Why am I so cross? Because I am stripped my working people status by Starmer despite me working all my adult life and still can't start buying a house, for putting a bit of my savings into stock, just so he can claim he "didn't raise working people's taxes".
That's just peak slimey politician behaviour.
Do I think people who own a lot of stocks and assets should be taxed. Hell yes, let's tax those motherfuckers. But just don't lie and stop twisting the definition of working people.
Edit: typo
Read the news please.
When asked by Sky News if someone who works but also gets income from shares or property is a working person, Starmer said “they wouldn’t come within my definition.”
I agree with you, but that's not what Keir Starmer said. His spokesperson recanted it, but what he said originally was stupid.
When Linus becomes entertaining is when he is not doing his job properly.
That's why what Linus said was stupid when he brought WWII into this conversation...
The only problem I have with this is if I eat this many eggs in one sitting I will be on bed for the next couple of days.
Well, I never argued for not sanctioning them. I just think it's kind of fucked either way - if sanctions work, they start hating sanction imposers and band behind the dictator; if sanctions don't work, then obviously they are going to praise the dictator for his good work. It's lose-lose.
And I don't know if you have noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren't working that well... Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk
Where should they move to? Countries that aren't sanctioning Russia right now are likely to be... problematic? in other ways. But I am also pretty ignorant about which countries are on that list, and I would like to know more.
Maybe they need to become pirates on international water...
It's called weak forms, this video goes into a lot of details about them, has examples of "that that" as well: https://youtu.be/qlbGtEg68x4