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Nobody has tried to citizen's arrest Blair for war crimes in ages now. Maybe this knighthood is what's needed to get that arrest bounty going again.
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The fact that he's cast Corbyn out while staunchly defending Blair is a classic example of his instinctive defense of Establishment interests.
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I mean it is also entirely possible that given he was appointed under blair's government he just likes blair and war crimes a lot.
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Zalakwe posted:I don't think there is a clearer example anywhere of middle class opinion haver think than Tony Blair. The commentariat just seem to assume he's revered.
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To be fair those don’t do drugs classes you have to go to after you get caught doing drugs are probably quite good for meeting like minded people. I imagine the after-class drinks are a loving riot
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Comrade Fakename posted:This is just a necessity for building a winning coalition. Ultimately, Labour has to take popular positions in order to win power. lol at the Lib Dem numbers here Also in Canada we've had legalised cannabis for a while now and literally nothing changed, except you can now buy weed from a shop instead of your dodgy mate from uni
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I'm vaping legal UK mediweed right now, and have some legal Ghost Train Haze on its way to me tomorrow via DPD. The future is already here for some. In other news, lol 
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fuctifino posted:A blanket decriminalisation is certainly a step in the right direction, rather than this suggested age and postcode limited trial that's being suggested in London, but full legalisation is where it should be at. Adults should have the right to choose which substance they want to take, and be able to go to a superdrug and purchase super drugs from a qualified professional. Decriminalisation is still prohibition, and it still allows a criminal black market to exist. And then just go off willy-nilly and take whatever they want, however they want, whenever they want? All totally wild-west like? No planning a safe and secure environment? Not too cool imo - this sort of stuff needs a good community around you, older lags who can help if you start to freak out (I was a frequent "trip shepherd" for first timers in my acid-head phase, and had loads of friends who worked as volunteer "bad-time" spotters and helpers in clubs during the whole ecstasy period (to be clear we weren't straight ourselves, we just understood the map)), or let you know that "actually that particular combo will gently caress you up and not in a nice way but if you try pacing it like this..". My peers and I had a keen interest in knowing what we were getting into before we got into it - on my part inspired by a book I've never read but saw advertised in one of my folks' Whole Earth Catalogues when young, basic message was "you wouldn't jump in a high-powered car without having at least an idea of how it works so why the gently caress are you feeding your head with chemicals that you don't understand the physiological and psychological impacts of? Get educated and be an informed sybarite not a victim." And I'm not proposing some overly-constricted total controlled "setting" a la Leary, ugh no. I was at Stonehenge Free Festival in 1984 I have seen the possibilities of a full on anarchic but benign approach - gently caress there was even a drug-free Zone there if folks just wanted to chill and lose some of the crazy. In the flat I lived in (and had various flavours of import and distribution going on out of, underground news networks as well as party favours) we had one hard rule "Nothing is Compulsory" - meaning that it did not matter if most of the folks in the room were about to drop acid, or mix a massive chillum, etc. if you did not want to partake and just wanted to hang out and enjoy the vibe/show then that was cool and no one gets to say otherwise. Watch us make idiots of ourselves, learn, only join in if and when you want to. Smack wasn't encouraged on site (or at all really) cos we weren't going to become a loving shooting gallery (and Embra had a huge smack problem, places like Muirhouse were positively post-apocalyptic in feel), but if you did arrive on the nod we'd stick you in a chair and keep an eye on. Rude not to. fuctifino posted:Courses in 'Drugs are bad mmmkay?". There's a good chance that such courses will be compulsory to escape it being escalated to a criminal charge or caution. I'm pretty certain such courses are compulsory in Portugal, and that the attendees are required to pay for them. Yeah, I've already typed too much (this poo poo is too hard for me to click-with in text, verbal communication always works better, I'm old  And the lack of dialogue means it just keeps pouring out QED  ) but, the comedy potential of a truly informed head in a "Drugs are bad mmmmkay?" session must not be overlooked. "Define drug" is a good start - lets go off on alcohol, and tobacco, and sugar, and chocolate, and (face it) the internet if we're gonna talk about mind altering things and how bad they are. Compare and contrast, ask them what they know about feeling drunk, how about being stoned? Trick is to remain ludicrously "reasonable", interested, engaged, talkative but not overtly fighty, let them think you are really interested in what they say but always keep a handle on where the conversation is going. (Funnily enough, call-centre hell work is great training for this). Wear them down with your incredible lack of butting heads just keep nudging the conversation into places they hadn't planned for. This stuff is old. What do you think the dolescum where doing back in the day? Performative comedy as survival strategy. Shame that too many of the truly wild cases are no longer with us - when the travelling folks got forced to stop they "coincidentally" all started getting hard drug habits and lots of them died. gently caress Thatcher.Enough!, or Too Much! to quote an old visionary. I'm gonna gently caress off cos I have to get up early and try and do some work on my "parts" van to make it mobile cos some shite keeps calling the council and reporting it as abandoned. So I'm "reasonably" gonna move it a short distance round a corner cos the Council don't really care that it's parked in a wee industrial estate they just want the wanker to stop calling them. The fact that I call them to say what's going on rather than waiting for them to badger me goes a long way - they're just tired phone-monkeys themselves after all and if no one tells them about it they are certainly not going to go look for it. They've already agreed that if the calls continue after it moves, and in light of the repeated instances of vandalism on it last year, that I'll have a good case to argue Targeted Harassment - something that the police actually suggested after the second bit of damage, we just assumed it was drunk neds but if trouble follows it that's a different story....no curtain twitching "neighbour" is getting off that easy. Tools are there to use.
