Thebratdragon

RickiTarr, 29 days ago to random

Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

ChrisMayLA6, 1 month ago to disability

Across the political Right, the narrative is that disability benefits (primarily Personal Independence Payments; PIPs) are too easy to get & are often paid to the 'undeserving'... however, in reality nearly half of applicants are rejected, rising to over two thirds for endometriosis (a gendered dimension I'll leave you to ponder), but with high rates of rejections over-turned on appeal (often with the same evidence).

More Tory lies, callousness & inhumanity

#disability

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/12/claims-conditions-personal-independence-payments-disability-benefits-cancer-arthritis-amputees

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.

ChrisMayLA6, 27 days ago to random

Britain's record on homelessness is world beating, just not in a good way.

We've the highest recorded levels of homelessness in the developed world; while other counties have seen (albeit slow) declines in homelessness, since 2010 the UK's rate has been accelerating away.

The housing crisis has many dimensions, but here there's a direct correlation between the arrival of the current Tory govt. & massive increases!

The party of landlords is working for them & doing nothing for us!

#housing

Chart: Britain has by far the highest rate of homelessness in the developed world. Rate of homelessness per 10,000 people (2023 or latest). UK - 52/10,000 Belgium & France (next ranked) 32/10,00 then all over states listed (in descending order), below 30/10,000: Czechia (27), Germany (26), USA (19), NZ (13), Australia (12), Canada (10), Portugal (10), Denmark (6), Poland (5), Sweden (5), Spain (5), Norway (3), Finland (1)

RickiTarr, 26 days ago to random

WHAT IS HIS CRIME?!

ChrisMayLA6, 30 days ago to random

So the Migrant Advisory Committee, after a 14 week investigation has found 'no evidence' of any deliberate abuse of the international student visa scheme;

they're coming here to study.

As the FT delicately puts it:

this has 'placed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a bind, forcing him to either confront those on the Conservative right who want it scrapped, or ignore the advisory group'!

Watch this space.... which way he jumps will tell us a lot about the future of the (rump of) the Tory party

DrALJONES, 27 days ago to Israel

Just a bunch of plutocrats utilising their free-speech rights..

Report

Pro-Israel billionaires pushed NYC Mayor to use police on pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University.

They donated to him & offered to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.

The group included Howard Schultz, Michael Dell, Bill Ackman & Joshua Kushner, with Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Len Blavatnik & Joseph Sitt also associated.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16/pro-israel-billionaires-urged-new-york-crackdown-on-gaza-protests-report

#Plutocracy #Israel ..

lowqualityfacts, 1 month ago to random

Sick and tired of public schools pushing their trans agenda on our kids. This year alone my children have learned:

-the importance of public TRANSportation
-how TRANSistors work
-the TRANSitive property
-how diseases are TRANSmitted

The brainwashing needs to stop.

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

kim_harding, 1 month ago to random

Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/ai_model_collapse/
Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem

RickiTarr, 25 days ago to random

What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

simon_brooke, 1 month ago to random

Humza #Yousaf isn't a great politician, but he isnae a rubbish politician either, and the #SNP is short of talent at Holyrood. #Swinney would be unwise no tae gie him a cabinet seat; and gien hoo #Yousaf has performed on #Gaza an ither maitters furth o Scotland, it would be guid tae see him in a foreign relations brief.

If we're aiming for #ScottishIndependence, we need to be developing strong relationships with the rest of Europe and beyond.

#ScotPol

RickiTarr, 29 days ago to random

What is the thing(s) that attracts you to a person romantically or otherwise?

Thebratdragon, 25 days ago to Rugby

A loss to the world.

I had dinner (along with 30 odd other people) with this great man to raise money and celebrate the Barbarians Rugby Club.

And Tony, Guiness boilermakers do give you hangovers, no matter what you claim.

#RFU #Rugby #Barbarians

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7225dy596eo

therightarticle, 1 month ago to random

‘Sunak is doing a great job, the plan is working’ – David Cameron

What a load of complete and utter bollocks this is.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/david-cameron-rishi-sunak-374544/

DrALJONES, 1 month ago to random

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Thebratdragon, 1 month ago to random

I have found my gravestone epithet.

fkamiah17, 1 month ago to UKpolitics

I'm beginning to think we should just build a barracks and make them stay there while Parliament is sitting.

#UKPolitics #TheGriftContinues

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/four-tory-mps-who-made-32793408

fkamiah17, 1 month ago to USpolitics

Reporter: "You said at the start of this that you don't believe what's happening in Gaza is genocide. What criterion are you using?"

Jake Sullivan: "We're using the internationally accepted term for genocide."
Accepted by who?
I remember them using this semantic bullshit in 1994 as a reason not to intervene in Rwanda.

#USPolitics #GenocideIsGenocide

fkamiah17, 1 month ago to UKpolitics

The "human rights lawyer":

"You talk about it being right to protect people from persecution. Would you increase the number of safe routes?"

"I don't think safe routes is the answer to this vile trade that's being run to put people into small boats."
from a TV interview yesterday

He doesn't. give. a. shit.

#UKPolitics #Liebour

fkamiah17, 29 days ago to USpolitics

They're not going to try and stop the genocide.
They're not putting any boots on the ground.
But they still want to be in charge of everything. As usual.

“Arab states have said it should be US-led so the US is trying to work out how it can lead it without having boots on the ground ... "

FT: "US encouraging Arab states to join multinational postwar force in Gaza"

#USPolitics #GazaGenocide #AmericanImperialism

https://archive.is/CDRRg

msquebanh, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Choosing to be 'neutral' - while active genocides are happening, in more than one area of the world - is choosing to be a coward.

Inaction, is in itself a conscious action.
Silence only helps oppressors & not the oppressed.

Grow some fu*king courage.
Start making some more noise, against multiple crimes against humanity!
Stand up, speak up for more than yourself & a paycheque. Many of us have already taken risks & we're marginalized folks. Don't tell me that you don't have any personal power!