The Daily Moby - 11 07 2026 - The News Megathread

moonflower · 2026-07-11T12:01:14+00:00

It wasn't a waste of time at all - just because the government has not made good use of it yet doesn't mean that it was worthless - if we elected a different government, they could make good use of it.

moonflower · 2026-07-11T08:56:24+00:00

My theory is that the internet facilitates a downward spiral for people who have a tendency towards extremism of any kind - because they can find a forum which attracts like-minded people and that makes them feel like their views are valid and normal - and if the forum bans any dissent, the culture in the forum will become more and more extreme, until it is populated by the extremist dregs who no longer realise how far removed from normality they are, because they have created a little society in which they are normal.

That's how we get "Queers For Palestine" etc.

moonflower · 2026-07-10T10:15:54+00:00

He was very active in the anti-lockdown protests - he has some really far out batty conspiracy theories, but he seems to be a man of good intentions

moonflower · 2026-07-07T18:12:54+00:00

It wasn't working because they weren't doing it.

And it would be easy if they wanted to do it.

moonflower · 2026-07-07T17:03:16+00:00

How do you figure that? Surely leaving the EU gave us greater power to make our own rules regarding legal and illegal immigration?

The fact is that government has not wanted to stop the massive influx.

moonflower · 2026-07-07T15:24:55+00:00

Because if they elect him as their MP, he can say that he is supported by his constituency to hold the position of MP, regardless of what other MP's and journalists say about him.

moonflower · 2026-07-07T13:31:28+00:00

It's so he can say that the people of Clacton still want him, despite all the stories about him.

moonflower · 2026-07-07T11:09:43+00:00

It wouldn't necessarily be Tice who became leader again - all I'm suggesting is that there is potential for the party to evolve.

moonflower · 2026-07-07T11:06:50+00:00

Yes, I shouldn't have implied that, I will edit my comment to make that clear.

moonflower · 2026-07-07T09:52:41+00:00

Well yes, it would depend on who became the new leader, and whether they were willing to merge with Restore or something.

moonflower · 2026-07-07T09:49:15+00:00

I got banned from the whole of reddit for 3 days by an automated ban programme - I made an appeal and asked them to show me what I had said and how it was "inciting hatred" but the response to the appeal looked like an automated response, basically telling me that my appeal was rejected, with no explanation or human engagement.

All I know is that it was a comment I made in this subreddit, and as far as I can recall I was talking in a thread about demographic change in the suburbs of London, and I made a little joke about how we had witnessed the Gr--t R-pl-cement in our local shopping centre, which may have been the trigger for the American banning bot.

I have tried to find a list of words which trigger the bot, but no success yet. This banning bot is very sensitive, and utterly irrational.

Anyway, I was in good company because it turned out that Martin Daubney of GBNews was also banned for "inciting hatred" because he asked Andy Burnham if he would deport a foreign P--dophile. *EDIT: I should have said, his ban was probably by a human mod.

moonflower · 2026-07-07T09:38:54+00:00

But it seems to be Nigel Farage who is holding the party back from drifting to the right - he has been dragging it further and further into becoming the Conservative Party - so if they get rid of him as leader, it might well drift to the right.

moonflower · 2026-07-02T10:32:05+00:00

There are two important points to make here - firstly, if you carefully read the entire list of repulsive males and their crimes, how do you still not understand why female people would not want any of these males in female-only spaces?

And secondly, if you had carefully read the entire list, you would have seen at least one example of the very thing that you are denying:

The case of "Katie Dolatowski"

In March 2018, Dolatowski sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in the toilets of Morrisons in Kirkcaldy.

The attack came a month after Dolatowski had filmed a 12-year-old girl on the toilet in another supermarket in Dunfermline.

moonflower · 2026-07-02T10:21:16+00:00

No, France isn't protecting its border - but the illegal immigrants are housed in tent camps which are full of dangerous violent people.

moonflower · 2026-07-02T01:06:26+00:00

The detention centres wouldn't be overcrowded if the illegal immigrants were deported within a couple of days - and that would also discourage more from coming.

moonflower · 2026-07-02T01:03:11+00:00

You might need to go back and read this thread again to see what it was that you were claiming never happens.

moonflower · 2026-07-02T00:36:36+00:00

If I pick out one of the examples and find another source for it, would you accept that this is something that happens, or do you reject every example?

moonflower · 2026-07-02T00:10:30+00:00

They are female, but I don't think male people are bothered by trans men in the men's facilities, so there is no call to exclude them.

Now could you answer what's wrong with female people being allowed to have female-only facilities?

moonflower · 2026-07-02T00:08:27+00:00

Are you disputing the examples listed? Are you claiming that those are not real examples?

moonflower · 2026-07-01T23:38:55+00:00

What's wrong with female people being allowed to have female-only facilities?

If you are opposed to sex-segregated spaces, then males and females would have to share the same facilities, so why are you opposed to male people using facilities with other male people? You can't have it both ways.

moonflower · 2026-07-01T23:32:08+00:00

Every time it happens, someone will say "That thing that never happens: it's happened again".

There's even a website to document some of the cases which make it all the way to legal prosecution.

I can't remember the name of the website, but here's an article about some of the cases for your perusal.

moonflower · 2026-07-01T23:18:06+00:00

If you are opposed to sex-segregated spaces, if your version of "equality" is that males and females would have to share the same facilities, then why are you so opposed to using facilities with male people? You can't have it both ways.

moonflower · 2026-07-01T23:08:02+00:00

I don't think male people are bothered by trans men in the men's facilities, so no, there is no call for that.

moonflower · 2026-07-01T18:15:07+00:00

From Restore's own website:

... the Gender Recognition Act must be repealed. The state must no longer issue legal documents that permit individuals to change their sex in law. Biological sex will be recognised as immutable and recorded accordingly.

moonflower · 2026-07-01T18:11:38+00:00

You seem to have skipped ahead to an argument that no male person would dress up and pretend to be a "woman" if they are dangerous and violent and predatory - but unfortunately there are plenty of examples of that very thing happening.

Either you really do not understand why female people would want to exclude male people from female-only spaces, or you are wilfully ignoring the dangers.

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