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Mother of autistic boy left with £10,000 debt after breaching DWP rules by £1.92 a week
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I lived in the UK for over a decade until Brexit, and frankly I think that by the time I left they were one of the most far-right countries in Europe, just in this English-upper-class style of posh words and the oppression done "elegantly" via extreme "rules" rather than the direct violence of the (not posh) populist far-right, - people are still made to hurt for the crime of being poor, and the system is designed to hurt anybody who would defy the local elites (just notice the conviction to years in jail of of Environmentalist demonstrators for blocking a road) but all the Ts are traced and Is are dotted, all prim and propper - so people from the outside don't really notice how so very close to Fascist Britain already is.
("It's the Law", say the far-right muppets over there, same as Nazi enablers would say in Nazi Germany.)
Rules on social security explicitly designed to make it likely that people make mistakes (this allowance apparently changes depending on a person's weekly income, which floats if you're in insecure employment, which is exactly the problem of the working poor, and it's down to the recipient to figure it out precisely, down to the pence, with no help) and then punishing them disproportionatelly hard for the error is exactly the style of "by the rules" hurting of people for being poor (and human, hence making mistakes) beloved by the Posh Fascists and their followers (of which there are many, as proven by Brexit which was the product of a campaign of Racism and Nationalistic Exceptionalism).
The cruelty is the point. I fucking hate this country.
“Post a single comment on Lemmy without calling someone a nazi” challenge: Failed
Are you Dora The Explorer on an acid trip? I ask because you're licking Boots awfully hard.
lmao Somebody get that monkey some therapy
Lucky Strike - not lucky
Patriot Act - not patriotic
FreedomAdvocate - does not advocate for freedom
Actually it that was meant as point about "it's the Law" being a traditional excuse of Fascists.
Guess it felt too close to home for you.
"Basic reading comprehension: failed."
Not surprising from a Nazi.
Right wing people really don’t like being called Nazis, do they?
Right wing people don’t care anymore, neither do centrists or left wingers either because the word has lost all meaning now due to the far left calling everyone a Nazi for anything. Didn’t return your trolley at the shops? Nazi. Returned your book to the library 20 minutes late? Nazi. Want to stop illegal immigration? Nazi.
No one cares about being called a nazi anymore, when it used to be the worst thing someone could be accused of.
The problem with banning people from identifying nazis is of course that the nazis then have a field day doing nazi things, chanting "you aren't allowed to call me a nazi .."
you're saying you want more illegal immigration?
the only way to stop illegal immigration is to allow more paths to legal immigration.
After all, immigration is wholly and totally a net benefit, fiscally speaking.
Absolutely false.
Fiscally in terms of dollars spent, sure. In terms of every other measure? Nope.
source 1: https://nfap.com/research/new-nfap-policy-brief-illegal-entry-presidents-and-effective-policy/
source 2: https://www.cato.org/white-paper/fiscal-impact-immigration-united-states
You can argue about the exact definition, as they haul you off to their camps. Then you can argue whether they are Socialists, Fascist, or something else.
Ah the imaginary death camps. Been over 100 days and still no death camps. Also none of these death camps popped up in the entire 4 years of the previous trump presidency. Strange that.
You just aren't first on the list. Don't worry, it will come.
Trump is not a Liberterian messiah, he is very much the government.
Who was first on the list? After 4 years of death camps from 2016-2020 and now another 100 days, we'd surely be pretty far down the list right? At least past......1? Or even up to 1 by now?
I don’t think that this guy liked it…