“It’ll stop all of those brown people from coming over and most assuredly save us LOADS of money instead of us constantly having to support the rest of those other silly EU countries.” ~ Some Boomer Brit, probably, circa 2019
There was a bloke at work who pretty much said that. And that he wants gold top milk back…
It’s sort of backfired for idiots like that. The care homes and hospitals in my area now have a wider diversity of staff, the people these idiots don’t like the look of. Brexit restricted the supply of the people they like the look of.
A lot of it is cultural and does/will get better in time. But there’s always going to be pockets of these people unfortunately. My wife is from Asia and sadly the verbal racism is mostly from young people. I guess they just find it funny amongst their friends.
Different colour tops for different types of milk. Gold top (cap) was the full fat milk which had cream on the top. Whether it’s true or not I don’t know but he said the EU banned it because of it’s high fat content.
Seagulls are more endangered than people think they are, though (red listed in the UK, population decline of over 50% in the last 40 years), in large part because humans took all their food. I think a fair trade might be that they won’t steal our chips if we don’t steal their fish? You know, rather than pointless animal cruelty. Fuck this dude.
We had an injured one outside my house last summer. Some local kids kicked it to death literally while I was on the phone to the RSPCA to find out if it could be helped. Kids suck.
Herring gulls are LC globally, but are now on the red list for the UK-specific bird conservation list (and amber for Ireland), due to the massive decline in population here. For black-backed gulls, it’s amber and green respectively, so they’re not as badly affected, but their UK population is still in decline. Whether a local population is worth protecting when a species is doing okay globally is a matter of some debate, of course, but I feel we would have lost something as a country if we didn’t have seagulls anymore, regardless of whether the rest of the planet has them or not.
If we weren’t federated with you, you wouldn’t be here.
I don’t need someone to ask me how to moderate my community. Although, I do thank you for breaking my duck.
I was actually hoping this could’ve been the start of a conversation where you’d tell me why to allow your link and restore it. Instead, you’ve tried to circumvent me and apparently brought someone in to upvote your removed comment after it was gone.
You came late to the party, and only upvoted after I pointed out the downvote. The scores are getting kind of meaningless now anyway - moreso than normal, at least.
But yeah, that’s a funky bug I’m quietly aware of. It works on Jerboa as well, and a few others (but maybe not the ones that are merely web wrappers). Seems like the back end API still gives you access to comments that a user has deleted. There’s apparently 3 levels of deletion - user delete, moderator delete, and purge. I found a comment earlier that was deleted, when I looked inside it said *permanently deleted*
but I’m not really willing to allow promotion of their communities.
I didn’t really know anything about Hexbear but I’m intrigued and will check it out now I know it’s getting actively censored. What do you have against it?
We’re a leftist unity (commies and anarchists mostly) community that can be pretty abrasive if you take “being online” too seriously, but otherwise our barks are worse than our bites, heh.
As a rabid homosexual man I’m a little disappointed at the lack of twink self-posting communities on Hexbear. In fact there’s not even a general gay community. I’ll think about it.
You mean Russia, and critically at that, mostly because it serves as a bulwark for China against NATO.
Pootin himself has greatly improved life in Russia and re-nationalized some industries, but he’s also made anti-Lenin remarks in the past and supported an anti-LGBT bill back in 2013.
Yeah? Lmao if you go even slightly past western propaganda you can see that poverty has more than halved on his first tenure as president cuz he followed through with his academic paper on how Russia could recover from the USSR’s dissolution that he wrote the year before, increased the country’s purchasing power by 72%, GDP increased consistently, and he reversed the mass privatizations forced on Russia by the west in the shock “therapy”.
He has an over 75% approval rating and keeps getting elected in Russia for a reason: people have directly felt the massive improvement in quality of life under his presidency. It is decreasing in recent years though so he’s clearly starting to outlive his usefulness.
Half of 100% is still 50% lol. When you compare Russia’s progress with that of the world in general, in line with technological improvements, it becomes clear that Russia has been inhibited by Putin’s policies and is lagging behind.
Thank you for the book reference though. I’ll have to dig to find a version I can access, but I’ll add it to the list of disaster capitalist books I should read to figure out what the villains of the world are doing, alongside those of William Rees-Mogg.
Ooooo go on then, I’ll bite. Seeing as I’m in a safe space here, and don’t have to tread on eggshells to avoid an unhinged moderator carelessly spinning Thor’s banhammer.
US hegemony that’s currently committing a genocide
How is the US committing genocide right now?
Let’s start with some facts - numbered, for your easy reply:
The US have not been killing Palestinians. Israel have. Israel is a separate country to the US, and they do what they like. If anything, it almost seems that the US bends to Israel’s will - so it should be “an Israeli hegemony”. However, in reality, the US is merely an ally of Israel and simply is fulfilling its obligation to protect it from wider conflict. This is their motive, alongside a general incentive to keep international trade flowing for the US’ own economic interests.
The US did not cause the famine in Yemen. It was never a US blockade. The blockade was started by Saudia Arabia in 2015, the US provided assistance as an ally but then left in 2016. Saudia Arabia was always the driving force, and has been the only force since 2016. The famine in Yemen started in late 2016, after the US pulled out.
The US does, of course, supply weapons to their allies. But so do all sorts of other countries - why do you single the US out, specifically? They’re the biggest dog, but the other countries aren’t doing it because the US is doing it, they’re doing it because money.
I’m willing to wager that you’re ready and willing to spin anything into being the US’ fault. The reality is far more nuanced. Your hyperbole does nothing to help the situation - however it does encourage war to keep going and maybe even escalate.
The only people who will benefit from this are those that manufacture and sell weapons. Wouldn’t you know it, most of those people are in the US. Your actions are serving American capitalist war mongerers.
To give more detail, they are tankies who claim a far-left ideology. It’s like lemmygrad but a bit more crazy. But what’s really weird is that they’re very pro LGBTQ+, but at the same time support Russia (who have outlawed being gay).
Hexbear mods are pretty unhinged, in my experience. They ban people for saying anything they disagree with, usually making extraordinary claims in the modlog to justify, which in no way relate to the comment they ban. Don’t you dare suggest that Hamas was wrong to kill Israelis on 7 October, that’s genocide apologia!!
I also wonder if there’s a strong astroturfed element there. Like, they’re trying to sucker people in to an extreme ideology.
Edit: Their modlog can be quite entertaining. It seems like they’ve toned down slightly, but I still didn’t have to go that far to find claims of genocide support.
It also almost seems like they’ve purged their modlogs somewhat, as you see less detail the further you go down - although I expect that’s actually a lemmy bug (I’ve seen similar looking at user profiles). If you look at the modlogs for individual communities you might see more. However, I’d warn you that spending time there simply isn’t good for your soul.
When you roll around with pigs, you’ll both get covered in shit. The difference is the pig likes it. /pig_shitting_png_they_always_post
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