As American, I’m always so glad to see our cousins across the water follow our inane footsteps. Cheers Brits!
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Some Aussie comedian on KGB News has just said that the disabled should be shot or starved into work …but a few people holding signs is the problem. How baffling.
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It's so much easier for the frog to not realize it's being boiled in the UK because there's no consolidated constitution to point to
Not sure that matters too much, frogs in the US are boiling fine too. The constitution can be brushed aside just as easily.
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Let's hope the UK citizens prove less cowardly than the US ones.
At least they have Corbyn daring to do what Sanders does not.
The British haven't been too good at protesting in the near past
Arguably not in the recent past, but let us not forget that the suffragettes were very committed protesters. They did more than just organize symbolic protests though. They also carried out bombings and arson campaigns and one of them ended up cutting Winston Churchill's face with a dogwhip.
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Basically not since the 18th century really.
They used to be glorious though.
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You have a lot of trust in people who voted to isolate themselves from their biggest allies and trading partners just a couple years ago.
took me a minute before i realized the US only did that months ago instead of years
I don’t see how relevant that is here. Arguably the EU is supporting Israel’s genocide.
It's relevant, they're easily led by the nose, and now they're kissing the diaper. From what I can see, they're no better than the americans.
They're already monarchists
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The Brits need to make like the French and lop heads off until they have something resembling a functional democracy.
And we should probably consider the very wealth as an aristocracy of sorts for that to be effective.
Yeah interesting how our first attempt at democracy. Was started by and failed due to. Religious fundamentalism.
Given only wealthy land owners could vote. Hardly democracy.
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Always have been a police state, anti terrorism laws are ALWAYS used to silence 'dissident' voices
From 5 July 2025, it is an offence under the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 to be a member of Palestine Action,[7] fundraise for it,[8][9] wear or display items arousing reasonable suspicion of membership,[10] or if someone invites support or even "expresses an opinion or belief supportive of" Palestine Action "reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support" it.[11] These offences carry a maximum penalty of up to 14 years in prison for membership or inviting support, and up to 6 months in prison or a fine for displaying supporting items.[7][10][11][9]
Is Palestine Action a specific movement/group or is palestine Action literally just supporting Palestine? Asking from a non UK perspective.
It uses Direct Action which are methods that governments tend to associate with terrorism
It's a group but of course considering the name they will be easier able to charge anyone supporting Palestine
It's a specific group that was proscribed after breaking into RAF Brize Norton and vandalizing tankers.
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It's a specific group that recently broke into an RAF base and started mucking about with the aircraft, hence why the government aren't their biggest fans.
Shortly after they did this they were designated as a terrorist group by the home office which is why public support is an offence.
Ah, thanks for the info.
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US does police state better.
Germany does it the best
We did it the best from 1933-1945, but currently we are nowhere near the american police state.
ACAB. Doesn’t matter where or when in the world we’re discussing. ACAB is universal.
While this is true, there are still various degrees of how much the police is used as a tool of oppression and the shit we see in America is miles away from what we see in Germany.
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Not to defend Germany, but given their relative size of prison populations, and number of citizens extra judicially killed by law enforcement. The US is, measurably, the worse of the two.
Yes, it’s more sporadic in Germany, but because it’s less of a police state, they sometimes have to get creative. I don’t disagree that the US is measurably worse in basically all categories, but Germany’s not exactly good. It just goes to show that all cops are bastards.
ACAN - All Cops Are Nazis
In Germany we are at a point where it's difficult to identity antisemitism became everyone who doesn't actively support the genocide in Gaza is called an antisemite
Same as everywhere else
...in the western power block, a relatively small portion of the world(despite ridiculously appropriating the name ' intenational community ') that now has another good reason to be hated by the rest of the world.
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US is Judge Dredd.
UK is 1984.
Apt considering the setting
Orwell was writing what he knew
Does it different. In the US the violence is more up front. Here it's done through mechanisms of the state.
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