• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Four people were arrested on “suspicion of malicious communications”

    WTF? Sounds like some authoritarian thought crime BS straight from China, North Korea or Russia FFS (and more and more the US).

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        It’s odd because the ”slide” is overseen by the political alternative to the outright Trumpian fascism, voted in on a mandate of indifference to do maintenance on an economy in inescapable decline. Just wait until Farage takes power after the next general election.

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          In capitalist electoralism, all “sides” are subsumed by the needs of capital. Imperialism and neo-colonialism have stripped the last bit of fat from the corpse of the global south, and now the psychopaths turn their gaze homeward and begin to cannibalize their own. Our only hope is to drop the fake divisions of left and right and organize together as the people against the parasitic ruling class.

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          Labour were voted in on a mandate of “change” specifically. Literally, their one word slogan used during campaigning. Now, obviously they’re the single transferable party, so nothing was actually going to change, but I do want to make sure no-one forgets that was their one promise.

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        But they do it with British understatement, that’s why nobody around the world notices it. It’s not as shrill, when people sipping tea say things like “Jolly, they invited our neighbours to the conci-tuffy-encampment. I reckon we won’t having them over for tea that soon. My, my!”

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    Did he have to notify local authorities and residents before his visit or does the UK not have the same child predator laws as the US?

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      Same notification that Prince Andrew has to give; which is to say none as neither has been convicted of abusing minors, yet.

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    I wonder if he’ll come back with a fake English accent. An example would be his dissing Gavin Newsome. “You have a low I.Q., governor”.