word is bound to get out of how incredible you are at it. Biggest win for a guy right there

“I don’t think actions like those are strategic in any way and so decrying them for their lack of strategic success seems...obtuse, I suppose”

Property developers and private landlords are making millions forcing these children and families out of their homes, often through violent evictions, and they are regularly moved into inadequate temporary accommodation and sometimes on to the streets.

There are poorer communities all across London where people are doing all the things that Agenttremble lists, and actually winning some extraordinary battles. Look at places like Brixton: the community has come together to raise extraordinary awareness of the problem, and to take ferocious aim at incursions from…

The business owners are also working class people trying to make a living though. Why not attack the starbucks around the corner that charges about £3 just for a coffee and doesn’t pay its UK taxes? I’m a working class british person too and £3-£5 isn’t outrageously expensive when you consider what you’re actually…

Nope, the cafe is run by 2 working class lads from Ireland. It stocks obscure cereals from around the world and how is a small business pricing people out of an area? What did these people achieve? They would be better protesting in the City, or outside the Houses of Parliament. I live one road along from here and…

You’re never going to stop people or businesses from moving into desirable neighborhoods. The only way to mitigate gentrification is to build more housing. Build market-rate units so the supply can keep up with demand, and build more subsidized units so those with low incomes don’t have to wait for the market to…

Dollars to donuts, those aren’t local residents.

Getting fit is very hard, but people conflate the fact that it is simple (conceptually) with being easy. Eat better, move more! So easy! No, that’s simple. Executing this on a daily consistent and ultimately permanent basis is hard as hell to do if you’ve spent most of your life developing myriad bad habits.

In Keynesean economics, the state responds to a depressed economy by borrowing a bunch of money and buying a bunch of stuff. Since spending in one sector (such as building roads) tends to increase economic activity in other sectors (because now the workers can afford to eat and buy trousers and whatnot), this gets the…

Austerity is when you stuff your contractors full of pork, give banks massive hand outs, then when poor people ask for help get told there is no money left.

I said this over on the Gizmodo article, which is just slightly below Gawker Prime in attracting right wing crackheads, and will say it again here. Ben Carson needs to have his medical license stripped. he is a lying pandering jackass using fear to advance a political agenda, which is his right. But he then loses the…

That picture is giving me second-hand heatstroke.

I used to work in the dorms in undergrad, and part of the work was making sure that students weren’t so drunk that they could safely go to bed. I had to call an EMT on students at least twice, and at least once we had a student who passed muster only to lose control of their bowels upstairs. Facilities was “thrilled.”

Homeless junkie pees on yogurt shop floor = sad and pathetic, needs help.

I think the problem with this is that she equates being motherly, and being a mentor, with being a literal mother. And no, no it is not the same.

that this profession exists is part of rape culture.

Thing is, several of the costumed people on the same strip have been attacked as well. Locals don’t like the whole harass people to get to take photos with you and then charge them for the privilege deal. They are considered pests. People are just screaming “sexism” now because the ones getting the hatred are topless…

Anybody besides me remember when the 70s came back in the 90s briefly? It looked exactly like this. So this is basically the 90s version of the 70s come back to haunt us all.

My boyfriend is not personally responsible for the patriarchy and has no mandate to make up for a societal problem by treating me like a child. Frankly, paying for everything all of the time would be participation in patriarchy.