@dogsnfishing @cjsnowdon Point taken on self defence. Totally agree we should change our laws, that’s the point I was trying to make.
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@onsenregime @cjsnowdon The government should not have a monopoly on lawful violence and it doesn’t. Even over there, you have some right to self defense, which is violence. Also, you make your own laws. Fix them.
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Hi. Lawyer here. In this thread I’ll explain why letting knife-wielding gang rapists walk free is permitted by the sentencing guidelines and therefore absolutely fine. 🧵 1/128
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>Gypsy travellers commit premeditated gang rape of a child. >It lasts 90 minutes. >They film the attacks, laugh at the child they're raping, encourage their friends to rape her, mock the child asking “why do you look sad?” >They know they won't be punished so they rape an even younger child at knifepoint, cut her clothes off with knives. >The child victims are left petrified and wanting to die. >Judge praises the gang rapists' behaviour in court. >Judge lets them walk free saying “I should avoid criminalising [the rapists] unnecessarily”. >Gives them "youth rehabilitation orders". >Other gang rapists now know that activist judges have effectively decriminalised the violent gang rape of British children. >None of this is accidental.
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@dogsnfishing @cjsnowdon Monopoly on violence refers to lawful violence. The point is people like this should be dispassionately hanged after a fair trial, not punished inconsistently and arbitrarily by fathers/criminals in prison/superheroes. Hence “silly”
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@onsenregime @cjsnowdon If the state has a monopoly on violence, how did those youths commit violence?
The state obviously does not, and should not, have a monopoly on violence. SMDH
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@cjsnowdon This is silly wishcasting, the state should have a monopoly on violence, so either say the state should do what needs to be done here, or you tacitly accept this judgement and are just sounding off.
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@onsenregime Maybe put the girl’s fathers in a room with each of them for a couple of minutes and let them settle it the old fashioned way?
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@kunley_drukpa Think this is mistaking correlation for causation, Welsh speaking areas are (comparatively) unenriched for the same reason they still speak Welsh. Plaid will face the same problems that the SNP now have in Glasgow, none of us are "Latinas"
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Wales is of course culturally latino/a so they get a bit confused and throw melodramatic fits and don’t really know how to productively channel their energy politically... Still one of most nationalistic areas of Britain though, possibly up there with East Anglia and the Estuary
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Imagine governing so badly you meme Welsh independence into being. Wales by disposition very nationalistic - dormant under old labour politics the sentiment is now emerging again confused and blinking into the sun; splitting into regular British and celtic left wing nationalism
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 FINAL RESULT: The Welsh Senedd goes into no overall majority with Plaid Cymru as the largest party 🌼 PC: 43 (+20) ➡️ RFM: 34 (+34) 🔴 LAB: 9 (-35) 🔵 CON: 7 (-22) 🟢 GRN: 2 (+2) 🟠 LDM: 1 (+1) 96/96 seats
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@SteveBakerFRSA I know (second hand) that you’re a decent man personally, but after spending your last weeks in Parliament asking questions about Kashmir, does that Dostoyevsky quote not come to mind?
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😔This is absolutely not a good thing for British Muslims, as I wore myself out explaining.
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Allahu Akbar, one and all. It’s been a big night for Green and independent candidates standing in the Gaza – sorry, British – local elections. While Reform has much to celebrate in gaining ground across the country, so too, it seems, do the people of Palestine, who now find themselves represented in town hall decision-making about bin collections and potholes nationwide. As if they hadn’t suffered enough, eh? Successful pro-Palestine candidates have wasted no time taking to social media to express their pride at winning swathes of British voters. ✍️ Steerpike Article | spectator.com/article/watch-…
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