. But after the whole Kirk thing 😬.
Arrest this man now as a terrorist.
- Comment on Alleged rape of Sikh woman in West Midlands being treated as hate crime 4 weeks ago:
Detectives are hunting for two white male suspects alleged to have racially abused the woman during the assault in broad daylight. Police say they believe one suspect had a shaved head and wore gloves.
Bloody natives! Being born over here and raping our women. Smash the gangs! Who wants to start a massive country wide riot because our women aren’t safe from these illegal natives? I bet the government is even giving them free health care.