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- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 3 days ago:
Yes. Violence is justified if it prevents greater harm or in self defence.
Do you support WW2 veterans? They perpetrated huge amounts of violence, to prevent the Nazis performing greater harm.
Violence is sometimes justified.
We haven’t seen the evidence, I’m willing to concede if the video shows unjust use of force. But they haven’t released the evidence to us yet, and in my eyes seem to have put a huge deal of spin doctoring on this story to illicit an emotional rather than rational response.
At the moment, without the evidence ourselves, cops bash people’s heads in every day, who cares if the reverse is done to them whilst trying to stop the machinery of war and genocide?
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 3 days ago:
Aye, I understand my disdain of policing isn’t the norm. I’m not even completely against having a police force, but there is a severe lack of accountability and consequences for the current police in their many unjust, often illegal, actions.
I think the only constructive thing left to say, without seeing the evidence ourselves, is two things.
One) is to note this article is written almost entirely from the state’s perspective which illicits an automatic sense of right and sympathy in readers.
Two) is to reiterate that we have, as a society, no qualms about the thought of people being smashed over the head with a police baton, but when the reverse happens it’s viewed as barbaric.
If the video is released we can judge for ourselves, but at the moment, I’m firmly in the camp of “they do it to us regularly, in the name of preventing genocide why can’t we do it back?”
If video evidence proves otherwise, fair enough. But they’ve not released it and seem to be making a huge deal of the term sledgehammer when it could be any blunt force instrument.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 3 days ago:
Yes.
The police are the state’s internal violence department (the military being the external violence department). The state however has a terrible track record of using violence appropriately. Why should we accept this as okay and normal?
Yes, the police have other roles that are deemed noble like arresting rapists and murderers, or mundane like giving speeding tickets and littering fines. But their principal role throughout their history has been violence. Not what you see in The Bill, Heartbeat, or the hundreds of other police propaganda TV shows in the UK, but hitting people with sticks and dragging them into isolated concrete cells. Sometimes that may be the appropriate response, but throughout their history, very regularly, it has not been. It’s not as bad as America, but our cops do have still quite a large degree of “qualified immunity”.
I’ve even met off duty cops who bragged about beating up the “hippies”. They love a good protest because it’s an excuse to let off some steam and bash some skulls. Much the same as football hooligans but state sponsored and approved.
Palestine Action are a direct action protest group who targeted military sites to try and stop genocide. They did this fully aware that they will be met with violence. State sponsored violence and potentially privately funded violence. It appears, to me at least, that they brought the sledgehammer to destroy equipment and when met with state violence they panicked and used what was in their hand to defend themself. After all, they are opposing state sponsored violence which results in thousands of daily deaths, how can they not expect to receive similar from a state which is supporting that?
Was it wise? Probably not.
Is it the terrifying, weapon wielding, hark back to the middle ages, violent attack it’s been portrayed by those it benefits to portray in that way? No.
If they had a baton in their hand instead of a sledgehammer when the police stormed in it wouldn’t be so catchy a headline. It clearly wasn’t brought just to fuck people up, it clearly wasn’t used at its full potential or there would be officers dead.
A protestor in the name of preventing genocide was smashing military equipment with a hammer, and when attacked by the state violence department for doing so, used what was in their hand to defend themselves. Those that have never wielded a sledgehammer may view this as terrifying but those that have used them can see that the police’s portrayal doesn’t add up (I used to use them regularly for work). A sledgehammer brought for the purpose of violence would result in far more considerable injuries than what happened here.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 4 days ago:
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 5 days ago:
Yeah he’s a man. Till you say something he don’t like and all his toys are out the pram. But that’s a man, innit?
- Comment on Mountain of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field contains rubbish from councils 5 days ago:
Multiple lorry loads dumped during the day over multiple days, with the land being excavated by diggers beforehand.
Sounds like this has been unofficially officially approved.
About sums up this country to be honest.
Corrupt and full of shite.
