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Cake day: January 10th, 2021

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  • This is typical of Starmer: an empty vacuous authoritarian solution to an already solved problem.

    It will do nothing to stop undocumented workers from being exploited by unscrupulous employers who will still pay them a pittance in cash but will add to the already massive surveillance state, and with the inevitable mission creep, it will end up being required for innocuous day to day tasks such as getting prescriptions, seeing medical services, possible even things such as purchasing travel or alcohol.

    Then you can imagine what happens if someone ID is deactivated, accidentally or on purpose.

    With future govts, what if one of them wants to prosecute it’s political opponents?

    It’s just the most stupid idea from a guy that is a completely lame duck prime minister


  • And some people can’t pull their head out of their own ass long enough to see that their problems aren’t the same as everyone else’s problems.

    You’re just projecting here.

    I merely pointed out that everything is politics and yet you respond with yet more bleating.

    and their pet issues

    And you respond further by shoving your head further up your own arse.

    Your response being a great case study in how you can do exactly that while also implying that no one else even has problems to begin with.

    Are you trying to make yourself out as the victim here?

    What a fucking crybaby!


  • When can we stop inserting politics into every little thing?

    When I see comments like this, it makes 2 things plainly obvious:

    1. The commentor is naive and doesn’t understand that fundamentally ‘politics’ is the power dynamic in every relationship, be that between people, groups or with structures or things such as food.

    It is in everything and connects everything. It defines your relationship and how you interact with the world and it’s relationship to, and interaction with you.

    1. The commentor has enough privilege that they don’t have to worry about politics/power structures on a daily basis.

    Some people can’t see the wood for the trees








  • Definitely, it’s them playing stupid so centrist liberals will mock them because they can’t help themselves and they use that to say to the genpop “look, I’m just like you and these sneering elites are laughing at me, and by extension you”

    I think the attraction is more that the current system isn’t working for a lot of people and hasn’t been for a long time.

    Exactly. They play the outsider who has the balls but not embroiled in the quagmire, to come and “drain the swamp”

    The perverse hilarity of trump saying this is that he is the 1%, he is the trust fund kid that had everything handed to him on a platter. He literally is the swamp (a corrupt child rapist)

    Farage in the UK went to one of the top schools (Dulwich college) where he was disciplined for singing Hitler youth songs. He got a job in the city through his dad as a commodities broker before going into (disrupting) politics and people seem to believe his shit when he acts like he’s one of the common folk!

    People need their heads banging together falling for that shit!


  • Not quite.

    Farage keeps running around saying “Pick me! Pick me!” and the press keep asking “Is farage a viable candidate?” while not offering the same credence to anyone else.

    The British public are “We’re fucking sick of this bollocks from the establishment” and a lot of them are falling for the privately educated ex city trader Farages nonsense that he’s a “man of the people” because all the centrist parties are saying “aren’t immigrants awful?” in an attempt to distract from their own incompetence and quite frankly, the left is 10 years behind in offering a coherent alternative to all the bullshit.