OccamsRazer
@OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 4 days ago:
The UK government apparently thinks that Palestine action is a much bigger threat than the anti vaxxers, but that isn’t really the point. Why don’t you just admit that you are an authoritarian and you only care about authoritarianism when it’s used against you and your preferred causes?
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 5 days ago:
Dang I gotta really spell it out for you. The government makes classifications of crimes that can be applied and then used to shut down speech that they don’t like. That is what they did with the anti vaxxers and that is also what they’ve done with Palestine action. If you allow them to use tools like this, then eventually they will use it against something you believe in. Public nuisance is a whole lot less serious of a crime compared to terrorism, but the end result, or the goal anyway, is the same; shut down people who give voice and advertise causes they believe in if the government doesn’t like them. Additionally, these tools of the government change hands as the parties in power change. Authoritarianism is dangerous no matter who it is used against and needs to constantly kept in check or eventually it will be used against you.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 5 days ago:
What do you mean? The UK has had a list of terrorists for a long time and if you support them then you can be arrested. “These laws have always been on the books.”
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 6 days ago:
Yes that is the very problematic and dangerous mechanism by which they stifle free speech, and you won’t care until Palestine action people are similarly charged. Which is my entire point.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 6 days ago:
Yes, they also expressed those views…
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 6 days ago:
I was asking if he thought they should
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
Yeah? Do you think that should be punishable with jail time?
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
these guys got arrested, but not sure if they served jail time.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
It started during covid, but nobody cared because the people being locked up were anti vaxxers. It didn’t stop there. It never does.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
Well in that case there probably isn’t a single nation ever that should be proud.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
Whose was it? At what point in history was ownership established and why was it not the previously displaced people’s instead? How long does it take to establish ownership, and what means are justified to do so? Who exactly is the United States anyway?
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 month ago:
Well that wasn’t really the question. But actually I met her when we were both pretty young so I don’t recall it being much of an issue. We probably talked about kid stuff.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 month ago:
It’s not small talk, because i actually care how my wife’s day was.
- Comment on If Christians were real, they’d be lining up to post for their sins (not trying to avoid judgement). 1 month ago:
It’s pretty hard to take you seriously tbh.
- Comment on If Christians were real, they’d be lining up to post for their sins (not trying to avoid judgement). 1 month ago:
You got a lot of anger bud.
- Comment on If Christians were real, they’d be lining up to post for their sins (not trying to avoid judgement). 1 month ago:
What are you even talking about.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There are no perfect people, and I don’t even like the idea of good people or bad people. Everyone has some good and some bad in them. The north were the good team, but that doesn’t mean that they were good people or that the south was evil and full of evil people. Slavery was evil, but that isn’t the only institution, belief, or generally accepted practice that has later been recognized as evil. Nor will it be the last. If you want to evaluate people from the past by today’s standards, then very few will pass. Nobody is born with an inherent and correct understanding of right and wrong, it has to be taught and reinforced by parents and by society, which means that it will vary and change. If we are a product of the time and culture we live in, then it isn’t fair to judge them by our standards and culture.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 1 month ago:
It’s still way up from a year ago. The insane climb after the election was unsupported hype, which has been corrected. Say what you want about tesla, but the stock price looks pretty healthy.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 2 months ago:
Advertising, marketing, and the stock market are the worst aspects of capitalism, and the system could be improved dramatically with heavy restrictions on all of those. Yeah it would shrink the economy, but the new steady state would be much better. Less waste, better stuff.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
You don’t have to be neurodivergent to have an opinion about fork shapes. Also 2 is the best.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 2 months ago:
Dude the edgelord routine is brutal
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 2 months ago:
You can’t use logic based on a belief and simultaneously write it off as mythology if you want to be logically consistent. You first assert that Christianity is mythology, but then reference Christianity itself to “prove” that people who believe in it are sinners, framing them in terms of the belief that you just asserted was false. Your whole thing is nonsensical.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 2 months ago:
Well your logic doesn’t do much to prove your assertion…
- Comment on More Details Emerge Of Plan To Kill Supreme Court Justice 5 months ago:
Alright
- Comment on More Details Emerge Of Plan To Kill Supreme Court Justice 5 months ago:
On lemmy it’s hard to tell the difference between trolls and people who genuinely want blood. I suspect you are trolling, but also suspect that there is a significant number of lemmy users who would actually hope for supreme court justices to be assassinated. This isn’t like a laughy jokey let’s kill our political opposition (“haha!”), but people who are deranged enough, entrenched enough in their positions and world view, and incapable of seeing outside their narrow perspective, that they think this would be a good idea. It’s thinking that would literally lead to destabilization of the United States (“but that’s what we want! Haha!”) and consequently the entire world. Literally the only people who want this are accelerationists and global enemies of the United States.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 8 months ago:
That wasn’t so hard, was it? People tripping over themselves to find a gotcha and forgetting to use a little common sense.