galmuth
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- Comment on We’re defending the Greens against a ‘gender critical’ group 1 week ago:
Surely this group has no basis to sue under the Equality Act. They’re not being discriminated against based on their protected characteristics - i.e. because they’re women. They were denied because their views are counter to the party’s manifesto. Just the same as if Esso tried to rock up to the Green Conference.
- Comment on Revealed: the insiders who filibustered the 'Zionism is Racism' motion at the Green Party conference 1 week ago:
Absolutely not; clearly I am not suggesting anyone supports genocide.
Good ways a UK political party should stand against a genocide by a foreign government:
- pressure our government to pause intelligence and trade with israel
Useless ways a UK political party should stand against a genocide by a foreign government:
- Label all their citizens racists
- Comment on Revealed: the insiders who filibustered the 'Zionism is Racism' motion at the Green Party conference 1 week ago:
I’m not purity testing but I’m soap boxing a bit here, for sure.
I’m just frustrated. I feel like political parties should exist to get as many votes as possible whilst furthering the aims and policies of the party. I really want the Greens to do well at this crucial moment for the planet.
It just seems that this motion is an unnecessary sideshow which divides people and invites scorn from the press, rather than brings them together behind an important message and important policies.
- Comment on Revealed: the insiders who filibustered the 'Zionism is Racism' motion at the Green Party conference 1 week ago:
Of course I consider Palestinians people. I also consider Israelis people.
When I said “people”, I meant “the UK voting population”. This is a motion for a UK political party which is for UK citizens, not Palestinian citizens. It will have zero effect in actual Palestinians.
- Comment on Revealed: the insiders who filibustered the 'Zionism is Racism' motion at the Green Party conference 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t want anyone thrown under the bus for the actions of someone else.
The Israeli government threw the Gazan population under the bus for the actions of the terrorists.
This motion is throwing “Zionists” (i.e. the Israeli population and the very existence of their country) under the bus for the actions of their government.
- Comment on Revealed: the insiders who filibustered the 'Zionism is Racism' motion at the Green Party conference 1 week ago:
I agree, the government has done such a disgracefully poor job on Palestine. They’ve literally thrown people in prison for daring to hold up a sign in support of Palestine. So I’m fully aware they’re willing to throw anyone under the bus.
- Comment on Revealed: the insiders who filibustered the 'Zionism is Racism' motion at the Green Party conference 1 week ago:
Lol I’m a Tory? Pfft. I’m sorry I don’t pass your purity test.
- Comment on Revealed: the insiders who filibustered the 'Zionism is Racism' motion at the Green Party conference 1 week ago:
Principles are fine, but when you get blinded by principles and purity, you miss what actually matters to people.
This policy achieves absolutely zero practical effects besides alienating people and splitting the party. It does not do anything. It’s pure posturing, and utterly pointless, and it makes the greens look out of touch with people’s lives.
I’d bet most people agree that the Israeli government have committed absolute atrocities and should be penalised just as much as Russia are. But you’d be hard pressed to find people who’d think for a moment that everyone involved with Israel is racist, or that Israel should be effectively wiped off the map.
I am somewhat on the left but I also think that to get policies in action that will actually make a difference to people’s lives, you need to be relatable, you need to connect to people’s lives, and you need to have an logical thread that runs through it.
Otherwise the left will keep shouting into the void forever.
You may say I’m not a Real Lefty if I’m not anti Zionist, or some bullshit. Maybe that’s true. I just want unfettered capitalism to stop destroying the planet.
Stopping genocides would be utterly fantastic too of course, but this will not stop genocides. It’s just ranting.
- Comment on Revealed: the insiders who filibustered the 'Zionism is Racism' motion at the Green Party conference 1 week ago:
Certain people on the left are obsessed about pushing policies which alienate them from the mainstream. Right at the moment where we really need the Greens to stand up for environmental and economic justice, if this passes, it will solidify the Greens as a fringe party again.
- Comment on Drugs, drones and heat: Amber Rudd and David Lammy begin search for answers to prisons crisis 1 month ago:
Why Amber Rudd? Such a random person to give this task to. Why not someone who knows something about prisons? Didn’t they make the Timpsons guy the prisons minister for this reason?
