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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 2, 2023 21:18:29 GMT
You were assaulted by BNP? Then you should realize that protestors can be annoying, especially during rush hour, but why are you supporting this irrational anger against these earnest people who are doing this to draw attention to an important issue which affects the environment?
I'm insulting her because there were probably thousands of commuters affected by that protest, but she alone thinks she is so special that she alone should be allowed to cross the protest line. The headline makes it sound like hers was an emergency. It was not life and death.
That's what I especially do not like, the deceptive way in which the story was presented. And the fact the everyone is lining up to support violence against protestors.
In the UK I have the right to travel. This means I can use roads lawfully. These cunts are interfering with the rights of normal people. They are also breaking the law regards blocking roads. The government has just brought in repressive legislation in the UK to clamp down on protests and nobody complained and its because of these wankers pissing everyone off. So not only have they caused massive inconvenience, blocked the emergency services and caused actual harm to come to more than one person that couldn't get to a hospital, they are restricting the right of travel directly and have caused a restriction of our right to protest generally. So well done I guess. And its not like the UK is doing nothing about climate, we already pay a 25% surcharge on energy bills to subsidise "Green Energy" and we've closed every coal power station we had except one that closes next year. To be fair there were a lot of complaints about the new legislation.
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Post by deviates on Aug 2, 2023 21:25:53 GMT
Whether you support the message or not, the methods just aren't working. These are methods similar to those associated with rights movements around the world. The methods demonstrate the disparity in rights as the protesters are carted off or in someway treated badly. Here, the cause is just to abstract for people. They're doing harm to their cause whilst acting like martyrs.
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Post by thorshairspray on Aug 2, 2023 21:31:34 GMT
Whether you support the message or not, the methods just aren't working. These are methods similar to those associated with rights movements around the world. The methods demonstrate the disparity in rights as the protesters are carted off or in someway treated badly. Here, the cause is just to abstract for people. They're doing harm to their cause whilst acting like martyrs. I would have less issue were they protesting for rights but they aren't.
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Post by deviates on Aug 2, 2023 21:32:14 GMT
Whether you support the message or not, the methods just aren't working. These are methods similar to those associated with rights movements around the world. The methods demonstrate the disparity in rights as the protesters are carted off or in someway treated badly. Here, the cause is just to abstract for people. They're doing harm to their cause whilst acting like martyrs. I would have less issue were they protesting for rights but they aren't. Exactly my point.
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Post by thorshairspray on Aug 2, 2023 21:34:51 GMT
I would have less issue were they protesting for rights but they aren't. Exactly my point. Thing is, they want oil phased out....which we are doing. We are moving to green energy. But even if the UK stopped the use of ALL fossil fuels of any kind this instant, it would make no difference to Global Climate. So whats the point of them?
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Post by deviates on Aug 2, 2023 21:40:00 GMT
Thing is, they want oil phased out....which we are doing. We are moving to green energy. But even if the UK stopped the use of ALL fossil fuels of any kind this instant, it would make no difference to Global Climate. So whats the point of them? Who knows. Some of them are probably fairly earnest. Having taught secondary school for 11 years I got the sense that many of the older kids wanted their own movement to fight for. An injustice to crush. Suffragettes and the major feminists successes had been and gone, ditto many of the other rights-based protests. So this one became the fight for some. It's simplistic but I'd put money on it being a contributing factor for some.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Aug 2, 2023 21:42:06 GMT
Batter someone, to me, means cover some girl's face with your jizz.
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 3, 2023 0:14:29 GMT
Anyway, let’s lighten up a bit…
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Aug 3, 2023 0:41:47 GMT
Batter someone, to me, means cover some girl's face with your jizz. I was assuming "batter" was one of your wacky English terms. That's why I didn't say anything. Stammerhead seems to know what it means.
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Post by ayatollah on Aug 3, 2023 3:25:01 GMT
They need to come up with a protest method that won't prevent emergency traffic from getting where it needs to go.
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 3, 2023 9:01:10 GMT
Batter someone, to me, means cover some girl's face with your jizz. I was assuming "batter" was one of your wacky English terms. That's why I didn't say anything. Stammerhead seems to know what it means. Monkey’s definition seems more localised but in this case the term derives from battery as in assault and battery. If it’s wacky it’s because someone is being whacked.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Aug 3, 2023 9:28:43 GMT
I was assuming "batter" was one of your wacky English terms. That's why I didn't say anything. Stammerhead seems to know what it means. Monkey’s definition seems more localised but in this case the term derives from battery as in assault and battery. If it’s wacky it’s because someone is being whacked. I would have thought the other way round - that battery comes from batter. Anyway, I looked up the etymology and found these interesting snippets:
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 3, 2023 9:46:11 GMT
Monkey’s definition seems more localised but in this case the term derives from battery as in assault and battery. If it’s wacky it’s because someone is being whacked. I would have thought the other way round - that battery comes from batter. Anyway, I looked up the etymology and found these interesting snippets: The History of English podcast has made me aware of a lot of stuff like that. One of my favourite examples is ducks are called ducks because they duck. The word duck comes from Old English dūce 'diver', a derivative of the verb *dūcan 'to duck, bend down low as if to get under something, or dive', because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending; compare with Dutch duiken and German tauchen 'to dive'.
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Aug 3, 2023 15:26:00 GMT
I was assuming "batter" was one of your wacky English terms. That's why I didn't say anything. Stammerhead seems to know what it means. Monkey’s definition seems more localised but in this case the term derives from battery as in assault and battery. If it’s wacky it’s because someone is being whacked. Well us Colonials say "batty" meaning "wacky". But if you batter something in the States you put it in a flour and egg mixture and fry it. That's why I said Monkeys' conflation of batter with jizz was a bit wacky.
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 3, 2023 16:53:23 GMT
Greenpeace know how to do this sort of thing. They visited Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire home.
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