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To want to know something important that you wish you could wake the world up to that's happening

128 replies

NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 13/09/2023 23:41

For me, at the moment it's that every single one of our police forces needs an urgent outside investigation.
Women are having more of their rights and safety stripped away every day.

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VeniVidiWeeWee · 14/09/2023 00:13

And your evidence of this?

Note, you stated every force.

Nemesias · 14/09/2023 00:14

What rights are being stripped away daily?

Italianita · 14/09/2023 00:17

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NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 14/09/2023 00:35

Woah ok first things first.
Yes, every single police force starting with Lancashire police, so many ex police including two ex superintendents from that police force have tried to bring to national attention the corruption in that force and have been silenced in just the last few years
Do I think every single police officer is corrupt? Of course not, I had a partner that was one many years ago and they definitely were old school and went into policing for the right reasons.

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TheMountainsCall · 14/09/2023 00:36

One issue? The loneliness epidemic. All these lonely people just need to connect with other and each other and spread some kindness in the world. I think society would benefit hugely in other ways.

Screamingabdabz · 14/09/2023 00:43

The time bomb of damage that gender identity affirmation is going to have on young people in a few years time. They’ll realise they were lied to by adults they were supposed to trust, but it’ll be too late to prevent irrevocable harm and trauma.

NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 14/09/2023 00:45

TheMountainsCall · 14/09/2023 00:36

One issue? The loneliness epidemic. All these lonely people just need to connect with other and each other and spread some kindness in the world. I think society would benefit hugely in other ways.

Absolutely, I see it here in my rural community, in fact tomorrow I am visiting an elderly neighbour a few villages away. We've sort of adopted each other and I visit once a week.
It's as much for me as it is for her.

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JugularBugular · 14/09/2023 00:46

That Marmite Peanut Butter is the most moreish and the greatest food item in the supermarket.

After that, the risks of AI and the destruction of heritage buildings in the city where I live.

NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 14/09/2023 00:48

Screamingabdabz · 14/09/2023 00:43

The time bomb of damage that gender identity affirmation is going to have on young people in a few years time. They’ll realise they were lied to by adults they were supposed to trust, but it’ll be too late to prevent irrevocable harm and trauma.

I know..brainwashed into thinking they are more free. It's a fucking nightmare.

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WellPlaced · 14/09/2023 00:53

That riding a bike everywhere, lifting weights and being vegan is the best thing ever.

I feel like I’m just waiting for the rest of the world to realise.

Karmakamelion · 14/09/2023 00:54

That the tories are effectively bringing back the class system by making it so hard to get a degree and study out of poverty

NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 14/09/2023 00:58

WellPlaced · 14/09/2023 00:53

That riding a bike everywhere, lifting weights and being vegan is the best thing ever.

I feel like I’m just waiting for the rest of the world to realise.

I'm only two of those things, lifting weights though?

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Maraudingmarauders · 14/09/2023 00:59

The homogenisation of our resources. We are very very quickly removing all variety from our food - seeds, plants, meat etc - which makes us incredibly vulnerable to loss and destruction. Its just not a conversation most people are having. We worry about food miles and methane production etc but this is a far far bigger problem.

Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino should be on every school reading list, and every adult must read.

WellPlaced · 14/09/2023 01:03

NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 14/09/2023 00:58

I'm only two of those things, lifting weights though?

Yes. Although recent for me and strangely I edited to add that before posting!

asterel · 14/09/2023 01:17

The psychological and social damage of online hardcore pornography, especially the fact that we’ve gone within less than twenty five years from not many people ever encountering pornographic material that extreme and misogynist — to primary school age kids and young teenagers viewing incredibly disturbing material as completely normal and routine.

NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 14/09/2023 01:25

WellPlaced · 14/09/2023 01:03

Yes. Although recent for me and strangely I edited to add that before posting!

I have looked into it, just can't afford it at my local gym mostly I fancy rowing next though.

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ChekhovsMum · 14/09/2023 01:36

The recruitment crisis in teaching, caused partly by poor work conditions and ever-increasing impossible paperwork and regulations that encourage management to make teachers’ lives a misery, but helped along massively by under-provision of training places by this government. Already many, many children don’t have a proper teacher for some of their subjects, or their class if they’re in primary, and this is across subjects and even in some of the nicest-to-work-in schools now.
This might well be designed to ensure that fewer and fewer children are taught face to face by a specialist to make room for much cheaper unqualified teachers and eventually AI, but that’s nowhere near a good idea. Unqualified teachers don’t actually rush to fill teaching posts for less money than it takes to buy a tiny flat with someone else, as it turns out. As for AI, a lot of kids won’t/can’t do what they need in order to learn when there are 12 adults across different departments of a school breaking their back for them and monitoring them all day long, and a version of AI that can work out what’s going on with that child and how to motivate them better than a team of trusted professionals is not guaranteed ever to exist.

stitchinguru · 14/09/2023 02:00

That children and young people are becoming ‘unteachable’

coxesorangepippin · 14/09/2023 02:03

Soon there will be communities of people who are permanently offline. No internet at all. Books, etc, old school. Operating the old way

coxesorangepippin · 14/09/2023 02:03

That children and young people are becoming ‘unteachable’

^^

I think within ten years handwriting will not be taught, and most learning will be done online.

coxesorangepippin · 14/09/2023 02:05

Agree with gender affirmation

ADHDat43 · 14/09/2023 03:10

The narrowing of microbial diversity. The human microbiome is becoming less diverse (due to many factors, including: industrial agriculture, lack of dietary variety, increased urbanisation, antibacterial products, and latterly isolation) and this will have dire consequences for our health over coming generations.

transformandriseup · 14/09/2023 03:23

That the divide between the rich and poor is growing bigger all the time. I worry what will happen in 20 years time when many will be retiring with little or no work place pension.

DontBeATwatPlease · 14/09/2023 03:35

That there is no reason for anyone to treat any other person badly. The hurt and distress it can cause can be immersurable.

We don't need to argue that a previous generation had it better than any other generation - where does that get us?

Poor people aren't worse than rich pekeor, stupid etc., celebrate difference, don't criticise?