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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
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"This is the brief, simple story of two major clean energy projects, and how one exposes the double standards suffered by the other."
"Dowolnego eksperta można zastąpić skończoną liczbą studentów" (prawo Filipiaka) 😂
Ok, but before we start escalating the chain of "what if" scary events, can we agree it's a slightly different situation when you are already immobilised in a slippery hole in the middle of densely populated residential area and a passer-by oferrs to push?
What I wrote is that union activists effectively closed the circle by becoming rentiers themselves, living off someone else's work and monopolising the job market.
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So I understand that say Milliband can be talking from *his own* position as a diplomat and politician and defending some kind of compromise and not talking about some abuse for the sake of some greater gain.
On the hand, there's nothing preventing from talking all the media and politicians in the country who do not represent it in diplomatic terms.
A comment I have 30 mins into this very interesting debate: they repeatedly say "we should", "we need" (as in "we need to think about what we can do realistically with Russia" etc).
I fundamentally disagree with the notion that there's any collective "we" in any country. This directly contradicts the very concept of liberal democracy, where we are individuals, with our own brains and ideas.
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«Свободные новости» из Саратова по требованию Роскомнадзора удалили новость об акции с фонариками
Источник: https://twitter.com/meduzaproject/status/1360960728040157185
We actually have been through this a few times already - as Holocaust unrolled in the occupied Eastern Europe in early 40's, there were numerous witness reports about German atrocities, but they were widely ignored by the Western media precisely for the same excuses - no hard evidence, harms relations with Germany, wouldn't achieve anything etc.
Actually, we're repeating history over and over...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Extermination_of_Jews_in_German_Occupied_Poland
It was a snowy winter and as I walking from the Co-op I saw a car stuck on the bottom of the hole unable to climb either way as obviously you can't drive up a hill on summer tyres unless you gain enough speed.
There were a few bystanders looking and giving extremely useful advice like "call emergency" or "try to drive faster", so I just walked up, explained that she should try not to spin the wheels too much, pushed a bit... and she was out!
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I could certainly die in the process (as I could die while walking from the shop) or scratch her car or get hit by a meteorite or get sued by the AA for taking their business away... but I felt walking up and just helping her was the right thing to do was quite natural and the only reasonable thing to do at given situation.
> worried about liability
I know, but this "liability culture" is in my opinion gradually killing the remains of civil society in the UK.
A few years ago I was living near Micklands School which you surely know, and there's a part of road there that descends into a depression and climbs back into Hawthorne Road.
A few years ago there was an industrial action at the railway in the UK where I listened to some union activist explaining all serious that you absolutely need a railway worked in each carriage to open and close door on each station and that's critical to the safety of the passengers
Which left me with my mouth wide open, because everywhere outside of UK and in some trains in UK you had doors opening and closing automatically for literally decades, and there's nothing "unsafe" in it.
So, when discussing the social contract, it should be always remembered that there are *two* sides to it.
If you build your career on blaming the "elites" for abusing their political power, and then you effectively turn into a rentier, living no longer off your work but off your political power then you become nothing else than the "elites" you blamed before.
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Union privileges were widely described in media back in 70's.
Situations where no builder can legally touch any part of the electric installation (including power switch), or do painting, or plumbing or whatever, because these were reserved only to members of respective unions, were absurd and abusive to the other workers.
Unions were also getting involved into foreign policy: in 1920 British dockers prevented UK shipping arms to Poland invaded by Bolshevik because they liked the latter.
In the UK this was symbolised by nationwide firefighters (!) strikes over salary rises where they actually were not putting down fires. One of the largest was 1977 fire in St Andrew's Hospital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/14/newsid_3154000/3154632.stm
This event inspired Anthony Burgess to write "1985" novel. A situation like this - a strike of essential life-saving emergency services - is hard to imagine in any civilised country simply because it results in loss of life.
20th century witnessed rise of trade unions to protect labour rights, but it didn't stop there. What we actually saw truly dialectical transformation of unions from workers oppressed by elites abusing their economic power to the ones who actually were oppressing others using *their* economic position.
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