But why? News agencies can do that if they wish, for the viewers, but why would a government agency releasing video evidence touch it up in any way? That’s just asking for questions.

Governments and others with power are constantly finding new ways to suppress protest and silence critical voices. Global trends towards the militarization of police, the increase in the misuse of force by police at protests and shrinking civic space mean that it is becoming more difficult to stay safe while making your voice heard.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/freedom-of-expression/protest/

The way police and other state authorities engage with protesters has become increasingly militarized since the early 2000s. Militarization is happening in many ways, including the deployment of armed military forces to suppress protests and supplying police with equipment like armoured vehicles, military-grade aircraft, surveillance drones, guns and assault weapons, stun grenades and sound cannons.

Military forces are organized, trained and equipped for war and defence and have no place at a protest, where police should be trained in de-escalation, mediation and keeping people safe.

Governments try to justify this disproportionate escalation in the use of force by painting protesters as a threat to public safety, but in truth, these tactics are ultimately a way to intimidate people into silence.

Aldi is better at pumping every product with palm oil and making knock off branded products

Lidl is better at having a chaotic middle that never gets tidied

Nextcloud Office is just Libre Office via Collabora though…

And the civilian population are just meant to die while that is happening? Pray every night their home, of all the homes bombed each night, isn’t one of the ones hit? Hope upon hope that missiles don’t rain down upon them?

If Russia is such a threat, and we are currently at peace and have time, would it not make sense to build some defensive capabilities at the same time as offensive ones? While there’s peace and time to do so? But there’s nothing, no bunkers for civilian populations, no mass education of what to do in x and y scenarios, just extra missiles, drones, and planes.

Does that sound like countries that are preparing for defense or ones that are picking a fight?

Russia is the boogeyman used to justify increasing military spending, and then instead of spending that money protecting our populations from them, it’s used to attack somewhere else. Iran this time, Afghanistan and Iraq and countless other places in the past.

This isn’t defence spending, we don’t need to increase it to 5% of GDP when we already have some of the best funded, equipped, and trained militaries in the world.

Some people just want to justify blowing some shit up.

Yes, of course, it doesn’t mean ONLY defensive items. But so far, all of the money is being spent on OFFENSIVE items in the name of DEFENSE. With no defensive items being purchased at all.

And again, without wanting to sound like “my dad can beat up your dad”, Russia would not be able to take the EU, let alone NATO, in conventional warfare, and especially if nukes became involved. Ukraine is not comparable.

Whose second hand weaponry is already holding back Russia? What do you think will be the result of the modern stuff being used?

Again, this isn’t defence. It’s war being dressed up as defence to illicit consent.

We already spend 2% of GDP on defense. And if war broke out do you not think that would increase substantially? Do you not think manufacturing would be forced to change to military manufacturing?

We are not at war. We already have multiple well funded militaries throughout NATO. Why the sudden push to increase funding if not to try and start a war?

If they were genuinely serious about this being DEFENSE spending and not WAR spending it would be spent on bunkers for civilian populations, information for civilians to self sustain themselves when centralised systems no longer can, redundancies added to energy, communications, transport, and food networks.

But instead it’s spent on shiny new planes when there’s already a stockpile of shiny planes. What does that tell you about this push for extra funding? Does it sound like intelligent, well thought out planning for the defence of a population or does it sound like sabre rattling and a chance to try out some new toys?

The EU, and NATO, already invest in defence. It’s not like the 1920s where everything has been left to rot. What’s changed is the push from 2% to 5% of GDP, by those who are just begging for war.

That’s a huge sum of money.

Ukraine is almost alone, they’re getting aid from NATO and the EU but they’re having to do the dirty work themselves. And they’re still holding their own.

Do you honestly believe a war that brings in France, Germany, the UK, (maybe) the USA, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, etc is one that Russia is going to pick? And if they do, have any chance of winning?

Unless China sides with Russia they haven’t a chance, and China doesn’t seem to have shown any form of intent in that regard. They sell equipment to Russia because there’s money to be made, in the same way they sell equipment to NATO countries.

As you’re so keen for war, will you be on the front line sacrificing your life for it? Or will you be leaving that up to others?

This is just scaremongering to normalise the idea of war in people’s minds. To push money towards unnecessary military spending instead of healthcare, education, etc.

Russia has less than 140m people. The EU has over 400m.

The EU has a vastly larger economy, more worldwide allies, more advanced technology, blah blah blah.

Russia can’t even win in a surprise war against a small neighbour ffs.

These clauses added to the Bill yesterday grant powers for police to access any online account and the information within it, on approval of a senior officer, through a seized phone or device.

Any online account. So Instagram and TikTok, but also NHS accounts, banking apps, work accounts, they have carte blanche to just rifle through anything and everything that you’ve signed into? With no judicial warrant required.

America may be openly fascist now, but the UK isn’t far behind.

And this is under a Labour government.

If you have any left wing leanings, vote Green in future, convince friends and family to vote Green.

Labour are authoritarian and the Lib-Dems will sell out any principles for a whiff of power. The Greens might have some shit candidates, but they at least support proportional representation and not starting a police state.

Replace psychopathy with autism and you have RFK Jr.

You’re a fucking Nazi and you don’t even realise.

Patriots? What part of liberté, égalité, fraternité does Marine Le Pen embody?

Cowards.

Their servers are located in Portugal I believe and do indeed run on solar power! They gave details of their set up on their wiki page but… that was on the server that’s gone down so… have a read in July I guess?

I think you’re attacking the wrong people.

If you’ved lived in the same home for 50 years, brought up children there, made and maintained a garden there, formed a community with your neighbours, would you want to move?

Old people living in a home with 3 bedrooms instead of 1 is at the very bottom of the list of reasons there’s a housing crisis.

Businesses owning hundreds of homes, artificially manipulating supply, landlords profiteering and increasing rents every single year, they are far more to blame than a granny who just wants to end her days in the house she’s made home.

Need is a strong word

Genocide is not just a political topic.

Yes teachers are hired to teach specific subjects, but that isn’t their only role.

They teach how to be a person within society, the social contract (a French term I might add), and how to engage critical thinking.

They’re not there just to blindly teach how to memorise the curriculum. There’s nuance to their role.

Because there’s money to be made and they’re arseholes.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/experts-alarmed-over-trumps-promotion-of-deep-sea-mining-in-international-waters/

You don’t have to bet. You can click on it and find out.