huf

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No Palantir’ motion passes as Lambeth joins growing revolt against NHS data deal⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if it’s run by the UK govt, they’ll hand all the data over to the US anyway. the UK’s in five eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands sign petition urging Sadiq Khan to scrap Harry Potter Christmas lights over 'transphobia'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, of course, using her platform to further marginalize and oppress already oppressed people is just an opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands sign petition urging Sadiq Khan to scrap Harry Potter Christmas lights over 'transphobia'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  famine is also a major cultural export of the UK, so i hope you celebrate that too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands sign petition urging Sadiq Khan to scrap Harry Potter Christmas lights over 'transphobia'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re an unironic king enjoyer, what were you expecting? of course they’re fascists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This tiny country repelled an attack

  incredible finnish rewriting of history. they got their shit kicked in and the USSR annexed some land. repelled the attack indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the above article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  no, the word torture has a meaning independent of the laws of the day. it’s been fairly stable for a long time.

  also, why do they need to create “coercive techniques” (methods of torture)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and yet britain kept on doing torture. strange how that works, eh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you cannot be this dense. it was torture. it’s still torture. laws dont define reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  torture, what part of this is difficult for you? even the article calls it torture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  presentism, as if people werent aware that it was torture until the law changed, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the article is about instances of torture and how their legal category has changed in the torturer country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s about torture, not what the torturer UK decides is torture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  they were designed to slip below the legal definition of torture, which is not what anyone is talking about except you, in your desperate attempt to shift blame away from the torturers.

  because the actual meaning of the word is something like this: The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.

  note how there’s no reference to the UN or the laws of the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  because i know what the word torture means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  oh that makes it so much better, that they were torture techniques deliberately and cold-bloodedly developed by the torturers to slip through a legal loophole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and it was torture before that. it would’ve been torture if the romans had done it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re still doing it. nobody but you is talking about the legality, can you get that through your head?

  this is what you’re calling not torture:

  Declassified has previously found that while one member of the Shihuh tribe was being questioned, he refused to give up his ceremonial dagger and was shot in the arm, shoulder, and neck.

  and this:

  They were subjected to now banned methods of torture which involve sensory deprivation, such as completely covering someone’s head with a sack and bombarding them with noise.

  and this:

  They did this by forcing the Shihuh detainees into unnatural stress positions against walls, hooding their faces and subjected them to an “electronic noise machine” – the first use of its kind.

  and this:

  The unit’s methods were so extreme that a report written by military psychiatrists warned interrogation subjects could suffer “hysterical” dissociations, terror, delusions and suicidal ideation – even in training scenarios.

  do you think the torturers didnt know that it was wrong to torture? that they needed the courts to tell them that torture is wrong? do you think the state which then promoted these torturers and put them in charge of more torture was unaware of the torture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  nuance is when you refuse to even recognise torture because the torturers hadnt yet decided to call it torture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  by the legal experts of the UK. who are irrelevant for determining what is torture in reality. this is you defending torture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes you are, and now you’re lying about it too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is not a court of law. we’re capable of recognising torture without your precious courts defining it for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  oh wow, you’re going with the “enhanced interrogation” bullshit? how’s it feel to be a torture defender?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  autism makes you rush to defend past torture done by the UK? weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  why are you stuck on the current illegality of this? you seem to think it’s not right to condemn their actions because they were legal at the time. extremely weird take.

  but tell me, was it legal back then to do a coup and install a dictator and annex a bit of land?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enquiring minds would like to know!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A sirályok, a sirályok rájuk gondolni se jó
  Akkor basznak a fedélzeten mikor süllyed a hajó

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  how much of the land in the UK is farmed by the common farmer, and how much is enormous corporate latifundiums?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  farming will have to drastically change because of soil exhaustion and droughts due to climate change and centuries of systematic mismanagement of the land. a competent state could lead the way and ease the transition, but here we are. it’s going to be terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  he should go back to punching piers morgan