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UK News: For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a
  • NomecksEnglish
    36•9 months ago

    Protest = Jail time

    Throwing rocks at Rishi Sunak = Jail time

    It’s important to recognize opportunities when they present themselves.

    • Echo DotEnglish
      21•9 months ago

      It’s been pointed out to them many times that if they remove the right to protest people will just go to more extreme options. But they apparently don’t care so by all means throw rocks at him.

  • @AltofaltceptionEnglish
    33•9 months ago

    Now now you can protest things as long as they have been vetted and approved by the government.

    • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMeEnglish
      15•9 months ago

      “If your cause isn’t just enough to be granted a permit by the government, then you shouldn’t believe in it”

      • Echo DotEnglish
        7•9 months ago

        Free speech would be been allowed to protest about anything

        • kaseEnglish
          0•9 months ago

          True, but it’s the government who says you’re allowed to ;D

      • @[email protected]English
        1•9 months ago

        “Free speech” means freedom from consequences from the law, not necessarily from individuals who are allowed their own judgment accordingly

  • @BuffaloxEnglish
    16•9 months ago

    We don’t need Putin to ruin Europe, we can do that all by ourselves.

    • @APassengerEnglish
      8•9 months ago

      The UK isn’t Europe. Geographically it’s in Europe, but I think they’ve been drifting from the continent for a while now.

      • @BuffaloxEnglish
        4•9 months ago

        Yes I think I get what you mean, UK is no longer in the EU, and they want to go their own self destructive way, but unfortunately they are technically still a part of Europe, and they are regressing towards worse after Brexit. We may wish to denounce them as European, but unfortunately that’s just semantics and doesn’t solve the problem of Europe ruining itself. Just look at Hungary, Slovakia, Netherlands and Italy. Even Germany that has been a bastion of Democracy for 50 years, now has elected 78 right wing extremists AfD into their parlament.
        Poland has regressed quite a bit too, but maybe they are changing a bit for the better now.

  • @YewbEnglish
    7•9 months ago

    laughs in monarchy

  • @yesmanEnglish
    5•9 months ago

    Their are two kinds of movements the government won’t try to oppress, the impotent and the reactionary.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•9 months ago

    “Nope, this protesting license is expired. Have to bring you in now, don’t I? P.C. Walters, go and get my rubber hose from the car.”