• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Huh, up to 10 years for disruptive protest? Looks like it’s only 8 years for a planned arson as long as you don’t hurt anyone.

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    3 months ago

    Totally approrpiate, since they’re terrorists endangering the well-being of everyone and the planet. Wait…

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is just one of countless examples that we live in capitalist plutocracies — ruled by corporations and the richest family dynasties who make up their majority shareholders — masquerading as “democracies”. Sure, you can vote, but your only options are pre-approved.

    When the people causing genocide, war, and ecocide are untouchable, their entire rule of law is invalid.

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    3 months ago

    I wonder if they understand what they’re encouraging by making the punishment for protests harsher than the punishments for direct action…not that that’s any of my business…

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    3 months ago

    Kinda relevant: from the latest Private Eye. Just a little insight to the background of the people pushing for this outcome.

    The Heritage Foundation who would have guessed it would be in the mix.

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    3 months ago

    The police and army do not protect the lives and freedom of individuals and they never have. They exist to create the conditions for business to do business. The law barely cares if you rape and murder some poor, powerless individual. But cause a big business some serious property damage? Oh no we can’t have that. Time to make an example of you.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    I would be more likely to sympathize with JSO if they engaged in direct action against the oil industry instead of the general public. Stopping ambulances and electric cars in traffic does not get the world to abandon oil.

    If you’re going to commit a criminal offense regardless, at least target something that actively supports or benefits from the oil industry. They could go full Robin Hood, robbing businesses that support the oil industry and anonymously donating the proceeds to environmental causes. They could threaten car dealerships that sell ICE vehicles. While it is certainly illegal to burn down a gas station, at least that would be an attack on the object of their protests rather than the general public.

    Nothing wrong with their stated cause, but their actions don’t support that cause.

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Oh those damn Conservatives, such things would never happen under the rule of the Labour Party.

    Right?

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      Hey good thing is people are not as numb to the class warfare nowadays as before so your coy attempt to make this partisan isn’t as effective.

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        3 months ago

        Ah, yes. Thank you for reiterating my point by using instead of sarcasm the always very funny false accusation method.

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          3 months ago

          At least my iteration can’t be mistaken unlike yours (Your sarcasm was too thin to notice for me)

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      3 months ago

      Texas inmates are being ‘cooked to death’ in extreme heat, complaint alleges

      With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional.

      The filing came from four nonprofit organizations who are joining a lawsuit originally filed last August by Bernie Tiede, an inmate who suffered a medical crisis after being housed in a Huntsville cell that reached temperatures exceeding 110 degrees. Tiede, a well-known offender whose 1996 murder of a wealthy widow inspired the film “Bernie,” was moved to an air-conditioned cell following a court order but he’s not guaranteed to stay there this year.

      Concentration Camps.