jtb

joined 1 year ago
[–] jtb@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

Because the government has to pay her legal fees perhaps.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never thought I would find myself living in Dickensian England.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

That's how far democracy has gone down the drain, that even criticising cancel culture is 'brave'.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Careful with that pitchfork, Eugene. Free speech is a civil liberty, not right wing.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/civil-liberty

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Take it to a witch-burning.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk -3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Perhaps he can get a job at the Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12636545/cartoonist-steve-bell-refuses-apologist-anti-Semitic-Netanyahu-sketch.html

The Guardian was started by Unitarians who are supposed to be open to ideas, but now it fully embraces cancel culture and censorship, like any orthodoxy.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Let's make farting in public a crime.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Cancel culture is fine as long as the majority is right. But gay people were once a victim of cancel culture.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is old news.

But what browser should I use? Do I have to check the politics of every employee or volunteer?

[–] jtb@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago

How do you make steel for wind turbines without fossil fuels? How do you build a nuclear power station without fossil fuels? How do you replace all the petrol and diesel cars in the country with electric ones, without using fossil fuels? Where is all the electricity going to come from? It's complicated.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

First principle: "To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The original purpose of the police was crime prevention. They should be out on the beat, not sitting in the office staring at screens. Having police wandering around deters crime.

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