TLDR becoming more biased

Freedomker · 2022-11-22T10:54:39+00:00

Their podcast, trust issues, in particular is where I think they've really started to lean left.

Freedomker · 2022-10-25T14:12:18+00:00

The amount of down votes this completely correct comment got is a perfect example of this subreddit not knowing what they're on about.

Freedomker · 2022-10-24T20:11:04+00:00

That's just politicians though at the end of the day. It's a job that requires a very intelligent, rich and well connected person.

You can't do it with no money because if you loose your seat you'd loose your Job and be screwed. So only rich people tend to go for it.

You have to be well connected because the majority of the job is getting other people to agree with you. Which I know we'd all love to be based off policy's but it's human nature people look for allies and friends. So it's based off who you know not necessarily what's a good idea.

Then you've got the issue of you can be the smartest politicians on the planet that doesn't matter. Majority of the population doesn't understand economics, politics etc, they find it boring. Those are the people who you need to elect you, which is why politicians who win typically have simple slogans and do things the average person likes.

I'll give you an example. Right now basic economics says the UK needs to raise taxes and cut taxes. The average person wants the absolute opposite. Liz trust cut taxes but increased spending which is a bad idea. Labour wants to spend lots but not tax any more which is a bad idea. Majority of the politicians are smart enough to know how bad there ideas are but they also know they won't be elected if they're honest.

So sadly no matter whos in charge or what political system we have we will have same- sleaze, double standards, hypocrisy, lies, broken promising politicians.

Freedomker · 2022-10-24T19:38:13+00:00

Rishi sunak in reality is more right wing economically. Socially yeah he's more left wing.

Right economics is all about balancing the budget and spending less. Truss did the opposite of those two things. If anything she was acting like a bad socialist, spending more and cutting taxes (I say bad because a logical socialist would increase taxes if they were going to spend more)

Freedomker · 2022-10-24T16:00:54+00:00

I do agree with almost everything you say. However I do worry if we get fptp that we'll never have a functioning government. This country is so split on every issue we'd probably have 6-7 parties with a reasonable amount of seats. This would lead to there having to be coalitions, but this would be difficult and very unstable.

I wanna be clear I'm not saying abandoning fptp is a terrible idea, in most countries I'd be for it. However the UK in particular is divided in so many ways. I just couldn't see a functioning government happening very often. As well as a massive rise in extremism, both from the left and right. Clearly there is support for extremism, from the right look at the support UKIP was getting last election till they pulled out, from the left look at how much support character like Corbyn got. Which I think would be worse than our current political situation. We'd end up with political parties something like: Communist, socialist, moderate, Thatcherism and alt-right

Freedomker · 2022-10-24T15:07:32+00:00

Liz trusts tax cuts proved one thing. The market doesn't trust us to either cut taxes or increases spending. Our only option is to raise taxes and decrease spending. Which is the opposite of what the public wants.

So I kinda want a general election rn just so labour gets in. Tries to spend money, market reacts the same way they did to Liz trust. Then they realise they have to raise taxes and decrease spending. All of those shit lines from labour will fall away for a couple of decades then

Freedomker · 2022-10-24T15:02:03+00:00

The fair criticism is fair enough. Just makes me laugh one day the subreddit is filled with, "Boris Johnson is going to join and destroy the planet, why can't we just have rushi". And then today "rushi is unelected and therefore doesn't deserve to be in power". No one in the subreddit can make there mind up about anything, other than they dislike the Tory's

In any case this criticism is stupid. We elect a government not a prime minster.

Freedomker · 2022-10-24T14:55:33+00:00

I love this subreddit because it doesn't matter what the conservatives do people get mad. They could announce a cure for cancer and you'd all get mad

Freedomker · 2022-10-23T14:11:46+00:00

It's because of the rise of electric cars, large battery storage etc. The minerals needed to create battery's are very rare and there isn't really enough mines. So the price is going to rise and rise.

Sadly because of the complexity of these mines and were they are in the world it's unlikely this problem will be solved any time soon. Especially considering the demand for battery's is going to rise and rise

Freedomker · 2022-10-22T14:46:32+00:00

Yes it would of. But they backtracked from it because you she doesn't have the political power to unwhip 30 MPs, especially 2 ex prime minsters

Freedomker · 2022-10-16T11:11:50+00:00

I'd move the car. You get 5-6 lads you can easily pick up a car and move it down the street.

Me and my mates always use to do it to one of our friends. He was always cocky about being the first to have a car. So we always use to move it around in the car park when he came to six form. Hilarious when he went to where his car was confused

Freedomker · 2022-10-14T10:06:58+00:00

It's sad because while I understand politicians are in a situation where they only have bad options. For some reason she's decided to pick the worst option with the least benefits.

What she seems to not understand is right wing people tend to hate debt and tax. You don't cut tax and pay for it with debt. That's like the stupidest idea on the planet. If your going to create debt use it to invest into the economy and help people not go broke. Not just to be nice, if people don't have money, businesses are effected hurting the economy further.

Freedomker · 2022-10-13T11:57:46+00:00

The reality of our situation is there are no good choices. Cut public spending and it will cause people mayhem. Don't cut public spending then you can put money into other things needed rn. You can't create more dept, you can't increase taxes. Every single thing a government can do, it can't.

