Can you believe how far the U. K has fallen?

[Juxtapose]

A toy crossbow? Really? Dude I used to throwing knives on the 4th of July on a hung up target 🎯 What a bunch of fucking weirdos! When did the U. K become so pitiful?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13581155/amp/Boy-12-referred-counter-extremist-Prevent-officers-school-declaring-two-genders-Im-gay-not-queer.html

[worldscolide]

I fear this is only going to get worse not better for those that don't have their rights protected by something like the constitution.

Unfortunately it's leftists that want this, they are the most authoritarian bunch on the planet and have zero right to call them selves liberals.

[Juxtapose]

^^ exactly. As a classical liberal I can't stand Marxist who want to classify themselves as liberals.

[Juxtapose]

*Marxists

[sawno]

The guy going to prison for carrying a tiny zelda imitation sword in public is even more redicilous.

[sawno]

But the worst offenders are people being punished over tweets, especially the rap lyrics girl.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

[Juxtapose]

@OddBeMe @goaded see? I told you guys.

[Avicenna]

they applaud the totalitarianism and want to expand it

[goaded]

Aren't you guys the ones constantly claiming that Britain has a knife murder problem to justify all the firearm murders in the US? (Of course, the US actually has more murders per capita with blades than the UK, and the vast majority of firearm murders are on top of that.) So, if you walk down the street with an illegal weapon in your hands, you get a prison sentence. It's not like the "toy" was made of soft plastic.

"It is possible to find fidget toys that aren't six-inch blades."

"With a bit more self-awareness, Bray could have avoided contact with us completely."
www.abc.net.au/.../104061350

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

No matter what country there is, I see major conditions in each country.

[Flatmanlewis]

Let me start by saying I’m an Anglophile of the highest order. Love British culture and history and I’ve been there to simply bask in the glory of it. I have friends I keep in touch with there and have plans to return to London soon.


Having said that, The UK has fallen in much of its once great reputation. From the state of its military to its obsessively left-leaning accommodations, to its own peril.


England is like a nice house overrun with drunken, rowdy, crass houseguests. Despite the houseguests ransacking and disrespecting their home they only chastise their own children for making the houseguests uncomfortable when they protest.


Hopefully England awakens and saves her soul before it’s too late.

[Juxtapose]

Yeah England has a rich history and I hate to see it end up like this. It's really ugly.

[Flatmanlewis]

…and Britain is nearly at an irreversible turning point whereas Muslim immigrants, voting seamlessly along religious lines, will derail the parliamentary system which has held that country in place for decades. Just look at the recent elections. It’s chilling.

[Juxtapose]

Do you think they will create a parallel legal system centered around sharia?

[Juxtapose]

Or will they just outright dominate Britain from the start with their religious laws?

[Flatmanlewis]

Both. They will demand their Sharia courts be given credence then gradually they will deny that British law applies to them at all.

[goaded]

Have either of you ever been to Britain? Because you're talking nonsense.

[Flatmanlewis]

You must not have read my reply at all. The answer lay within.

[Flatmanlewis]

…and since it bears relevance.

www.telegraph.co.uk/.../

[goaded]

I'm confused, do you think Muslims shouldn't get a vote, or that the five seats affected by them out of 650 "will derail the parliamentary system"? Or both?

[Flatmanlewis]

I see your courtroom tactic there. Nicely done but I too speak the language. From a man who has spent a lot of time in courtrooms; You reply like an attorney. I suspect, if you are one, you’re a very good one.

Since the nuance of this doesn’t allow for this forum to be as articulate as I believe is required, feel free to DM me. I’ll happily explain there.

[Purpleronnie]

So suddenly we can write off the whole United Kingdom and it’s people because of a badly reported story from a newspaper that’s got a reputation as a rag? I mean it’s basically the equivalent of the national enquirer? And do this by comparison to the United States? .. I mean with a headline like yours , perhaps you have a career in journalism for these narrow-minded and inflammatory rags? I’m thankful most people have the education and intellect not to make such judgements. I applaud our authorities that investigate hate crimes , yes they might not always get it right and their actions may seem extreme but at least it’s investigated.

