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@jatroa@SamanthaTaghoy I asked an AI what kind of regime is this normal: "Police often use violence against peaceful protesters in authoritarian regimes, where the government seeks to suppress dissent and maintain control over the population."
Most people want a life where:
- they can afford gas and groceries
- the government leaves them alone
- their children have a better life
It really is that simple.
Perhaps some British don't like the Muslims who say they are going to take over Britain
Apparently people who don't like that are 'far' right
But it sounds pretty sensible to me
I don't want British values to be replaced by child marriage, clitoral surgery, beating wives and stoning adulteresses
Call me old-fashioned...
@SamaHoole All that loss of future food production just to pay a few seconds of government spending. You can tell hardly anyone in this government has ever run a business. Few of them have had a proper job.
A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.
I have refrained from talking about Henry Nowak so far because I was too angry. I remain too angry.
I'm angry at the scumbag who stabbed an 18-year-old boy to death. Who drove a blade into the back of his legs to stop him from running, then finished him by skewering him through the chest with an 8-inch blade. All while that poor boy tried desperately to escape.
I'm angry that the same scumbag then cried "racism" to cover his tracks, claiming self-defence after pursuing and butchering an innocent boy who just wanted to get home.
I'm angry at the parents who tried to hide the murder weapon and shield their killer son from justice, putting blood loyalty above any sense of right and wrong.
I'm angry at the police who handcuffed a bleeding teenager while he cried "I'm dying" and "I can't breathe," and let him bleed out in the street. All because his attacker cried racism.
I'm angry at the judge who has introduced manslaughter as an alternative verdict before the jury even had a chance to decide. Robbing Henry's family of the proper verdict on what was clearly cold-blooded murder.
I'm angry at a nation that grants religious exemptions so minorities can carry deadly blades in public while locking up natives for far less. A nation that has opened the floodgates to migrants who want us dead and now watches its own young bleed out in the name of "diversity."
I'm angry that we've allowed it to happen.
I'm angry.
@Bitcoin_Teddy I think 400k in 2029 is optimistic given it barely broke out of the green band in 2025. Either way, I'll be happy if we get a new ATH this year.
@LarkDavis This. UK gov. wants to force age verification despite privacy/data protection issues. Dumb phones, like we had growing up, are a much better solution but would need to reverse the "everything is an app" (e.g. bus/train tickets) trend.
@medranocanocano@elonmusk Agreed. I think those saying it's Israel's war, including people I often agree with, miss the bigger picture re. IRGC's aggressive stance towards nations including the USA and other ME states. I don't like war but I'd rather see this small scale war than a nuclear one later on.