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Every day we get closer to an Orwellian society. The United Kingdom may already be one.

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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I should post about my arrest

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like there’s a story waiting to be unleashed. Please continue.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a post in itself and I only got about half of it down before work, so I'll drop a link here after I finish it tonight.

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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Took a while to get it all down but I've posted it here: https://hexbear.net/post/5776309

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The UK would be one if anyone could be bothered to run it properly.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're looking to install Nigel Farage as their prime minister. The island is derelict.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not quite.

Farage keeps running around saying "Pick me! Pick me!" and the press keep asking "Is farage a viable candidate?" while not offering the same credence to anyone else.

The British public are "We're fucking sick of this bollocks from the establishment" and a lot of them are falling for the privately educated ex city trader Farages nonsense that he's a "man of the people" because all the centrist parties are saying "aren't immigrants awful?" in an attempt to distract from their own incompetence and quite frankly, the left is 10 years behind in offering a coherent alternative to all the bullshit.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

a lot of them are falling for the privately educated ex city trader Farages nonsense that he’s a “man of the people”

This parallels Trump, but I think it's mostly not that people are really fooled into believing these wealthy politicians are just like them. I think the attraction is more that the current system isn't working for a lot of people and hasn't been for a long time. Someone who offers to tear it down can attract a large following even if they don't have a good proposal for what to replace it with.

It took a while for me to see that because I find the racist and nationalist beliefs of the likes of Trump, Farage, and the AFD so appalling it's hard to see anything else.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Definitely, it's them playing stupid so centrist liberals will mock them because they can't help themselves and they use that to say to the genpop "look, I'm just like you and these sneering elites are laughing at me, and by extension you"

I think the attraction is more that the current system isn't working for a lot of people and hasn't been for a long time.

Exactly. They play the outsider who has the balls but not embroiled in the quagmire, to come and "drain the swamp"

The perverse hilarity of trump saying this is that he is the 1%, he is the trust fund kid that had everything handed to him on a platter. He literally is the swamp (a corrupt child rapist)

Farage in the UK went to one of the top schools (Dulwich college) where he was disciplined for singing Hitler youth songs. He got a job in the city through his dad as a commodities broker before going into (disrupting) politics and people seem to believe his shit when he acts like he's one of the common folk!

People need their heads banging together falling for that shit!

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[–] inna@lemmings.world 6 points 3 days ago

For the age verification is it possible to sign a petition? I think is not too late to join forces… or anything but not letting them go further.. as of the chat control probably only contacting the representatives. I really hope lawyers and businessmen try to fight it…

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

As an American it's nice to see were not the only ones in a complete downward spiral.

EDIT: wild that there are users pretending to be butthurt by this obviously joke comment so they can farm upvotes from the tens of users on Lemmy

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 7 points 3 days ago

Nice? I wish it was just the US so getting to another country would make it safe for us. This is awful.

It's nice to see that the rest of the world is just as bad as U.S.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

Orwell never could have imagined society as it exists currently.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Not even close to the horrors of an Orwellian society and saying it is is an insult to the characters in those books. It isn't great though, and it's heading in a troubling direction

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago

Oh no! Wouldn't want to insult those fictional characters

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[–] lemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Have you already written to your members of parliament about chat control, and possibly other matters? Seriously, do it. There is very little you can do, but this might actually help. Slightly. Maybe.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

how will this "client side scanning" be implemented?

it's, not only worrying, but very confusing.

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