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wasn’t sexual but indeed very sexy in style.

Those characters have child-like facial proportions. 🧐

Name an alternative browser that has the same level of ability to block trackers built in.

Like the kind of political YouTuber that doesn’t actually know what they’re talking about.

That’s pretty accurate. She claims to be left wing, and a fan of Bernie Sanders but she frequently repeats alt-right talking points and conspiracy theories. She does a lot of that thing that a lot of right-wing online personalities do in paying lip service towards being a centrist “I MaKe FuN oF bOtH sIdEs”, but really ending up making the right look far more reasonable than the left the majority of the time. She’s also good friends with the conservative pick-me YouTuber Blaire White.

She became popular around the time of gamergate largely (imo) because she says a lot of the things those types like — makes a lot of videos ridiculing feminists etc — and is a somewhat conventionally attractive woman. So gamers^TM can convince themselves they don’t hate all women and all women don’t hate them because here’s one who agrees with them and “she [supposedly] isn’t even right wing”.

Non paywall version?

Meanwhile, the government can only offer a _poultry paltry 6% pay increase to junior doctors.

Now do that for every single company.

The answer is that 1. They’re privatised but 2. They’re effectively monopolies. The argument for privatisation is basically that private companies need to innovate and keep prices low in order to compete in the free market against rival companies providing the same service/product — in practice though unlike something like electricity (which I also think should be renationalised) you don’t actually get to choose which company supplies water to your home, it’s just based on where you live and there’s only one option, so soon each catchment the water companies don’t actually have any competition.

They don’t need to innovate because the consumers don’t have the ability to switch to another supplier (unless they want to be moving house constantly), equally they have no incentive to keep their prices low.

So they’re effectively the worst of both worlds. If they’re going to be private sector you might as well do it properly by creating actually competition, otherwise just make them public sector.

I’ll stop using ad block when YouTube stops making me watch an advert at the beginning of the video and then two unskippable ads one minute into the video.

Could be good could be bad. We do need more homes, some people genuinely don’t want the responsibility of owning a home and John Lewis is a relatively ethically run company (I think it’s owned by the employees).

Maybe they should just sell the homes instead, but if they were to rent them out at an affordable rate that also could be quite good.

Let me guess… They’ll be punished with a fine? Fines aren’t punishments to big companies, they are just the cost of doing business! When companies do crimes the board members need to be locked up! and not for like a week/month, for like several years with no opportunity to get out early due to being rich!

The energy prices is different and separate problem, almost entirely caused by the privatisation of power production and distribution by Thatcher’s conservative government in the 80s. We could solve that problem by re-nationalising them.

Finally some good policies from Starmer’s Labour party. (He’s clearly trying to steal the Green party voters, but if he can get those things done then it doesn’t matter which party did them).

We have the technology, it already exists and is in many cases clearly superior in terms of efficiency and running cost to the non-renewable method. It just needs to be built, and he’s correct that NIMBY councils are one of the biggest reasons why it hasn’t been built yet.

I’m not exclusively talking about the USA. I live in the UK myself and I still think that most religious people are somewhat conservative. Doing charity doesn’t make you not right wing, in fact some would argue that charity is a right wing concept because right wingers believe that things like feeding the homeless should be done by charitable individuals and organisations, rather than it being something that the government should be fixing (like many left-wing people believe).

There are many different flavours of conservatism, not all of them are rabid screaming morons who publicly admit to their bigotry, many are much quieter and subtle.

The vast majority of religious people are ideologically conservative though.

No-one said he is a Nazi, just that he’s a fascist. There are multiple different flavours of fascism – it isn’t all literally shooting people in the head and ordering thousands of people into death camps, it can be more subtle and insidious than that.

Also worth mentioning that fascism generally doesn’t start with the ethnic cleansing and mass murder, it starts with things like; scapegoating minorities, being overly tough on crime, and peddling misinformation. It takes quite a few years for the fascists to gain enough power to be able to enact the kind of policies that are generally pretty unpopular among normal people.