The Five Demands

Germanshepherdsmum

*Yammy*, by googling your username anyone can find your posts under that username, they can’t find out who you are.

"They can't find out who you are", or can they? Some people have contacted me to be careful and they have left! People give clues to where they live inadvertently I admit, they also give information about being away on holiday etc. I was just passing on the warning I have been given.

No they can’t identify you from your username but you may post details which would enable someone who knows you to realise who you are.

I have not been identified myself, I hope I am careful enough but have been warned on occasions lately and I was passing it on. I might be having a foggy time but did not realise that if you googled your user name your postings will come up, as they found out. My DDs have called it an "OH Mother" moment. all my secrets are still safe.

Yammy

I have not been identified myself, I hope I am careful enough but have been warned on occasions lately and I was passing it on. I might be having a foggy time but did not realise that if you googled your user name your postings will come up, as they found out. My DDs have called it an "OH Mother" moment. all my secrets are still safe.

I also attempt to be quite cautious. Details obscured.

Our daughters say "Mum, you're looking at that? silly you."

While I realise that it's possible that I could be identified I'm not altogether sure why anyone would want to identify me...

Unless we were approaching some sort of dystopian situation where one could be arrested for one's political leanings,,,

P.S I think that meetups could be potentially more dangerous...What if one of the lovely grans were a 5th columnist?

I hear you Yammy👏🏻
I don’t say much online, no really personal stuff especially what you do for a job or where you live or pics or anything .
Def not a meet up either.

MaizieD

While I realise that it's possible that I could be identified I'm not altogether sure why anyone would want to identify me...

Unless we were approaching some sort of dystopian situation where one could be arrested for one's political leanings,,,

I can't see the problem with someone possibly knowing who I am; I'm not giving away any financial information, nor contact details. And why would anyone want to, anyway; I'm not very interesting!

Should I fear a posse of grans finding out where I live and marching up to my door and shouting at me about my opinions? I hope I would welcome them in and make them cups of tea.

If anyone wants to con me out of money or learn all my passwords or anything else, they will need far more than recognising me as someone they've met or who lives near them.

There’s anonymity for those who need it. Those of of us who don’t need it can be a little more reckless. I don’t believe I’ve given enough to come to any harm….

Utopia, a world free from want does not and will not exist, there are far too many that will sit back an exploit the industrious.
The “right” to a good life, is not balanced by the “responsibility” to contribute as much as you can, that is just as prevalent at low incomes as high incomes.

Utopia, a world free from want does not and will not exist,

Which doesn't mean that we can't try to get as near to it as possible.

We certainly won't achieve it by demonising some sections of society and by defending the 'rights' of another section to monopolise as much of society's resources as they can lay their hands on.

MaizieD

^Utopia, a world free from want does not and will not exist,^

Which doesn't mean that we can't try to get as near to it as possible.

We certainly won't achieve it by demonising some sections of society and by defending the 'rights' of another section to monopolise as much of society's resources as they can lay their hands on.

Well said MaizieD!

A friend booked a taxi to take them to the local airport on two weeks holiday. The taxi driver talked to them about where they were going. When they came home their house had been completely cleared out, and the taxi driver had not been checked by the company and had used an alias.
Some people give far too much away about themselves and even their actions. How do you know you have not been identified? Do you expect them to contact and tell you?
Thanks, Oreo for seeing what I am getting at.
If you don't mind being identified carry on as normal if you wish to remain anonymous be careful.

Yammy

A friend booked a taxi to take them to the local airport on two weeks holiday. The taxi driver talked to them about where they were going. When they came home their house had been completely cleared out, and the taxi driver had not been checked by the company and had used an alias.
Some people give far too much away about themselves and even their actions. How do you know you have not been identified? Do you expect them to contact and tell you?
Thanks, Oreo for seeing what I am getting at.
If you don't mind being identified carry on as normal if you wish to remain anonymous be careful.

