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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Methinks an estate agent is about to get sued out of existence for failing to do any money laundering checks whatsoever. Private Speech posted:What about tory mods.  Equally bad imo.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:but demanding people do sex work to avoid losing their benefits is an interesting point. (brothel advertises on job centre Web site under some euphemism; job seeker turns up, realises it's a brothel; sanctioned for turning down work. No idea how common it is, but it's happened)
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fuctifino posted:I take it I'm correct in that nothing has been mentioned so far about the ethnicity and nationality of the bomber and those arrested? He white, OP
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josh04 posted:I think it's been upgraded to A Terrorism now, as of this morning. I'm still sticking with my bet though, they were pretty quick to call it a terror when that British Somali guy tweeted anonymously at that Tory
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Solefald posted:Lmao the gently caress is that reporting Also there is a foolproof way to deal with the ads on YouTube, it's called paying for premium (yes it's me the weirdo that does that, it comes with my music subscription don't @ me)
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Jedit posted:using a bomb is inherently an act of terror. Terrorism is actually extremely difficult to define, & international discourse on the subject is kinda toxic due to countries like the US refusing to accept any definition that could conceivably apply to state terrorism. Imo it's actually a fairly pointless label, applied selectively to stigmatise certain groups. There are valid reasons to treat indiscriminate violence perpetrated against the general population for political reasons differently to "ordinary" violence, just the same as we treat hate crime differently to regular crime, but nobody can come up with a sensible definition that catches that without also catching state violence, our own security services & whatever overseas freedom fighters support the state's interests this week. So instead we have terrorism = the violence done by the bad people, who we know are bad because they're terrorists.
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forkboy84 posted:Most of the stuff 15 year old me liked was nu-metal which has aged about as gracefully as an orange left on the counter for a year  real metal, but in hindsight most of it is pretty fun, I quite enjoy it now  Sure would have been nice if there were fewer f-slurs in it tho
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radmonger posted:I don’t see there as being any such thing as a ‘correct definition’, only ones that are more or less useful. Making the distinction between terrorism, state terror, war crimes, genocide and so on seems to me useful because they are different things with different properties, causes and remedies. In academic study, there are sometimes reasons to lump e.g. state terror, paramilitary groups, "lone wolf" nutjobs &c into one category so that you can examine common threads (e.g. my partner's research focuses on terrorist propaganda, wrt which there are common themes throughout all 3 of the above that you can draw lessons from). In terms of public policy, it might be more helpful to be more discriminatory, since very different responses are necessary to organised paramilitaries, angry loners having mental health crises, hostile foreign powers, far right groups &c. Or, it might not, when you can identity the same patterns of behaviour in e.g. radicalisation,* or the utility of counternarratives. The point is, when I hear people/the news discussing whether or not something is terrorism, I tend to roll my eyes because people tend to just either go on an unexamined emotional assumption or uncritically accept the state's obvious nonsense or both, without considering (a)what they're basing the definition on, or (b)what the contextual purpose of the distinction even is. In general, a better question than "was this a terror" is just "what were the motives". *for the record this is another phrase that gets flung around in terrorist discourse without considering its meaning & therefore producing stupid & counterproductive results. Like, where someone starts at point A "my ethnic/national/religious group is being oppressed" & works their way to point B "therefore blow up a bunch of innocent people", the state seems to think that point A is the radicalisation rather than point B, and so just do stuff like Prevent which only exacerbates the fact that actually point A is often a fair loving point Borrovan fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Nov 17, 2021 |
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Yeah honestly respect for that There's a weird mentality with prison wardens where they don't seem to understand that the deprivation of liberty is the punishment & it's not their job to punish people more, so they take it upon themselves to generally make life lovely for everyone (in particular the elderly & disabled, since it's easier). I know some people itt take issue with the phrase "the cruelty is the point", but, in this case, the cruelty is the point.
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Regarde Aduck posted:'terrorism' has a negative connotation by consensus. So no, the majority of people would not recognise something as 'justified' or 'good' terrorism. Which means you shouldn't use it that way if you want a conversation to go anywhere. In fact, the definitions that scholars prefer are by definition bad (even if it's sometimes for a good cause or w/e), since terrorism has to be indiscriminate. So (to pick a couple of edge cases), targeted violence against, say, members of Combat 18 (a group of specific individuals) is not terrorism, whereas mass violence against gay people (a general population) is. My partner's particularly interested in loyalist violence in NI, which gets extremely muddy. Especially when the state wades in saying "nonono not us, but plz also include that turf struggle between criminal gangs kthx"
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:In a vaccum, stripped of all context, you're right. Materially speaking, the word "terrorism" has hugely negative connotations. The YPG is a proscribed terrorist organisation, but the Free Syrian Army is not. Only one of those groups has substantiated allegations of war crimes against it, but hey it happens to be the one that's politically useful to the West so nbd. As actually used, it's pretty much a political designation.
