Lemming421
@Lemming421@lemmy.world
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 day ago:
Rich bastards would still fuck it up.
The guy who invented insulin made it free for all rather then patenting it because it’s literally a life saving medication.
How’s that going in the US?
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 week ago:
Sure, but due to us having the same problems with First Past The Post that the Americans do, we still end up voting against a party rather than for the one we want.
If I’d voted Green in the last election, it wouldn’t have been a vote for Labour, which (at the time) were the only party that had a chance of getting rid of the “safe” Tory in my constituency.
Now that Labour have destroyed any reputation of being “for the people” that they may have had in order to try and sway the Nazis that will vote Reform, they (hopefully) won’t be getting any votes from the left next time.
Hopefully the Greens and the new Corbyn/Sultana party will be sensible in where they field candidates so as not to split that voter base.
We’re too far out for me to guess if a Tory/Reform coalition might be possible next time, but it’s a terrifying thought…
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 week ago:
Of course we want a revolution.
We voted out the Conservatives after fifteen years, only to replace them with a Labour government who are indistinguishable from the previous regime.
All Starmer is doing is pandering to the even-more-right-wing Reform voters, further alienating the Left.
He’s a genocide denying, Israel and Trump supporting fascist who’s cracking down on peaceful protests and arresting 80 year old former magistrates for holding signs.
But the trouble with a revolution is you need to ensure that what you get afterwards isn’t even more authoritarian than what you got rid of.
That’s why you can’t just put the politicians and the billionaires up against the wall and let God sort them out. You need a Plan.
- Comment on The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot 5 months ago:
If they’re full of US military personnel, does it matter who legally owns the land? 😉
- Comment on The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot 5 months ago:
But also to not have multiple US military bases already on British soil.
I’m not a military person, but I feel that could be seen as tactically unwise…
- Comment on Beneath a Steel Sky 7 months ago:
“You’re in the Union City recycling plant…”
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 9 months ago:
My boss told me verbally “don’t call your colleague a fascist by email or anything else that leaves a record”, so that was nice of him.