wewbull
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- Comment on Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy 1 week ago:
There was one!!!
What was it?
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 week ago:
You can go back further than that.
The 1917 russian revolution kicked it off. The fear of a workers revolution happening in the US started a campaign of labelling everything socialist and communist as anti-american.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
Your COUNTING sick days. Sick days are generally not counted elsewhere. There are limitations on the number of consecutive days you can take without getting signed off by a doctor, but that’s it. Had one team member that got frequent migraines, and averaged about 1 sick day every two weeks. Good employee, just took a lot of sick leave. Questions were asked but because it was a valid reason nothing was done.
What you’re describing is 25 days off plus public holidays. Very normal.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
…and to bring you in line with the rest of the world.
- Comment on A third so far! 1 week ago:
I’d disagree. It certainly means being against unbounded capitalism. I think you need heavy regulation on companies, but not the elimination of them.
- Comment on A third so far! 1 week ago:
You’re talking about how a particular party or group within a party behaves. Presumably you’re talking about the DSA. That’s fine.
Being socialist just means being an advocate for policies which put society above the individual.
- Public education / healthcare / housing
- A strong welfare system
- Favouring government run services for necessities over corporate solutions. E.g. water / power / transport services.
Being socialist just means that you agree that those a good goals. It doesn’t say anything about how you think they should be achieved.
- Comment on A third so far! 1 week ago:
Well, the president claims most of his power from the fact he’s elected by the people, but I think many would agree that no one man should hold the power of the president. It’s too open to abuse.
- Comment on A third so far! 1 week ago:
I might not be socialist…
Why not?
- Comment on Burnham to unveil £8.4bn nuclear submarine investment in major boost for UK defence 2 weeks ago:
At least this is money primarily going to UK workers.
Trident pisses me off because it buys missile we’re perfectly capable of designing and making ourselves. Relying on another nation for last resort national defence is bonkers if you have the choice.
- Comment on Burnham to unveil £8.4bn nuclear submarine investment in major boost for UK defence 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that 2020 thinking?
Ukraine has show how they are vulnerable.
- Comment on Burnham to unveil £8.4bn nuclear submarine investment in major boost for UK defence 2 weeks ago:
It’s Trident.
Andy Burnham is expected to unveil on Thursday an £8.4bn investment for the UK’s next generation of nuclear submarines.
Aimed at preparing Dreadnought-class boats for service by the 2030s, the nuclear-armed vessels are set to replace the current Vanguard-class and will be equipped to launch Trident 2 D5 ballistic missiles
This is on top of £16B since the 2020 defence spending report, and £30-40B before that (Wikipedia is a bit fuzzy on some of it). This is sunk-cost spending (no pun intended). There’s no other option except cancel the program.
…and none of it covers the missiles, which isn’t an independent system.
We need to have much better government procurement oversight. Contract values need to be understood properly upfront. Bids are intentionally low, with companies knowing that once they’re “in” costs can go up and they’ll get paid. It’s a well understood strategy, but it continually happens.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
…but you repeating the “It’s horse medicine” trope is just as much disinformation as the “it’s a COVID treatment” people. You don’t know. You’re just repeating shit you heard because it aligned with your politics.
If somebody has been prescribed it, they should be taking it. Not worrying about why their doctor has given them “horse medicine” and refusing it. …and it’s an extremely common prescription.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
That’s a bunch of bull. It’s not just horse (or bull) medicine.
Ivermectin is generally used as a anti-parasitic medication for all animals including humans. In some parts of the world it’s regularly taken to help protect against parasites. As such it’s one of the most important drugs out there, and is on the WHO list of essential medicines.
This guy sounds like he took drugs he bought from a scammer. Maybe it was an overdose, or maybe he took something else.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
It’s also a human dewormer, or many other kinds of parasite. At proper dosage it’s generally a very safe drug. Two things.
- Ivermectin is a drug that costs cents to make 100s of pills. If you’re paying $500 for a bottle… They saw you coming.
- Don’t buy medications from scammers. See point 1.
- Comment on Posting everyday until my brother takes a shower day 355 4 weeks ago:
Ooh, that does look like a Hugo Boss collar, doesn’t it?
- Comment on The price of petrol is going up again here 4 weeks ago:
How the fuck do you get the middle of your thigh to bulge like that?
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 4 weeks ago:
Does he manage to get back to earth in this one?
- Comment on Posting everyday until my brother takes a shower day 355 4 weeks ago:
Nah, he was a footballer.
- Comment on Posting everyday until my brother takes a shower day 355 4 weeks ago:
Otherwise known as Vinnie Jones.
- Comment on Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’ 4 weeks ago:
Shame it was coupled with a statement agreeing to drill north sea oil and gas.
- Comment on Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious 5 weeks ago:
Extremists are forming full fledged parties, not standing one by one where they are easily beaten.
- Comment on Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious 5 weeks ago:
I can see why, eventually there would be an Albanese sucks party or slurs against minorities
…except that doesn’t happen in AU/UK.
- Comment on More thermal paste = more heat dissipation, right? 5 weeks ago:
Thermal compound has a thermal resistance. It’s better than air, but not as good as metal. The best application is a layer that fills all the air gaps, and no more.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 5 weeks ago:
Now total it up for the event as a whole.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 5 weeks ago:
The blitz (WW2 London) was a terror attack by Hitler’s own admission I think. The explicit aim was to impact civilian morale.
I believe Dresden was justified at the time as being against an industrial base, but the regardless of whether that’s true or not, it was certainly a war crime by today’s standards. Same for the dam attacks.
- Comment on Making public transport fully accessible ‘could boost UK economy by £176bn’ 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, increasing GDP isn’t the same as extracting money out of people. I think the point is that removing barriers to people getting to workplaces allows the workforce to grow and economic activity to grow as a result.
That said, I doubt the numbers. There might be 2.8m disabled people, but they’re not all not working because of the one issue. I suspect many are already working. Some will be home workers like myself and some will get to work by other means. Some won’t be able to work for other reasons.
- Comment on Tony Blair think tank warns Burnham’s tax plans send ‘wrong signal’ 5 weeks ago:
Best endorsement Burnham could get.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
I remember the man in the white suit.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
I want to know if Count Binface would actually take his seat if he won.
- Comment on Sony 1 month ago:
They should have moved to USB keys a long time ago. Make them big and call them cartridges if you want, but optical discs are far too slow.
