Hell I’m pretty sure you can be arrested at this point for just being near a protest and looking at it the Tories are desperate to turn this country into a dictatorship. I have no idea why they can’t just calm the fuck down.
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean, that’s part of the point of the protests. You protest, you get arrested, you bring both attention and legal scrutiny to the issue. The kid went in knowing it was very likely. If a protest issue disruptive enough to get you arrested, it isn’t a protest, it’s a circle jerk
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
crit@links.hackliberty.org 1 year ago
Reminder that Labour has not said they’d remove any of the anti protest stuff, instead they’ll focus on other things if they win the next GE
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
FYI she’s 20 now, no longer a minor. I know some people will still call a person a “kid” at that age, hell I probably would refer to a random 20-year-old as a kid. But, I call this out since some people insist on infantalizing her so they can more easily ignore her- and her message. I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing, but depending on the message you intend to send you might choose a different way to describe her in the future.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, once you start looking 50 in the old brown eye, anyone under thirty is a kid