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14 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

Sad day for democracy.  Actually a fucking shocking day for democracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/28/police-swoop-on-stop-brexit-man-under-new-anti-protest-law

Imagine working in a cafe near there though, him bawling through his megaphone all day long. I'm amazed he hasn't been battered to death.

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6 hours ago, 101 said:

America really is fucked.

They seem like people who got lots of likes on Facebook for saying Trumpy things and thought, "Wow, I'm really popular, everyone agrees with me, I should run for Governor, they get a nice house.".

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Arizona's like Florida - full of absolute bams.

Folk who live there will tell you it's the heat. Some of them are also quite proud of having that weird outlaw/cowboy mentality, which makes people incredibly suspicious and closed-minded, a bit like the "rebel" folk in the Confederate states who've convinced themselves that their ancestors just didn't like being told what to do, and they should think likewise.

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8 minutes ago, Snafu said:

Have you spent time over there in Arizona?

I have indeed. Lived there for a few years.

I've never been to Florida, but when even people who come from there tell you that it's full of seething rednecks, it's probably worth taking their word for it.

(tremendous death metal scene in the Nineties, however, but that probably doesn't do much for their image either)

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1 hour ago, Snafu said:

Members of the European Parliament voted on Thursday in favor of a resolution calling for the right to abortion to be included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. 

https://www.politico.eu/article/meps-vote-for-abortion-rights-to-be-in-eu-charter-of-fundamental-rights/

 

So glad we're no longer involved with that mob.

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Growing ‘culture of extremism’ among UK and European police forces, report warns.

81% of French police officers would vote for Le Pen.  Scary stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/10/growing-culture-of-extremism-among-uk-and-european-police-forces-report-warns

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2 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Growing ‘culture of extremism’ among UK and European police forces, report warns.

81% of French police officers would vote for Le Pen.  Scary stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/10/growing-culture-of-extremism-among-uk-and-european-police-forces-report-warns

I get the impression that I have a more generous view of the polis than most people, but surely nobody's surprised that a fair percentage of them would be (at best) ambivalent if asked to slip on the jackboots.

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4 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Growing ‘culture of extremism’ among UK and European police forces, report warns.

81% of French police officers would vote for Le Pen.  Scary stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/10/growing-culture-of-extremism-among-uk-and-european-police-forces-report-warns

That article is conspiratorial, race-baiting nonsense.

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58 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Growing ‘culture of extremism’ among UK and European police forces, report warns.

81% of French police officers would vote for Le Pen.  Scary stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/10/growing-culture-of-extremism-among-uk-and-european-police-forces-report-warns

Unsurprising tbh. The army has a problem with it also. 

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I'd imagine it's more of an issue down south than up here though, what say you @Inanimate Carbon Rod have you noticed any of your colleagues with the thin blue line badges, or hinting at more extreme political views.

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Im absolutely shocked that the police are right wing arseholes…

No, I’m not really.

 

Anyway, while we’re stuck here with that shower of Tory c***s in charge, here’s Finlands Sanna Marin at a rock festival this weekend. 

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5 hours ago, Ervin H Burrell said:

Unsurprising tbh. The army has a problem with it also. 

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I'd imagine it's more of an issue down south than up here though, what say you @Inanimate Carbon Rod have you noticed any of your colleagues with the thin blue line badges, or hinting at more extreme political views.

Ive read that in France, its not just the police but that a large number of people who work in social services which traditionally have voted left are now voting Le Pen, teachers, social workers, health care etc

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