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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
Tommy Robinson's facebook page has been taken down.
It would be interesting to know what he had said or what was said on his page had "violated the network's community standards?" However the later quote "He has also behaved in ways that violate our policies around organised hate." I'm not keen on, that smacks of we don't like hims so we'll ban him. Thin end of the wedge to my mind.
Notice how no specific examples are given. Also just days after publicly exposing BBC's ties with an extremist group. He had more facebook followers than any of the UK political parties.
@MajorRage I understand your frustration, if even half of what Tommy says is true then it paints a very dire picture of where Britain is going and you don't see that in your day to day life. I personally haven't sufficient evidence to suggest he's wrong and there is certainly a lot of horrific evidence proving him right about such things as Luton terrorists, extremist preachers, child rape gangs and even the mosque tied up with the Manchester bombing that the bbc didn't get to for well over a year after his public warning.
I see Tommy as representative of a political class in the UK that is routinely ignored well at the same time as being increasingly under pressure because of policy decisions. I think Tommy and British politics are inexorably linked. It's just the politics people don't want to see because it's very uncomfortable.
Happy with whatever the mods decide though it would be a massive shame to not get some pushback in these threads against things Tommy to keep us all honest.
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@Duluth said in British Politics:
@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Mods. Up to you but I suggest a seperate Tommy Robinson thread from British Politics.
Why?
Because I enjoy a debate about Brit Politics. I donโt about Tommy Robinson.
Happy to accept your ruling.
I think there should be more threads in general.
Super threads don't help conversation because a specific topic lasts for 5 posts and disappears. It also seems to attract 2-3 people spamming threads like its twitter (eg the campus thread, fake news etc)
At some stage this I'll post some updated rules for this area (and unfortunately this sub forum needs to be stricter than the others)
Will probably change some of the threads too
In the meantime yes, please put the Tommy Robinson stuff in another thread.
Good call, and thanks to you and the other mods efforts to keep this thing going. Jordan Peterson in NZ could have done with its own thread in hindsight.
This forum is not everyone's cup of tea but I really enjoy it, we've had some cracking debates over the years
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@No-Quarter said in British Politics:
Jordan Peterson in NZ could have done with its own thread in hindsight.
Yeah, in hindsight. I think more specific threads are better anyway. It encourages discussion
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
But I think TR gets more airplay than he deserves on a thread called British Politics.
It is British politics too. But so is Brexit, which has it's own thread. So is the Russian poisoning that also has its own thread.
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@Duluth said in British Politics:
@MajorRage said in British Politics:
But I think TR gets more airplay than he deserves on a thread called British Politics.
It is British politics too. But so is Brexit, which has it's own thread. So is the Russian poisoning that also has its own thread.
Personally I would prefer more of those specific threads for ongoing conversationsYeah, more targetted threads makes moderation easier too, and stops threads becoming to unweildy
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Great that the tribunal found in his favour but pretty horrifying that it had to come to that.
You have to hand it to the left they are masters at making racial and sexual discrimination sound like a positive idea.Why in the sweet fuck would you want an officer with a disability?
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@antipodean said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Great that the tribunal found in his favour but pretty horrifying that it had to come to that.
You have to hand it to the left they are masters at making racial and sexual discrimination sound like a positive idea.Why in the sweet fuck would you want an officer with a disability?
Because they need more officers searching social media for meanies...
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Call me crazy but this sort of thing frightens me. Bacon, Butter, Eggs and Jam classified as too dangerous to appear on tfl advertising in London.
edt. My mistake the Eggs are fine everything else is problematic
At first glance, it makes you go "what". But meh, do you really care what gets advertised on the underground? So yes, definitely crazy to be frightened. You chose the wrong simpsons gif.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Call me crazy but this sort of thing frightens me. Bacon, Butter, Eggs and Jam classified as too dangerous to appear on tfl advertising in London.
edt. My mistake the Eggs are fine everything else is problematic
Hilarious that there is still beer and wine on the ad though.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Ignore the hyperbolic tweet description but the content is disturbing. Police admit he didn't commit a crime but they have been sent around to advise him that he is being watched with what he says online.
I'm all for people being held accountable for what they say on social networks, but sending cops around to peoples houses to say you've done nothing wrong but be careful, seems like a frankly ridiculous waste of resources!!
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Waitrose doing their part to fix racism!
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
I wonder if the outrage would have happened if it was the 'white' one that was called ugly...why no offence to the brown one that is crispy?
Crispy = bacon
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@taniwharugby From what I understand it stemmed from one twitter complaint from someone with 100 followers...at some point politicians, media and corporations have to work out that the extremist hysterical folk on twitter aren't representative of the general populace.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Ignore the hyperbolic tweet description but the content is disturbing. Police admit he didn't commit a crime but they have been sent around to advise him that he is being watched with what he says online.
He filmed it in portrait mode , heโs literally Hitler
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