[Juxtapose]

That last sentence out of you as a lover of censorship.

If you can't see the problem with policing speech that way, YOU are part of the problem.

[Juxtapose]

*The last sentence outted you as a lover of censorship

[Purpleronnie]

I thought for a bit about how to reply in a way that you may understand but in the end I realized …. I can’t fix stupid !

[Juxtapose]

You love censorship and you won't even admit it.

[handsomelad70]

The U. K. has been free falling (thanks, Tom Petty !) since the end of World War Two, and the Tories beginning with Maggie Thatcher have, like all rightists, resorted to race- and class-baiting to further divide folk. Hopefully, Labour Party leader and new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's landslide election will start the Tories' slide into the oblivion they rightly deserve.

[Juxtapose]

Sounds like they have a British version of the democratic party going on there fucking things up.

[handsomelad70]

The Tories mis-ruled the U. K. for 14 years, laddie.

[NYCQuestions1976]

They're probably going to fall a bit further, after their last election. At least the center-left party that's taken over purged their own party of the far-left socialists to make themselves more appealing to the centrists, moderates, and swing voters in the country. Only time will tell if that was a permanent or temporary action.

[Sasahara]

Yes I can, they thought Fireman Sam was problematic as a mascot for a firestation or something like that because he was a white man.

[Juxtapose]

And they tell me I'm imagining things when I say there's anti-white racism everywhere..

[Billlewis]

The question you should be asking is whether they're ready to have that environment here, because it's coming.

[SkatPak392]

Ill be going on a "spree" if it happens bhere.

[Goahead76]

The American empire is rapidly collapsing, and this includes its vassal states. To paraphrase a movie character I'm fond of:

"... It is all around us, even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes."

[Amandanator]

The UK is one country I will never visit. And yes I’ve been keeping up with it too.

[exitseven]

They voted the Labour party in so I guess they are going counter to other European countries.

[DJB72]

I thought Blair was as bad as it could get, but it feels like there's a queue saying "hold my drink"

[katiesmuff]

Apparently the idiocy of the U S is rubbing off on the Brits!

[Juxtapose]

Funny you say that since the United States has not had hate speech laws pretty much ever.

[goaded]

Funny how the defence against assholes calling you queer is to tell them you're gay these days. That's progress. We're making progress!

[Juxtapose]

Do you see what I mean when I say countries don't understand free speech? Do you see why this is a huge problem to have these weirdo hate speech laws?

[goaded]

What you're talking about is nothing to do with free speech. What I like is that being gay is totally mainstream. A good percentage of the population is much more free than it was 50 years ago, and the number of Americans saying gay or lesbian relations are morally wrong more than halved in 20 years. Of course, there are still 25% who are assholes, which is why they're trying desparately to install a dictatorship.

[Juxtapose]

It absolutely has everything to do with free speech what the fuck do you mean? He literally has spot police harassing him because he engaged in wrong thing.

Do you really think also messing around with a toy crossbow means anything? Are you insane? Should I be investigated by some government agency because I have used throwing knives and a real bow and arrow on targets before?

[goaded]

Maybe if someone had explained how to tell the difference between right and wrong, true and false, back then, you'd be able to tell when you're believing propaganda.

[Juxtapose]

I meant thought police not spot police.

I can tell you right now that what happened to this child is dead wrong and is incredibly dystopian. You should never be investigated by the government just because you have views that are contrary to a far left worldview. He is allowed to not believe in non-binary, he is allowed to play around with a toy bow and arrow to his fucking heart's content without being bothered by the government.

[Juxtapose]

And I also meant wrong think. Damn I better watch voice to text with these typos.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Ya it's sad and it's only a matter of time till that starts happening here

[Juxtapose]

We have guns son!

[Juxtapose]

We don't HAVE to take that.

[Unit1]

"The matrix has attacked me" - Andrew Tate

[Blitterflicker]

Damn I remember when u had 24 and 25 next to your age, time flies. Bit random but I hardly go on here now and it’s weird seeing old users and their current age after a long time

[captain_voidwalker]

This is because our leaders are literal fucking children that have lived in a safe little bubble thier entire lives

[GeminiDiamond]

I mean, if you don't live there? You're just sympathetic.

