tom Hardy
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My long read. Boiling frogs… Surely it can’t be that bad!
Our descent into authoritarianism
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hiraethified
Hi - the way it works around here is that you need to add a bit more context rather than just posting up a link and trying to drive traffic to your own work.
Please add some more detail about your linked article and why it's worth looking at,. Thank you.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher 🧀
Précis please. What is this, who wrote it, what is its thrust?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Might be better on the AV forum
8ball
Check your privet hedge
It is indeed quite long.
You may get more favourable reactions if you can find an anti-authoritarian site to post on, though.
Perhaps Mumsnet?
And why do you talk in that fucking annoying roadman affectation in real life ?
tom Hardy
Active Member
This necessarily long read has been published to coincide with the appeal of the Walney 16... necessarily long to show the slow incremental descent into authoritarianism that the public haven't noticed and won't until it is too late for them. These activists are in prison having not been allowed a defence and some with juries told if they didn't find the defendants guilty, they too would be charged with contempt of court. Not really a subject for the hilarity emoji. If anyone cares, please come to the Royal Courts of Justice tomorrow to swell the numbers in support of these political prisoners.
8ball
Check your privet hedge
Oh, Tom Hardy. Thought you meant Santino at first.
tom Hardy
Active Member
When I say my long read it means that I wrote it. When I say its about our descent into authoritarianism it means it is about our descent into authoritarianism. Helpful?
ska invita
back on the other side
its a good catalogue
and its only going to get worse
and its only going to get worse
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
Not going to read something by someone who doesn't even capitalise his first name mate.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
What is the relevance of the picture of the woman at the top of your article? She isn't mentioned in the body of the text. Giving her name, age, occupation and city of residence seems peculiar in those circumstances.
But turning to your argument, yeh it is shit the new protest laws. But when things like that change perhaps it is time to re-examine what we want protest to achieve, and to reconsider the forms of demonstration. I think Roger Hallam said he'd spent ages studying protest to see what worked. Now he has some time on his hands maybe he could look again at the question.
but the oh noes the bastards are being bastards theme which runs through so much comment on protest laws ignores that for centuries nasty laws have been used against activists - the use of the contagious diseases acts against women activists in the 19th century for instance. At some point the question of how much of a barrier will 'we' allow these laws to be will need answering. And at that point forms of protest which are popular or capture the public imagination will be far better than soup on pictures or climbing gantries.
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