Tweak
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- Comment on Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage 1 day ago:
Get your head out your arse and realise the UK invented cucking for Israel.
- Comment on Police declare 'major incident' as wind change increases Cairngorms wildfire risk 2 days ago:
I get that, but I don’t see that as what’s happening here. It sounds more like you have a bunch of noisy locals moaning about things, but the BBC is just reporting that, not really amplifying it. If anything, the subtext of the article is that the complaints are generally baseless.
Swinney continued: "The wind has changed direction overnight, which means the track of the fire has altered once again and the threat to Nethy Bridge has reduced, for the moment at least.
So the wind changed towards Nethy Bridge, creating a high threat warranting an evacuation. Then the wind changed again and the risk went down. Sounds more like an ever-evolving situation than anything negligent by those in charge of dealing with it. Even when they start quoting the local Tory MP and their moans, it’s immediately contrasted with detailed explanations from the people actually fighting the fires. Hardly “omit[ting] information that would establish one side’s claims as baseless.”
Good journalism shouldn’t explicitly tell you that one side of the argument is bullshit, as that would be expressing an opinion, not publishing the news. This article presents enough information that the reader should be able to come to that conclusion themselves.
- Comment on Police declare 'major incident' as wind change increases Cairngorms wildfire risk 3 days ago:
That article reads like a bunch of quotes from locals. The BBC hardly injected any opinion into any of it.
- Comment on No rent control for you 4 days ago:
He gives me eerie Nick Clegg vibes.
- Comment on And still I see no changes 4 days ago:
My edit points out that the point of the speech was to assure international relations with southeast Asian countries, you’re reading far too much into it if you’re focusing on Iran, Israel, Palestine, Ukraine or Russia.
- Comment on And still I see no changes 4 days ago:
I think the main thing to take home from this is that it’s just a generic speech given to a southeast Asian trade group, it’s not really something that highlights policy or action. The post is reading too much into it, when the point of the speech was international relations with countries in a completely different region of the world.
- Comment on And still I see no changes 6 days ago:
You’re the user, but yes Declassified UK is the one who misrepresented the whole thing. Per my edit above.
At least their post included a link to the speech, so readers could decide for themselves.
- Comment on And still I see no changes 6 days ago:
Provided an edit, wasn’t quick enough lol
- Comment on And still I see no changes 6 days ago:
In this post, a user cherrypicks parts of a speech to push a specific agenda.
- Comment on Burnham approves US use of UK bases for some strikes on Iran, Bloomberg reports | Move marks a continuation of predecessor Keir Starmer's policy 6 days ago:
So to my original assertion, Burnham was not elected to the office of PM.
And the party didn’t even have a vote on him. He stood uncontested.
Literally the only group that had a say were the party MP’s who were responsible for nominations. However the party rules are designed to give the wider party membership a say; no opportunity for this was given. There wasn’t even a Count Binface option.
- Comment on Burnham approves US use of UK bases for some strikes on Iran, Bloomberg reports | Move marks a continuation of predecessor Keir Starmer's policy 6 days ago:
It’s permissible by the letter of the rules, but it absolutely is not what people expect to be happening with their democratic say.
Most people vote for whichever MP is in the party they want to vote for, run by the leader they want to run the country. Most people expect some stability, at least until the next opportunity to have their say.
And Labour party members are supposed to vote on the party leader, it isn’t supposed to just be a decision by MP’s. Because Burnham stood uncontested, there was no vote, and effectively the only people who got to decide were the MP’s at the nomination stage.
And Starmer had no good (publicly known) reason to leave. His controversies were never that damning, and they were contrasted with quiet competent successes.
You dismiss this as “all right and proper” according to British election rules, while ignoring that it is all dripping in slime.
- Comment on Burnham approves US use of UK bases for some strikes on Iran, Bloomberg reports | Move marks a continuation of predecessor Keir Starmer's policy 6 days ago:
That’s the farce of it all. On paper people vote for an MP, but in their minds people vote for a party, and that party is led by the PM they hope will be running the country.
Literally no one voted for Burnham to lead the party. Starmer threw in the towel, over nothing in particular, and Burnham stood uncontested. There is nothing democratic about that.
