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[–] undergroundoverground 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised. A barrister is, traditionally, who you would hire to represent you, specifically within a higher court, when it sounds like all you needed to do was chat to the duty solicitor for free.

What a mix up. It sounds like your dad really screwed you over there. You must've been very cross when you found out

[–] undergroundoverground 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

Sorry, I mean, instead of a solicitor?

[–] undergroundoverground 3 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

Wow that really does make the UK sound like a police state. If you don't mind me asking, why did you have to hire a barrister?

[–] undergroundoverground 21 points 11 hours ago

Capital will always side with the far right and the far right will always mobilise on their behalf.

Fascism is just capitalism when you try to say no. I mean that literally too. Fascism rose as a direct response to socialism (people trying to say no to capitalism). In Europe, wealthy landowners and the aristocracy funded and empowered these groups, terrified that they might lose their power. The CIA have been finding far right groups all over the world for decades too.

Despite what they tell you, at its heart, the far right ideology is corporatism: a corporate state (the true antithesis of lefism is privately owning the means of production and the community, as a whole). After all, what's more top-down, ubermen watching over the lowers, ruthless, "traditional" value, established power, amoral, consumed with greed and the will to dominate than a corporation, left with no oversight?

[–] undergroundoverground 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You feel better now?

[–] undergroundoverground 22 points 12 hours ago

The real extensions were the ones we shared in the comments section

[–] undergroundoverground 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

And it'll happen to you one day too

[–] undergroundoverground 24 points 18 hours ago

*Invasion --------> liberate

We already have that one. It's true too. They'll liberate you back into the stone ages. They'll liberate you so hard, your great grandchildren will still feel the pain of it.

[–] undergroundoverground 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Why does the proletariat, the largest class, not simply eat the bougouise?

[–] undergroundoverground 1 points 19 hours ago

More so, we can replicate those diets and not see anything like the changes people claim come from just changing the diet.

The answer is and has always been "we're all forced to work ourselves into early graves." We can replicate everything except not working 80% of you adult awake hours, to be allowed to live.

As a culture, we just don't have the courage to deal with that.

[–] undergroundoverground 3 points 19 hours ago

Essentially yes but it's not the underlying cause, as it wouldn't also be true in places with free at the point of use healthcare.

The group "women who own horses" will, on average, be wealthier of course. However, it will contain an abnormally large group of people who can afford not to work.

Wealth is the biggest indicator of life expectancy. Adjusting for healthcare costs, the change happens when people earn enough passively to not work or significantly reduce their hours to a very small number.

Imo, the answer is "we're all forced to work ourselves into early graves, unless you can afford to live off of other people working themselves into an early grave for you."

[–] undergroundoverground 2 points 1 day ago

Cant say "I hope you're proud of yourself" without sounding sarcastic too

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