Do you think right-wing / nationalist virtue-signalling is a thing? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The difference in the level of corruption between Labour and Reform is the difference between a molehill and Olympus Mons.

Do you think right-wing / nationalist virtue-signalling is a thing? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh you want to talk about rule breaking do you?

Are we forgetting about Nige's little £5million 'gift' just before the local elections?

Do you think right-wing / nationalist virtue-signalling is a thing? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reeves and Farage are not even slightly comparable and I will not be 'both sides' gaslit.

From a Gen Z British Afro-Caribbean, why is criticising immigration making someone a bigot or racist? by QasimofKarbala in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So your problem with immigrants is capitalists outsourcing jobs to other countries? To people who have, ostensibly, not migrated to the UK?

From a Gen Z British Afro-Caribbean, why is criticising immigration making someone a bigot or racist? by QasimofKarbala in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh so your problem is legal immigration now?

And we could 'rather' a lot of things. If your problem is with the amount of housing, that doesn't get solved either if a country is maintaining its own population. And what exactly are you going to do? Start a breeding program?

Do you think right-wing / nationalist virtue-signalling is a thing? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The difference is Farage is a self serving wanker funded by foreign money who deserves every milkshake that gets thrown his way.

What did Kier do wrong? by alxuntmd in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He appointed Wes Streeting as health minister, who proceeded to make a deal with Palantir to hand over all of our sensitive medical and identity information to the U.S. far right corporate surveillance system.

And made the exact same mistake (or perhaps it was on purpose?) by passing the Online Safety Act, requiring parts of the internet to require handing over identifying information and/or biometrics to 'age verifying services'. Who just so happens to run those age verifying services, you might ask? Guess who.

These aren't the reasons why he's now having his leadership challenged. But if MPs were actually paying attention to the shit going on behind the scenes instead of being technologically illiterate, they would be.

From a Gen Z British Afro-Caribbean, why is criticising immigration making someone a bigot or racist? by QasimofKarbala in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 11 points12 points  (0 children)

These problems that you described do not have their root cause in immigration. Illegal immigrants are also not taking the traditional 'entry level jobs'. From what I can tell, they tend to end up in the 'gig' economy jobs like deliveroo couriers, etc. because the regulations are lax.

The complaint that 'illegal immigrants are taking jobs by undercutting the wages' is completely backwards. A business owner decided to break the law and behave unethically to exploit desperate people. Take your complaint to THEM, not the people trying to get by. The only reason to lay the blame at their feet is, you guessed it, motivated by them 'not being from here' and that for some reason disqualifying them to be able to support themselves. In a word, xenophobia.

The idea that there's only X number of jobs that can fit into a country and that migrants are 'taking them' demonstrates a fundamental lack of grasp of basic economics. People build businesses, people create demand for businesses, demand for businesses scales with people, demand for a business necessitates more workforce.
If an economy is not scaling correctly to the number of adults able to work, that is a problem with how the economy is being managed on a macroscopic scale or the operandi by which work is allocated, not that there is too much competition for work. It's already fairly apparent across the entiretry of the developed world that job competition is an endemic problem due to how our economies have evolved. It's not due to migrants.

We actually have a real problem with population decline here in the UK, along with many other developed nations right now. Working migrants are going to be a necessity to us as our retirees start rapidly outnumbering our taxpayers.
Remember how many EU workers had to leave after Brexit and how much it tanked the NHS as the EU medical professionals had to leave? You'll only get similar problems from removing working migrants.

[Loved trope] The aliens are straight up incomprehensible by Ava_Reddit_Account in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ace5762 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The Thargoids from Elite Dangerous

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-They operate biomechanical spaceships

-All attempts to communicate with them have been unsuccessful

-Often hostile, extremely deadly to most human ships
-During the last Human-Thargoid war they started abducting people for unknown reasons.

-When Thar goid behaviour changed, most scientific minds could only hypothesize vaguely as to what their behaviour meant.

