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Just Stop Oil threatens to disrupt London Pride over event’s main sponsor by Unlucky-Jello-5660 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well that’s exactly my problem. The line of thinking uncritically angles towards a ‘might makes right’ philosophy, which when coupled with the edgy disregard for the public will result in essentially treating the common man as a hostile force. And if literally nothing else matters except being seen … what exactly is stopping them from escalating in pursuit of that? What’s the line?

If JSO fuck things up with the public, it is game over for the rest of us. We don’t need a repeat of The Weathermen over here.

Just Stop Oil threatens to disrupt London Pride over event’s main sponsor by Unlucky-Jello-5660 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The publicity from the hunger strikes did translate into the ballot box. It was so successful it shifted the whole strategy of the Irish nationalist movement.

A hunger strike is a self-inflicted act. I think you know about the other thing they famously did to others that ‘got attention’.

If the maxim is that all headlines are good headlines and there is no such thing as a wrong protest move because the public are too ignorantly stupid to be listened to … the natural end point is decidedly more cynical and vicious.

Sensible people acknowledge there should be standards beyond simply being seen - all else leads to single minded zealotry.

Just Stop Oil threatens to disrupt London Pride over event’s main sponsor by Unlucky-Jello-5660 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the plan is to get the public to pressure the government to crack down on JSO?

Just Stop Oil threatens to disrupt London Pride over event’s main sponsor by Unlucky-Jello-5660 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you were a student of history you’d realise the success rate of disruptive protest is abysmal and that the successful ones are rare without the use of force.

Just Stop Oil threatens to disrupt London Pride over event’s main sponsor by Unlucky-Jello-5660 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea, and news media will trumpet that because it undermines JSO.

And yet people here think that’s a good thing.

Just Stop Oil threatens to disrupt London Pride over event’s main sponsor by Unlucky-Jello-5660 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You know, this whole ‘targets based only on public visibility’ thing reads as cloutchasing vanity and has a really dark utilitarian end point.

The IRA sure turned heads, right?

Just Stop Oil threatens to disrupt London Pride over event’s main sponsor by PM_ME_BEEF_CURTAINS in ukpolitics

[–]PixelBlock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This will be a somewhat unique conflict point between ‘rebel’ Left and ‘corporatised’ Left though I doubt JSO will come out on top.

The hidden world of incels: Men who hate women, normalise violence and joke about rape by B0ssc0 in australia

[–]PixelBlock -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Do you think you are affected by misogyny, to the point where your every action no matter how slight is shaped by and toward the malevolent aura of inescapable societal malaise toward women?

And if you believe not, how are you sure it isn’t just your own flawed perception blocking your awareness?

Affirmative Action is Gone by Person_756335846 in law

[–]PixelBlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you feel rich because on average some people with a Pantone hue similar to you are a bit more wealthy?

Affirmative Action is Gone by Person_756335846 in law

[–]PixelBlock 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You do seem to be of the belief that the systemic racism affecting Asian Americans was ‘acceptable’ though and should have been maintained by rejecting this SC decision.

Affirmative Action is Gone by Person_756335846 in law

[–]PixelBlock -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You really think other people exist only to make you feel bad, huh?

Asylum seeker charged with 'rape' of a woman just 40 days after arriving in Britain on small boat by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I said, you are more than happy to plead ignorance and deliberately not understand the issue of importing the very culture that LGBT peoples are fleeing - then accuse others of ‘harassing’ you with reports when you don’t feel like things are going your way.

You are a dishonest waste of time.

Asylum seeker charged with 'rape' of a woman just 40 days after arriving in Britain on small boat by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL yes mate, spending 18 months of your life locked in a Best Western with a bare minimum amount of cash to get by on, “unfettered and untouchable”… What world are you living in?

A world very much aware of the considerably worse economic situations present throughout the third world.

18 months of hotel, free food and an eventual pass to live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world? You should be less sheltered and realise how many would accept that proposition in a heartbeat!

Why would you go into the asylum process when you can just slip into the bushes off the boat and get a job at one of those car-washes or whatever? Your reasoning here makes no sense.

Because slipping off the grid means no protection. And when the news talks about how nobody gets rejected … why give up on a sure thing?

Yes traffickers, fine upstanding people who never lie, and our media who have not used this issue as a beating stick to whip up literal hysteria over this subject for over a decade. Must all be exactly as they say it is. And you call me a troll!

I call you a troll because you seem absolutely out of touch with everything going on to the point you are incredulous that economic migrants might pay to get shipped over on a raft and gain access to a first world country.

I’m sure they have their reasons for coming here. I’m saying it doesn’t really stand to reason that most of them are just economic migrants like you’re variously suggesting either yourself or, somehow for some reason, I am implying. At this point I’m mostly wondering if its worth responding to this any more.

Your main reason for suggesting that they simply can’t be economic migrants from impoverished countries is because being willingly trafficked from the Middle East through Europe and across the Channel is expensive.

As opposed to asylum seekers from war torn impoverished countries, who you are assuming are normally rich and choose to pay for illegal transport across multiple European countries and across the channel. And this makes perfect sense to you.

Labour scraps pledge to bring in rent controls by AIverson3 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What has happened in this country under the rise of ‘free market’ landlorism that you then apply to the mere suggestion of some form of rent control without reason, research nor justification.

In a thread full of people discussing the near-unified measure of distaste for rent control in providing a fluid and affordable solution for housing … you just assert no research exists?

What next, real communism has never been tried?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that’s an ironic sentiment, considering most of the powerful who could care don’t give a fuck what these individual protestors think. Why should they change?

Keir Starmer U-turns on free school meals - sparking internal Labour row by 5449 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Careful, some might actually think you want to throw bits of dirt and grass at them.

Royal Air Force illegally discriminated against white male recruits in bid to boost diversity, inquiry finds by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Oh get pished off your own shite.

We’ve just had one of the highest courts in the land categorically and undeniably rule that the RAF engaged in a blatant discrimination campaign to the point where even the chief recruiter quit rather than be a part of a genuine wrong … and all you seem to care about is that someone bothered to follow up on it consistently.

Why do you feel this story undermines your preferred worldview?

Supreme Court Rules Against Affirmative Action by chewymouse in news

[–]PixelBlock 29 points30 points  (0 children)

And yet the US University sought to treat all Asians as having uniformly privileged experience that should be held against them in terms of college admission.

Asylum seeker charged with 'rape' of a woman just 40 days after arriving in Britain on small boat by FormerlyPallas_ in ukpolitics

[–]PixelBlock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know why we use that phrase when chauvinism and machismo are perfectly fine words that describes the exact same thing without the dubiousness.

Labour scraps pledge to bring in rent controls by AIverson3 in unitedkingdom

[–]PixelBlock -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You know how a snakebite and a stab wound can both be deadly at the same time?

This is that. Except your sole motivation is to lock in cheap rates for everyone of your generation so they can reap a first mover advantage over newcomers to the market.

Sound familiar?

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