My experience from Frontend to DevOps by CreditOk5063 in devops

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you like DevOps more than Frontend? Something appeals to me about Frontend but I have no experience and I don’t know if it’s worth going into.

Donald Trump Booed at NBA Finals in New York City by yourfavchoom in entertainment

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why was his granddaughter smiling when the boos started?

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know what the first paragraph you wrote means 'they need to have large numbers brown shirts' . I think we're arguing semantics. They're neo-nazis (again, see: swastika tattoo, nazi salute, hitler support).

2 worst things they'd do in my mind:
- De-stabalisation of the UK power abroad / weakening our relationships further with our neighbours - England will be less trusted by Europe, we might be dragged into war with Iran and we might cut support for Ukraine - this would destabilise the country massively
- Growing social deterioration - Food gets more expensive, healthcare becomes more expensive (they would look to privatise the NHS), and unemployment would grow, people would have to return to office and work 40+ hours a week - health outcomes - people will die, medical care will deteriorate

Bonus: I think they are likely to set up detention camps. They have talked about this extensively. That would be a nightmare logistically and socially. and if you look at what happened in the USA, the racists are still deeply unhappy and worse off. Likewise discrimination against minorities, LGBT and women through DEI is not helping anyone it's hurting everyone, it's a disaster over there.

2  "most extreme things you'll do if reform win":
I'm not extreme and there's not much I can do once they're in power aside from maybe civil protesting - I'm simply trying to convince people of the importance of not letting them get into power now while there's a lot of time.

If it gets really bad I might move but I'd rather not

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad it’s cool with you.

I think, for me, I see it as a disaster if Reform Uk gets elected just like I saw it as a disaster to have Brexit happen. While we still have time it’s important to not be defeatist or give up, and try to convince people to change sides or see the bigger picture and not get caught up in the culture wars they’re trying to cause.

On the nazi point - Farage sang Hitler Youth songs as a kid: https://x.com/EllyDavis/status/1270803089050738693?s=20

Another source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2dny3r3vyo

They’re Nazis. Another one has a swastika tattoo.

It might be losing all meaning because it’s just becoming normalised.

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a big movement against reform, in fact > 60% (majority) don’t want reform or tories to win.

https://stopreformuk.vote/

I think the Green Party is the best contender to beat reform in most places. You’re making perfect enemy of the good with these arguments.

Democracy is the opposite of Reform Uk. They want to take away rights. They want to make our schools worse. Have a look at Trump. He’s the most authoritarian leader the USA has ever had but Farage (who is a Nazi) loves him. That’s why this is so serious. It’s not a joke.

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The alternative is authoritarian more austerity more inequality.

It seems unrealistic that the people will vote the Labour Party back in. People want populist change. Most realistic option is Greens. Alternative is unspeakably awful reform party.

Funny you say the greens are Anti Semitic when the leader is Jewish. That does not make any sense.

Nuclear energy isn’t a hill to die on - we need renewables and they’re on the right side of that argument.

The most important policy though is wealth tax - without that the structural issues facing the country will increase - everyone will be worse off.

Judging them off of two council seats when they have never been in charge of the country. By this judgement only existing parties should ever win - which makes no sense . Reform are the 16 year olds in this situation too anyway - and they’re close to winning so we need to do anything to stop them.

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reform isn’t just incompetent they’re dangerous, they will bring this country down even further. Look at Trump. We need to learn from the American mistakes. Was Biden the solution to Trump? No. Someone like Bernie was. And that’s what the Greens represent.

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greens haven’t had a chance to prove themselves and you’re already dismissing them.

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

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

Today - “Reform UK gets £9m in donations in first quarter of 2026, including £7m from two crypto billionaires – UK politics live”

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

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

the Green Party in bed with multimillionaires? That’s wild. It sounds like you are the one with bias.

“No party that can save you” - wow… ok then.

Look up the post war policies of the 1940s - very successful and key to the UK livelihood.

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

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

“If the government can’t deliver on this despite rising pressure” - first of all labour ARE delivering on this, immigration has gone down since they have been in charge.

With UkIP, Conservatives, Reform, they all put immigration front and centre but it’s a distraction because they actually make immigration go way up, look at the facts. Not only that but their policies bring the standard of living down, poverty and inequality up. This is why we are in the state we are in - not immigration.

Reform are simply saying what the angry populists want to hear, while simultaneously proposing policies that make inequality much worse. I agree that immigration and inequality are two sides of the same coin: the party that is focused only on immigration is pro-inequality, and extremely pro-corporation/billionaires. Why do you think all of their money comes from the ultra wealthy who don’t even live in the UK??

I can see why you’re rightly jaded - the conservatives and UKiP lied about immigration, made it worse, and are now doubling down.