- Comment on UK hospitals bracing for once-in-a-decade flu surge this winter 6 days ago:
Also, I’m not a statistician so I may be well off here. But if it didn’t occur last year or the year before when they predicted it would, doesn’t that mean it’s more likely to occur each year that passes that it doesn’t? If it’s a regular occurrence like the headline implies.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 week ago:
The word cult is derived from the Latin term cultus, which means ‘worship’.[1] In modern English the term cult is generally a pejorative, carrying derogatory connotations.[2] The term is variously applied to abusive or coercive groups of many categories, including gangs, organized crime, and terrorist organizations.[3]
Sociological classifications of religious movements may identify a cult as a social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices,[5] although this is often unclear.[6][7] Other researchers present a less-organized picture of cults, saying that they arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices.[8]
In its pejorative sense, the term is often used for new religious movements and other social groups defined by their unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals,[11] or their group belief in a particular person, object, or goal. This sense of the term is weakly defined, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and in academia, where it has been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.[12][13] According to Susannah Crockford, “[t]he word ‘cult’ is a shapeshifter, semantically morphing with the intentions of whoever uses it. As an analytical term, it resists rigorous definition.” She argues that the least subjective definition of cult refers to a religion or religion-like group “self-consciously building a new form of society”, but that the rest of society rejects as unacceptable.[14]
🤷♂️ It seems to fit?
Although the article does then continue with:
The term cult has been criticized as lacking “scholarly rigour”; Benjamin E. Zeller stated “[l]abelling any group with which one disagrees and considers deviant as a cult may be a common occurrence, but it is not scholarship”.[15] Religious scholar Catherine Wessinger argued the term was dehumanizing of the people within the group, as well as their children; following the Waco siege, it was argued by some scholars that the defining of the Branch Davidians as a cult by the media, government and former members is a significant factor as to what led to the deaths.[16] However, it has also been viewed as empowering for ex-members of groups who have had traumatic experiences.[15] The term was noted to carry “considerable cultural legitimacy”.[17]
- Comment on Trump just gave an interview to GB News 1 week ago:
Fuck giving this American fascist on Fascist News the attention of this community. It’s about as relevant to the UK as Macron saying he farted in Cornwall once.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 1 week ago:
Fuck the monarchy. Fuck this snivelling pathetic show of fealty to someone who doesn’t know nor care about your existence. Fuck saying this is on behalf of everyone at Feddit.UK.
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 1 week ago:
The article also discusses the practical and how it took one candidate 21 tries to pass
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 2 weeks ago:
Considering the potential consequences of incompetent driving, I’m surprised there’s not a cap on the amount of attempts already.
If not a cap on the total, at least something like “no more than 12 attempts allowed in a year”. If evenly spaced that allows 1 attempt per month, giving time to practice and revise what was failed before.
Any more than that seems to be a case of throwing shit at the wall until enough sticks, or rather, make enough attempts and eventually you’re bound to do one without any majors. That hardly proves competence and capability though, which is really the point of testing in the first place.
- Comment on Who dis? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, ta!
- Comment on Who dis? 2 weeks ago:
It’s because imgur have geo-blocked the UK. Our online laws are so bonkers that they’ve just shut off our access instead of deal with them. Thanks though!
- Comment on Who dis? 2 weeks ago:
Who dis? Dis “Content not viewable in your region”
- Comment on Pass 3 weeks ago:
Pfft, check out this lil hottie and his hairdo.
- Comment on More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care 3 weeks ago:
Freedom of information data from Kent county council (KCC), which is controlled by Reform UK, has documented 345 children going missing from their area, with 56 of those still missing.
Somehow I don’t think this is a coincidence.
- Comment on Catholic Priest Charged Over Calls to Bomb Mosques and Shoot Muslims in Neo-Nazi Chatrooms 3 weeks ago:
During police interviews, Rowles said he was not racist and joined the online groups because he was lonely and had a sexual fetish for role play.
Rowles said he was not racist
not racist
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this, why do so many racists argue that they’re not racist?
Also
he was lonely and had a sexual fetish for role play
a sexual fetish for role play
The court was told he described himself in an online profile as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner.
A sexual fetish to be a 16 year old boy?..
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 weeks ago:
A shame he’s a bigoted arsehole who thinks “you can’t say anything these days” now, but I felt obliged to link this standup
- Comment on UK steps up review of headlight glare as drivers complain of being dazzled 3 weeks ago:
Do you think the government is just 5 people or something?
