Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Patrick Boyle"
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Absolutely. My wife and I realised that, if we sold all our properties, we’d be millionaires even if we didn’t get a particularly good price for them. Yet, we don’t, “feel,” rich. Nor do we behave that way by trying to, “offshore,” our wealth or avoid taxes, or screw the tenants in our houses. We supported the rent freeze during Covid (we’re in Scotland) and we still haven’t even talked about putting up the rents.
The irony is that policies are aimed at this tiny minority of super rich people who wouldn’t fundamentally change anything in Britain if they all up and left. The biggest industries of all, like Apple, Microsoft, Google and YouTube, and their attendant info-tech dealers would all remain in place regardless of how we taxed them! What else can they do? Take their business elsewhere? Off planet?
What is actually WRONG with people? It’s like FOMO! Just mythical fears built up in their imaginations that have no basis in reality but which are ruthlessly exploited by unscrupulous politicians. People, “fear,” paying more taxes than they’re actually affected by them. I’ve never met a tax whiner who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from.
And every time you see the results of a reliable survey, people ALWAYS say they would prefer to pay MORE taxes than lose the NHS, decent education, water, transport and policing.
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@ljragsandfeathers : It’s forgivable for thinking that, especially if you watch a lot of YouTube and follow what its algorithm shoves in front of you. But the evidence is that people are more interested in fixing the world’s problems than you may think. On the news, yesterday, I watched hundreds of thousands of people in Britain, from a wide range of backgrounds, march together for peace in Palestine, calling for a ceasefire. They did so, despite countless lies being told about them in the media and direct threats from the far right. They did so, despite the egregious mischaracterisation of their intentions, route and motives by Britain’s actual HOME SECRETARY, who actually INCITED VIOLENCE through dog whistles and downright lies! These were brave, motivated and young people, for the most part, who knew they were taking a risk with their own futures, as well as the possibility of direct violence on the day, merely by showing up and calling for peace! They do not fit your description.
Ironically, there were several acts of violence committed on that day, but none of them occurred on the peace march. They actually happened a mile and a half away, around the cordoned off Cenotaph. And they were ALL committed by far right extremists, answering Suella Braverman’s dog whistles. They broke the police lines, knocked the cameras out of news teams hands, issued death threats and several were arrested for actual acts of violence. All whilst being too thick to realise that their target was a mile and a half away, because they believed the Home Secretary’s deliberate lie and thought they would all be at the Cenotaph.
What we can learn from this is that people on both sides are highly active and motivated. And that the far right nut jobs are vastly outnumbered, as well as fail to grasp any form of reality, which is helpful to the reasonable human. The web is a distorted, fun house mirror, which only shows you what you feed it. “We see, as through a glass, darkly.”
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