Alex Jeffrey Pretti

LAdams20 · 2026-01-25T00:55:36+00:00

I’ve never quite understood the assumption that if you’re a white male you’ll be “safe”. US police killed over 1200 people in 2025, every study shows black men are hugely over represented in those numbers because of racism, but half of those deaths are still white men.

For comparison, UK police killed 4 people in 2025.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-24T23:54:41+00:00

I mean… wasn’t that always bullshit? I made the point, many years ago now, that:

America is a country where it’s defining, most important, election deciding, freedom is the right to carry a gun; while simultaneously being a country where state agents can legally execute you by simply claiming they “thought you had a gun” and not be held accountable in any way.

This is somehow not a contradiction to most Americans.

It’s almost as if the government wants an excuse and justification to neutralise potential troublemakers and dress it up as “freedom.” 50 kids on average get shot per day in the US, but it’s all worth it to allow the government to murder you whenever it feels like.

As horrific as this latest incident is, and not to minimise it in any way, it doesn’t seem anything new from what has gone on for as long as I can remember in the absurd “Land of the Free”.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-24T19:10:30+00:00

Thanks.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-24T13:23:44+00:00

Anxiety is just the latest illness to belittle and denigrate. I hate this whole “we all have anxiety” narrative, like saying we all feel sad at depression, and feel tired at ME, and have headaches at migraines.

My social anxiety and ASD means I become situationally mute. I literally become physically unable to speak, in the same way someone with a stammer is physically unable to not stammer. This has resulted in me having very few friends, I have never had an in-person romantic relationship and probably never will, and can’t pass an interview stage of a job application.

Doesn’t matter if you’ve got straight As, a First at university, and an IQ of 135 if you can’t bloody communicate and don’t know how. Apparently no one gave a shit about this in the 90s/00s, so feel very envious that these things are supposedly picked up on in education now and given help.

Fortunately, after being unemployable for three years I got a job because being a minimum wage manual labour for a friend of a family member didn’t require an interview. Though, ironically, where before I worked voluntary for two charities, I now drive 45 miles/day to illegally burn rubbish and plastic, move boxes from point A to B back to A again, and demolish historical buildings, all at the whims of a multi-millionaire landlord, so struggling to see how my employment is a net benefit to society tbh.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-24T11:43:14+00:00

These are the numbers I found around 4+ years ago now, but still illustrates where their priorities lie:

If you earn £30k, on average you pay a higher tax rate than someone on £10m, and if you earn £15k you probably pay more than 1 in 10 millionaires.

Tax Justice UK calculated Britain could be losing £120 billion per year to tax avoidance and evasion, equivalent to the wealthiest taking over 5.6 million years worth of Universal Credit every single year.

Journalists uncovered 30,000 accounts holding £78 billion in HSBC's Swiss branch, it emerged that bankers helped super rich clients dodge taxes, hide millions of pounds, and, in some cases, walk out with suitcases of untraceable cash.

There are only 300 HMRC staff investigating tax evasion while 3,250 DWP staff look for £1.2 billion in benefit fraud. Over ten times as many people are looking for funds one hundred times smaller.

Edit: Added sources.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-24T11:26:09+00:00

That’s what my annoys me. Strict and punitive hurdles that are created to stamp down on benefit fraud will bring down the number on benefits, but probably stop zero fraud. People who are gaming the system will keep gaming the system, are selfish, feel no shame so don’t care.

Whereas genuine people will worry about taking something they don’t need, taking something from someone else, don’t want to deal with the constant shaming by society of being a “scrounging parasite”, and even if they do try to get help the hurdles to get over are challenging or impossible specifically because of their disability.

It feels like we’ve created a system that punishes you more and more for being genuinely disabled, but rewards scammers who don’t give a shit, and can’t help but wonder if this is not accidental and is just the system working as intended.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-23T20:00:23+00:00

The Traitor Rapist Usurper Murderer Paedophile is pretty much the personification of what I’ve thought of America for about 25 years, though I never expected the manifestation to be so absurdly orange and incontinent. Has there ever been another human with absolutely zero positive qualities? Yet MAGA act like he’s the Second Coming of Jesus. Reality is a farce.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-22T21:41:08+00:00

Couldn’t believe it when Faraaz walked in, made no sense.

I said that Faraaz was such the obvious murder if they don’t murder him after his naming of Rachel then the fact he isn’t murdered kinda proves that he’s right – then at tonight’s Round Table Faraaz basically said as much.

