Casnewydd📍| 24 y/o | Prifysgol Caerdydd | NCAFC 🟠 | Cymro 🏴
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2 Jul 2022
Might be a bit basic and do a thread of all the matches I attend this season, starting with last nights short trip to Undy.
FT: Newport 7-0 Undy
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At this point between proscriptions, insane terror laws, getting tried by literal nobles, surveillance, censorship, banning children from talking to their friends or listening to music on youtube, could any reasonable person describe the UK as a modern, western liberal democracy?
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We are ruled by idiots.
Do they not know every 15 year old revises GCSE’s on YouTube?
Do they not know that teenagers track their friends are home safely on SnapChat?
Do they not realise that - especially in rural areas with no transport - teenagers social lives are on… social media.
Do they not know that teenagers will find ways round - as has been shown in Australia.
This ban is illogical and damaging.
If I hear another parent say “it’s so hard to police them” I’ll scream. It’s a parent’s job. Take responsibility the children you are meant to be bringing up.
It is not the government’s job to look after your children.
But the government will now insist all adults provide ID to prove we are over 18.
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Yesterday, we had a lad freely throwing Nazi salutes right in the beak of a UK Copper.
Today 117 people, including pensioners, were arrested for opposing genocide in Gaza.
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The fact that your government has made it illegal for me to answer yes is a damning testament to your flagrant disregard for civil liberties.
This may be targeted at those taking action against the genocide, but it sets a very dangerous precedent that puts everyone at risk.
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attempting to goad your political opponents into getting arrested by authoritarian anti-political speech laws your government have introduced, because you are acting in the moral good
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Mike Tapp is too thick to know he's imitating Joseph McCarthy.
Our political elite used to be malign and clever.
Now they're malign and thick.
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Remember
The repression is increasing because they are losing
The mask is off. And it's never going back on
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Labour handing the NHS over to Palantir, outlawing teen transitions and banning social media seems to put to bed any 'lesser of two evils' position forever. This is all as evil as it gets.
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'It isn't like the suffragettes because I say so' is about the level of historical misinformation one would expect from a state assisting a genocide. The UK can't not be this way without incriminating itself.
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property
The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
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Talk is cheap. Help is needed now. Come on the government.
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This is about ramming through digital ID and mass surveillance, while pretending it’s about the child wellbeing — a goal that Larry Ellison was massively funding Tony Blair’s think tank to lobby for in the UK; and bonus, about censoring content to desperately reverse this trend.
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🚨 NEW: The UK social media ban for under-16s will be enforced through facial recognition, digital IDs, credit cards, open banking, passports, mobile provider checks or email age estimation
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Completely ignorant of her own country’s history, what an embarrassment
The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes
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that’s the question isn’t it. what WILL she do? there are no youth clubs for her to attend. food, cinema tickets, any sort of third space activity is all too expensive. their parents are underpaid, saturday jobs don’t exist any more, children have truly been abandoned by the govt
BBC: “What was your screen time?”
Student: “Nine hours.”
BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”
Student: “Stare at a wall.”
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The Court is clear, we should instead protest like the Suffragettes; by whipping politicians in the streets until they give us what we want.
The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes
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It would be *much* more socially transformative to ban social media for over-65s
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"The IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon.. the area will be cleared of local residents"
The genocidal apartheid regime confirms it won't withdraw from Lebanon & it will ethnically cleanse the land it occupies.
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Parliament should reverse the decision to proscribe Palestine Action urgently before we see large numbers of elderly people in particular being dragged before our courts. Classifying protest through direct action as terrorism brings Parliament & our judicial system into disrepute
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This is absolutely insane.
The suffragettes used far more extreme tactics than Palestine Action.
They planted bombs, burned down private homes and smashed up art galleries.
They killed five people!
Her outrageous judgement is based on absurd historical ignorance.
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property
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Shameful authoritarian stuff from the UK courts and government
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Palestine Action ban upheld by appeals court ft.trib.al/MAAT0WT
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The second trial, with eight of the Filton 25, has begun today at the Old Bailey.
However, security are denying entry to all the family members and loved ones, demanding they have two forms of ID.
This rule has never been used before, and is clearly an intimidation tactic.
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