Flax_vert
@Flax_vert@feddit.uk
Fediverse Advocate
- Comment on Why, just why? 7 hours ago:
Tbf the conservative party held power for over a decade
- Comment on Why, just why? 7 hours ago:
“people fleeing horrific situations that you and I can’t imagine”
I know France is a hole, but I wouldn’t go that far.
- Comment on Why, just why? 7 hours ago:
Because people are coming over in boats from france and seeking asylum and are draining the system. That’s why. To them, they basically see a massive sign saying “free handouts, come on over” and useful idiots are falling for their rouse left, right and centre.
I still think asylum seekers should be given benefits and support… Just not the ones coming from safe countries like France or Ireland.
- Comment on Trump admin fast-tracks death penalty case for transgender cult suspect in Border Patrol killing: attorneys 10 hours ago:
State of that headline
“Ziz,” a fringe, self-described vegan, anti-government, transgender-rights collective that federal authorities say may be connected to multiple homicides throughout the U.S.
Vegan 😴 anti-government 😴 Transgender-rights 😳
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 1 day ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Trial GOV.UK App launched today 1 day ago:
The GOV.UK App public beta will be available to download from 1 July in the Apple App store and Google marketplace.
Can’t they provide an APK as well
- Comment on Trial GOV.UK App launched today 1 day ago:
Make it say “free palestine”
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 2 days ago:
Nah, Jeremy Corbyn lost two elections. He failed to make a proper stance on Brexit, and could have stopped it. Also had sketchy IRA connections.
Chaos with Ed Milliband however… Sign me up
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 2 days ago:
Weren’t they all bigging themselves up beforehand about how they loved freedom of speech and leftism in regards to Kneecap being allowed to participate?
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 2 days ago:
Didn’t we give him a chance in 2016 with Brexit and whatever year we elected the Brexit party to EU parliament
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- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 4 days ago:
However, when it comes to criminal charges, they do have to draw a line where “accidents happen”
You may also need to have a gun be reasonably accessible for self defence in an emergency.
I’m not picking sides by the way, but I’m just sort of reckoning how something like this could happen with no charges.
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 4 days ago:
I don’t know what happened here exactly, but there can be cases where a parent did take appropriate measures, but the child got through them anyway. For example, a child watches a safe being locked/unlocked and gets the password, or guesses the password (maybe it’s the same as mum’s phone password), etc.
- Comment on An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England 4 days ago:
The article is quoting a ridiculous comment someone left and exposing how it’s stupid
- Comment on An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England 4 days ago:
One person has been evicted already, to make way for an estate office. When she complained about her treatment on social media, the first reply stated, without a shred of evidence: “You’re being evicted so that young fighting age male refugees, who are escaping war in France, can have somewhere safe to live, who, as far as our government is concerned, have priority over you … VOTE REFORM!” That’s how divide and rule works: never mind the anonymous plutocrat evicting her, the true culprits, somehow, are asylum seekers.
We are lectured by rightwing parties and the rightwing media about the need for “integration”. But that word is used only as a weapon against immigrants. It is not they who rip communities apart, tear people from their homes and shut us out of the land, causing social disintegration. It is the power of money.
But look, a spider! The cosmopolitan city, swarming with immigrants and trans people, is coming to get you! It will terminate the traditions country people love and impose its own culture instead. It is drummed into our heads that what rural people want is different to what the oppressive urbanites desire. But it’s not true.
I love the (much needed) snark here
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 6 days ago:
IIRC it is calculated by the ward’s operating cost for your time in hospital, then divided by the number of patients. So if it costs £3000 to operate a ward for two days and there were ten patients there, then it’s £300.
- Comment on UK: Chinese asylum seeker allowed to stay in Britain because he “cannot be expected to lie” about his support for Taiwanese independence 6 days ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 6 days ago:
A lot of places don’t give free healthcare to non residents. Such as the UK. But it can still work out cheaper. I heard a story of an American couple who were over with no health insurance and ended up having to stay a few days in hospital. They were super panicky and were discussing remortgaging their house. Until they were given the £200~ bill.
- Comment on UK: Chinese asylum seeker allowed to stay in Britain because he “cannot be expected to lie” about his support for Taiwanese independence 6 days ago:
Why can’t he just go to Taiwan 😂
- Comment on UK must 'actively prepare' for potential of war in the 'homeland', review warns 1 week ago:
Russia’s military is crippled and they’d have to get through NATO. China likewise would have to get through NATO and I doubt they would have much of an interest in attacking the UK. However, the USA, if Trump woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning, probably could. If anything, the USA might be the biggest threat.
- Comment on UK must 'actively prepare' for potential of war in the 'homeland', review warns 1 week ago:
What possibility? I think the biggest threat is probably in Northern Ireland which isn’t even that big of a threat anymore as it was 30+ years ago
- Comment on Anon conserves power 1 week ago:
I can generate an image in my head faster than your GPU
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Depends how well encrypted your computer is. Your phone is probably fine, those are usually encrypted to hell by default.
- Comment on Kneecap’s Glastonbury performance not ‘appropriate’, says Keir Starmer 1 week ago:
I’m a die hard Ulster Unionist, but even then I find it hilarious how these lads from West Belfast are pissing everyone off. Lol.
- Comment on A US law firm is taking NordVPN to Court over "deceptive" auto-renewal pricing – here's what we know 1 week ago:
Meanwhile Amazon gets away with it???
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 1 week ago:
Also very america-centric. Different races are oppressed in different places.
- Comment on Little Anon goes on a field trip 1 week ago:
What happened
- Comment on Little Anon goes on a field trip 1 week ago:
Zelda is a boy and you play as him
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 1 week ago:
I believe the progress one is less open than the classic six striped
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 1 week ago:
Organic developments of virtue signalling by corpos, I found.
I think you can display two flags- the normal generic pride one and then whatever subgroup you identify with (trans, lesbian, non binary, etc)