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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Elected a Labour government, innit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

Very true. Also worth noting that they all won election on the policy of not repealing the limit. It's not like this came out of left field!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I agree with the people here that there aren't any.

The closest to a 'good reason' is that some people want certain policy outcomes that Trump has promised, not all of which are in and of themselves morally wrong. What's wrong is that they believe that the ends justify the means, which they quite famously do not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Real (I assume you mean proven) conspiracies start off as theories.

No, they don't. Conspiracy theories are not 'theories about conspiracies'. You are both misusing the term 'conspiracy theory' and wrongly describing the Tuskegee experiment as a conspiracy, which it never was. One of the people who originally called it out did so after reading about it in a published scientific paper! The pereptrators of that 'experiment' lied to the participants, but they were not otherwise secretive, otherwise they wouldn't have been writing and publishing papers about it.

Fuck off

I'm not going to discuss this further with someone who cannot do so civilly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The Tuskegee Experiment was not a conspiracy theory. So, in that sense you're right.

Conspiracy theories and theorists are homogenous: the flawed thinking is inherent to the concept. Conspiracy theories are untrue by definition, and nothing to do with real conspiracies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We had a few evac chairs, but I think you needed training to use them and I never had the training!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I may have pretended to do this as a joke once or twice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (5 children)

No, it isn't. He's a conspiracy theorist. Voting for him is endorsing conspiracy theorists.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I used to work in a school with disabled kids, so I did a few fire drills.

As other people here have said, there are areas like stairwells where the kids with mobility issues waited (with adults, of course!) during fire alarms. Fire crews would've been told about us and come and got those kids first in the event of an actual emergency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (7 children)

RFK is less coherent than Biden politically and intellectually, which is what matters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (11 children)

OP has given us no info about the candidates they're considering other than RFK, who is a lunatic. There's no merit to encouraging RFK's views, so Biden should be OP's choice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Please explain why it should be given to anyone else.

 

Lots of quotes from business leaders in the announcement, but worth noting that the TUC have also welcomed the new fund.

 

Three possibilities come to mind:

Is there an evolutionary purpose?

Does it arise as a consequence of our mental activities, a sort of side effect of our thinking?

Is it given a priori (something we have to think in order to think at all)?

EDIT: Thanks for all the responses! Just one thing I saw come up a few times I'd like to address: a lot of people are asking 'Why assume this?' The answer is: it's purely rhetorical! That said, I'm happy with a well thought-out 'I dispute the premiss' answer.

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And while the Greens are doing what they do best (opposing green development), the Labour government has already lifted the Tory ban on onshore windfarms.

This is odd, because Labour are the same as the Tories, as we all know, and the Greens are a radical new force. But in this case, Labour are doing the direct opposite of the Tories, while the Greens are doing the same things the Tories did! Most curious.

EDIT: Here's the official government statement confirming this.

EDIT 2: And this isn't all! Rachel Reeves is also planning to do more to make onshore wind simpler to build.

 

The Greens promised to push Labour to be more radical but are instead acting how they always have: pro nimby, anti-environment.

I didn't vote Green, obviously. If I had, I imagine I'd be pretty angry that pretty much their first act having quadrupled their number of MPs was to oppose green development.

 

I'm sure you all know this already but it's now official.

The fourth person ever to lead Labour to a majority. The first person since 1970 to win a majority and overturn a majority at the same time.

 

There are lots of different tactical voting sites and sometimes they disagree on the most effective anti-Tory vote.

Fortunately, someone has built a tool to help you aggregate the different recommendations and make the best possible choice on Thursday!

Of course, spoiler alert, the best anti-Tory vote in most seats in the country is still Labour.

 

~~Sorry for the Twitter link, but I've not seen the video elsewhere.~~

EDIT: Twitter link now replaced, courtesy of [email protected].

Just thought this was really great! It starts off with Rayner talking about how much Brown's policies (like Sure Start and the child tax credit) helped her and her kids, then they move on to talking about how the next Labour government hopes to do the same. Then it finishes with the amazing detail that Rachel Reeves had a Gordon Brown poster on her bedroom wall as a teenager.

 

TL;DR: arguably.

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