Retail giant Monsoon’s CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting competition, so he can continue to exclusively use them himself
FTFY
The CEO, like all CEO’s is concerned with his own companies profit margin, noting else, but especially not “fairness”.
I think we can see from the reaction to the hitler salute, that cognitive dissonance (or flat out support for nazism) is a hell of a drug, and will produce an endless stream of excuses and justifications to avoid acknowledging/admitting the truth.
This. How people are only now suddenly “discovering” he’s a nazi (or knew, but for whatever reason are only now drawing the line), when he’s been spouting this shit for years at this point, is a bit ridiculous…
British interests
You mistakenly think (understandably, because that’s what we’re taught, but that doesn’t make it true) that those are your interests, or even society’s interests, but they are neither. They are the interests of the owners of this country, the royals, the other gentry and land owners, and otherwise filthy rich. Theirs are the only interests the state serves.
As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories?
It isn’t, just like we said it wouldn’t be before the election, when the cultists refused to listen.
Keith and his cronies are nothing but establishment serving placeholders and future scapegoats for the right to blame for all the ills of society and come back in stronger and more fascist than ever. And when that happens, the cultists will act all surprised and bewildered again because they simply refuse to hear anything that contradicts their deep indoctrination in to passive compliance with the rules.
As for
There may be no nasty impulse to punish ‘skivers’
If you genuinely believe that, you’re not been paying any attention, or are completely oblivious to the masses of ableist and classist dog whistles they’ve been using all along.
Is it really a wonder why we get so much more frustrated with liberals who insist on playing along and cooperating with the system, insisting they care about society and its most vulnerable (to stroke their own egos) while refusing to listen to our warnings (again, to stroke their own egos, after all, they still see us as beneath them), than we are with those who are at least honest about throwing us under the bus? Once again MLK’s quote about white moderates being a bigger barrier to equity than the KKK are proves its depressing accuracy.
You do realise that many people (significantly more since covid in fact) are on benefits because we can’t work, right? And it’s those benefits (disability, employment support) that are getting the worst cuts.
So you’re not technically wrong, but your solution also doesn’t help those of us most targeted.
If only they would do the rest of us the courtesy of visibly branding themselves like that…
Ooh, my username checks out 😂
I’ve had pirated copies on every pc I’ve owned for a couple of decades, “long gone” lmao
Fuck EA, they ain’t seeing a penny from me, and I definitely won’t be engaging in any “ports” that probably exist to scrape my data and charge me more money lol
Oh yeah, they wouldn’t have scrapped it unless it was damaging them somehow (like you say, or possibly by being so transparent they couldn’t even muster any plausible deniability), rather than benefits claimants, as intended.
Thank fuck for miniature, and no doubt temporary, fucking mercies.
The human-run system is already designed to reject as many claims as possible and make it as absolutely difficult as possible for those they don’t flat out reject to get even the lowest rate (again, the default, which, like a rejection, you then have to appeal to get what you’re really entitled to), yet somehow AI would have managed to make it worse.
Don’t think for a second this’ll stop them from trying again, or making the existing system worse still in other ways.
After all, we are the real leeches on the government tax pot that they need to eliminate, not their fellow landlords and capitalists sat next to them on the parliament bench. 🙄
Ok.
I have the album on my phone and it’s in my regular rotation still.
20 years or so ago it used to be my “drive to work” album to really get my day going, for some reason I remember Diesel Power always coming on when I was on this one stretch of road and for some reason I couldn’t tell you it just fit perfectly with that part of the drive.
Meta have already tried, and in an almost unanimous move, users of the fediverse decided to defederate from them to not give them the opportunity to.
Of course they’ll keep trying, but the whole point of decentralisation is that if or when that happens, those who don’t want anything to do with it, just move on to a virtual space away from the corporation.
Sure, it sucks to always be “on the run”, but at least here we can be, vs on a centralised network, where the corporations control 100% of it and we as users have no viable alternative.
To solve the core problem, FOR THE EU, THR ORGANISATION we have to curb the immense grip Big Tech has on our institutions and invest in independent digital alternatives.
They are categorically not interested in solving the core problem of society, and why and how we got to this point in the first place, but simply to maintain the status quo where they are the ones in control (which, while better than active fascism, has and always will be a placeholder for it, as long as they refuse to abolish capitalism).
Don’t be fooled.
I’m expecting the DWP to instantly adopt whatever AI it is that that insurance company that recently lost its CEO uses to deny claims. And all I can do is hope that they, and those enabling them, get a similar response (though who am I kidding, if the general public gave two shits about poor and especially disabled people being deliberately and systemically denied support and left to die, we’d have seen a reaction a decade ago).
Hate to make you cry a little more, but it’s £14 billion, not million
No, we need to abolish capitalism so we can have free access to healthcare (and food, water, shelter), not to continue playing by the rules set out for us by those who profit from commodifying our basic needs and human rights.
Ah, yes, continuing to prioritise economy over society, and even humanity, that’s sure to start working out (for anyone other than the billionaires in power) any fucking day now… 🙄
A feature, not a bug.