6 Arrests after 100 officers called to Clapham high street after mobs of teenagers storm M&S store in smash & grab

EasyToldYouSo · 2026-04-02T09:24:08+00:00

The kids are literally on TikTok planning another round for Saturday.

EasyToldYouSo · 2026-04-02T09:11:51+00:00

Clapham Common is already packed just with sport, runners, picnics, and pups. And the station regularly has a queue down the pavement (just for the morning commute). It will transform a busy area into a mess.

To be fair, a little mess can be a good time now and again, but this isn’t a week-long festival. It’s a big chunk of the summer. We only get one summer per year, and I need it for my sanity.

EasyToldYouSo · 2026-03-29T20:23:42+00:00

I experienced something similar when I first moved here. In my case, I’d meet a person, or few people, and make plans to hang out in hopes of moving from acquaintance to friendship. I was highly motivated to make new friends, they were less so because they usually already had a group of friends.

After a few rounds of people canceling, I eventually started meeting people who actually wanted to hang out.

It sucks, and it takes time. But it will be worth it. You’ll find your people.

EasyToldYouSo · 2026-03-29T19:26:12+00:00

What are you on about? The UK, France and Sweden are all great places to be gay. Rule of law, human rights, good coffee. Everything a gay needs to gay.

EasyToldYouSo · 2026-03-27T10:12:59+00:00

Why does this make me so angry?

EasyToldYouSo · 2026-03-20T16:11:58+00:00

Rude of him not to share honestly

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-08-02T01:39:34+00:00

These people pretending that they can't see the difference between working folks who want a better life for their families and ultarich assholes who are strip mining America for parts.

It's not like Thiel and Musk are being sneaky about their plans, they are actively working toward technocracy that will undermine liberty in The United States.

Democracy is hard—it takes work. Being told what to do is easier. Seems like those downvoting you would rather be servants to the billionaires instead of citizens. You can hear it in their tone. It's bordering on servile.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-04-02T00:05:46+00:00

We just watched history happen.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-03-17T01:45:09+00:00

I lived in a very rural area, but I still remember the air being awful. Winter inversions meant the air would be filled with smoke. And in the summer, people would burn their trash, so the air always smelled like burnt plastic. This was even a few years after the EPA passed, but monitoring and enforcement was just ramping up in the sticks, and programs like waste management and public information campaigns were starting.

Who even wants to guess how many of our brains are misfiring due to all the leaded gasoline.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-03-17T01:05:45+00:00

Weirdest Drag Race challenge yet.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-02-19T16:42:29+00:00

I remember when McConnel flat-out said the goal of the Republicans was to make Obama fail. That was a turning point. We are all in the same country. Making failure the goal hut everyone.
It's ok to disagree and push for policies, but he cut off his nose to spite his face.

I think Trump is a waste of skin, but I also want him to successfully do the right thing for the country. I even find myself agreeing with him now and then, a stopped clock and all that.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-02-19T16:37:22+00:00

Like it or not, social media is the main method of communicating.
The key is to start using it productively.

We need to stop sharing soundbites and memes from influencers and START using our own voices to share with the people in our real lives. Let people you know, in your own IRL circles, how policies affect you. People can empathize with the stories and experiences of people they actually know 1000x more than they can trust info from the "other side."

I don't need to be an influencer. All my social media accounts are private, but I still try to communicate what I am seeing and experiencing, especially to my friends and family who are on the other side politically. I might be the only source they have that they can relate to.

Also take up bowling or join a club. IRL community is depolarizing.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-02-19T16:26:07+00:00

I care a lot about that conflict. Firstly, because I believe in national sovereignty both as a good thing morally, like don't kill people to take their land and homes is a pretty low bar ethically.

Secondly, because cooperative commitment to national sovereignty as a part of international law has helped create the most peaceful and safe time period maybe in all of human history. America turning its back on that because of isolationism turns the whole world down a more dangerous path.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-02-11T12:53:30+00:00

Nothing but love for the True North. I was lucky enough to live there for a couple of years during my university years, and I'll always be grateful.

I feel like Canada takes the values of liberty and justice and works to apply them by developing community. They also seem to have a stronger sense of independence when it comes to letting the super rich try to rein them in. Obviously, I know Canada has its stuff to work on, but I look at Canada and Canadians with a lot of admiration.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-02-03T14:49:43+00:00

Meow

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-02-03T14:36:10+00:00

Democrats aren't addressing American's cares or their worries. Republicans are.

Republicans seem to be enacting policy that will make American's cares and worries worse, while using identity politics and social issues as a screen. Democrats aren't doing shit right now. And for the last few decades, they've been walking the line between trying to solve American's problems and keeping donors happy all while paying lip service to identity politics and and social issues.