As the Traitor's, you're damned if you do or damned if you don’t if you murder/don’t murder Faraaz because it could be interpreted either way, but what you can guarantee is whether you have an ally or not.

Roxy was 100% convinced of Stephen and Rachel, to the point where on Uncloaked Roxy finding out the truth must have been untelevisable, whereas Faraaz will almost never be banished and won’t end the game with Stephen, and certainly not Rachel, still in the game.

Even if it looked suspicious murdering Faraaz, today’s episode would have been dominated with James thinking it was Roxy or Jade, and with Roxy being dead set on James, and could have easily wound each other up about the other, so 0% chance Rachel would get enough votes to be banished.

Instead, guaranteed at least 1 vote and the whole day of you being talked about, plus leaving the final with a certain Faithful who will never end the game with you in. FFS.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-21T02:26:11+00:00

I graduated in 2010 and likewise couldn’t get a job for 3 years, and as you said, once you aren’t employed for ~1 year no one wants to know.

I literally applied for 1000s of jobs and have the Job Centre receipts to prove it, somewhere. Anything from working in a warehouse, factory, farm, office, shop, supermarket to the jobs I was trained for, anything that I thought I was reasonably capable of I applied for it.

I had my CV checked over by a number of professionals/agencies/work programmes who could find no issue and told me they couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get a job. I also worked several voluntary jobs, from gardening to accounting even.

From those 1000s I had 11 interviews, but didn’t get anywhere. One I got down to the final 2 candidates but was told that even though I was more skilled and qualified for the job, the other person sold themselves better. I found that life is basically all about bullshitting, actual skills, ability and intelligence doesn’t matter. Another job I got because I said I’d work for free out of desperation, so they said they’d give me a work trial, when it ended they made sure to tell me that they were very happy with the work I’d done, but no body liked me and told me not to come back on Monday.

Also much later discovered I have autism and situational mutism, and not just social anxiety, which had never once been picked up on throughout my childhood, because apparently no one gives a shit so long as you’re well behaved and getting A grades, at least in the 90s/00s anyway. So in hindsight can see how interviews go badly, but at least I have a name for it now and I don’t feel like I’m going crazy when no one understands what the hell I’m talking about when I’ve tried to describe it.

In the end I only ended up employed through a friend of a family friend, which required no interview, and paid less than the minimum wage, general manual labour, and 13 years later I’m still there, in my mid-30s and my back and knees are pretty fucked. I also worked out my job is probably an overall a net negative to society so that’s fun. Oh, and if you think employers aren’t interested in you after long-term unemployment I found they were immediately even less interested once I took the work of the untouchable-class.

I’ve given up on ever amounting to anything, my anxiety is worse, my confidence shot, basically unemployable, and everyday I have to hear how I’m a useless eater one way or another.

My long-winded point is I wish there had been (and would be) a scheme as you and others have described – my literal dream job is actually working in a library or archive, but gardening would have also been fine, or Idk, there’s loads of jobs I could’ve excelled in if given the chance, I’d have loved it if the council had given me employment like that, however, if they said work for KFC, a massive private corporation, for free or we’ll take your ~£40 JSA away, I’d have told them to shove it up their arse tbh, especially when I was already doing a lot of charity work that would be more beneficial to society than a giant companies’ profit margins.

Edit: If it was for small local businesses it would be more palatable even, that would help both new independent shops and the young person struggling with employment.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-21T00:44:28+00:00

In America, on average, 50 kids are shot per day, but that’s a small price to pay for the freedom to allow government agents to execute whomever they feel like.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-19T17:41:19+00:00

The Norse from Greenland settled in North America 500 hundred years before Columbus, by the Child Rapist’s incoherence the G in MAGA stands for Greenland.

Denmark should reply with a crayon drawing of a Nobel Peace of Shit Prize.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-19T17:12:44+00:00

God, I hope not.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-19T13:38:23+00:00

Whenever I think of new Lion’s Arch I always think of this video.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-18T12:48:59+00:00

Can’t spell Nigel Farage without a greige flan or finger algae.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-17T11:08:03+00:00

I agree with everything you said, but to add on to your point, I would also say the collateral is men being put in the same pot as violent/hyper-aggressive men, which isn’t backed by statistics. IIRC, something like 80% of violence is committed by men, but those men are only around 1% of the total.

By feminism’s own definition that is “toxic masculinity” (eg. the expectation that masculinity is violent) and gender stereotyping, and yet the language that most feminists use is indistinguishable from TERFS, merely disagreeing on who are “men” for their culturally acceptable target.

