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Re:More delays for Euston's HS2 station by panick21_ on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:24AM (#41065316)
Great. Why not just nuke the whole country then. The Tories are against the project, lets just do nothing.

Helping trans people, why bother the tories are against it. Repair schools, why bother? Tories will reverse it.

This is fucking insane. How are British people all such pesimists.

HS2 is literally being built. There are tunnels already there. The digger are out in force already. That exactly why Phase 1 wasnt cancled.

And if Labor took their finger out of their assholes they would get to a point where digger were out on Phase 2 and then the Tories wouldnt cancle that.

And maybe at some point HS2 actually is operational and people will see that it is nice and cancling the rest of it would piss people off.

If your strategy is 'lets do nothing we are gone lose the next election anyway' then you should just give up. Winning 3 elections in a row is possible ither parties have done it. The Tories are in a terrible situation, that wont be easy to come back from.

Now is the time to be bold.

Re:More delays for Euston's HS2 station by IlllIIl on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:15AM (#41065673)
> Helping trans people, why bother the tories are against it.

Depends what you mean by "help". There's already a big enough problem with males using female spaces, why make this even worse for women and girls? And for minors, the Cass Review made it clear the evidence isn't there to favour giving gender non-conforming kids drugs to block their puberty.

> Repair schools, why bother?

The RAAC problem? Already being funded. Department for Education started doing this a few months ago and the new government are continuing the work.

Re:More delays for Euston's HS2 station by panick21_ on Thursday July 25, 2024 @10:21AM (#41068992)
> Depends what you mean by "help".

blablabla right wing/TURF propaganda.

> And for minors, the Cass Review

No it didn't, its a report many people disagree including many medical organization disagree with. And anyway even if the Cass Review was true, that is not at all indicative that the Toris are not anti-Trans people. The report was weaponized as political tool.

> Already being funded.

Ahh see what my point is then?

Re:More delays for Euston's HS2 station by IlllIIl on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:10AM (#41069599)
> blablabla

Low intelligence reactive response. Would you like to try again with something more rational?

> No it didn't, its a report many people disagree including many medical organization disagree with.

I've yet to see a substantive critique of the Review that challenges its key points. So far it's just been ideological disagreement.

> Ahh see what my point is then?

No, because the schools with this issue (assuming that's what you were referring to) are actually being repaired.

Re:More delays for Euston's HS2 station by panick21_ on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:48PM (#41072614)
Clearly my point was the tories being against something is no reason not to do something. Tories not being for something and maybe reversing it in the future is no reason not to do something.

And im not gone have a debate about trans stuff on HN in a train thread. Specially because you brought up a report that didn't have anything to do with the point I made about the tories.

Re:More delays for Euston's HS2 station by silver_silver on Thursday July 25, 2024 @10:05PM (#41075280)
> There's already a big enough problem with males using female spaces

Back it up with some numbers, and then let’s see how many of the perpetrators identify as trans.

Re:More delays for Euston's HS2 station by seethedeaduu on Saturday July 27, 2024 @10:28AM (#41086825)
Yet another inactive throwaway terf account
Re:More delays for Euston's HS2 station by chgs on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:21PM (#41074012)
Being bold does not mean talking about what to do from now to 2050, it means digging. Now.

But every armchair expert with a crayon has their preferred solution to rail. Is hs2 perfect? No

Is it better than nothing? Yes.