What's it like living in the UK?
What's it like living in the UK?
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Oy! That's good meme guvnuh!
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Isn't he complaining right now? Call the POLICE!!
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Oi, you got a loincence for that call?
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The last panel's wording insults the audience's intelligence, imo. "I'd get arrested" would be enough to get the joke across.
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I thought you were going to mention that it says "arrestred".
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Fair do's, that's just how Brits talk, innit?
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Innit?
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Is this just a throwaway joke or a ‘hidden propaganda’ joke? I’ve seen this sentiment twice on Lemmy.
Asking as an American.
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A couple of years ago the previous government added restrictions to peaceful protest to say they couldn't be too disruptive.
Early this year some numptys from the group Palestinian Action broke into a military base and threw paint over military aircraft. The current government classified Palestinian Action as a terrorist group in response to this. I think the general sentiment in the UK is it's fucking stupid to break into a military base and damage equipment and it's luckily they weren't shot, however it definitely doesn't meet the criteria for terrorism. The classification is currently being challenged in court.
Meanwhile people are still free to protest the genocide in Palestine but not free to support the group Palestinian Action and so people who are going to protests with signs that say Palestinian Action are getting arrested.
Hundreds of people have been arrested since for showing support for Palestinian Action specifically. And also 1 guy for supporting Plasticine Action (Stop motion animators against AI)
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Supporting certain countries gets you arrested in the UK now.
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These days, you say you're English...
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Using a vpn might as well soon
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The UK have no freedom of speech laws. Im also American so this is just what ive gathered from other people but apparently if you say anything in support of palestine or other topics you get arrested. Hopefully a brit chimes in.
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We have 'freedom of expression' as outlined in the 1998 Human Rights Act. The HRA says that we are free to express ourselves as we see fit so long as it is within the confines of the law.
We have relatively strong hate speech laws as outlined in the 1986 Public Order Act, which makes it an offense to "[make] threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviours that causes, or is likely to cause, another person harassment, alarm or distress" and "language that encourages terrorism".
Recently a non-violent pro-Palestine, activist group (Palestine Action) was prescribed as a terrorist group, making it illegal to support any of their actions.
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if you say anything in support of palestine
You can say stuff in support of Palestine just fine.
You can't be in support of abspecific group called Palestine Action because they've been designated a terrorist organisation. Whether that group warrants being defined as a terrorist group based on what they've done so far (obviously there could be intelligence that the public aren't privy to) is dubious.
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Jordan Peterson called, he wants his persecution complex back.
Oi, you got a loicense for that meme, bruv?