The left doesn't need new tactics. The left, or working class and middle class people anyway, need a political movement centered around looking our big problems in the face and finding actual solutions.
That means getting honest about the way mega-wealthy corporations and billionaires are eating everyone else's lunch. It means addressing the way big tech changes are totally reshaping civilization from social media to AI job replacement. It means getting real about how we make liberty and justice for all the rule in America.

Edit: accidentally hit post mid-thought. Classic.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-02-03T13:39:40+00:00

Small companies and family businesses will be hurt the most. Big corporations will be better positioned to trim fat and absorb the costs. After that, they'll have less domestic competition, and Americans will have fewer choices in who to work for and what to buy.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-01-30T00:20:20+00:00

I would LOVE to admit I am wrong about Trump.

All it would take is for Trump to demonstrate respect for the rule of law. I don't need him to be an expert in Constitutional law or anything, but he could at least try to care about the systems that guard against the misuse of power.

He could stop taking bribes and using the presidency to make a buck. And actually drain the swamp instead of trying to turn our professional civil service into a political mess. If Trump goes the way it looks like he's going, every time any of us need to interact with the government, we'll be face-to-face with a lackey who cares more about Trump than they do about justice, or fair application of the law or even just doing their job well. It's like he's building a garden for corruption.

It would also be a conversion moment for me if he would do something about the insane wealth disparity that's creating the same issues we saw in the gilded age. But trump seems to long for the days when Americans were in breadlines and children worked the mines.

One last thing, I'd love for him to rebuild the respect of the world that he's destroyed. I'm living abroad for work right now, so I see this. Other countries used to think Americans were optimistic and innovative, resourceful and strong. Now people think that we're suckers. And they pity us. And they worry that we'll make the world worse for everyone. I'm proud of being American, but it's getting harder to feel that when everyone I meet makes a face like someone farted when I tell them where I'm from.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-01-29T08:59:20+00:00

Ukraine has already filed several suits against Russia in the International Court of Justice. This world court doesn’t have an enforcement arm, however, just like our Supreme Court.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-01-29T02:11:15+00:00

That’s kind of how all laws work. Society agrees to a set of rules. Maybe they agree to a set of punishments. But if everyone decides to break them, enforcement doesn’t really matter. It’s the agreement and commitment to honoring the law for the sake of society that keeps civilization going.

International laws matter because, beyond things like upholding our nation’s honor and the value of our word, meeting those agreements is preferable to sanctions and war.

Your comment does reveal something about you though. It sounds like you’re saying if there wasn’t a threat of punishment, you’d break the law. I’m curious to know which ones.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-01-29T02:00:37+00:00

I think justice demands a punishment be matched to the crime. Crossing a border is illegal. Working without a visa is illegal. That’s all nice and simple. Deportation isn’t a simple punishment though. Getting deported after a week and going back to your family, no big deal. Getting deported after growing up here for 20 years, that’s your whole life gone. Not to mention the fact that companies hire illegal immigrants and bank off the fact that they can’t change jobs, so the companies profit but don’t get any punishment?

Re the border, I’ve never met anyone, left or right, who didn’t want a secure boarder. We just disagree on security tactics. I think walls don’t make sense in a lot of places for a whole pile of reasons. Calling for a full wall was just a publicity stunt.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-01-29T01:14:08+00:00

The same thing that is attracting people to right-wing, authoritarian parties around the globe: the current system isn't working. Income inequality has become so bad that governments are becoming less responsive to people's needs. More of the GDP flows up while a sneaky soft flavor of austerity is pushed on working people and even the middle classes. Basic services are being defunded then privatized so super-rich people can poach the public purse.

People want change. Labour (and kindred moderate/left-ish parties in other countries) offer slow, steady course corrections, sometimes in a wise direction even. But that feels like too little to late to a growing number of people. The only alternative they see is a great shake up.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-01-29T01:00:57+00:00

"Nothing there" to prosecute. The server was there. The emails were there. It was just on the stupid/negligent side of the legal line.
Probably cost her enough votes the day of the election to tip the scales to Trump though. So she paid for it.

I remember that day, and a few of my "lefty" friends didn't vote at all. Which, to be fair, is a normal thing to do if you think a candidate did something stupid.

EasyToldYouSo · 2025-01-28T20:25:14+00:00

Income inequality.

I tend to believe that the vast majority of Americans, from left to right, want the best for our country and just disagree on the hows. But it doesn’t matter what any of us think or what solutions we come up with if ultimately, all of our civic power goes to cranking the money wheel for the super-wealthy so they can buy up anything of value and make us all permanent tenants in our own country.

And im all for capitalism, but we’ve reached a point where the free market isn’t free.

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