deadcatbounce
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- Comment on People who call for hotels people of people to be burned should absolutely be arrested 2 weeks ago:
I get that you’re angry you can’t get a job after three years at uni and 50k in debt.
I get that you’ll never have a home that you own.
I get that having children will be an unplanned, largely unfunded activity for gen Z.
But this hill that you’re stating that you wish to die on isn’t the cleverest way to solve the previously stated problems, whether the migrants are illegal or just Americans claiming to want to avoid Trump but actually looking for NHS healthcare because they’re getting old.
- Comment on People who call for hotels people of people to be burned should absolutely be arrested 2 weeks ago:
Yep child murder is great. Anyone who rage tweets should be imprisoned.
Who cant support that? Imprisonment for them too.
- Comment on UK government wins appeal over ruling that would have blocked asylum-seekers staying in hotel 2 weeks ago:
You’ve missed the point. The most important point is that the government quite clearly stated that illegal migrants are more important to the ruling classes than the British people who fund them (both). The Tories are just as guilty as Labour.
The rest of it - the good or evil of your political position - is bullshit. Irrelevant.
- Comment on A UK headline wealth tax? It may be simpler to put up existing taxes 3 weeks ago:
The wealthy have the resources and access to professionals not to pay tax. So they don’t.
I agree that they should pay tax, but they don’t. It is how it is.
There are two main things that seem to work:
- Having taxes at low levels for everyone generally.
- After a two or sometimes three generations, the wealth is frittered away by overindulged great-great-grandchildren. Sometimes they are so wealthy, well-educated and taught to wealth preserve that that doesn’t happen.
Source: I studied accounting at accountant which specialised in extremely wealthy families. My own beginnings are very humble.
- Comment on Stop Erasing COVID, Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry you’re living with that. COVID took my plumber neighbour out for three weeks every time and he was fairly fit. He had a hell of a time and went through it twice.
You’re at best very tangential to my point. I’m not disputing that COVID happened. Just that flu probably continued at some or similar level, whereas the stats disagree. I can only conclude that all flu of late is, in fact, COVID; IANA specialist D.
Anything that attacks the respiratory system long term sucks. Breathing has been quite helpful to me during my life. YMMV.
- Comment on A UK headline wealth tax? It may be simpler to put up existing taxes 4 weeks ago:
You might have read that I wrote only the poor pay tax. There were no poor people within the 98% bands and high income/HNW people wouldn’t have paid it anyway.
Oh so the rich are completely different from the rich of yesterday year. I don’t think so. Drawing plenty of wealthy people in? I bet you’re going to say trickle-down wealth next, you know you want to. G’wan.
You know, of course, a person can voluntarily pay amounts to HMRC or other authorities whenever they like. They don’t have to wait for a request by the authority. The amount on their tax demand is a minimum value.
- Comment on Stop Erasing COVID, Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings 4 weeks ago:
'Mercan?
Sorry. You won’t have guessed that the post was tongue in cheek.
- Comment on A UK headline wealth tax? It may be simpler to put up existing taxes 4 weeks ago:
The ‘economist’ apparently was sick on the day they studied diminishing returns. And she has never met anyone who lived through the seventies like an early Gen X or older.
We went to the the IMF for 13% of GDP then, but it would be 100%+ of GDP now.
But yeah you put the taxes up. Doesn’t really matter how much anymore.
Denis Healey (Chancellor at the time) later joked about “squeezing the rich until the pips squeak.” when marginal tax was 98%. Meanwhile millionaires are leaving the UK in droves.
- Comment on ‘Running riot through graves’: King Charles urged to protect Goodwin Sands from dredging 4 weeks ago:
Apparently that bloke is still trying to teach Charlie how to put toothpaste on his toothbrush. Mate, he’s in his seventies, learning toothpaste has past.
- Comment on Stop Erasing COVID, Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings 4 weeks ago:
Very keen on COVID here. All cases of flu disappeared during COVID years, and the COVID I had was far less debilitating than flu I have had.
IANA conspirator.
- Comment on Asda is still misfiring in supermarkets’ non-existent price war 4 weeks ago:
I’m done with Asda. Useless apps that make things more and more difficult to do (substitution disabling). Face recognition scanning in-store. Useless IT that means American Express doesn’t work every other time I try to use it. Websites so stuffed with trackers you can’t use it on Firefox.
Enough. Fuck Asda.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
When buying isn’t owning …
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 5 weeks ago:
Firms apparently launching anti ANPR face film.
- Comment on Can you get shadowbanned on Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights 5 weeks ago:
SMDH in agreement. 😳
- Comment on Chinese firm a leading contender to buy Thames Water, reports say 5 weeks ago:
I felt sure that Stalin Starmer was going to nationalise water and other stuff. Or have we had an odd number of u-turns in the year he’s been fucking it up for our greater good?
- Comment on UK homelessness minister faces calls to resign over tenant eviction claims 5 weeks ago:
Strange that there’s no blue hair people here defending her.
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 1 month ago:
How are you pronouncing that word? Asked the whole world except America at once.
- Comment on I just send this message to a Financial Times journalist 1 month ago:
Thank-you. I am embarrassed to say that I was too lazy to look that up.
Thank-you kind person.
- Comment on I just send this message to a Financial Times journalist 1 month ago:
How many of those other countries modelled their constitutions on the British?
Why are you so focused on the job for life rather than the job that they (used to) do of rejecting ridiculous bills and clauses?
These days the Lords and HoC don’t carry out their functions but not for the reasons that you suggest. It’s filled with useless fill-yer-boots cronies top to bottom, like that Bra woman and her PPI company or that twenty two year old that Boris elevated for no obvious reason or because she was a puppet.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 1 month ago:
People’s motives are different. The spectrum is so diverse that it makes acknowledgement of our ignorance of the world forefront.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 1 month ago:
You’ve been in Elon’s programme, haven’t you?
- Comment on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, is considering overruling the UK Supreme Court over a £44bn car loan commission scandal, the Guardian can reveal 1 month ago:
Those rules were implemented in the crashes before 2008. The banks have the resources to get around them; they actually advise the government how to get their debt off-BS. You realise that’s a conflict of interest, right?
The whole idea behind the PFI is that the debt is not on the government BS.
- Comment on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, is considering overruling the UK Supreme Court over a £44bn car loan commission scandal, the Guardian can reveal 1 month ago:
2008 banking crisis showed that they’re all banking stooges. Banks go bust for their poor management. Public bales them out. Traders get enormous bonuses, although not on the level they screwed up. Some twenty years later, the last shares were sold to the market by the government on 30 May 2025.
Actually you could argue the 1991 ERM fiasco showed that they’re all banking Stooges.
- Comment on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, is considering overruling the UK Supreme Court over a £44bn car loan commission scandal, the Guardian can reveal 1 month ago:
(To no-one in particular, not OP either.)
Politician taking kickbacks or handouts or freebies, can’t happen, won’t happen. What the fuck did you think this is? The 2020s?!
You’re insane.
- Comment on Who is accountable in privatised Britain? 1 month ago:
I think that the Post Office fiasco shows us all that no-one is ever responsible.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 1 month ago:
There are a great many politicians who only appear to be the arsehole.
- Comment on Eastern leg of HS2 officially dead as land is sold off 1 month ago:
No-one wanted Birmingham residents escaping Birmingham after all. Least of all burning residents.
- Comment on ‘Gangster granny’ jailed for leading family gang dealing drugs worth £80m 1 month ago:
Nana saw Starmer steal her winter fuel and did something about it.