[GeminiDiamond]

I don't live there, but to talk outside. I know talk outside from others to Germany, we still don't like it.

[Juxtapose]

Well yeah, I'm not a sociopath. I don't like it when people are deprived of basic rights.

And practically speaking this gives precedent to other Western countries.

[GeminiDiamond]

Still didn't say if you are a Brit. Sorry to be rude

[GeminiDiamond]

I guess you would have more clout if you were a Brit

[Juxtapose]

You can literally check my nationality by looking at my profile lol.

"Clout" is like "swag", it's kid shit. I'm an adult and don't indulge that nonsense.

[GeminiDiamond]

Still not saying if your a Brit. I'm a Brit. Simple. I mean if you want respect. I'd curse you out in German you said something about my country

[Juxtapose]

Germany sucks and I can prove it.

www.thepublica.com/.../

[Juxtapose]

The rapist receives a lesser sentence than the person who said mean words to the rapist.

[GeminiDiamond]

Oh.. Germany sucks?

[GeminiDiamond]

I'm thinking I'm the one who messed up, and focused on someone with a disease.

[Juxtapose]

[GeminiDiamond]

I'm not viewing shit. You just downed two countries. We're writing it off as you have a disease your getting treated for.

[Juxtapose]

Such a STRONG argument 😂

[Juxtapose]

"Omfg how dare you criticize other countries I am going to freak out now."

You can't make this shit up!

@NYCQuestions1976 bruh

[Sasahara]

@geminidiamond He can have a opinion about the UK without being British or have a disease. Do you perhaps also think two Germans or a Swede with strong leftist opinions about USA have a disease too, or is it just a oneway street to you?

[GeminiDiamond]

sorry, Jux. I get passionate/attitude about my view at times. You are %100 % entitled to any opinion you want! Sometimes I get carried away

[GeminiDiamond]

But if you down someone's country, you're stoking a fire and causing unessecary drama. And put this out there: No such thing as a perfect country. You could post your opinions about the problems each day and it would never end. I just find too much is overboard?

[Juxtapose]

I bring these problems up because I care and I want the United Kingdom to do better. They are the country that birthed my country and if the United Kingdom falls it is a bad precedent for the rest of the West.

I am very passionate about free speech and I am well within my rights to criticize censorship.

[Juxtapose]

And with what Germany has been doing it is outright disgraceful.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Sometimes well-meaning people support speech censorship... until they're the ones being told to shut up.

[GeminiDiamond]

As opposed to what their leaders did in the 1940s? Or the Nazis of today who burn down houses of foreigners? Just like back in the 1940s, not all Germans make up the country or share the same view as their leaders as a whole. And people with free speech in communist countries go missing. What about China's eat dog festival they hold every year where they slaughter dogs? Don't get me into Thailand, and they're the worlds pedo playground. I think it's great you want UK to be better! Just like most of us want to see our country be better! I also feel their are topics in other countries that are a lot worse than what Germany and UK etc etc that are far worse. Afghanistan for example where they won't let women leave the house or get an education for one...

[Juxtapose]

Look no offense but when you have to start comparing your country to third world shitholes then your country is in some serious fucking shit.

[GeminiDiamond]

China isn't a third world country. And comparing countries to each other when you've never lived there is just a shallow perspective.

[Juxtapose]

China is absolutely a third world country. They literally hold their children over trash cans so they can defecate in them. The children will also urinate publicly in buses and that is normal.

In China if you run somebody over, you are supposed to finish them off because you will be less liable for lawsuits. I'm not even fucking kidding.

Oh and they have a social credit score system that is unbelievably dystopian.

During covid they locked people in buildings for such a long time they were screaming. Describing it won't do it justice so I'm going to show you.

https://youtu.be/AMsVdjAK6cE?si=9OvmRYiEyXG3TBen

China is one of the worst countries in the world. You can only get worse from there once you compare China to African countries where little girls get raped because people mistakenly believe they can get rid of AIDS by raping little girls or even infants.

