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[–] 17 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

Labour is way past that. Kier Starmer has engorged himself with lobby funds so much he’s acting almost worse than the Conservative Party in the Uk.

Labour is a party of no one but capital.

And is literally eugenicist. What fucking “left wing”, party, cuts disability benefits, plunging an expected hundreds of thousands into poverty, than legalises assisted dying for disabled people. Within the same month.

That’s about as close to exterminating as you can get under neoliberal logic.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Jfc. Did this really just happen?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They made a slight change so that people with low levels of disability wouldnt get as much support and paired it with making getting a job not cut off all disability benifits immediately. When that change got huge amounts of pushback from labour MPs they watered it down. Then a private members bill (So coming from an individual MP) with no support from the government got passed allowing people who have less than six months to live get assistance in ending their own life if they get approval from a panel of a judge and care experts, that change has overwhelming support in the country.

    The grandparent post is catastrophising.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    The government’s own statistics showed it would drag 250’000 into poverty.

    Please don’t minimise it. Losing PIP as a disabled person can kill. Ie. just one case of many

    Even the UN and Amnesty International have condemned the cut is problematic source

    So please don’t call disabled people who have very real concerns about their survival with this bill “catastrophising”.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    The same research that you are quoting also said there were 200,000 who were willing and able to work but prevented from doing so as they would lose their benefits as a result. Not that it matters as the government backed down under pressure from its back benchers.

    Trying to frame that as tantamount to exterminating is catastrophising.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The government hasn’t backed down. It passed the bill with a timing delay.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    how the fuck did one of you wind up on "anarchist.nexus"?

    edit: no covfefe yet, sorry comrade. you can probably see how I read that as being a votescold though.

    related issue, it might be time for a purge of habitual downvoters in this community to pre-emptively cut back on invasive shitlibs. just an uncaffeinated thought though.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Fascism has found the West. Hitler must be tap dancing in hell.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    They are operating in a world where traditional coalitions around class, labour and identity are dissolving,...

    Huh. Not at all. Even more confusing since the sentence continues with

    where high barriers to home ownership, social mobility and job stability have been erected, and the relationship between hard work and prosperity, or even viability, has been severed.

    Ah well...

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  • the media keeps saying the dems are in trouble yet the dems continue to win special elections.

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