Yeah it’s super super repressive. I was held in custody (think solitary confinement) for 54 hours for a 10 minute march around parliament square another time. I’m also currently banned from London so can’t join the protests for Palestine happening there. I have friends who were put on GPS tags and not allowed to leave their home for similar marches. One other friend had their GPS tag set up wrong so police turned up and told her she was breaking her bail conditions by going in her bathroom because that’s outside the zone the police set for her 🙃

There’s no legal recourse, who am I going to complain to, the police? Lots of what they’re doing is illegal under their own laws and, more often, international law. But laws are nothing if they aren’t enforced.

The US army uses basic socialist policies (we will help you if you’re dying from cancer etc) to recruit. It only works because the US state refuses to take care of its subjects. The moment people are no longer desperate, the recruitment numbers will fall.

Unless he’s getting off on it, I’m just glad he’s milkshaked.

I really want there to be a community for Dropout as I love their content but I haven’t found a good space to talk with others about them that doesn’t involve some corporation harvesting my data.

I’m immediately wary of anyone using this meme format

The reason they stopped directly targeting oil infrastructure in the UK is because the oil/gas giants bought injunctions (private laws) banning protest near them, leading to people going to prison for holding signs on a grass verge outside an oil refinery.

I was the change I want to be in the world and have made !dropout@lemmy.blahaj.zone, hopefully people use it 😅

I was the change I want to be in the world and have made !dropout@lemmy.blahaj.zone, hopefully people use it 😅