- Comment on GB News will not be investigated over ‘no riot in Belfast’ claim 1 week ago:
“There are no burnt houses”
/Shows picture of burnt houses
“It’s not that bad!”
- Comment on Dog rescued from Ben Nevis suspected to have eaten discarded cannabis 1 week ago:
Literally take a dog for a walk up a mountain, it gets tired, “oh wait it must be someone who left a big bag of weed and my dog gobbled it up”.
- Comment on Dog rescued from Ben Nevis suspected to have eaten discarded cannabis 1 week ago:
Actually wait, this article is complete bullshit.
Bluhme said Tokyo had made a full recovery after the incident during a trip to Scotland last weekend. She said vets believe she ingested cannabis left on the trail.
The vets made a guess, their best guess based on very limited information.
- Comment on Dog rescued from Ben Nevis suspected to have eaten discarded cannabis 1 week ago:
Okay that’s a few steps beyond “discarded”.
- Comment on Mocking regional accents is last form of acceptable discrimination, says MP 1 week ago:
- Comment on Mocking regional accents is last form of acceptable discrimination, says MP 1 week ago:
Hang on, when did we stop being able to mock gingers?!?!
- Comment on Ann Widdecombe killing: police investigating possible leftwing motivation 1 week ago:
Investigators are considering whether leftwing, anarchist and single-issue terrorism (LASIT) played a role
It honestly feels like leftwing is just thrown in there to stop officers sniggering every time they say the acronym.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 week ago:
No, he absolutely still could. Whether he will be is another matter, he’s got extremely wealthy backers.
- Comment on Police criticise decision to let pubs stay open until 5am for England match 3 weeks ago:
Better not lose then.
- Comment on Judge throws out Andrew Tate’s legal claim to be told names of accusers 4 weeks ago:
Lawyers for the Tates said the brothers had offered to be interviewed by Bedfordshire police in Romania and had undertaken to give up £20,000 each if they revealed the names of their accusers in the UK.
They didn’t just try to get the names, they tried to bribe the police for the names.
- Comment on UK June heat record broken for third day in a row as ministers urged to act 4 weeks ago:
How can they act when they’re on holiday?
- Comment on Why Does a Suspected Anti-Muslim Attack Barely Make the News? 5 weeks ago:
The article spends an awful lot of time talking about the government and pretty much glosses over the media.
The government responds to public interest, if there is more public interest on a topic the government will spend more time addressing it.
Public interest is by and large driven by the media (and even when it’s not true it often appears to be so).
The problem here is that the media is not covering this widely enough. This is perhaps understandable with privately owned media, but I think the bigger question is why state-funded news organisations aren’t better at picking this up. That is a root cause and political issue.
- Comment on Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport 5 months ago:
It used to be the case that the US formally didn’t allow dual nationality, but other nations didn’t mind if you had US nationality as well as theirs. So many people were just not telling the US about their second nationality that the US got rid of that rule maybe 15 or so years ago.
- Comment on Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport 5 months ago:
How is this an issue?? You just use your UK passport when travelling to the UK, and your EU passport when travelling to the EU. Just as anyone normally would - you go through the shortest queue you’re entiteled to use.
If you’re a dual national, you already have two passports. Certainly you at least have an entitlement to them.
- Comment on Another Biscuit Island Banger 5 months ago:
It is “the” lol. Taking a piss means going to the toilet, taking the piss is taking the mick, ie behaving with a mocking disregard for others.
Wrt loafing around, you might be taking the piss if you’re not doing something, eg your household chores. It’s not the laying around that takes the piss, it’s that you’re not doing what you’re supposed to do. It takes the piss out of others when they have to pick up the slack for you.
Like a lot of British phrases, there’s some flexibility in its usage.
- Comment on £450m London development thrown into chaos by nesting peregrine falcons 5 months ago:
On the plus side the local pigeon problem was solved.
- Comment on UK supreme court hearing interrupted by history podcast played from judge’s phone 5 months ago:
Probably just automatically resumed when he connected to the bluetooth.
- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 5 months ago:
Surely a better and far easier measure is to look at suicide rates of the whole population vs suicide rates in trans people specifically? You don’t need to factor in covid at all.