• Ozymandias88@feddit.uk
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    23 hours ago

    A couple of years ago the previous government added restrictions to peaceful protest to say they couldn’t be too disruptive.

    Early this year some numptys from the group Palestinian Action broke into a military base and threw paint over military aircraft. The current government classified Palestinian Action as a terrorist group in response to this. I think the general sentiment in the UK is it’s fucking stupid to break into a military base and damage equipment and it’s luckily they weren’t shot, however it definitely doesn’t meet the criteria for terrorism. The classification is currently being challenged in court.

    Meanwhile people are still free to protest the genocide in Palestine but not free to support the group Palestinian Action and so people who are going to protests with signs that say Palestinian Action are getting arrested.

    Hundreds of people have been arrested since for showing support for Palestinian Action specifically. And also 1 guy for supporting Plasticine Action (Stop motion animators against AI)

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      19 hours ago

      The entire reason for a protest is to be too disruptive! You have to be loud and obnoxious if you want to make a change.

      Fucking Brits, lol. Too polite to even protest properly.

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          15 hours ago

          Capitalism is a worldwide scourge that will homogenize every nation under it’s new and improved model of luxury, bluetooth compatible, AI-powered Jackboot™ with over 2700 positive reviews! Free shipping if ordered within the next 6 hours!

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            3 hours ago

            It’s not “capitalism”. It’s just an ideology like Leninism. Ideologies rely on ideal conditions and circumstances to function well. When those ideologies disregard or outright neglect human nature. As both those do. They have and always will degrade and fail.

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          16 hours ago

          They’re gonna vote for the party that started the genocide next time, and that’ll fix everything.

          They’ve leaned nothing.