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submitted 3 weeks ago by lemmus@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

Research has revealed a litany of antisemitism, anti-Black racism and misogyny among the now-deleted tweets and blog posts of Labour candidate Luke Akehurst.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago

Meanwhile labor shortages.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

You certainly won’t have to rehire many of them in a week or two as your operations turn to shit.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago

It isn’t a requirement that anybody discusses their sexuality publicly. Society only expects explanation when someone is suspected of not being heterosexual.

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The involuntary celibate community (aka ‘incels’) are often thought to be rightwing, white supremacist, and prone to violence. But how much of that is true?

Ash Sarkar is joined by William Costello - a researcher whose work focuses on the psychology of incels - to discuss what we get wrong about incels, what incels get wrong about women, and the catastrophe that is modern dating culture.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 93 points 1 month ago

They aren’t needed, Elon knows more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 122 points 1 month ago

A healthy democracy for sure.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

Also lacks IQ.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago

I’d give Rowling empathy; imagine how crushing that would be.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 66 points 5 months ago

Intentional destruction of religious sites such as cemeteries = violation of international law = war crime.

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submitted 5 months ago by lemmus@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

The U.S. and U.K. led a series of airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday evening, setting off alarms globally about how the attacks play into the smoldering regional risk of conflict — including a stream of questions from Congress about whether Biden was legally authorized to conduct the strikes at all.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago

They are unsafe in every situation, not just on roundabouts.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 87 points 7 months ago

Let’s be clear:

A vote for a centrist Democrat party is what makes space for a fascist-populist Trump candidate.

Vote for the Democrats to stop Trump by all means. But then engage with and force the Democrats to serve the people, to embrace democratic socialism, otherwise another Trump will win.

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 233 points 7 months ago

Just stop permanently.

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submitted 8 months ago by lemmus@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world
[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 73 points 8 months ago

This is not a new conflict, we just ignore usually this one.

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submitted 11 months ago by lemmus@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

ACFM hosts step back from their screens to survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet, dredging up their early interactions with a primitive web and explain how the dream of free and open communication was displaced by closed networks of e-commerce and data harvesting.

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