The Doctor

as I don't know all 60m people in the UK, obviously it's a tiny proportion of data, however frankly I've had enough experiences and know enough people who've had enough experiences to know that the police aren't interested in protecting people, just property. Hell, there's a reason why a lot of feminists say that rape has been effectively decriminalised in the UK with it's abysmally low conviction rates and it's not because the police are listening to victims and investigating that henious crime

has he tried to please everyone? it's seemed more like he's taken the left and centre for granted and tried to appease the right, at which point the left and centre have en masse gone wtf? and moved support to the greens/lib dems/your party

yes it does, and no, they don't tend to bother investigating.

genuinely incredible just how badly they've ****ed it. Like, we're approaching Liz Truss levels of approval

it's not cynicism, it's informed experience of having previously engaged with the police.

what would be the point? depending on the crime they'd either ignore it or turn up 5 hours later to look at me for 5 seconds, tut and give me a reference number for something they'll never investigate I think that's hypocritical given Starmers government is far right tbqh

I don't think there's a single state that a) doesn't exist and b) supports pinata economics (we beat the rich with sticks until they give their money back to the people they stole it from) so I doubt that

a couple of individuals didn't, PA as a whole did a lot of blockading. If we're judging by a few bad members then it's long past time to ban the Met Police (but again, it's not considered the same because of the states monopoly on violence, and the police are effectively an occupying army to enforce that)

sacked our Nige. Get them relegated, up the ****ing gas

generally speaking no, objections should be in the form of blockading. it's a picket line, don't be a scab, and in blocking weapons from being sent out.

shouldn't be put in undue danger, however if you work in the arms industry you are complicit in gross violations of human rights and should expect reasonable objections to the legitimacy of your work (you also shouldn't be able to sleep at night if you have a soul)

generous to call GB "News" cat shit tbh, more like lion shit (that stuff is foul).

If you don't know what anarchism means perhaps. like I could give the Bud Cubby quote from dimension 20 ("laws are threats...") for a pithy response but truth is that a state is basically a dominant group of people who've declared that they hold the monopoly on legitimate violence - for anyone who thinks that the only legitimate violence is in self-defence or defence of those who can't defend themselves it then becomes clear that all states are illegitimate and inherently authoritarian.

right, at risk of being dismissed as an out there communist (my politics are more anarchist in nature), that definition applies to the police and the military. Are police forces and the military then state sponsored terrorism? If not, then there has to be more to it than just the definition as to whether a group are considered terrorists or not, and all indications around this are that that more to it is simply the UK government outraged that it's allies are being questioned over significant human rights abuses, and it's role in those abuses is also being questioned. That's not keeping us safe, that's authoritarianism

I mean, I'm not aware of Palestine Action causing bodily harm to anyone (and you'd think this government would have released that info by this point given it is turning into their poll tax moment), so yes, it is just property damage.

I mean, not to start another argument but I wouldn't trust a court decision on this, particularly since this year the supreme court have already demonstrated that they're not particularly interested in ruling in a human rights legislation complaint way (That the ECtHR can overrule this and require states to actually remember their human rights obligations is why some of the far right are not agitating to leave the ECHR despite it being one of Britain's finest achievements)

Yes. It's a dangerous path to be going down around the suppression of free speech and the right to object to the governments actions if property damage is considered terrorism rather than vandalism. Personally I think that what we're going to call terrorism should be restricted to taking actions or inciting actions that are intended to cause mass death or injury, to intimidate people in service of a political ideology. Still not perfect (that would for instance still perfectly describe the suffragettes and they were absolutely right) but that's the one man's terrorist is anothers freedom fighter issue.

he was crap as a number 9. He was ok when he dropped in behind daka and suggests if we lose BEK it might not be the end of the world, but he cannot lead a line for a wethers original

Hamzas decided he could do a better job as chairman. probably right too

big flaw in that argument, and that is that we're run by these two clowns

at this point he'd be more popular with the fanbase if he released that evidence tbh

not sure why my response to this was held then not approved but basically, due to either reluctance of the police to do so, or a lack of resources, we're already essentially there, and of the laws that are being effectively ignored, some are far more important than arresting peaceful protestors

ok, 90% of his set pieces are dogshit.

his set pieces are ****ing dogshit but he at least looks capable of being mediocre at this level.

kinda seems like 'don't send police to arrest people sitting in a public space with placards' is the solution here then