The government is vast, with many people involved in many different aspects of life.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 4 weeks ago:
British Airways outs themselves as pro-genocide and anti freedom of expression.
- Comment on King Charles hopes nature film will 'inspire' viewers 1 month ago:
The King’s Foundation says the feature-length TV film, provisionally titled Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision, will be screened on Amazon’s Prime Video early next year.
Interesting that the King, of all people, chose to broadcast this on a private corporate channel instead of the BBC. Did the BBC reject it? Why Amazon, a huge polluter?
- Comment on Going ‘behind enemy lines’ at a far-right demo I saw how fascism hides behind a veneer of normality 1 month ago:
…blogspot.com/…/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1
I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you…It doesn’t walk in saying,
"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."- Michael Rosen
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 1 month ago:
A solarPUNK performing speech control?
I said the word fuck. Not bigotry, not insults.
The vitriol is due to their confident ignorance in the face of facts. They were corrected by the admin of the UK server as to there not being a UK green party and responded with an insulting imperialist stance that they all fly under the Union Jack anyway. Throughout this comment thread they responded with nonsense or holier than thou stances. Even in response to my comment they frame it as a debate and order me to stop when there is no debate to be had.
Your comment is a disappointment to your server’s ideology.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 1 month ago:
Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.
Oh fuck off with this ignorance.
The Scottish Greens and The Green Party of England and Wales are not the same and have no official association.
The Scottish Greens officially declared no longer working with GPEW several years ago because of their transphobic stance. They also have different economic outlooks. The Scottish Greens lean towards socialism while the GPEW has a lot of ex Tories.
The Scottish Greens are also pro independence, so do they fuck fly under the Union Jack.
Yes there’s hope now that the GPEW will move more towards a socialist stance but that doesn’t make them the same.
- Comment on Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest 1 month ago:
GMP said it declared Plato – the national codeword used by police and emergency services when responding to a “marauding terror attack” – at 9.37am.
Anyone know why the name Plato was chosen for that?
- Comment on Britons believe the UK is seen by the rest of the world as ‘weak’ and ‘soft touch’ 1 month ago:
Is that a bad thing?
Do people want to be known as the world bully?
- Comment on Former Member of European Parliament pleads guilty to bribery following Counter Terrorism Policing investigation 1 month ago:
Former leader of Reform in Wales. So not some low rung nobody either
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 month ago:
- Why do we complain of Nature? She has shown herself kindly; life, if you know how to use it, is long. But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men’s fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: “The part of life we really live is small.”[1] For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Vices beset us and surround us on every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment of truth, but they keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust. Their victims are never allowed to return to their true selves; if ever they chance to find some release, like the waters of the deep sea which continue to heave even after the storm is past, they are tossed about, and no rest from their lusts abides. Think you that I am speaking of the wretches whose evils are admitted? Look at those whose prosperity men flock to behold; they are smothered by their blessings. To how many are riches a burden! From how many do eloquence and the daily straining to display their powers draw forth blood! How many are pale from constant pleasures! To how many does the throng of clients that crowd about them leave no freedom! In short, run through the list of all these men from the lowest to the highest—this man desires an advocate,[2] this one answers the call, that one is on trial, that one defends him, that one gives sentence; no one asserts his claim to himself, everyone is wasted for the sake of another. Ask about the men whose names are known by heart, and you will see that these are the marks that distinguish them: A cultivates B and B cultivates C; no one is his own master. And then certain men show the most senseless indignation—they complain of the insolence of their superiors, because they were too busy to see them when they wished an audience! But can anyone have the hardihood to complain of the pride of another when he himself has no time to attend to himself? After all, no matter who you are, the great man does sometimes look toward you even if his face is insolent, he does sometimes condescend to listen to your words, he permits you to appear at his side; but you never deign to look upon yourself, to give ear to yourself. There is no reason, therefore, to count anyone in debt for such services, seeing that, when you performed them, you had no wish for another’s company, but could not endure your own.
- Seneca the Younger
en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/…/Chapter_II
I highly encourage everyone to read these letters by Seneca, the Stoic philosopher, at least once in their life. Preferably earlier than later.
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 1 month ago:
Good. Fuck off big pharma.
