fountain Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 I’m honestly so sick of living here. It’s like they literally are just trying to make it as inhabitable as possible for people. Well, it pretty much is if you’re not a white cis straight middle class man. Everything’s corrupt. It’s just ******* ridiculous.
Fevesy Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 So embarrassing from the Tories and Labour. One thing Scots hate is the UK (England) tell them what to do. The only positive is that I’ve never heard trans rights discussed so much in casual conversation until yesterday. Usually I split my vote for SNP in the Scottish elections and Labour in the UK elections but let me just go full SNP from here on out.
fountain Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 I have no faith in the future of this country
wraith Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 (edited) Well there we have it. I am truly ******* done with Labour. Just Tories in red. Edited January 17, 2023 by wraith
tbhmatt Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 This country has been moving backwards for the past 10+ years. We have become such an intolerant country. The amount of bigoted views, language and rhetoric that are being used by our politicians has reached new levels in the past few years. We DESPERATELY need a radical upheaval of our political class and systems. We need real change. Blah. I am beginning to despise this country.
Marla Singer Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 It's pathetic to see Labour pandering to Brexit voters, TERFs, racists and bigots because they think they can win by poaching voters from the Tories.
Scars Posted January 26, 2023 Posted January 26, 2023 It's truly disturbing how the UK has basically become a TERF island at this point.
C_Colstead Posted January 29, 2023 Posted January 29, 2023 So, Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked by Rishi Sunak for a "serious breach" of the Ministerial Code regarding his tax affairs. It begs the question - if breaching the Ministerial Code is now a sackable offence... why did Sunak reinstate Suella Braverman literally days after she was found to have broken the very same Code?
Robert Posted February 5, 2023 Posted February 5, 2023 Not lettuce Liz rising from the dead (her LWYMMD era).
Marla Singer Posted February 5, 2023 Posted February 5, 2023 Not this clown trying to launch a comeback era. The complete lack of shame.
Robert Posted February 5, 2023 Posted February 5, 2023 7 hours ago, Gwendolyn said: I need her and the Tories GONE. When is the next election? No date set but it should be 2024 or Jan 2025 at the latest. I have no faith in Labour anymore though.
ClashAndBurn Posted February 17, 2023 Posted February 17, 2023 r/UnitedKingdom banning the entire topic of "Transgender" because people can't behave themselves in that subreddit and stop being hateful towards Trans people.
Diarrhoea Posted February 18, 2023 Author Posted February 18, 2023 16 hours ago, ClashAndBurn said: r/UnitedKingdom banning the entire topic of "Transgender" because people can't behave themselves in that subreddit and stop being hateful towards Trans people. I'm glad they revoked that rule when they saw the backlash but it shouldn't have been implemented in the first place. I don't like seeing transphobic comments and I've talked about better ways of tackling these in various places (including here) but the absolute worst thing to do is say that, as moderators, they can't be bothered to moderate out transphobic views and ban all discussion on the matter to shift the burden off of themselves and ignore the actual issues facing trans people. I remember r/LabourUK tried this more informally last year and it didn't work either.
ClashAndBurn Posted February 18, 2023 Posted February 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Diarrhoea said: I'm glad they revoked that rule when they saw the backlash but it shouldn't have been implemented in the first place. I don't like seeing transphobic comments and I've talked about better ways of tackling these in various places (including here) but the absolute worst thing to do is say that, as moderators, they can't be bothered to moderate out transphobic views and ban all discussion on the matter to shift the burden off of themselves and ignore the actual issues facing trans people. I remember r/LabourUK tried this more informally last year and it didn't work either. I don’t think it’s they can’t be bothered to care. I think the transphobia in UK subreddits has just been so voluminous that they can’t handle it all when they’re basically unpaid interns. Invisiblizing the issue definitely isn’t a solution though, and I’m glad there was pushback for their trying to follow the path of least resistance. They just need to be more willing to hand out bans and the problem should be able to sort itself. Subs like r/politics are soooo much more heavy-handed and trigger happy with their bans, they give you permabans for stupid **** while have no prior offense.
Diarrhoea Posted February 18, 2023 Author Posted February 18, 2023 8 hours ago, ClashAndBurn said: I don’t think it’s they can’t be bothered to care. I think the transphobia in UK subreddits has just been so voluminous that they can’t handle it all when they’re basically unpaid interns. Invisiblizing the issue definitely isn’t a solution though, and I’m glad there was pushback for their trying to follow the path of least resistance. They just need to be more willing to hand out bans and the problem should be able to sort itself. Subs like r/politics are soooo much more heavy-handed and trigger happy with their bans, they give you permabans for stupid **** while have no prior offense. I agree that they're not transphobic in that sense (as a whole based on their post about it, anyway) but there's such a privilege in someone's response being 'well let's just ban talk about trans issues!', especially in the context being about a trans girl being murdered, that I've learnt to not see much space in the outcome between the two I agree that the discourse is a lot (TERF Island) but no one is forced to be a moderator if they don't want to moderate the community they signed up for and nobody is stopping them from accepting more moderators if the community requires it.
Fevesy Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 Bernie spilled. However, I am fearful that since Sturgeon is resigning the SNP will start to fall and so will any hope for independence. She has been at the forefront for so long now, first as Deputy FM and now as FM. In fact, she's been a pillar in Scottish politics since I was a kid. People really don't know the 3 candidates for the leadership except for Humza (who I think will win) and his reputation isn't exactly... great because of the dumb scandal with Rangers and that fake video. I've been having conversations about the leadership race with people.. I live in Glasgow and ******* football impacts politics a massive amount. The number of people I know at my job who couldn't give me a reason for voting to remain in the referendum and it was so clear it was because of the football team they support. They said they would vote for Scottish Tories if Humza gets elected just because of the scandal with Rangers.. like the idiocy.
Diarrhoea Posted February 27, 2023 Author Posted February 27, 2023 2 hours ago, Fevesy said: Bernie spilled. However, I am fearful that since Sturgeon is resigning the SNP will start to fall and so will any hope for independence. She has been at the forefront for so long now, first as Deputy FM and now as FM. In fact, she's been a pillar in Scottish politics since I was a kid. People really don't know the 3 candidates for the leadership except for Humza (who I think will win) and his reputation isn't exactly... great because of the dumb scandal with Rangers and that fake video. I've been having conversations about the leadership race with people.. I live in Glasgow and ******* football impacts politics a massive amount. The number of people I know at my job who couldn't give me a reason for voting to remain in the referendum and it was so clear it was because of the football team they support. They said they would vote for Scottish Tories if Humza gets elected just because of the scandal with Rangers.. like the idiocy. It's very depressing seeing nominally-left people call him an "anti-white racist" for pointing out there is not a single senior member of the Scottish justice system right after George Floyd died. I feel like if you can't point out something so obvious with that as your background for why it's important then it really proves his point more than anything
Fevesy Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Diarrhoea said: It's very depressing seeing nominally-left people call him an "anti-white racist" for pointing out there is not a single senior member of the Scottish justice system right after George Floyd died. I feel like if you can't point out something so obvious with that as your background for why it's important then it really proves his point more than anything Yeah, I have seen those attacks on him in the last week calling him anti-white and even from SNP supporters. The video they love to use isn't even bad and he didn't say anything wrong. Like use your brains for once - Ash Regan is giving TERF and Kate Forbes belongs in the Tory party. He's your best option. He's the only one of the 3 who supports the GRA With Sunak as PM and Hamza as the likely FM the racism is gonna be out in full force and people are gonna expose themselves quickly. Edited February 27, 2023 by Fevesy
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