splonglo

@splonglo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average private rent in Great Britain falls for first time in five years⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  0.2%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people who don’t know any better would say that poor Jeff innovated the world into a better place by inventing Amazon, that he’s being justly rewarded by the free market.

  But Amazon became so successful because it killed off all of it’s competitors - not through a better service, but using investor capital to artifically lower it’s prices, systematically targeting it’s rivals and taking them over.

  Amazon is so profitable because it has killed the market and replaced it with itself, and the tech giants and uber and so on are doing exactly the same thing.

  So turn it into a co-op, let it’s workers decide if they can piss on the clock or not. Give it’s sellers a say in whether they want to pay 40% markup and hidden fees to get pushed to the top of front page. Amazon abuses workers, businesses and the market - this is a great solution to a problem that everyone ought to have, regardless of politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  how to save money and win elections with this 1 easy trick billionoids don’t want you to know about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nationalising water is free - you just go ‘no it’s mine now’.

  The British empire used to be the world champions of stealing other people’s land and now you’re telling me we have to spend 100 billion buying back our own fucking water supply? From some dick heads who’ve done nothing but dump shit into it constantly while fleecing everyone? It’s an absolutely appropriate response to willful abuse of our national infrastructure. No wonder this parasite industry spends YOUR money to bribe spineless or idiotic politicians like Reed to protect their racket while the British public gets fucked.

  If we just seized these assets back, they would be getting off LIGHTLY for what they have done. It barely goes far enough, they ought to be locked up for this behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only is the ruling wrong - it is the very thing it claims to be opposing. It is itself an act of terrorism, carried out with the intention of inspiring fear in the British public to further a political agenda.

  In every way, the British government is replicating the actions it accuses PA of - except that the scale of harm to British society and the terror inspired is magnitudes greater, and performed in service of the opposite political goal.

  This is a terror attack by the government against the British people.

  The British people’s opinion and will are the thing from which the goverment gains it’s only source of legitimacy - and they do not line up with the government on this issue. But evidently the government believes in a different model of legitimacy: they believe that legitimacy is derived from the mere fact that they hold power. In the mind of the government and it’s supporters, the difference between a terrorist organisation and a legitimate goverment is just power and only power. To them, right and wrong has absolutely nothing to do with it. They think that they are winning, and that they are going to get away with it. Nothing else matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Co-op votes to boycott Israel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK should have an “exit tax” like Australia and Canada. The UK is an international outlier in not charging Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on wealthy people who leave the country⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The rich DO love slurping up all of our money and then living somewhere else where they don’t have to pay any tax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The NHS gave £330 million contract to Palantir to build an NHS data platform. Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  we need to give more money to more companies named after evil objects from LOTR