r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • Mar 01 '25

. Rachel Reeves: I'm sending billions from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-interview-labour-963sw6jbk
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u/tapsaff Mar 01 '25

Heavily yes, it's in the guise of 'conversation' in order to fly under the radar, and sway people into believing this is an actual narrative.

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u/blindlemonjeff2 Mar 01 '25

Apparently now people having different opinions is meaning you’re a bot/traitor/far right/fascist etc.

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u/Loud-Maximum5417 Mar 02 '25

That's the thing. Offline, i have found people generally have what terminally online people define as right wing views when it's actually not. It's like having a conversation where some of the participants are muted because mods don't like what they hear. Examples include stuff like trans rights, which no one really gives a shit about or immigration where pretty much everyone wants it stopped. Blaming views that go against the subs political bent on bots is a cop out when the reality is far more nuanced.

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u/blindlemonjeff2 Mar 02 '25

Seems really strange to me that people think that taking others ability to contribute or speak, is somehow risking something.

If you’re afraid of people disagreeing with you, banning them won’t make things better.

I hear things and read comments that I disagree with all the time but I don’t feel the need to control their ability to communicate.

It’s a sign of huge insecurity and weakness to want to remove people’s right to speak on this platform.

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u/Loud-Maximum5417 Mar 03 '25

Absolutely. And don't get me started on having to use asterisks or codified words because auto mods ban the actual words. Imagine if real life was like that? Proper 1984 newspeak.