HowManyNimons

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What can we do in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We can't all afford to care. This is the huuuuuuuge problem with individual action. People living hand-to-mouth on an inadequate income -- that's most people -- will buy the cheapest brand and of course they will. We can't make them buy the "responsible" stuff just by shaming them. All it's going to do is force them to justify themselves with "it's all just green bullshit anyway"

Systemic change is the only way. The only way.

Why would women reject Trump supporters? ๐Ÿ˜ญ in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They're complaining about having to beat themselves.

Why would women reject Trump supporters? ๐Ÿ˜ญ in c/[email protected]
Why would women reject Trump supporters? ๐Ÿ˜ญ in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Schools in the US are governed by boards elected by the public. Anti-science nutcases run for these positions and get their churches to back them. The only way to keep them out is to vote in all the down-ballot races, and remind your friends how important it is.

Some comedy writes itself innit in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I suppose we're going to have to assume you did, yes. ๐Ÿ˜‘

ive had it with the govt going after the less well off in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

^๐ŸŽป^

Had to dig under my foundation. What should I put in the whole when they fill it in? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can we vote? I say Elon Musk.

Had to dig under my foundation. What should I put in the whole when they fill it in? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nah just trace a picture of Dickbutt.

Some comedy writes itself innit in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

A pretty similar reaction then.

Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Have you forgotten that we're in the Stupidest Timeline? You've forgotten haven't you?

Some comedy writes itself innit in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Did they get it?

Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I remember thinking the same about Johnson once.

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...aaaand it's half price at The Works (lemmy.world)
 

Boris Johnson's memoirs in a stack reduced from ยฃ30 to ยฃ15

ยฃ15 is still a bit much though isn't it?

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You must be THIS not disabled to use the public footpath (lemmy.world)
 
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My Happy Meal has made you unhappy? (files.catbox.moe)
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StopTheTories.vote : Share and enjoy! (stopthetories.vote)
 

Updated advice. It's a long shot, but it's worth trying to force the Tories into third place. Share with your local friends.

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Tories will allow bars on trans women, says Kemi Badenoch (www.theguardian.com)
 

Happy Pride, Kemi.

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Lemmy today (i.imgflip.com)
 
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Voter ID | The Electoral Commission (www.electoralcommission.org.uk)
 

Please check that you'll be allowed to vote!

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Cyclist vs Gammon rule (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
16 comments fedilink
 

Edit: I don't have any answers. I stole it from https://feddit.uk/c/okmatewanker because I thought it deserved a bigger audience.

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RTD interviewed by the Big Issue (www.bigissue.com)
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Russell T Davies responds to long-standing fan theory (www.independent.co.uk)
 

It's never a "no" though, is it?

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Mark Gatiss reveals idea for An Adventure in Space and Time sequel (www.radiotimes.com)
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Discussion: Where are all the dystopias? (lemmy.world)
 

Thanks to the glorious shovelling of Classic Who onto BBC IPlayer, I have been enjoying a glut of mid-80s classic Who.

It struck me how many of the CBaker-McCoy era stories are dystopian tales, reflecting the pro-establishment neo-captialist society that the writers felt was being inflicted on them.

Varos, Paradise Towers and Terra Alpha (of Happiness Patrol) are obvious examples; Necros (Revelation of the Daleks) and is a particularly nasty one. Even Trial of a Timelord was, at its heart, a tale of authoritarianism and narrative control.

Modern Britain is clearly in another phase like the 80s. If anything, the authoritarianism is more extreme, and the government's avarice more naked.

So where are the writers' reactions to that nowadays? Whenever the show has recently attempted to address societal issues, it has been either a direct sermon like Orphan 55 or an incompetent muddle like Kerblam.

Where are the dystopias?

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