Twat is too nice a word for this malodorous leaky sack of fox shit.

What do Mark Knopfler and transphobic people have in common? They are both Dire Straits.

Agree with all of your points, the systems that have been put in place are to preserve the wealth of the wealthy and take power away from those that don’t have access to wealth.

Capitalism has reached an end-game state. The rich under the status quo have won, and won’t accept less than they already have. It requires infinite growth like cancer, and if this isn’t stopped, most of society will continue to suffer more each year. People need to be shown to understand that we need a new model, that focuses on fulfilling basic societal needs over individualistic pursuits, and that this way of life can be better than what capitalism brings. Shorter work weeks - we only work the same number of hours to fuel infinite growth, eliminate jobs that serve no societal purpose, all corporate decisions are only driven by what is legal, and that the cost of being caught is low enough for them not to care. If that is legislated and enforced effectively (ideally in all developed countries), the people who hold capital will have nowhere to run.

Proportionate representation would be a first step towards regaining agency in the political process. People wouldn’t be forced to vote for one or other of the two only parties that can win in this structure (Tory or Tory-lite), they could vote for parties that actually advocate for policies that help those with less, those in need, and those who have been ignored by the past Governments. Get them to pass progressive laws that constrain those with power and tie it to corporate responsibility for societal good (a liveable minimum wage, restrict what jobs can be offshored or at least make societal mitigations, tie board wages to a certain multiplier of the company, or a median), enforceable criminal sanctions for white collar offences like corruption, and punitive disincentives to taking advantage of positions of power.

All this is possible, but it requires motivated people to be in the right places at the right times to make the right decisions happen.

Millennials and Gen Z have pretty good heads on their shoulders. In this election you can see the Tories sweating because the FPTP system is being weaponised against them to plan a wipe-out on polling day - well-deserved hubris. I have hope that the generations that have received nothing from consecutive self-serving Governments will make concerted efforts to change the system. Unions were unanimous in telling Labour they wanted PR. Next election, maybe that will make it into their manifesto.

It’s hard to be optimistic because thing have been getting worse for so long, but this decline is also not sustainable. If the change won’t come peacefully, it is inevitable that non-peaceful interventions will follow. They know that, and they know what the ultimate consequences would be.

At the same time, the encroaching climate crisis, climate refugees, the gulf stream stopping causing European temperatures to drop, and everything else that goes along with it is only likely to distract from this aim, embolden and elect populist fascists like Farage, and take us down darker paths. But if PR can be brought in before this happens, the future could be better for the masses, at least a bit better than they are now.

Who could have forseen showers in April?!

Wholly indentured generation grinding low exploitative salaries?

I can’t wait for the Government to release hardened criminals from our overcrowded prisons years early so they can fill the them with these uncooperative draft-dodgers. Truly we are living in the best timeline.

Hell Toupée

The two question zionists need to be explicitly asked are:

1. Hypothetically, do they even believe it would ever be possible for Israel to commit genocide?
2. If so, what characteristics would it need to have in order to qualify as genocide?

If they answer no to the first one, they expose their complete bias and therefore unable to even argue their position effectively.

If they answer yes, then they have to explain why the genocidal traits of what Israel are doing are not genocide, which might hopefully make them more introspective.

As he has intentionally finely tuned his public persona to be the embodiment of Dickensian aristocratic psychopathy, I don’t think your hatred is irrational.

I suppose that is a fair comment and a possible reason, along with those who boycotted the event will have diminished all votes going to other acts.

I still think there is a likelihood that Israel tried to play the game on public votes, because it would be a minimal spend for a big PR boost for them. Having a big Israeli company sponsor bought them a lot of the judge votes, then this move would have topped it up. It was just my initial thought when the 300+ points came up. The majority of the crowd did not take that well, along with all of the other stories about booing at the semis, the canned applause on the TV coverage to cover it up, the vote swing just seemed like too big a massive juxtaposition to global sentiment for it to carry weight.

I’m waiting on the news story uncovering the voting farms all over Europe funded by the Israeli government, wanting to parallel the Ukraine 2022 result to claim vindication and that they have the public’s backing for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinians. Disgusting.

Convince humans that you aren’t a stork with this one neat trick!

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

For many, the worry will be that it will take away thousands of high paying jobs and replace them with significantly lower salaried, or even minimum wage jobs. People have bought houses, had children, and generally made life plans based on the premise their vocation could support that lifestyle. The Government need to provide support and retraining to try and prevent these events because they are good for no-one except bad actors and vulture capitalists.

Someone getting cancer treatment in a timely manner should not be the news. A third of patients, over 100,000 people, currently wait over 62 days to start treatment. She managed to get care within about 4 weeks.

She is a person and this will be a hard time for her personally, but far, far worse outcomes are being inflicted on people just as deserving of life-saving treatment due to their lowly standing in society.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68240096

At his next rally, I imagine he’ll waddle onstage to Jesus, He Knows Me.

It seems there are some in the UK Government willing to game the Israel Gaza conflict to their electoral advantage. Not boots on ground, and thankfully its being called out by the opposition as wrong, but shows they are at least considering this in their deliberations for calling for a ceasefire. https://feddit.uk/post/9265224

If an embryo is a fully-fledged person then about 51% of people transition naturally before even being born, which is why men have nipples. Let’s see the right wing lobby tackle that dilemma in the US legislature. Do they want no rights to medical support for all men? What if they switch back to women?

Looks like Debbie Downer’s living life to the max.

Memento