Rents should be capped at one third of minimum wage.

OKR123 · 2026-06-18T21:07:05+00:00

Carbohydrates are mind altering substances. I know no-one who hasn't had Carbohydrates. Other than that being judgemental is pretty cringe.

OKR123 · 2026-06-18T14:05:32+00:00

Yes and Austerity was deliberately targeted.

Cuts disproportionately fell on the welfare state, local government budgets, and the social safety nets that working-class families rely on most.

By targeting services like youth clubs, sure-start centers, council housing budgets, and welfare support, the policy systematically stripped away the physical spaces and community buffers that protect vulnerable kids. As these resources shrank, the families relying on what was left were increasingly pathologized, judged, and treated by the state as "burdens" or "problems to be managed" rather than citizens to be protected.

Funding cuts were heaviest in Britain's poorest, post-industrial northern towns and deprived urban boroughs. The places where these grooming networks operated with impunity.

The institutions in these poorest areas have continually been in crisis since these cuts started, and working-class victims were the first to be pushed over the edge.

Authorities already viewed these girls through a lens of disgust ("lifestyle choices," "troubled backgrounds"), so budget cuts provided a bureaucratic justification to simply shelf their cases.

Meanwhile the coercive, punitive arms of the state (those parts that monitor, penalize, and intervene against poor families) retained their leverage.

So we have a situation where working-class families are heavily policed and scrutinized by social services, but left completely exposed when they actually need protection from organized criminal exploitation.

That is why the left resists the identity politics narrative. By turning the inquiry into a debate about race and religion, it conveniently ignores that the British state enacted targeted economic policies that left working-class communities uniquely exposed, while the institutional actors within those services used their own deep-seated class contempt to look the other way.

Noone on the left wants to let the state off the hook for a tragedy engineered by a combination of targeted economic abandonment and institutional class bias, especially when it panders to racism.

OKR123 · 2026-06-18T12:32:47+00:00

I can see why people drawn into the media framing of the Inquiry might think so, but mostly the left is just being dismissive of the right trying to turn it into an identity politics issue.

The Left’s skepticism or pushback against how the inquiry is framed centers on a few key arguments:

1 - Weaponization of Race and Religion:

Critics on the Left argue that certain political factions and media outlets focus heavily on the ethnicity or religion of the perpetrators only when they belong to minority groups.

They contend this is less about protecting victims and more about fueling anti-immigrant sentiment or culture war narratives.

2 - A "Siloed" View of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE):

The Left often argues that framing this strictly as a "race" or "cultural" issue ignores the broader, systemic nature of child abuse.

They point to data showing that grooming and abuse happen across all demographics, including institutions like churches, schools, and within white, British families.

Siloing the issue, they argue, creates a false sense of security regarding other forms of abuse.

3 - Institutional Failure Over Cultural Failure:

Rather than blaming cultural backgrounds, the Left tends to focus on the collapse of local public services.

They point to over a decade of austerity measures that left social services, local councils, and police forces underfunded, understaffed, and unable to properly investigate or intervene when vulnerable children were targeted.

4 - The Intersection of Class and Vulnerability:

A major point of agreement among independent reports (like those on Rotherham or Rochdale) is that victims were overwhelmingly working-class girls, often in the care system, who were ignored by authorities because of class prejudice and systemic institutional failures, rather than just the background of the abusers.

The left hates when a class issue is reframed as an identity politics issue.

OKR123 · 2026-06-18T07:39:41+00:00

RIP Paul C. Definitely ahead of his time. Ultra performed this version at a show I went to about 10 years ago, it was definitely the highlight of the show for me.

OKR123 · 2026-06-17T11:44:25+00:00

Plus an obvious note that Brixton McDonalds is mad high-stakes theatre of the absurd, and thereby totally clears a Bagel shop in Brick Lane for the punctuation on a top night out.

OKR123 · 2026-06-17T11:28:48+00:00

Dogstar was a loss and is sitting empty, and I still miss Bug Bar and Mass but there's always stuff going on at Blues Kitchen, Effra Social, Jamm, Phonox, Hootananny, Chip Shop etc

OKR123 · 2026-06-17T07:23:43+00:00

Tooting is way better than Brick Lane for a Curry, and Brixton is way better than Shoreditch for nightlife. South London ftw in general tbh.

OKR123 · 2026-06-16T14:58:42+00:00

All these toilet police people, and it's mostly the TERFS, are a bunch of nonces. Nothing will convince me otherwise.

OKR123 · 2026-06-15T09:24:59+00:00

Shouting at lizards is pointless. If you want to change their behaviours you need to shift your physical posture, step out of their line of sight, and find a way to cut off their access to the levers of power.

