Fluke

Stupid does as stupid is.

I'm autistic. What's your point?

I played the shit out of I-War 2 decades back now... Cracking game that was :D

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j0dgym8w1o.amp

There it is.

Choosing to take from the worst off, to hand it to US based multinationals that already dodge paying their fair share of tax on their UK profits.

The whole established order needs to go, and the fascist "Reform" aren't the answer either.

This is the great filter.

Why isn't there detectable life out there? They all do the same thing we're doing. Undone by greed.

And yet, take a look in any Games Workshop and you're quite likely to find people who will happily go weeks without a shower despite sweating like a pig just hauling their immense bulk across the room for another 2 litre bottle of coke or pepsi.

The nearest store to me for example had to put a fucking sign in the window warning that staff will remove any such sources of offensive body odour from the premises and issue bans on repeat offenses.

I mean, what the fuck?!

It's not the ladies' fault they find such utter lack of basic hygiene repulsive, despite what the Taint brothers and their ilk say, but it's the same basic bitch lie every right wing cockbite sells.

"It's not your fault or mine that your life is a bin fire, it's insert target group here's fault. Here, do what I tell you and it'll get better."

All downhill from believing that "pretty little lie". There is currently a rising tide of people caught up in the lie the world over, and they're unwilling to admit they were had. If history is any teacher, it's got to get waaaay worse before the wind shifts.

Sell it to pay for the transportation fees, then buy a better, less wasteful one wherever you choose to move.

Just how dense is the average American?

You know what, don't answer that. We wouldn't be where we are if the answer wasn't a thoroughly depressing one.

Artificial scarcity in it's barest form.

The fact that even some people think this shit is acceptable is very telling of how far we have yet to go, psychologically speaking, as a species.

Monkeys in fucking trousers.

Without divulging specifics of my medical history (which I'm obviously not doing here), the chances of me not having to go through the tribunal process at my next assessment (for lifelong conditions that never go away) are slim to none. That tribunal process takes over a year now.

I've been through the whole process four times so far. What a complete and utter fucking farce. Each and every time the tribunal has looked at the paperwork with shock, then utter contempt for the DWP for wasting their time and money with obvious shenanigans, before awarding me with what I should have had, plus back pay.

Starmer's "plan" involves more of exactly what the Tories have been doing for decades; making it harder to qualify for PiP by increasing the number of "points" required, (ie. "Lesser" disability no longer qualifies for help, despite it still being a showstopper as far as work is concerned) and changing the wording of the questions (yet again) to prevent some problems ever being asked about.

This is the core of how they're going to "save money". Abandon those disabled and ill that aren't literally crippled and stigmatise them as "just lazy".

All this is doing is kicking the can down the road, and making the national situation worse in the long run.

Genuine, serious question,What is going to happen to everyone they take PIP from?

Do you really think all these people are going to suddenly become employable? Jobs will just pop up for disabled and ill folk and we all sing kumbaya?

To look at it from that greedy prick's neoliberal POV it still makes no sense. That money is being spent on goods and services to make people's lives possible, it's not being sent abroad or stashed in tax havens, it's a not insignificant chunk of what's keeping the fucking economy ticking.

To take that money away is likely going to negatively affect consumer spending, which is going to mean yet more spending cuts, and so on. The Tories have tried this shit for 14 fucking years, how did that work out?

Riiiiiigght.

Be conscripted and die, or fight conscription and die.

Cowards to the last man.

Hard Agree.

I cite my own personal experience.

If I lose my PiP, my partner and I cannot afford to keep the roof over our head, food in the freezer, and the house warm.

The heating will be the first to go. We don't run the heating downstairs as it is usually, to keep the costs down a chunk. That's not going to help either of us physically or mentally, and it will damage the house, which we can't afford to repair.

In order for me to re-enter the workforce, I would need retraining, as I can no longer work in the field I used to. In order to do that, I need to find the money to pay for college, to be able to go to university. University and the loans I would need would be partially based on my disability status. Great, except if I lose my PiP, even if only temporarily, I lose my funding and get booted from Uni.

All of that assumes that someone would even employ a fresh uni graduate who would be nearly 50 by that point.

You see, unless UKgov is actually going to properly rebuild the system (it's not), I am stuck where I am and there is pretty much fuck all I can do about it.

Taking away the money that literally makes the ends meet isn't going to miraculously heal me, train me and make me employable, is it?

What it will do is ensure we bleed out to the point of having to sell the house, and use the proceeds to pay off the mortgage. We'd end up with more money left over than you can have and claim UC, so we'd have to burn that to pay rent till it was gone, then claim UC and this time housing benefit too.

So yeah, great job. It's going to ensure that we end up costing the state even more in the long term. Yep, saving fucking loads with this manoeuvre.

Edit: Also of note; As things stand right now, we can't afford to "go out", we can't afford to travel, we can't afford "nice" food. We have no "life" as it stands, it's not like we're going to lose the Friday steak night or Saturday at the pub, those things went with my ability to work, a long time ago.

Edit 2: The only chance I have to dig myself out of this hole would be to find a way to turn a hobby into a business. The only problem with that is that hobbies cost money too.