Aceticon

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When the Snowden Revelations came out, it turned out the UK did as much or maybe even more civil society surveillance as the US, and unlike the US it doesn't even have constitutional limitations on surveillance of people on their own soil (in fact the UK doesn't even have a written Constitution).

In the US they actually walked back on some of the surveillance (because of said constitutional protections), in the UK they just passed a law that retroactively made the whole thing legal, got the editor of the newspaper who brought out the Snowden Revelations kicked, fired a bunch of D-Notices around (the UK's Press Censorship mechanism) out and nobody ever talked about it again.

As soon as the technology was good enough for that the UK created a Digital Stasi and it's only gotten worse since.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hooliganism is members of the Working Class fighting other members of the Working Class or Foreigners due to nothing more than tribalism and enjoying violence.

It has zero to do with pushing back on those with power over them or standing up for one's principles.

Hooliganism is actually a perfect example of the one of the ways the elites in the UK control the "lower" classes by having them discharge their anger at each other instead of going against the powerful.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

The guys committing violence with the aim of terrifying the public into changing their political standing are the two blokes with the high-vis vests.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

"They're the same picture"

In fact Zionist is pretty close to actual NAZIsm, only with different ubermenschen and untermenschen - not merely "traditional" Fascism which is anchored on Nationalism but actual ethno-Fascism which is anchored on Racism and hence far more murderous.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

It's not quite "jumping from the frying pan into the fire", but it certainly is "jumping from one frying pan into another frying pan".

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

Steal the cake from the public.

Slice it up and sell the slices to the fatcats at discounted prices.

Throw a few crumbs towards members of the public and claim that "now everybody can own it".

It's been the neoliberal strategy for privatizing public assets since the very start.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

If they're not going backwards they get confused...

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If there's one thing that living in that country during the Leave Referendum has taught me, is that Racism in Britain is far more fine grained than merelly skin color: basically there is a prevalent idea amongst mainly the English (also amongst those of the other nations, but it's less common) that they're inherently superior to everybody else but Americans.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

If you think it's the skin color that makes or not people like this, then you're the same kind of person as the neo-nazi in that picture.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Had it been a frail old lady on a wheel chair holding a piece of paper with the words "Palestine Action" written on it instead of a neonazi, the police would've pounced on her and dragged away to jail.

It makes sense since the neonazi is probably one of their mates.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Their job is not to solve crimes, their job is to get people convicted, the subtle difference being that they'll turn non-crimes into crimes (for example, they'll chose to legally interpret things which can go both ways as crimes which require prosecution, which is why one often sees kids criminalized for childish bullshit) and it doesn't matter if the person convicted is innocent, all that matters is that somebody got convicted (so, for example, they won't try and find exonerating evidence).

This partly explains their tendency to take an adversarial posture towards people who aren't from their group, also partly explained because that posture itself indirectly feeds back on them (people are weary of them because of how act towards the general public, which in turn makes them feel apart and suspicious hence they behave even more so) and partly because they do tend to get exposed far more than most people to the seedy side of humanity all with a judgemental mindset and an aim to see crimes, so even a lot of the stuff they see which most people think is just silly fun (say, most drunkenness), they'll see as crimes.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 87 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

The poor copper lost all that time arresting a guy with Plasticine Action on his t-shirt only to have to de-arrest him when he could've been arresting an old lady with the words "Palestine Action" written down on a piece of paper for her to be prosecuted and maybe even get a jail sentence.

That mistake was making it hard for him to make his quota of arrests for that week, the poor bloke.

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