Surely this issue deserves a thread of its own? It's got nothing to do with my original post!

Agree choughdancer a fairer world. We were cheated out of a JC and a Labour Government Senior paid staffers in labour were working against Labour. Good that a leaked report showed what they did. Now the right are in opposition with Stanmer a liar The notable top barister Forde was interviewed said labour had not responded nor acted on his many recommendations there exists a hierarchy of racism in Labour Starmer only interested in getting rid of anti racist Jews who support Palestine Starmer is authoritarian and undemocratic and establishment

choughdancer

Yammy

A friend booked a taxi to take them to the local airport on two weeks holiday. The taxi driver talked to them about where they were going. When they came home their house had been completely cleared out, and the taxi driver had not been checked by the company and had used an alias.
Some people give far too much away about themselves and even their actions. How do you know you have not been identified? Do you expect them to contact and tell you?
Thanks, Oreo for seeing what I am getting at.
If you don't mind being identified carry on as normal if you wish to remain anonymous be careful.

Surely this issue deserves a thread of its own? It's got nothing to do with my original post!

It has everything to do with your original post, if you inadvertently give details about yourself and your political views are apparent when you provide opinions on your original post.
I actually discussed with someone if I should put my original post on and they agreed.
Nothing to do with Gransnet but they did not realise just like I didn't that you and your opinions on anything you answer can be found on Google by a quick Google search.
You are asking people to give their political opinions I pointed out that they would go down forever and be very easily found..

You are asking people to give their political opinions I pointed out that they would go down forever and be very easily found..

So you are foretelling a dystopian future in which we will be harmed by expressing our political opinions on social media?

What do you know that we don't?

I think I've more chance of being identified on twitter, where I do post in my own name than from what I say on Gnet...

I would be interested to know exactly what "Democratic Public Ownership" actually means choughdancer. How does it differ from old fashioned nationalisation?

Germanshepherdsmum

Some people just don’t think their idealistic demands through - if they did they would realise that some of the consequences would adversely affect them, not just ‘the rich’.

That would be true of all those with extremist views GSM. Even people on GN, both on the far right (shades of the 1930s) and the hard left (shades of the early 1900s), will make such extraordinary claims.

Extraordinary?

I’d query parts of number 3 HOUSING FOR THE MANY

On average, British renters spend 30% of their income on rent. Over one million households are waiting for council and social homes, whilst quarter of a million people are homeless. Housing is a human right, not a commodity – everyone deserves a decent, safe, warm and affordable place to live.
Yes, but . . .
Whilst people choose to have more than one home just to get away to for a holiday, particularly in tourist or small village areas, some people don’t even stand a chance of finding somewhere to rent.

We need an immediate rent freeze and reduction
not sure how that would work

an end to no-fault evictions Yes

and an urgent mass council home building programme.
Yes. (I don’t want a lecture on who authorised the right to buy council houses.)
If the houses built were council houses, there would be less chance for new houses to be bought by those who don’t need a home, just an investment.
Where would the funding for these council houses come from? Our rates have just gone up to account for filling in potholes among other things. Would ring-fenced funding from the government in power provide the source?

Why anyone would want to identify me is a mystery, my gc don’t call me Barmeyoldbat for nothing!

Germanshepherdsmum

Extraordinary?

Is that about my spelling again?

volver3

www.epi.org/blog/inflation-minimum-wages-and-profits-protecting-low-wage-workers-from-inflation-means-raising-the-minimum-wage/

Why increasing the minimum wage doesn't imply a detrimental effect on prices. That's an old right wing excuse that doesn't work any more.

that excuse was used by Victorians who stuffed children up chimneys and had children crawling around looms in the mills. Most of us who are economically literate know the reasons given for non implementation of a fair minimum wage are political and nothing more. Well, maybe ignorance too.

You know full well it isn’t. Why is questioning these demands extremist or extraordinary? I question them but am neither extremist nor extraordinary in my opinions.