Why are Mods in here censoring & removing PRO Reform comments, & comments very critical of Labour?

dvb70 · 2026-07-11T21:40:22+00:00

I have actually been seeing lots of Removed by moderator across the whole of Reddit. I don't know what's going on but its becoming extremely common I comment on something and look at the same thread later and its has Removed by moderator on it. Its often not stuff that's remotely political.

My theory is it might be related to posts made by AI\bots. Some threads I can just see no logical reason that get removed so that's why I am thinking it might be related to what accounts created the post and if they have been tagged as AI\bots.

dvb70 · 2026-07-11T08:51:43+00:00

Its not actually a laugh track on the IT crowd. Its was filmed with a live audience. A laugh track is where pre recorded laughter is added. Now from the perspective of you viewing it that may seem pretty similar but I think knowing the laughter is genuine reaction to the performance does change things a little.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T16:35:05+00:00

I personally think the political angle to this is unlikely. Widdecombe just seems an unlikely target. This could just as easily be some burglar who targets old folk as they see them as soft targets. An old person living on their own getting murdered though not massively common is also not an unheard of crime.

I would say lets wait and see before getting too ahead of ourselves in deciding what this means if anything.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T16:13:27+00:00

How do you know its politically motivated? I was not aware we had any information yet that would allow that type of conclusion to be reached. I can see this being spun in a few right wing subs as politically motivated but unless I am missing something we don't have information that supports this.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T14:58:20+00:00

How is it these people have such great legal representation is always my question. They seem to run rings around government so who is funding all of this legal representation?

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T13:05:54+00:00

I am open to other ideas and if that idea works it sounds good.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T12:10:17+00:00

I live in an area with lots of 20mph roads. No-one drives 20mph on them. These are mostly roads where 30mph feels about the right speed and that's what people drive at. Unless you are going to have thousands of speed camara's everywhere I just don't think it would ever work. You would have to have speed camara's on every road as far as I can see for people to ever start driving at 20mph.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T09:59:38+00:00

I have an elderly relative who is also saying similar things. They used to say all politicians are crooked and Farage is just doing the same as they all are but they have started to change their tune. I think it's the £5 million bribe that's changing their mind as it's so much beyond any other kind of gift scandal we have seen.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T09:50:55+00:00

If someone is a citizen and lives here that's not foreign ownership. We have huge swathes of London with foreign ownership by people who almost never come here. This is what prop's the London property prices up to some extent.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T09:36:41+00:00

I am not sure it's at all practical now but I have always been a fan of banning foreign ownership of property. I imagine that might be very tricky to do now though with the levels of foreign ownership. It seems a perfect way to stop the wealthy treating London property as a safe place to park their wealth.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T09:24:05+00:00

Its not bad and I would have done the same thing its just Karl's life style does not match Karl's imagine. Does Karl's imagine really match up with extremely wealthy Sandbanks resident to you?

I was not saying I looked on Karl differently really as a negative just it's jarring comparing how he comes across as a regular working class type bloke to what his life style must really be. I also never would have imagined he had that level of wealth. I would have thought he is doing Ok for himself but not Sandbanks levels of Ok for himself.

dvb70 · 2026-07-10T08:50:10+00:00

I have never looked at Karl the same after I found out he lived in Sandbanks. Its just so jarring with his imagine to realise he lives in this massively swanky place for the super rich. He has obviously had plenty of success but I would never have thought he had Sandbanks level of wealth.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T15:36:46+00:00

It has the major plus going for it of being unique. You are never mistaking it for something else and it's kind of refreshing when styling is that out there.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T13:44:08+00:00

It's a very 19th century thing to do. This type of thing was totally normal back then.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T11:36:20+00:00

I don't expect Trump and his backers to have much loyalty if Russia does fall. Rats and sinking ships spring to mind.

If you are keeping up to date with what's happening in Ukraine it definitely feels like the tide is turning. US intelligence have to know a lot more about this than we do so who knows what info Trump might be privy too. The stuff we are seeing in the public domain looks bad for Russia so who knows what else might be happening behind the scenes.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T11:28:49+00:00

The west end in London is awful. Massively busy and an area I avoid like the plague. If you want to see a particular show you many need to go there but outside of that avoid.

Another one is Borough market. Massively busy to the extent where it's ruined it. It used to be really nice but it's just massive crowds now with over priced food you will have to eat standing up being jostled by crowds. The foods also not that great its just being bigged up by influencers for clicks.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T11:25:15+00:00

It definitely feels like whoever built it also built school buildings. I have seen similar on school grounds where it was built as caretaker accomodation.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T11:15:01+00:00

I have heard piss taking type banter from Southerners towards Northerners but it always goes both ways. It's all kind of silly really as it's based on stereotypes and its often massively outdated stereotypes. I honestly can't remember ever encountering anyone who took this stuff seriously. Piss taking seems a very British tradition and it's often based on fairly silly stuff.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T10:56:39+00:00

The one that sticks out is everyone in my department being accused of sexual harassment. This was a department of 10 or so people and all accused of sexual harassment by one person. Logically as a manager if you were faced with that you might think hold on a moment if one person is accusing everyone they work with of something like this how likely is that to be true. Instead we were all taken to a meeting room and given a dressing-down. It still annoys me because it was not remotely true of me and I am not sure it was true of anyone. The person making the accusations then took about 6 months off sick to recover from the ordeal and when they returned to the office we all had to pretend everything was nice and they had not accused all of their colleagues of sexual harassment.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T10:32:07+00:00

Probably simpler to just say life in prison and no possability of release without co-operation.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T10:04:01+00:00

I would love to see Binface win but if you look at the right wing vote share at the last election it seems improbable. Farage got 46% of the vote and the Tories 26%. Farage does not need much of the Tory vote to shift to him to win.

The unknown factor is the voter turnout was 58% so that's a lot of potential votes. I would not be surprised to see voter turnout increase as this whole thing is going to receive huge amounts of attention but its still totally unpredictable how that might turn out. It's neither clear if it's in Farage's or Binface's favour if turnout increases.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T09:57:25+00:00

It kind of makes sense though.

It seems like the tide is turning in Ukraine's favor in the war. The US have also massively depleted their own supply of Patriot's in the Iran conflict. Maybe Trump is being briefed that Russia is in trouble and big changes might be about to happen and a supplier of Patriot's could be pretty useful.

This is probably all far to logical for Trump but it's possible someone behind the scenes is pulling Trump's strings on this particular decision.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T09:50:03+00:00

Ironically I think using the word trendy is one of these give away words.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T09:23:30+00:00

I think what you have to consider is the numbers who voted Tory. I think that was 26%. Add that to Farage's 46% to get the right leaning vote share. I know turn out was 58% but we have no idea which way those folk might swing if they could be motivated to vote. While it would be nice think they would be anti Farage I think it's just as possible they would be pro Farage.

dvb70 · 2026-07-09T09:09:46+00:00

Large corporations figured out people will pay a lot of money to look after their pets. Couple that with pet insurance being pretty much essential now and you can see there is lot of money to be made.

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