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https://twitter.com/BBCWalesNews/status/1478464261575823364quote:The court heard how Thomas, of Mayfield Road, Port Talbot, tried to break into the building just days after it was revealed the piece was set to leave Wales. Prosecutor Sian Cotter told the court neighbours called the police after hearing him breaking a window at 05:30 GMT.  aura.
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learnincurve posted:Banksy should paint one on the side of that guys house Demonstrating that true art is in fact fungible.
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/BBCWalesNews/status/1478464261575823364 Always useful to get a reminder that the legal system exists to protect property rights over pretty much everything else.
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forkboy84 posted:Always useful to get a reminder that the legal system exists to protect property rights over pretty much everything else. I'll have you know a full 10% is devoted to other things, like being cruel to people with no property
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learnincurve posted:Banksy should paint one on the side of that guys house or do a permanent loan to a local museum Genuinely, yeah, this feels like the sort of thing where he should step in in some way as a political artist. I hope he does, and it's cool and creative.
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EmptyVessel posted:So you're saying that they are capitalists? They can gently caress right off and all. "Brands" ffs. Short step from coke snorting Tory-boy that. I've seen kerryfolk and I say put the fence back before any more healy raes get out. Guavanaut posted:
I missed this but want to add: if you say this to a portuguese healthcare worker they start screaming at you. There's some good articles about the complexities of the approach, but in the shortest form it's "tell cops to gently caress off and let medical professionals deal" with the stress entirely on the second part of the sentence. Any first hand accounts make it come across as a bit don't ask/don't tell. The best blanket policy I've seen is the canton-wide (but I dont remember the canton) free heroin program in Switzerland, which had an average duration of addiction under a decade, an average time for plateau-into-maintenance of 2 years, and an average employment history disruption, per addict, around six months. Imagine going to glasgow or the poorer coastal towns in England and saying "I can have everyone here happily back in work in 6 months for a tenth of the price of letting them sleep rough for that time" Spangly A fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Spangly A posted:Any first hand accounts make it come across as a bit don't ask/don't tell. So it's not so much that decrim magically fixed the problem, more that it gave certain local authorities the latitude to handle it properly and that worked. I don't doubt that there's some locales in Portugal where you just get arrested and stuck in front of the state sponsored 'drug bad' lecture, but knowing there's a district where the pigs can say "oh, heroin, does anyone need a nurse?" saved lives. Not as good as some kind of formal legalization but better than what was before. I can imagine some healthcare staff aren't massive fans.
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Found out earlier that somebody I used to work with has left academia (after ten years as a postdoc, oof) and has got a new job working for an NFT startup 🥴
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TACD posted:Found out earlier that somebody I used to work with has left academia (after ten years as a postdoc, oof) and has got a new job working for an NFT startup 🥴 From one pyramid scheme to another
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Endjinneer posted:Demonstrating that true art is in fact fungible. It was painted with stencils, which is, ironically, a really good example of the difference between fungible and non-fungible. The painting is fungible. The stencils are non-fungible.
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Britain's elite is at any given time, always either raping children or raping ethnics, or having like 8 mistresses. What in the gently caress man can you all have a normal one I mean America's zero points better but it is insane I guess Theresa was a fairly normal person? Anyone have contradictory evidence of this because if so 
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Britain's elite is at any given time, always either raping children or raping ethnics, or having like 8 mistresses. I'm not aware of any evidence that she was a sexual deviant but by good was she not normal
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Dabir posted:I'm not aware of any evidence that she was a sexual deviant but by good was she not normal lol the woman is an absolutely typical upper middle class Tory voter.
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Who are also necessarily a kind of deranged, but yes may is probbaly the least loving weird PM we've had in a long time.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I guess Theresa was a fairly normal person? Anyone have contradictory evidence of this because if so Clearly never seen her running through fields of wheat like a badass...
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keep punching joe posted:John major was fairly normal (with the exception of being pegged by Edwina Currie). He even had a relatively normal school life, and shunned following in the footsteps of his circus parents to be a bank clerk. The only man in history to run away from the circus to join a bank.
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That's literally the backstory of one of the characters from making money lmao.
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OwlFancier posted:That's literally the backstory of one of the characters from making money lmao. Wouldn't be that surprising if Mr Bent was a direct reference to John Major tbh
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Gordon Brown was pretty normal wasn’t he? I feel like Gordon would be quite a nice man to go on a short hike then have a pub lunch with. Maybe meet up with two jags after
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Jakabite posted:Gordon Brown was pretty normal wasn’t he? I feel like Gordon would be quite a nice man to go on a short hike then have a pub lunch with. Maybe meet up with two jags after I hope you're paying for lunch cause he spent all the poonds
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It's interesting how when Bob down the pub thinks that covid is both a bioweapon and fake and 5G that makes him a conspiracy theorist, but when Blair believes that Iraq has a program of weapons of mass destruction not as a matter of fact but as a matter of faith because he needs it to be true in order to justify the thing he wants to do anyway that isn't treated likewise.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I hope you're paying for lunch cause he spent all the poonds I was just going to fire all the staff instead
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Jakabite posted:Gordon Brown was pretty normal wasn’t he? I feel like Gordon would be quite a nice man to go on a short hike then have a pub lunch with. Maybe meet up with two jags after I DON'T AGREE, HE'D GO TO LEGOLAND, BYE.
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