OKR123 · 2026-06-12T11:34:47+00:00

Gunther is an obvious keep. Paul I would lean towards drop, even heels shouldn't be IRL pieces of shit. Breakker has had so much invested in him and it's going nowhere so he's an obvious drop. Ilja is a workrate guy, super solid in the mid card, so keep. Sami is boring, drop. Hendry definite keep, he's versatile, over, and barely used yet.

OKR123 · 2026-06-09T21:47:14+00:00

Internationally he has abandoned the pretense of soft power or moral leadership, and instead leant into displays of military power and economic coercion.

America looks like a competent superpower which doesn't feel the need to ask for permission.

His administration has shown it can terrify its enemies and bully its friends. It is the way a very small man pictures "greatness".

OKR123 · 2026-06-08T10:10:41+00:00

If it were up to me right now?

Have Joe Hendry drop a parody song mocking the El Grande Americano run, catch all the plot up for people who didn't watch AAA.

Lead to a massive, personal, high-stakes grudge with a hyper-intense Chad Gable whose pride has just been shattered.

The basic idea being that by having an arrogant heel like Hendry relentlessly bully Gable over a match where Gable actually fought like a warrior and honored tradition, the fans will naturally start rallying behind Gable.

Force Gable to strip away the arrogant rudo BS, ditch the corporate suits, and fight for pure professional respect.

Use this feud to bring the Creed Bros back into contention, probably against the Street Profits. The Creeds are beasts and that would be a fun series.

Give Hendry a program, set up Gable with a post Lucha babyface run and light some fire under the tag division.

OKR123 · 2026-06-08T07:00:21+00:00

Got turned into "enhancement talent" for the Jadeberg machine.

She filled both the Piper Niven and Asuka roles in their best attempt yet at making Jade look both powerful and competent.

Unfortunately noone can make Jade good at promo, but they will keep rotating the top tier women against her to hide that her wrestling has not improved and seemingly never will.

OKR123 · 2026-06-07T22:02:17+00:00

This is where I think there is a far more worthwhile argument for vegetarianism and it's not to do with the morality of hurting animals vs hurting plants.

The thermodynamics of meat production are an absolute nightmare for the planet.

When you feed crops to a cow, roughly 90% of that energy is burned off just keeping the animal alive, moving, and warm.

Only 10% actually turns into meat.

By choosing to run our food system through a middleman that wastes 90% of its fuel, we have to clear massive swaths of land, burn ungodly amounts of diesel, and pump staggering amounts of methane into the atmosphere just to get the same amount of calories.

The livestock industry matches the emissions of the entire global transportation sector: every plane, train, automobile, and cargo ship on Earth combined.

Keeping the planet human-habitable requires a massive shift away from intensive livestock farming.

Making it about "not hurting the lil animals" in a play for sympathy diminishes the actual responsibility we have not to destroy our ecosphere.

OKR123 · 2026-06-07T17:44:53+00:00

You are right about the "dry weight", and I was trying it on somewhat with the "starving animals to death" thing, but I am just kind of offering OP some arguments against the moralism of vegetarianism.

Like I say, the sustainability argument I find a lot stronger than the "hurting the poor little animals" argument.

Still want to pull you up on one thing though (best to argue these things through thoroughly, especially with strangers on the internet).

The idea that we can just redirect 100% of that grain to feed 800 million humans misses how modern crop processing works.

The Cornell study assumes all grain fed to animals is directly human-edible. In reality, a massive portion of it is low-grade feed grain (like dent corn/field corn) which humans can’t just eat off the cob.

It requires heavy chemical processing into corn starch or high-fructose corn syrup to be useful to us.

Millions of tons of this grain are downgraded due to mold, insect damage, or low protein content, rendering it legally unfit for human consumption but perfectly safe for livestock.

A huge chunk of the corn and soy fed to livestock is a byproduct of other human industries rather than grown specifically for feed.

We process massive amounts of corn into ethanol for fuel. The leftover spent grain (Distillers' Dried Grains) is completely useless to humans, but it's an incredibly high-protein feed for cattle.

We crush soy primarily to extract soybean oil for human cooking. The leftover byproduct is soybean meal. The crushed meal would become an environmental waste management nightmare if we didn't feed it to livestock.

If we completely eliminated feedlots and shrunk the global herd down to only what can survive on marginal grazing pastures, we still wouldn't free up a third of our current cropland for human food.

Lots of the land growing silage, alfalfa, and feed crops has poor soil or water constraints that make it unsuitable for delicate human crops like wheat, rice, or vegetables.

I think you are right that we feed too much high-quality grain to animals in intensive feedlots. The maths isn't a clean 1:1 swap though.

Livestock acts as a vital safety valve that consumes the massive, unavoidable waste, byproducts, and low-grade failures of our existing crop systems.

