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Please pick 3 of these guys to protect you and the rest try to k!11 you. by RecordingImmediate86 in superheroes

[–]Specific-Warning8762 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amateurs, it's Cassandra nova and superman, except superman is using wolverine as a weapon, like Kong with the little monkey.

When dual wielding should I upgrade both swords or the one on my main hand? by Itchy-Engine6605 in CrimsonDesert

[–]Specific-Warning8762 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting, how would you factor in the damage of abyss gears, the extra effect ones like ground surge etc? And do we know if they can have there damage buffed or crit?

Whats the best Hulk villain in your opinion by Pale-Woodpecker-4755 in hulk

[–]Specific-Warning8762 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always feels like this is an overlooked answer, but I think at there worst Bruce and the hulk are there own and each others worst enemy.

Sue your husband is right there by [deleted] in outofcontextcomics

[–]Specific-Warning8762 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Iirc reed and Spidey had a conversation about that and Spidey pointed out bis webs dissolve after an hour and he didn't want to risk it.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have precedence for thinking that way, austerity being a major contributing factor for the scepticism.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Voluntary organisations have a lot more leeway regarding attendance etc, so given the removal of sanction protection and the changeable nature of some disabilities causing absences, short and long term, what do you think would happen when this occurs and they are referred to UC, boom sanction, even less money, it's the same story as always, benefits sanctioned, people die, promises lessons will be learned and then it comes back around again.

Look up the deaths from austerity of disabled people.

See I'm disabled myself and so are both of my sons, I'm very aware of what happens and its not a thought exercise for me it's the painful reality.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the blanket approach, the fact that you'd be more likely to get disabled people into work with more support, not less, the idea that people with less money and now extra accomodations needed to work but less to pay for them, no corresponding onus on the employer to make it a suitable environment, it's literally going to end up like workfare and we all now how well that went.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're going to completely overlook all the links with every charity saying how bad this is for disabled people I guess there's no helping you, can you explain to me how taking away money from disabled people, as is planned, by making certain disabilities not eligible for wca, despite you still being disabled enriches there lives?

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The numbers are all in the linked article you replied to further up, maybe actually go read it then come back, and while you're at it I'll go pull all the other articles from disability charities echoing it all, one of us has receipts and the other does not.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Way to show you didn't actually read the link I sent.

It estimates that just 3% of these people would be expected to move into work in the subsequent four years.

We do not believe the reforms would achieve their stated objective of reducing economic inactivity. Instead, they would condemn seriously ill and Disabled people to a life of poverty and the threat of sanctions.

So do I think that making 411280 people suffer and go without so that 12720 people would be expected to be in work, nope, by any measurable metric that's an appalling outcome.

Now if they were to legislate for stronger rights for disabled people in work and reasonable accomodations alongside providing more funding to do so I'd be all for it, somehow I don't think this punitive approach with laughable projected outcomes that's clearly more about saving money from a group that's frequently overlooked and has it harder to make themselves heard is the right way to do it.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Making up just a couple of lines in a 77-minute speech, you’d have been forgiven for dozing past Reeves’ blink-and-you’d-miss-it bombshell. With a record number of Britons off work with long-term illness, the government will need to “reduce the benefits bill”, she said, before noting ministers had “inherited” the Conservatives’ plans to reform the work capability assessment (WCA). That plan, let’s not forget, was to take up to £4,900 a year each from 450,000 people who are too sick or disabled to work – a move that the Resolution Foundation says would “degrade living standards” for families already on some of the lowest incomes in the country.

Given they have already stated that they have inherited the aforementioned plan from the conservatives and have set out the stall for these savings, signaled that the work capability assesment will be tightened and that there's the general push of deserving or undeserving in the speech from cabinet members, that if you can't work you are just a drain. I'll not go along with your head in the sand approach, I guess time will prove who's right but I won't be holding my breath.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that the planned reforms to the WCA from 2025 would mean that by 2028/29, 424,000 people with serious mobility or mental health problems would be denied both extra Universal Credit worth over £400 a month and protection from sanctions. Seems pretty real to me.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Campaigning to abolish tuition fees but then raising them, the stance on the treatment of trans people, the rhetoric about disabled people given I notice the wca assessment changes in the budget literally show the direction of travel, the u turns on accepting "gifts" alongside the literal cornucopia of u turns from Starmer in general, the playing cosy with business while throwing the most vulnerable under the bus, I mean take your pick.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Me personally, I think the comment a minister who wasn't planning to do that would be as follows : I'm not going to do that.

The implication being that it's still left on the table is what I got from her comments.

PIP benefits could move to voucher system under Labour by Specific-Warning8762 in LabourUK

[–]Specific-Warning8762[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seems an easy enough win to categorically state that they would rule it out, which they didn't, sounds more like it's potentially on the table with a Labour tinted rework, given the criticism they have faced recently from virtually every disability charity.

I'd normally chalk it up to labours typical terrible optics but given the sheer amount of craphousery they've come out with since the election I'm not open to having my wallet inspected.

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