flamingos

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The original reddit sub wasn't wlw specific either, but I can change the display name to "They Were Roommates" if people want.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

It is! I wanted sappho.club, but some bastard is sitting on the domain.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Giving money to millionaires is far from left wing.

  1. It actually is. Universalism is the ultimate left-wing principle, and means testing is in direct opposition of that. The NHS doesn't charge you when it thinks you can afford to pay for it. Don't like giving the rich money? Just tax them more, you'll get it back.
  2. We're not talking about millionaires here, only those that don't qualify for Pension Credit, which you only have to earn over a little over £870 a month to not qualify for. We're not talking about well off people here.
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Trust Farage to find that worst possible response to a tragedy, why let people morn when there's hate to peddle.

he was “grifting” and pointing out that he failed to turn up to Parliament

He's sure making a habit of that.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

https://lemmy.world/c/herfriend@sappho.social

/c/herfriend@sappho.social

Either of those should work.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

Which would also be a weird claim given the state of Linux YouTube.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

Trade union leaders had urged Starmer to abolish the two-child cap when they met at Downing Street on Tuesday, and still he ploughed on. A leader with deeper roots in the institutional ecosystem of the left might have blinked for fear of upsetting such important stakeholders. But not Starmer.

I'm in an interesting position where I had a by-election under Starmer before the general election and the difference in campaigning is stark. In the by-election, the campaigning was all about the Labour MP and their trade union roots and activities, but come the general election, all the campaign material from Labour made it seem like I was voting for a president. It wasn't the Labour candidate asking for my vote, but Keir Starmer asking me to vote for them because he had changed the Labour party and had a plan to change the country.

I say this because I think Starmer and co. have moved fairly dramatically on unions in the last year-ish and I do it'll come back to bite them.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 140 points 1 year ago (3 children)

>watches french thing
>gets mad when it's subversive and weird
???

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Tracheotomy - Fixated Propensity For Distruction (Album)

Assemble the Chariots - Unyielding Night (Album)

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 46 points 1 year ago

The algorithm really did just hit me with this:

"I know what you are" overlayed on a dog with an intensive stare

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago

There was an SNP amendment to the King's Speech to commit the government to scrapping the two-child benefit cap. Seven Labour MPs rebeled and backed the motion and have now been suspended.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Labour had a separate commitment to redefining the categories of self-employed and employee in their "New Deal for Workers".

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