leicsmac Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 1 hour ago, Larry_LCFC said: Black Lives Matter is a dangerous, one sided political movement with some really warped ideas. Defunding the police? Really? People jumped on the band wagon without actually understanding what on earth it stands for. No different to joining the EDL thinking you are protecting Brtiains values. Actually you are joining a far right, racist bunch of small minded people. Whilst the idea "black lives matter" is correct, there should be no endorsement of the group whatsoever and the premier league needs to back off. As my reply above tbh, as well as saying again that the message really is getting fragmented either accidentally or deliberately, and putting forward that point that the police in the US probably don't need to be as militarized as they sometimes are and so perhaps don't need all of the massive budgets they sometimes have. 1 hour ago, Innovindil said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53244862 First couple of people already arrested under the new law. Iirc I read somewhere if found guilty its minimum 3 years in prison, maximum life sentence. With pro-democracy hong kongers already melting into the shadows I don't expect there to be anyone left to fight soon enough. I hope that you're wrong and that the HKers will not take this lying down and there is still some fight left, but I couldn't be sure about that. I guess only time will tell. 19 minutes ago, bovril said: USA have got a batshit crazy president but it's looking like he'll lose and I still reckon they're an extremely sane nation compared to most of the world. We love to bash America to deflect from our own massive problems. IMO the US varies by degrees of "sanity" based on location, and the problem is that often the rather less "sane" parts are able through various mechanisms to exert an inordinate amount of influence over the more "sane" ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_baskin Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 3 hours ago, Innovindil said: Crazy days when the death of Hong Kong doesn't even make the FT news thread tbh. Damn shame. Thought they had more time. Glad I had the privilege of visiting now, we always knew this was going to happen but unfortunately China went back on the agreement and did this early, sad to see the last democratic region of China be lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53246899 Should think so too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_Loyal Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/07/01/john-lewis-stores-will-not-reopen/ 'Some John Lewis stores will never reopen as staff bonus faces the chop' 'Up to 18 of the chain's 50 department stores may stay closed permanently, while upmarket rival Harrods is cutting 700 jobs' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_Loyal Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 (edited) . This is why the word racist has just lost all of it's meaning, it makes me sick. Edited 1 July 2020 by Leicester_Loyal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 2 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said: . This is why the word racist has just lost all of it's meaning, it makes me sick. It hasn't. It still has its meaning. People misusing it (like above) just discredit it and actually do those who suffer real racism a disservice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Fox Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 4 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said: . This is why the word racist has just lost all of it's meaning, it makes me sick. I just listened to that interview linked to the tweet and am flabbergasted that at some point people have voted for this lady. She comes across as thick and to follow up being called out on this with labelling someone who calls her out as racist is beyond belief from an elected official. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Fox Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 1 hour ago, StanSP said: It hasn't. It still has its meaning. People misusing it (like above) just discredit it and actually do those who suffer real racism a disservice. This, but the more people like this misuse the word the less meaning it has. It’s an incredibly powerful words and one of the worst things you could be labeled with, but every time someone uses it in a context like this a little bit of that power is taken away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/07/01/john-lewis-stores-will-not-reopen/ 'Some John Lewis stores will never reopen as staff bonus faces the chop' 'Up to 18 of the chain's 50 department stores may stay closed permanently, while upmarket rival Harrods is cutting 700 jobs' Be a massive loss to Leicester if ours was to go, feels like a flagship, mind - though I've only ever been in / seen Nottinghams (in the Vicky Centre, shite) and Leeds (fantastic) efforts, so I've no idea what's par for the course with them. We're not that affluent a city, main concern with that one. Edited 1 July 2020 by Miquel The Work Geordie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuneatonfox in Manchester Posted 1 July 2020 Share Posted 1 July 2020 6 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said: . This is why the word racist has just lost all of it's meaning, it makes me sick. 😂😂😂 What a joke she is. Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicsmac Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53258792 "....look, Don, if you don't start wearing a mask and telling other people to do so, you're going to lose in November." "What, really? Oh, alright then." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53255964 Who was it that said that democracy was a short-lived idea? Two out of the three major world powers are now essentially autocracies and the third is being run by a guy who would like theirs to be so too and many people who agree with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the Hat Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 10 hours ago, Aus Fox said: I just listened to that interview linked to the tweet and am flabbergasted that at some point people have voted for this lady. She comes across as thick and to follow up being called out on this with labelling someone who calls her out as racist is beyond belief from an elected official. It is amazing that someone so ill equipped to deal with an obvious question can be selected to be the candidate. Less amazing that she was elected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 Wonder what Trumps supporters will say now he has (been forced to) back masks? Is there own president squashing their constitutional rights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 15 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said: . This is why the word racist has just lost all of it's meaning, it makes me sick. Disgusting - If it in turn would not be considered racist (TM) then she should be struck off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the Hat Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 3 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said: Wonder what Trumps supporters will say now he has (been forced to) back masks? Is there own president squashing their constitutional rights? They will ignore it I expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie1999 Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 9 hours ago, Nuneatonfox in Manchester said: 😂😂😂 What a joke she is. Christ. Well she’s not is she because today’s philosophy is about air time. Doesn’t matter what someone says or does because for everyone disagreeing with someone there’s always someone agreeing with them. Ban twitter etc and some of these idiots will go away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magictv Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 A real interesting read this one is, French police hacking into a secret phone network used by drug dealers etc. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 Ghislaine Maxwell didn't kill herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nnfox Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 3 hours ago, Magictv said: A real interesting read this one is, French police hacking into a secret phone network used by drug dealers etc. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked Defund the police (not really). This is a real win for law enforcement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post urban.spaceman Posted 2 July 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 2 July 2020 A short story, in two acts. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wymsey Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 Don't know why I chose to watch the video.. https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/lets-go-im-enraged-police-4285276 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie1999 Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said: A short story, in two acts. People just need to learn to keep their gobs shut. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie1999 Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 Getting weird now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the fox Posted 2 July 2020 Share Posted 2 July 2020 2 hours ago, Shane said: Genocide and concentration camps against people of a specific ethnic and religious group by the ruling party. A ruling party which is against religion, targeting a specific religion as a start, and was focused on brainwashing the masses Into having absolute loyalty towards the nation and the ruling party. The picture is only missing a small mustache and superiority complex (don't know about the mustache but the superiority complex is highly likely to surface in the future) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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