PSA: Stop using Imgur for now - eviltoast

The above image is all us folk in the UK see when you do, and if we try to use a VPN + incognito, we get this:

403 means forbidden, so the message is disingenuous.

They must have put some effort into block lists for VPN servers. Even if it works for some of us, it’s not worth it.

For more information on this, see this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

  • jenesaisquoi@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    People in the UK should vote for non-insane representatives, that would be more helpful

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      2 days ago

      Tbf to them it’s not their fault that the once leftwing party “randomly” decided to put a boneless liberal right before an election that had them winning for sure

      I wonder what lobbies and their media have to say about that magic trick

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      The alternatives who are most likely to take power:

      Farage who will abduct and deport my wife.

      The Tories who can see Farage being popular with bigots and aiming to be even more cunty.

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      Yeah. Uh. That’s like 25% less helpful for them than it is for the Americans, even if the situation isn’t quite as apocalyptic. They’ll need to actually do stuff.

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      Still waiting on that option 😟

      Actually… If every voted libdem that might work

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          You got Better option?

          I love the Greens and their current direction, but they’re at the point where they’re saying unworkable things to get left wing support, knowing they’ll never have to follow through because they won’t win enough power.

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            There’s always direct action.

            Which is the only way anyone ever won anything for the left anyway.

            Inclusive of but not necessarily violence. But also apparently painting stuff or saying that’s bad is terrorism, so, I mean, why not?

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            I’m not familiar with UK parties to be honest, outside of Labour, the two make-rich-people-richer parties and the insanity party I don’t even know which parties there are. If I were British I’d vote for the leftmost and most environmentally friendly party I could find. If that is the Greens then that sounds good to me

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                That’s probably keeping many likeminded people from voting for them. A result of the deeply unfair FPTP voting system. In my country we long ago had a similar system, it resulted in a single party state, until it was reformed to a proportional system.

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                  That would definitely increase both voting and representation for the Greens, yes.

                  Tactical voting is a big thing in the UK to mitigate some of the imbalance of the FPTP system, along with informal electoral pacts between parties.

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                    Our proportional system isn’t bad, but I think Australias ranked choice voting is the best. In my country it’s still possible to waste a vote because the party didn’t get a single seat. In Australia this never happens. They also make it mandatory to vote, which I want for my country too.