Decent wages don't cure sicknesses that require a functioning healthcare system, alas, and that's our biggest problem at the moment, with regards to large numbers out of work.
I know people who can't work because of an illness that the NHS can treat, but the waiting list and hoops to jump through to obtain treatment can be literally years long.
They want to get back to being healthy and working, but the national services they need to get there basically just don't exist any longer...
Um they're red not blue, duh.
I wonder how many of us didn't vote for either of the main parties? Hmm. Pity it wasn't more.
the last inauguration
When you say the last inauguration, you don't mean the last inauguration... r-right?
The photo is weirdly blurry and grainy so be suspicious.
You mean the filthy window? Yeah, something tells me they get pollution there and don't clean the outside of the windows as often as they should. I've seen that kinda filthy often enough on office windows.
At this rate I expect their second civil war to have kicked off by April, should be quite an event!
I think the term is Nazi Collaborator.
could we ask the UK and rest of Commonwealth to help us out if things get too bad?
The UK need not have entered the last conflict against aggressive fascists when and how she did, but did so as much out of a sense of obligation to one's friends and the moral right as anything. When conflict loomed, the UK made a defensive pact with Poland, when she could have easily just sat back and watched.
The same is true of Canada. We are no longer an empire, no longer a large and powerful nation, but if and when the US eventually takes direct aggressive military action, the UK, backed by the Allies of the new Millennium in Europe and beyond, will come to Canada's aid.
To do any less would be to side with the fascists.
Thinking of the USA's current lying, deceitful leader, and their increasingly aggressive moves, I'm once again reminded of Chamberlain's address to the nation...
We have a clear conscience. We have done all that any country could do to establish peace, but a situation in which no word given by Germany's ruler could be trusted and no people or country could feel themselves safe had become intolerable. And now that we have resolved to finish it, I know that you will all play your part with calmness and courage.
As such a moment as this the assurances of support that we have received from the Empire are a source of profound encouragement to us.
...Now may God bless you all and may He defend the right. For it is evil things that we shall be fighting against, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution. And against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
And if you'll forgive me a little more quoting of particularly famous speeches, this line about the new world comes to mind also...
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Godโs good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
Even if one of us falls, the others will step forth to their rescue and liberation. Freedom from fascism is a universal right, and we will enforce it until we no longer can โฅ๏ธ
Oof, yeah. Anyone that tells anybody - especially a complete stranger - to commit suicide is a horrible, horrible person that we don't want anything to do with.
Just evil.
What would it be deployed as a standard if it had such a glaring issue? Surely there's a better explanation.
I don't live in that country, but while I like Lemmy, no, I don't have hope any more. I've not had that for a long time now.
It's interesting though, to see the US slowly turn into our enemy, and to consider that Germany will be one of our strongest democratic, antifascist allies against the new axis of evil when the time comes.
Thankfully I'm too old to be forced to fight in the next war against fascism, but I suppose poverty and climate change might kill me before then anyway. There truly is no hope left for me.
What an unusual place to see news about my city! What are the odds haha.
Fascist tossers can go back where they came from that's for sure ๐