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Guavanaut posted:Nelson Mandela was a convicted terrorist, on account of his terrorism convictions that he had, but usually the only people who make a point of raising that are attempting to give it moral weight. Which might be exactly your point, I'm tired and brokebrained atm, my bad if so
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radmonger posted:by definition, i.e. that your original statement is false Almost as if you don't actually believe it & just feel like arguing (badly) about semantics
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I refuse to believe that that isn't satire
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I read it instead of being on time for work & I'm happy with my choice
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LSWU (the UVW thing) was set up by the Haldane Society back when I used to be involved with them (I was nothing to do with it but kinda knew the people that were), they're good eggs broadly speaking,* committed leftists with a lot of expertise. No idea how it's been going since it was set up mind. Literally everybody involved at the start was London based, the one thing that I'd caution is that the people involved had a bit of a habit of forgetting that there was such a place as not-London. Hopefully that's changed now, idk though. *the other thing I'd caution is that there's loads of trots & quite a few tankies in Haldane, but the tankies tend to get shouted down, the trots are far from the worst I've encountered, & iirc the people actually involved in setting up LSWU were broadly the ones with their heads screwed on. It is a left wing union though, and specialised, so basically with the proviso that idk how well it's been going I'd say it's probably the best shout Borrovan fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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City centre here is entirely pedestrianised & I've got a very disabled friend whom I often drive into town, there's a load of free disabled parking right outside the mobility scooter place, it works absolutely fine, they cost less to hire than I'd spend on non-disabled parking anyway & she's got total independence to go about town whilst I get a sandwich or w/e If towns don't have that facility then they definitely should because it's amazing, imo pedestrianisation+scooters is far better than hoping some oval office hasn't parked in the disabled bay you need (ime probably slightly better than even that they have). But I guess you don't get signal boosted by the car nonces if you push for that
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Guavanaut posted:There's no real advantage to car nonces from having a pedestrian area that acknowledges that some people cannot always easily pedester But yeah I was mostly alluding to those anti pedestrianisation protests you sometimes see with like a dozen gammons & exactly one disabled person that they're using as a smokescreen. Used to see loads of them in Bristol
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Here's an example I was teaching about yesterday of how seriously our courts take international human rights law:s335A(3) Insolvency Act 1986 posted:Where [an application to the court to sell a bankrupt person's home] is made after the end of the period of one year beginning with the first vesting ... of the bankrupt’s estate in a trustee, the court shall assume, unless the circumstances of the case are exceptional, that the interests of the bankrupt’s creditors outweigh all other considerations. The courts think that this is perfectly consistent with: Art 3 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child posted:In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration Because occasionally not disregarding the child's needs entirely is definitely the same thing as always regarding them as a primary consideration.
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ThomasPaine posted:Finkelstein is a very cool lad who is absolutely up to here with people cynically exploiting his parent's memory to legitimise far right political projects iirc  Jewish Chronicle posted:Dismissing suggestions that you should be labelled an antisemite if you denied the Holocaust or if you “call Jews killers of Christ”, Mr Finkelstein said: "I don’t know if Jews killed Christ or not – those are things that should be debated and you come up with your own conclusions.”
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goddamnedtwisto posted:mostly I didn't like the sensation of not being able to trust my own senses. However, liberty caps give me a nice warm fuzzy feeling which frankly just feels great, hallucinations notwithstanding (which is good news, because my buddy found & dried a load a few weeks back  ) Guavanaut posted:Have you ever wondered what is like to live the life of HBO's hit dramedy Succession, available on HBO Max and Amazon Prime from only £1.89? (if they are being paid for it, the author should still be sacked because they make it sound poo poo)
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The Perfect Element posted:I thoroughly recommend foraging for liberty caps, or hell, just foraging in general, to all goons. Here's some of the mushroom photos I've been sent lately:          
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Sky News have got an aerial photo of the parking situation, & the police tape being up suggests it's probably an accurate slice-of-life: I don't condone murder outside of very limited circumstances, and if I did condone murder here it'd probably be the developers not the residents, but yeesh
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Grey Hunter posted:When my brother bought his house eight years ago on a new build, the rule was a minimum 1.5 parking spaces per house, so of course that's exactly what they built. Apparently that's the average number of cars a family has nationally - which of course discounts those people who live in cities and use public transport, if you live in an area with no decent links then you are out of luck. People just get utterly entitled when it comes to parking spots, regardless of actual "right". In fact, there's probably an interesting lesson there in terms of the psychological concept of "ownership": the fact that "I'm using it it's mine" is such a strong psychological instinct is regarded as the strongest justification for the law of adverse possession, how people actually think about what "property" means is radically different from what the law says. Essentially, the human brain just outright rejects "private property" in favour of "personal property" in pretty much any real-world application, & it's remarkable that the exact opposite is true in political discourse.
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If so, I also don't see why it's any of his business If he didn't want to pay your heating bills he shouldn't have contracted to pay your heating bills
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Jel Shaker posted:it’s kinda the same thing with the johnson family tbf
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imo Jaeluni's post was the worse nightmare fuel.Jaeluni Asjil posted:Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero: Ed Miliband I'm not surprised, just disappointed (however, lol@'flips)
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Angepain posted:That "what did you do during the war, daddy?" poster but the answer is "make a few snippy subtweets at the Nazis but also sometimes work for them"
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NotJustANumber99 posted:where was the cold for those 18 months? Someone was sitting there with it for all that time? my 10 week old has slept through the night since day 1. Insisted on doing it on my chest for the first week or 2 mind, but I feel like I've won the lottery & look forward to my karmic punishment
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