Are people really arrested that often for 'hurty words'? The police would never have any time to do anything else if that was the case.I initially read this is a joke and thought I don’t get it.
I think it’s just a variation on arrested and jailed for hurty words. Whilst those who beat up female police officers are still free. The Manchester Airport thing. This is where I see that type of comment on social media
Far right tropes: how to spot if your friend is going down the rabbit hole & how to respond
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frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
I really don't think so.
Silas Loom
Man with glasses
This was in the context of him thinking the UK under Labour is becoming a police state so I'm just wondering about it? Like what was the context?
It was under Labour tbf, 2006.
Apart from the nationally coordinated response to the post-Southport riots, I don’t see how anyone can blame Labour for anything police forces have done recently, though. That would be ridiculous.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
That’s what xenon is saying. It’s an oft repeated trope. I guess people believe it. Coz the cops have gone woke.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Not only hurrty words but people get arrested just for flying the Union Jack and then the council give their house to immigrants just off the boat who also get given a giant telly. You couldn’t make it up…
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
He seemed to think this case had happened last week.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Blair's government did introduce this horror.This was in the context of him thinking the UK under Labour is becoming a police state so I'm just wondering about it? Like what was the context?
PTK
Paul Kegan
People were often done for "Obstruction", which is not obstruction of the highway, but obstruction of the police in the course of their duty. I don't know if this law has been revised, but certainly at one time it applied to almost anything you might do. There was a case in which the police were going to search a building, looking for a man, and someone who said words to the effect "you won't find him in there", was found guilty of obstruction.
Rebecca Riot
Well-Known Member
I've had a builder working for me recently who's a covid denier, doesn't believe climate change exists and thinks Bill Gates and Al Gore are trying to take over the world. He's also very religious (born again Christian, I think) won't watch TV and isn't on any kind of social media so I don't know where he gets his ideas from.
Trouble is, he's also a bloody good builder who does a good job for a fair price so I just have to put up with this shit as builders like him are like gold dust round here.
Trouble is, he's also a bloody good builder who does a good job for a fair price so I just have to put up with this shit as builders like him are like gold dust round here.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
These days...
PTK
Paul Kegan
From where does he get his ideas about God?
I suspect that he gets his ideas about the other things from the same source.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The deep state and the elites.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Indeed. It´s the same as the usefulness of the "woke" epithet as an insult. It has become so meaningless as a trope, that its meaninglessness has become an advantage to the bigot tendency. Because it means nothing, they can twist it to mean anything they (don´t) like.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
This horrible paper had some circulation before (i think) stopping.
The Light (newspaper) - Wikipedia
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
They´re "men of fighting age" when they are too "cowardly" to fight in their own countries; they become "men of working age" when they start to "steal our jobs".
Yes on reflection that trope began during the Syrian civil war if I'm not mistaken. Not genuine refugees, not deserving of sympathy etc. and everything else everyone has said on this thread.
I can practically hear the parentheses.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Bloody cancelling Christmas this year too, aren’t they
Eivets Rednow
Active Member
I heard one recently: protesters are only protesting for the money they get out of it. I spoke to my friend about it who thinks this view is fairly common in some places.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Who the fuck do they think pays them ?
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Of course, totally stupid of me, totally obvious now you've pointed it out.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
This is almost a direct quote from my DM-reading mother. "You´re not allowed to say anything these days" is one of her regular refrains, but she comes up quite short when asked for a credible example.
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