this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
446 points (97.6% liked)

World News

38554 readers
2939 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 87 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Amazing. Losing democratic rights quite quickly up there in the UK, I see.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The solution is to break the social contract on both sides.

Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nothing will be accomplished without violence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Civil disobedience, more likely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Agreed. See Scheidel's The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So what's your complaint? They did what you said they should do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Por que no los dos?