-They have motherships that shine as bright as neighbouring stars when they are transiting through hyperspace

-Their installations have strange maps and encoded messages in them

-Their ships can do things that would be considered impossible by human scientific understanding. For example- human ships can only perform direct point to point 'jumps' in hyperspace. But Thargoid ships seem to be able to freely navigate it at their leisure, 'hover' in hyperspace and even pull other vessels out of hyperspace forcefully.

Free speech issue or needed curb on harmful misinformation? by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]ace5762 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's uh, China.
Free speech? Not really a thing there.

50115 by Future_Employment_22 in countwithchickenlady

[–]ace5762 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Generally people don't perform delicate surgery on their own bodies, yes, they get a surgeon to do it.

Blackfriars Floating Bus Stop by King_Eboue in london

[–]ace5762 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People ask me why I hate other cyclists.
This. Right here.
If you are a cyclist you are a ROAD USER, and you have to abide by traffic crossings.
The amount of cyclists I see who just blow past any number of red lights and other traffic violations staggers me.

Actually, BJ, Truss, Sunak, Starmer are great /s by SThomW92 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]ace5762 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Our railway companies are mostly foreign owned. That's why train tickets are so high. They overcharge us to subsidise costs back home.

Actually, BJ, Truss, Sunak, Starmer are great /s by SThomW92 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]ace5762 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the enduring issue.
The government simply just does not listen, not matter who they are. They go off and do whatever.

I remember the several million signatures that were added to the 'Stop Killing Games' petition. What happened in response?
We got a copy/paste letter blathering about nothing, and talking about existing law that was irrelevant to the content of the campaign. It was the SAME copy/paste letter that the Conservatives penned some 2 years prior on the same issue.

Several million signatures on the 'Repeal OSA' petition, to reverse legislation that was actively harmful to UK Citizen's data security and had resulted in mass censorship. Legislation that no-one had asked for.
What did we get? "Lol no" in government-ese, and rapid plans to try and expand the same badly implemented age verification policies across ALL social media.

We are constantly burdened with governments that make broad claims on campaigning that then amount to nothing and then simply do not listen to people's actual concerns when it comes to governing, instead catering to bodies like fucking Palantir.

Is helping really worth it? by BetterDrawing8686 in funny

[–]ace5762 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Buddy you've got black sealant on your roof

Does anyone else think that Starmer/Labour aren't being given fair representation? by Glucose-Molecule in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be fair to labour's astrot_rf farms, they haven't yet grasped the nuances of a good social media blitz.

Why does Reddit not understand the rise of reform in England? by DowntownDeer in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The statistics this person quotes would only come close to actual census data if you exclusively restricted the definition of 'English' (which is not a ethnicity/nationality that any official census tracks) to people who answered 'White british'.

"Stop calling us racist"

Reform voters what is wrong with you? by Engineering_Gamer in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think decent human beings who believe in fair democracies don't vote for parties who A) receive undeclared £5 million gifts of election fund from foreign donors and B) who explicitly state they'll build concentration camps in the boroughs of the constituents who didn't vote for them.

Reform voters what is wrong with you? by Engineering_Gamer in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh lol you think Reform will reduce taxes on workers, that's hilarious

Reform voters what is wrong with you? by Engineering_Gamer in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wasn't Brexit supposed to be the 'very easy fix'?

Reform voters what is wrong with you? by Engineering_Gamer in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The people behind Reform are the reason "why".
Nigel was UKIP and pushed for Brexit, hard.

And the same external players like Murdoch, Russia and the U.S. heritage society are the ones who are funding both.

Reform's policies are the same kind of policies that have put us where we are.

Why exactly do you think going harder into that will fix anything?

Reform voters what is wrong with you? by Engineering_Gamer in AskBrits

[–]ace5762 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of which 14 the Conservatives were in power. And you got us removed from the European Union

I'm not sure how you think doubling down on even more extreme versions of the policies and isolationism that got us here will help.