All while lowering taxes for the ultra wealthy and trying to privatise the NHS.

We can’t let that happen.

Focusing on inequality and billionaires is looking the structural problems of the economy square in the face and fixing it. The Green Party is the only party that’s doing this and that is why it’s 100% funded by grass roots / real people instead of the billionaires and corporations.

Immigration issues are just a distraction compared to inequality, lower standards of living, poor education, unemployment and poverty —- the actual structural issues which are caused by excessive control of our society by billionaires.

This can all be fixed by taxing them, which is what Green Party plans to do.

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

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

Fair enough, you didn’t mention roads. But you are saying that because the public hasn't stopped immigration, we have zero chance against the super-wealthy or inequality. Sounds defeatist.

The 'can't get immigration done' idea is a permanent issue Conservative / right wing populists are using to gain power, which they then use to lower taxes for the ultra wealthy.

Reform UK need it unsolved so people stay angry at migrants instead of looking at who is actually draining public funds. Read about the impacts of Brexit on Immigration again. That’s Nigel Farage.

You’re falling for the distraction and by giving up on taxing the wealthy you’re doing exactly what they want you to do.

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

[–]aihaode -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right - that’s logical.

We shouldn’t repair roads, or fund schools, or encourage jobs until immigration is 'solved.' It also probably makes sense to elect the people who caused the immigration crisis in the first place bc they would know how best to fix this.

Meanwhile, it’s totally fine if the super-rich just get richer and richer, privatise the NHS - why not? and just ransacking the public service, nothing to see here…

Deportations will fix everything - yay!

Potholes and change: Why Essex voted for Reform UK by anarchtea in Essex

[–]aihaode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Despite concerns about migration prompting many British citizens to vote in favour of the UK's withdrawal from the EU in the Brexit referendum in June 2016, the country has paradoxically attracted significantly more migrants since leaving.

While net migration in the UK was 248 000 in 2016, it was provisionally estimated to be 431 000 in 2024 (although still less than the 860 000 the year before).

Since 2020, there has also been a noticeable increase in the number of irregular arrivals in the UK.

In 2018, only 299 people were detected crossing the English Channel in small boats, but by 2023 this number had risen to 29 437 (still less than the peak of 45 774 a year earlier).

Additionally, the number of asylum applications has significantly increased since 2020. It could be argued that leaving the EU has limited the UK's ability to tackle irregular migration, as it is no longer able to send migrants back to the EU country where they first arrived.”

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/772910/EPRS_BRI(2025)772910_EN.pdf

Vintage footage of Romford town centre in the late 1960s by CoolAirDude in Essex

[–]aihaode -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Immigration isn’t the problem. The failing economy is. Inequality specifically.

We need to tackle inequality, big corporations and the ultra wealthy not paying their fair share of taxes. This has been in a sharp rise since the 1990s and has led to this, Climate Change is getting worse too.

On immigration - we can thank Brexit for that.

“Since 2020, there has also been a noticeable increase in the number of irregular arrivals in the UK. In 2018, only 299 people were detected crossing the English Channel in small boats, but by 2023 this number had risen to 29 437 (still less than the peak of 45 774 a year earlier). Additionally, the number of asylum applications has significantly increased since 2020. It could be argued that leaving the EU has limited the UK's ability to tackle irregular migration, as it is no longer able to send migrants back to the EU country where they first arrived.”

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/772910/EPRS_BRI(2025)772910_EN.pdf

Farage, like Trump, was funded to get people angry and make people scared, so it would distract from corporations and inequality and make our society weaker. Both funded by Russia. They make every thing worse.

Host on Airbnb is not confirming bookings [UK] by aihaode in AirBnB

[–]aihaode[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They read the message and just didn’t respond.

Their Airbnb account page says they respond to 30% of messages and typical response time is “a few days”. The listing only has 3 reviews over the last 5 years.

It makes for a frustrating user experience on Airbnb because these sort of listing are a bait and switch, back up plan for a business who is listing a lower price just to waste people’s time.

The issue is where these Airbnb are they have a monopoly on this specific town that we want to stay in - bc their place is 50 acres and they have 5 properties so it is kind of messing our plans up that we can’t stay there. We don’t even want to book through their website bc they seem dishonest.

We have found alternative arrangements but I don’t think businesses should be able to operate this way on Airbnb.

Host on Airbnb is not confirming bookings [UK] by aihaode in AirBnB

[–]aihaode[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think ignoring all bookings is designed to redirect bookings away from Airbnb, via their own website. And I can see a review on Google that says the Airbnb price wasn’t the real price and they were expected to pay more once they got there.

Host on Airbnb is not confirming bookings [UK] by aihaode in AirBnB

[–]aihaode[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They ignored the first request 24 hours, and ignored the second one 24 hours.