- Comment on Birmingham Crowned The Least Walkable City In The UK 5 months ago:
Such weird metrics to go by. They’re counting the distance between the top attractions which just so happens to include Cadbury World which is way out in the suburb of Bourneville. And they’re also including natural phenomenon such as elevation differences.
It’s not as if it’s a good reflection on the pedestrian-friendliness of the city. - Comment on Nigel Farage's claim he 'can't be bought' is ridiculed 6 months ago:
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 year ago:
It’s insane - I don’t give unrestricted internet access (certainly no social media) to my 9 year old, let alone a 6 year old!
Parent education is needed badly!
- Comment on The two types of people 1 year ago:
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- Comment on Anglian Water fined £300,000 for sewage pollution in Norfolk 1 year ago:
Such a rubbish fine. It probably barely covers the cost of cleanup of dead fish by the Environment Agency, and the cleanup of private properties which had actual shit floating into them.
Not only was it an illegal discharge of sewage, but in an area they had absolutely no permit to do so, so it shouldn’t have even been possible for sewage to discharge here. And it was directly into a public water supply, a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a beautiful National Park. They’ve clearly been extremely careless and/or nefarious when it comes to implementing the infrastructure.
The fine should have been at least ten times the amount.
- Comment on Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says 1 year ago:
“There were some rare bats we were legally obliged to protect, but we just had to drive the tracks right through the woods. We couldn’t come up with any viable solutions except an ugly shed, then when the council complained about how ugly it was, we went over their heads to central government and lawyered them into submission. Wow that was expensive, huh.”
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 1 year ago:
Making short term rental completely illegal is not a good idea as it would impact on local tourism etc, but they should allow (or force) councils to limit licences for short term rentals to a certain percentage of housing.
- Comment on shag carpet 1 year ago:
My son had a book called “You’re Called What?!” which featured a tasseled wobbegong, alongside other animals such as the Shovelnose Guitarfish, Bone Eating Snot Flower Worm, and the Aha Ha.
- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 2 years ago:
That’s not denial, it’s looking at the evidence.
- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 2 years ago:
It’s not used as a healthcare metric. This is just debunking reports that a healthcare policy was directly causing an “explosion” in suicides.
- Comment on No excuse for shoplifting because UK's benefits system is very generous, policing minister says 2 years ago:
Where are you getting your figures from?
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 2 years ago:
Ahh, you’re American - the UK system, which this article is referring to, will be different. There is talk of banning disposables for environmental reasons and ease of kids getting hold of them, but the government over here are currently looking into the best options.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 2 years ago:
Christ, chill with the venom. Fair enough, you like those flavours, but there are ways to avoid marketing them as desirable to children.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 2 years ago:
Who’s trying to stamp out vaping entirely? All I’m reading into this article is just “Kids shouldn’t start vaping, especially if they have asthma.”
The suggested solutions I’ve seen in the news recently are things like keep the vaping displays away from kids, stop kid-friendly flavours, and make packaging less enticing - all things that they currently do for cigarettes, and all perfectly reasonable IMO.
No-one I’ve seen is proposing taking them away from adults.
- Comment on More than half of UK children do not read in their spare time, survey reveals 3 years ago:
It depends how old they are. Kids in primary school at least have a decent amount of free time. School doesn’t start crazy early in the UK, and there’s not much homework when they’re young.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 3 years ago:
Yeah I absolutely agree with you. I didn’t mean to suggest that lecturing the neurodiverse person would have solved the situation in this case.
I meant that even if the girl was neurotypical and/or intended it as a homophobic insult… it doesn’t really matter - if the cop had to do anything, then just talking to the girl would have been a more proportionate response than what happened.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 3 years ago:
I meant that if the girl was neurotypical and meant to insult the cop, then the cop talking to her would still be a more proportionate response than assault and arrest.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 3 years ago:
Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(
Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, there’d be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She’s a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.
- Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall 3 years ago:
Ooh,. Is pressreader any good? Do you just get a PDF-ish version of the print edition which you have to try and zoom and swipe around to navigate and read, or is it a bit easier to use than that?
- Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall 3 years ago:
I uninstalled the app last month and use the website instead too. I put a shortcut on my homescreen so there’s barely a difference.