le_pouffre_bleu@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoJust Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK]www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square181fedilinkarrow-up1460arrow-down111
arrow-up1449arrow-down1external-linkJust Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK]www.theguardian.comle_pouffre_bleu@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square181fedilink
minus-squarefebra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up87·2 years agoAmazing. Losing democratic rights quite quickly up there in the UK, I see.
minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down1·2 years agoThe solution is to break the social contract on both sides. Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
minus-squareqdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down6·2 years agoNothing will be accomplished without violence.
minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down5·2 years agoCivil disobedience, more likely.
minus-squareendhits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·2 years agoCivil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
minus-squareqdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·2 years agoAgreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·2 years agoCivil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
minus-squaresteeznson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 years agoThat is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 years agoSo what’s your complaint? They did what you said they should do.
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoHe also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.
minus-squaresteeznson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoMy understanding was that he did some kind of tacit endorsement of necklacing. Can’t recall if he was popularising songs that described it or something. However pretty sure he was not personally involved.
minus-squarepinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoPor que no los dos?
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down21·2 years agoWhat are you talking about? They still have the right and ability to vote.
minus-squarefebra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down2·edit-22 years agoYeah because we know democratic rights evolve just around the right to vote and nothing else on top of that
minus-squareowen@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoI’m sure North Koreans feel blessed with democracy and freedom every time they hit the polls LOL
minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThey would be totally good if they got 2 choices instead of one.
Amazing. Losing democratic rights quite quickly up there in the UK, I see.
The solution is to break the social contract on both sides.
Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
Nothing will be accomplished without violence.
Civil disobedience, more likely.
Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
Agreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
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Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
That is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.
So what’s your complaint? They did what you said they should do.
He also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.
My understanding was that he did some kind of tacit endorsement of necklacing. Can’t recall if he was popularising songs that described it or something. However pretty sure he was not personally involved.
Por que no los dos?
What are you talking about? They still have the right and ability to vote.
Yeah because we know democratic rights evolve just around the right to vote and nothing else on top of that
I’m sure North Koreans feel blessed with democracy and freedom every time they hit the polls LOL
They would be totally good if they got 2 choices instead of one.