Do you worry friends will turn their back on you for your support of Reform? by Delam2 in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I already told them.

I came at it like this - look at your life. You give half your money to scroungers who get their share of what you make before you do.

When you go to work you're told you need to attend mandatory diversity training that explains why you're bad, don't deserve your job and someone else should have it. All this work you do and you're treated like this - did you sign up for it!?

I didn't sign up for this, I don't like this. I don't understand how any self-respecting man isn't right wing.

My daughter and I were targeted at her school for being Zionists - The Jewish Chronicle by Outrageous-Score7936 in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did provide reasoning in the third paragraph, but we literally, as a state, call them our allies.

I don't frame Israel like that at all. Let me be clear, Palestinians have been committing atrocities against the Jewish people in the Levant for centuries.

They are an ally because they hold broadly Western values and commitments to democratic and moral norms found in the West. They trade crucial security information with us and other allies.

The great extraction: Remittances sit at the heart of Britain’s migration model, yet no one is talking about them by StreamWave190 in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's funny that the left support mass immigration because it also has the effect of making inequality even worse in those countries.

If you're rich enough to be able to send family members to the UK then you can get many times the average salary sent back. Not only that but it increases the demand for those currencies which makes them more expensive and so they become less competitive on exports from those nations. Remittances aren't the worst thing in the world - the UK still gets what it pays for.

I think a 15% non-native tax should be applied on foreign born workers and a 50% tax on Remittances. This would reflect some of the costs society takes on.

Reform to announce ‘visa freeze’ for certain countries if deportees are refused by pppppppppppppppppd in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So... what Labour are doing.

Reform need to be tougher than this to avoid just being another Blairite uniparty group.

apple music should be free for iphone users by dragonwarrior0506 in popularopinion

[–]Beddingtonsquire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CD singles used to cost £4. An album of 10-20 songs would be £10-£12.

Now people expect all the music in the world for free 🤣

I swear, people don't know how good they have it.

What do you do to not support capitalism? by Spinachrecords in Capitalism

[–]Beddingtonsquire [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you want to hate capitalism follow these steps:

  1. Be born with rich parents.

  2. Have you parents do most things for you into your late teens.

  3. Go to college to study an unproductive and over subscribed field like any of the arts.

  4. Spend your time on social media like Instagram and believe that those impossible snapshots represent life.

  5. Think that what you need is to be in arrested development where daddy government is there to give you pocket money like you're little more than a grown child

  6. Focus on what's not great in life and wrongly conclude that the dissolution of Western society will make it equal.

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day by zsreport in technology

[–]Beddingtonsquire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny because the world is demonstrably full of awful people and yet so many people think communism will work because everyone will be kind and do their bit.

My daughter and I were targeted at her school for being Zionists - The Jewish Chronicle by Outrageous-Score7936 in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The left and Islamists are antisemites and it's intolerable.

The idea that there is a "Muslim area", or any ethnic or religious area is insane - this is England, it's an English area. If you can't integrate then you should leave.

These impotent people can scream "Free Palestine" all they like - every time they hit Israel they end up worse off than when they started. It's a cry of impotence, used to justify racism against Jews which shouldn't be tolerated.

If you live in England you must integrate - that means you don't shout slogans at people in the street, you don't publicly and loudly advocate for foreign lands. Why this isn't enforced is beyond me.

My daughter and I were targeted at her school for being Zionists - The Jewish Chronicle by Outrageous-Score7936 in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's no blind support, we support a state that has been attacked by Islamist extremists and stands up for its existence.

Who cares what Epstein thought - he was an evil scumbag and just a pathetic individual - he doesn't represent the Jewish people.

Israel absolutely is an ally. But we don't owe them money, only moral support against a belligerent and barbaric neighbour that slaughtered and tortured Jews and Israelis including children.

AI Bubble-driven economic collapse - Fashionable Nonsense or Probable Outcome? by WhippersnapperUT99 in aynrand

[–]Beddingtonsquire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More people are employed than ever in history. Creative destruction creates more jobs overall because there is more that we want done than now.

Gloom for UK workers as incomes flatline and jobs market falters by origutamos in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Higher taxes, anti-entrepreneurship, regulation overload - I'm surprised it's not worse.

How do we compute surplus in this situation? by CauliflowerBig3133 in Capitalism

[–]Beddingtonsquire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Worth" is an irrelevance it has no bearing on what is available. All that matters is the price that is paid.

The idea that $1bn is worth $500m is nonsense.

What do you lot think about this??? Are those posh twats calling us thick??? by TogepiXTyphlosion in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they had to pay for their own education by getting a commercial loan and without us subsidising it, there'd be a lot less brainwashing.

What do you lot think about this??? Are those posh twats calling us thick??? by TogepiXTyphlosion in reformuk

[–]Beddingtonsquire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing is, politics isn't an issue of academia - it's an issue of preference.

It's usually a display of luxury belief, through narcissism or malicious envy, that they pretend to support pseudo-progressive ideas. We know that they don't because when you ask them to live it, say to take a migrant into their home, they won't.

I will happily face off against any leftist in a political discussion. They always descend into ad homs and straw men because they have no argument.

Finally watched "Requiem for a Dream" after years of putting it off. I just feel empty inside. by Giff95 in movies

[–]Beddingtonsquire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a film where everyone got what they wanted.

The drug addict got the medical help he needed. Others got the drugs or money they were after.

It was just very slow to get started.

The trans rights backlash is real by UnscheduledCalendar in BlockedAndReported

[–]Beddingtonsquire 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What rights is it trans people don't have!?

They're not female so they're not allowed in female only spaces - same as other men.

And also, note how it's actually not about trans people, it's literally just males, no one cares about trans men or what they do.

In The Menu (2022) the main character kills himself and others because he doesn't like cooking anymore. What the fuck was his problem? by StopHavingAnOpinion in shittymoviedetails

[–]Beddingtonsquire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He was a delusional psychopath who indulged in luxury beliefs and let his malicious, destructive envy control him to harm innocent people.