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Hard to argue with this


"1️⃣ Sometimes I hate living in this country. I’m part of the generation whose university fees were tripled during austerity, while pensioners got the triple lock to protect their incomes.

2️⃣ I spent 3 years of my 20s locked indoors during Covid, to “protect the NHS” but let’s be honest: it was mostly to protect older people who faced far higher mortality.

3️⃣ Since then, living standards have collapsed, costs have soared, and older homeowners block new housing and infrastructure to protect the value of their assets leaving my generation locked out of home ownership and with soaring utilities bills.

4️⃣ Meanwhile, taxes keep rising to fund handouts for pensioners with household incomes of £70,000 — far more than many people my age earn — and we get nothing.

5️⃣ We’re spending £8 million a day housing and feeding illegal migrants, while my generation either lives with parents into our 30s or burns 50%+ of our income on rent.

6️⃣ Today's pensioners are the wealthiest cohort in Britain, ever. Over their lifetimes, they’ll take £2–£3 in state benefits & services for every £1 they paid in tax, state pensions, NHS, free education, housing market gains, minimal pension contributions.

7️⃣ It’s a complete pisstake.

No wonder young people are leaving.

We are treated with utter contempt compared to illegal arrivals and relatively wealthy retirees."

https://x.com/albieamankona/status/1932072006444290069

If it wasn't for the unpleasant and unnecessary racial dogwhistles that detract from the point, I would have liked that.

1. There’s no racist dog whistles

2. The guy that wrote the tweet is black

Other than that, good point

1. Point 5 and "We are treated with utter contempt compared to illegal arrivals" are racist dog whistles.

We're treated with contempt compared to relatively wealthy retirees, absolutely, but not compared to asylum seekers who are forbidden to work and given a pittance to live on.

2. Are you claiming black people can't be racist?

Attitudes like yours - "shut up, you racist" - are precisely why Reform is leading the polls, and is gaining ground, every day, with younger Britons

Spencer Hakimian
@SpencerHakimian

Leaving aside the politics of it all for just one moment.

33% of California’s labor force are immigrants.

It’s closer to 50% in Los Angeles. It’s estimated that 10-20% of LA’s workforce is illegal. And that’s a very conservative estimate.

That means that 5-10% of Los Angeles entire labor force is illegal and could be deported by ICE at any moment.

Could you imagine if 10% of the workforce of the 2nd largest economy in the country is deported over the next few weeks?

The sheer amount of economic chaos that it would cause.

https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1932135106581319990

Perhaps California would not be facing that predicament, had its government not decided to be a magnet for illegal immigration,

Doesn't california host a lot of "sanctuary cities"

Very much so.

Almost every single person in LA is a migrant if you do two or three generations.

FFS.

America was built by wave after wave of migrants. Many or even mostly economic migrants.

Trump himself has a Scottish western isle mother and a German grandfather.

Drumpf, as his real name is. Farage, ofcourse, is a Huguenot immigrant.

I spoke not a word of English when I first arrived in the UK in 1976. But then again, I was only four months old.

Interesting intro to the 75th year anniversary release of 1984.

Reads a bit like a trigger warning.

https://x.com/edwest/status/1932100076559884414?s=61

Sounds like we should cancel 1984:

Perkins-Valdez, a Black writer also noted the novel's lack of racial representation: "That sliver of connection can be difficult for someone like me to find in a novel that does not speak much to race and ethnicity at all."

He literally says "for someone like me". He's not saying you can't read it; he's saying it doesn't connect with him. God forbid people should have opinions on books!

She’s (I think) pretty stupid if she can’t understand what 1984 is all about simply because there’s no black characters in it.