[Juxtapose]

You can go ahead and tell me my perspective is shallow all you want but it doesn't change the reality of what China is.

[GeminiDiamond]

China owns Hong Kong. Not a third-world country because they have more poor people per capital to their population. Yet they own the biggest economic powerhouse in the world. Funny, you just compared one of the largest militaries, the biggest economic presence in the world, to a country like Haiti. Man. You might as well sat USA is a third-world country too because they owe China trillions of money? Are you trolling?

[Juxtapose]

Are you trolling? Did you not listen to a word I just said about how awful China is? The social credit score system alone qualifies them as a third world country.

[Juxtapose]

Having a big military presence and a good economy does not make your country a first world country at all. You have to have specific civil liberties.

[GeminiDiamond]

Yea being communist doesn't make you a third world nation! How awful it is for US to owe them that much money! And other nations too. Not sticking up for China.

[Juxtapose]

Again, I don't really think you're listening. What I said makes China a third world country is its lack of crucial rights.

[GeminiDiamond]

In economics, we classify in the box what rank countries are, 1st, 2nd, 3rd world. No money, no law, no law, you have chaos. China has one of the lowest crime rates on the planet, with a population that size to boot and has a shit ton of money. So you have an Afghainstan, a Somalian, a Haitin, a US, and a China person on the same boat, who is the richest on board and who are third world?

[Juxtapose]

I completely reject and utterly repudiate using economics to classify countries and their value of life. The rights you have are far more important because you can't enjoy the fruits of your labor if you are without any rights. You will be a slave no matter how rich your country is.

[GeminiDiamond]

*my husband just asked you that, took computer away from me*

[GeminiDiamond]

You still did not answer the question about who is on board to the box or boat they are placed in.

[GeminiDiamond]

You never chose someone, simply, from the choices I gave. Box and boat are metaphors. Do I need to ask again?

[GeminiDiamond]

At this point, I think we crushed your idea of what is third-world. And now we're dealing with someone who has to be right. Reminds me of Biden running after the Americans already admitted he wasn't fit to run for office.

[D_D_D]

Wtf.. what did they do to him eventually?

[Juxtapose]

This is a pretty recent story so essentially the kid is being watched by the government because he has engaged in wrong think.

[Juxtapose]

This is why I laugh when people say America should emulate England or other countries which don't respect free speech.

[D_D_D]

Damn.. honestly how do they find the time to deal with such nonsense.. chasing after kids 😮‍💨 is that what they're paying taxes for? 😂

[Juxtapose]

They know that if they pursue actual terrorists they will be accused of being racist because a lot of the Muslim terrorists will have brown skin.

[Juxtapose]

So they occupy their time by going on political witch hunts.

[D_D_D]

Well.. at least they know they're protected from little kids with crossbows 😂

[KostasKouvalis]

Unfortunately, YES. I remember when this kind of stuff was satire, but this is what our society has come to now

[PA19062024]

Why would a 12 year old say he was gay? At that age, how would he even know? I think the whole story is bullshit.

[OddBeMe]

It shows the importance of the freedom of speech.
Not sure how bad “referred to counter extreme team” means. Sounds like counseling.

[WhiteBoyChill]

This isn’t a joke, right?

[Juxtapose]

I wish!

[WhiteBoyChill]

Geez. They need to get a grip over there

[HH1488]

Yes. Fucking losers haven't won a fucking thing in almost 300 years.

[SotiCoto]

Quite aware, thanks. Living there.

[RoronoaZoro8]

I think we should get you seen by Prevent too

[Juxtapose]

I don't live in a fascist country, thank fuck. I can freely criticize other countries, I could be an idiot and deny the Holocaust if I want, I can offend people and say all kinds of slurs without being arrested. America is beautiful.

[RoronoaZoro8]

The person in this article wasn't arrested

[Juxtapose]

I never said they were dude and that doesn't make this any more okay.

[RoronoaZoro8]

This is why you should rock the vote bro

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah and with change in management, it's over

[maj1nall]

I don't care about them or their countries