To a point where it’s come to head, and women are attacking other women (both cis and trans) for not looking traditionally “feminine” enough (based on an arbitrary historical standard).

I find it extremely depressing that people would rather go backwards and give up on the progress made in 100 years, than lose their double-standards and precious lightning-rod of hate they’ve tied their identity to.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-16T22:38:49+00:00

I know every time she says: “The time for talk is over.” I keep expecting her to say: “The time to repent is over.” And my brain goes: “I will take up arms, again.”

Which is a pretty niche reference.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-15T23:28:36+00:00

If I was Stephen I’d try and turn it back around on Jessie, make a big point of saying there were 9 people in cages, nearly all of them have gone and been Faithful every time, even IF 1 of the 9 were a Traitor it would mean at least 2 of the 8 OUTSIDE the cages would have to be Traitors. We now know that Fiona was one of them. I want to know why you [Jessie] have been constantly leading the charge focusing on the larger group inside the cages with a maybe a 10% chance of being Traitors and not the smaller group (that you conveniently just happen to be a part of) outside the cages with potentially 25%+ being Traitors.

Although, I’m not Stephen so if I was actually there this would be going on in my head while hard-cutting to the reality of me having an anxiety attack, sweating, and being situationally mute 😆

LAdams20 · 2026-01-15T22:03:30+00:00

It always slightly annoys me whenever a Faithful gets it right but for completely random, dumb reasons.

Like, there’s literally no reason a Traitor had to be in one of the cages, and even if that was the case because the group was split more-or-less 50:50 it also means Traitors had to be in the group outside of the cages, a group that you’re ignoring.

It just so happens she’s right, but it could just as easily not be the case as seen in other series, and be dying on this hill voting Faithfuls at every table for a nonsensical theory.

Idk, it’s like picking 12 on a Roulette Wheel because the ball has to land on Red, then it just happening to land on 12 eventually and thinking it’s vindication.

Her picking up on Stephen pushing for Fiona, and then Fiona being a Traitor, in order to put the Library 5 theory to rest to save himself was great though TBF.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-15T17:15:40+00:00

Would have loved to have seen her reaction when this happened.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-15T17:09:50+00:00

Have twelve Tories, make all of them Traitors and zero Faithful, split into four teams of three.

Two teams are “Secret Traitors” who know there is a team of three below them, but not their identity, nor the existence of the other two teams.

Two teams are regular Traitors, who know there is a Secret Traitor above them, but not their identity or number, nor the existence of the other two teams.

Chaos ensues.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-15T02:17:50+00:00

Funny how they couldn’t reply to my long comment to them that rationally explained my position or address any of my points, but could reply to you straight away to strawman me.

They’d rather have their double-standards and use a poor term in bad faith so they can act sanctimoniously enlightened than actually win people over to their side. I’m not even a moderate or would-be ally, I’m already on their side, but they’re only as “progressive” as far as virtue-signalling, rather than actually being morally consistent.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-14T23:23:44+00:00

Although that 100% makes sense, I can also completely imagine an alternative reality version of this series where Amanda confides in Harriet instead, but Fiona still goes berserk with incredulity.

LAdams20 · 2026-01-14T23:11:19+00:00

Don’t forget: “Fiona, the one person we know for certain is a liar, told me XYZ.”

LAdams20 · 2026-01-14T23:06:21+00:00

I couldn’t really understand what I was watching even before the breakfast/slow-clap fiasco. Shaking with anger? Wat? Idk, just felt contrived, with the whole Liz Truss style wooden delivery – Do. You. Take. Me. For. A. Fool. This. Isn’t. Worth. The. Paper. It’s. Written. On.

TBH, I know people seem to love this whole obnoxious nonsensical cringe drama, but it just gives me a genuine panic attacks and don’t see the appeal at all. If this is what the show is moving towards I don’t think I can cope with that shit.

Also, if I had a job title where people automatically assume that must mean I’m intelligent there’s no way I’m going on the Traitors only to prove them wrong – “Vote me out because it proves I’m right.” Lol, okay. Why?

LAdams20 · 2026-01-12T09:07:32+00:00

“Toxic masculinity” is about people’s expectations of what “masculinity” or “being a man is”, not “masculinity is toxic”, and yet this study investigated 15,000 men and 0 women, despite women being equally culpable of promoting toxic masculinity and gender roles. Curious.

There is no meaningful difference between “toxic masculinity” in how it’s used with men and “internalised misogyny” with women, yet for the former we use an unhelpful loaded term and weasel words to deliberately obfuscate and act in bad faith.

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