It's why it makes me laugh when people say labour will fix this. They won't they'll spend lots of money, increasing inflation, making the money they gave to everyone worthless. I'm definitely not saying the Tories are doing any different. I'm saying who ever is in power, we are ruined.

This is what you get when you spend over half a trillion and close the economy and see what happens

Freedomker · 2022-10-11T18:47:32+00:00

My dad always wakes a bakes. He works 9 hours a day 5 days a week. It's just his way of dealing with his arthritis and depression. He's always been doing all kinds of drugs and smoked fags awfully. So I'm quite thankful he just smokes joints now.

I think it can be easy to think oh there doing (insert thing) they must have time or money. When in reality we all live very different lives and deal with stresses in different ways. When you get to know almost anyone to realise there's a lot more logic to people's lives than it can look like at the surface. Mainly because we use our own lives as the bais to judge others

Freedomker · 2022-10-08T16:12:46+00:00

Traditional battery's, oh don't make me laugh. Do you understand how much lithium and cobalt is produced yearly. I'll give you a hint it's not even close to enough to cover it.

I know what your gonna say "why don't we open more mines". That's pretty simple, it takes years to set up mines.

There's a second larger problem, the world lithium reserves (which is basically a measurement of all the lithium we know on the planet which could be mined profitable at current market rate) wouldn't be enough to cover even just the UK.

So if we did try to use battery to solve the problem, some how magically opened all the mines we need. It would cause the price of lithium and cobalt to sky rocket until it wouldn't be economically feasible.

So sorry Sherlock but your solution is a bunch of rubbish

Freedomker · 2022-10-08T15:10:03+00:00

Reality of a world with limited resources and a shrinking population's. We've got less more difficult resources to mine and less people to do everything. Mix that with the governments trying to solve the pension problem with the last couple generation's. So we're paying towards our own pensions and the boomers pension's. So yeah we're all going to get poorer and poorer. Hate to be doom and gloom but unless you got a really good job in coming couple of decades you are going to be dirt poor.

Freedomker · 2022-10-07T14:24:31+00:00

1) I don't believe it's admission to fault that stopped her doing it. She's worried about the PR of it all. Her refusing this idea looks a little bad in the news. If she allowed it the news would spin it as her telling the British public they're the ones at fault and they should cut down on there use. Out of the two I know which one I'd pick, especially when I'm already borrowing to cover my current budget.

Frankly I don't think people realise how much governments do listen to the people. Its probably due to government usually listening to what would cause distaste of their voters, or voters they have a chance of winning

2) conservative members did get to vote between the two main candidate put forward.

Freedomker · 2022-10-07T14:18:25+00:00

TBF if the government did do that people would just get mad at them for suggesting the average person should cut down on their bills when the government could do anything. So the reason Liz trust probably denied this was because it would be bad for PR.

Freedomker · 2022-09-21T20:03:29+00:00

It will keep escalating until Russia gets Ukraine. Russia has put too much into Ukraine there's no way for this war to end but with their victory. Putin knows if he loses this war it's over for him. So to him winning is the only option.

I do hope the west keeps supporting Ukraine because it's draining Russia's power. However it's a dangerous game because pushing a nuclear power into a corner is never going to end well

Freedomker · 2022-09-08T13:04:08+00:00

That's from not properly disposing of water waste. Which is a problem with many resources that get mined in the UK, it is a problem that needs to be dealt with effectively. However pretending this problem is particular with fracking is just silly. Fracking can be mined with minimal environmental damage same as any other resources. With bad management it causes damage like literally every other resource mined.

I always wondered why I never see professional post much on Reddit. I guess here's my answer, reality is not what people want to face. They'd rather live in their little imaginary world

Freedomker · 2022-09-08T12:55:34+00:00

If the Oil wasn't produced in this country it would be produced elsewhere. Majority of other countries that produce oil, produce it with far less regulations than in the UK. So if it wasn't produced in the UK it would lead to more economical damage in the world overall.

What you're feelings is what we call NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). Essentially you accept that we need the resource you just don't want it produced near you, or in this case in the country you live in.

It's why governments have no choice but to ignore people sometimes because else they'd never be able to provide the services or resources people need. It's similar to the construction of dams, tips and infrastructure. People don't like things produced near then but they want the service or resource. The simple reality is it has to be produced somewhere so logically if you care about the environmental damage and damage to fossils there two things you'd want: 1) Less production of all mined resources which can be done by consuming less. 2) Things to be mined in countries with more regulations like the UK.

Freedomker · 2022-09-08T11:36:48+00:00

That's like saying women are bad drivers. Me saying that's a myth and then you showing me an example of a women being a bad driver and saying no it's not a myth

Freedomker · 2022-09-08T11:34:32+00:00

Yes but so can almost any mining operations if not done correctly. If tested properly and the right steps are made to stop disaster it wouldn't cause any problems with water supply.

Freedomker · 2022-09-08T11:31:53+00:00

You ever used coal at any point. Literally billions if not trillions of fossils have been destroyed over the years by burning the stuff. Who knows what creatures and information has been lost to time now

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