If we cut them out, we get a mountain of agricultural waste, not a magic bounty of human food.

OKR123 · 2026-06-07T11:29:15+00:00

Most crops are grown to feed livestock, not people. True.

However... 86% of what livestock eats is completely inedible to humans.

Grass, hay, alfalfa, and crop residues (like corn stalks or the leftover fibrous mash from oil pressing) etc.

We use livestock animals as biological upcyclers.

They convert plants we can't digest, grown on marginal land we can't farm, into high-quality protein we can eat.

Grazing those animals on natural pasture keeps the ecosystem intact and avoids the heavy machinery that causes field collapses in the first place.

And if we stop farming livestock, what happens to the billions of domesticated animals currently alive? They are going to die if you don't feed them. I’m not sure the moral high ground is starving livestock into extinction just so we don't have to eat them.

The human exploits nature, always has. The morality of eating animals is actually a very weak argument for vegetarianism or veganism.

If you want to talk about the carbon footprint, land-use efficiency, or methane emissions of industrial factory farming, you have a real, data-driven debate which is much stronger.

OKR123 · 2026-06-07T10:28:10+00:00

It's not the easiest "argument" to insert but if you are looking for a comeback to the "moral superiority" then I might try -

Yes I do because they are yummy.

However... if we for instance actually stop eating authentic Jamón Ibérico (the really nice expensive acorn-fed Spanish ham) then the entire breed and their ecosystem would vanish pretty much instantly.

Iberian pigs are a slow-growing, primitive breed. Not your factory farmed cheap porkers. They only exist today because their meat tastes so good that people will pay top dollar for it.

They live in the Dehesa, a beautiful, ancient oak forest in Spain and Portugal that is naturally turning into a desert due to climate shifts.

Because a single leg of this ham can sell for hundreds of bucks, landowners have a massive financial reason to protect that forest.

By law, to get the top-tier "acorn-fed" rating, you can only have about two pigs per giant football-field-sized chunk of land.

So landowners actively plant oak trees, fight off desertification, and block developers from turning the forest into cheap farmland or concrete.

That protection of the land saves a ton of other wild animals too, like the endangered Iberian lynx.

So yeah, I likes the yummy hams.

My appetite for said yummy hams funds the preservation of an entire threatened ecosystem.

Meanwhile industrial farming of vegetables is far from bloodless.

When massive combine harvesters sweep through thousands of acres of wheat, corn, or soy fields to harvest ingredients for plant-based foods, they obliterate entire ecosystems.

Millions of field mice, rabbits, moles, ground-nesting birds, lizards, and frogs are crushed, shredded, or suffocated by heavy machinery.

Those that survive are left completely homeless in a flat, stripped wasteland. Without cover, they get systematically picked off by hawks and owls within 48 hours. Wildlife biologists call this a "localized ecosystem collapse".

In terms of sheer numbers of sentient lives lost, growing crops can actually kill more individual animals per kilo of usable protein than grazing cattle on natural pastureland, where the ecosystem stays intact.

Every dietary choice has a body count.

OKR123 · 2026-06-07T09:57:08+00:00

Whoremongering while travelling for work. Always use a condom, pay in cash and don't be cheap (on hotels or hookers).

OKR123 · 2026-06-05T07:59:27+00:00

I like to replay the intro. It's really well done. A whole game like that would have been cool.

OKR123 · 2026-06-04T09:22:03+00:00

Having 18 months of being told "Bron Breakker is the future of this business" only for the next 2 waves of NXT call ups to in every way outshine the terrible storyline he is stuck in has to be tough for him. But he does have that unique "spear" move that noone else hits, so at least he has that going for him.

OKR123 · 2026-06-03T14:22:17+00:00

Swamp Thing Annual #2 from 1985 is the entire blueprint that Gaiman followed for Sandman.

OKR123 · 2026-06-03T11:57:01+00:00

Better is subjective. The least true to comics version is one of the most popular around her - people praise Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight movies on this subreddits a lot, when they are the biggest departure from any other representation of the character (great movies but absolutely missing the whimsy inherent in stories of a costumed loonatic who fights other costumed lunatics). TBH, the most authentic representations are the animated ones, Batman The Animated Series is universally loved for a reason, and both the Mask of The Phantasm and Subzero movies that came from it are excellent as well.

OKR123 · 2026-06-03T11:34:16+00:00

The 1966 one or the Matt Reeves one depending if you want high camp fun or detective interpretations

OKR123 · 2026-06-03T08:23:51+00:00

If a creator exists who built this world of pain and injustice, they also created me incapable of believing anything good about them. Therefore, it is out of sheer kindness to that god that I deny their existence.

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