• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 hours ago

    Four people were arrested on “suspicion of malicious communications”

    WTF? Sounds like some authoritarian thought crime BS straight from China, North Korea or Russia FFS (and more and more the US).

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        9 hours ago

        It’s odd because the ”slide” is overseen by the political alternative to the outright Trumpian fascism, voted in on a mandate of indifference to do maintenance on an economy in inescapable decline. Just wait until Farage takes power after the next general election.

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        15 hours ago

        But they do it with British understatement, that’s why nobody around the world notices it. It’s not as shrill, when people sipping tea say things like “Jolly, they invited our neighbours to the conci-tuffy-encampment. I reckon we won’t having them over for tea that soon. My, my!”