Look at the United Kingdom giving the United States a run for their money.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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Surely there is a typo in the headline, only Russia, land of the washing machine CPUs, puts people in jail for words.
So the UK is now officially pro-genocide?
Good to know.
:gestures broadly at history:
Bro. Great Britain is responsible for this whole mess: it’s called the Balfour Declaration.
I support Palestinian action in the UK
They are doing this because Palestine Action has been incredibly effective. They have already forced the closure of two factories in England that produce arms for Israeli defense company Elbit and forced Barclays Bank to divest through sustained sabotage campaigns. No person has been hurt by their actions, yet these actions have cost the genocide supporters millions of pounds and caused months-long disruptions to the production of weapons used in ethnic clean songs around the globe (Elbit weapons are fueling not just the Palestine ethnic cleaning, but Kashmir and DRC, too).
Wow protestors these days will stoop to the level of wisely putting pressure on major companies supporting genocide?!?
First property damage and now this??
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Mossad has insane control over the world
So, if they shut down and a new org called "Palestine Initiative" that happens to be coincidentally led by the same folks... all good?
Is it Illegal to say
"It is illegal to say...
I support Palestine Action."
?
Flashback to...
Did you know that it's illegal to say "I want to kill the president of the United States of America"?
(couldn't get piped to load search results :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmiKenqLVAU )
Looks like the UK is going down the American road here. It's time for all those UK citizens that said, "Rise up now!" to Americans months ago....time to rise up! Give us a great example!
Oh, you can't because you have to work for a living? How about that....
UK has always had that 1984/Brazil (the movie, not the not-movie) vibe; it wasn’t all just pulled out of Orwell’s magic butt.
There is also legislation that can be used to arrest most protestors. And you can face a multi-year prison sentence if you say something wrong on social media.
The UK is actually further along the dystopian path than the USA in some ways, but as is tradition they are trying to pretend it's not happening.
During the Korean war a British unit was being overrun by the Chinese. The American general asked the British Colonel how things where and the Colonel said its a bit hairy. While the American general took this to mean they are ok. They got overrun and everyone in the unit was killed or captured.
I love these kinds of stories, but I think that specific example is just a misunderstanding of idioms, rather than an example of pretending something isn't happening, though.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
Let me refine: "Fuck the Israeli government!" I have no beef with the country / people insofar as they hate their genocidal government.
i have bad news for you in regards to what israelis think about the genocide
Brainwash is real. However, I am disappointed that you completely ignored the "insofar" limitation to my statement.
Tbf I've never heard anybody say nor seen anyone type "insofar" in my life so I assume he or she just didn't recognize the word; also you could have just as easily typed "so far".
insofar as they hate their genocidal government.
The one they continuously support and have for decades?
The only issue they have with Netanyahu is the corruption.
15 minutes to go! If you're gonna say it, be quick!
The harder they push their pro-Israel agenda, the more anti-Israel everyone is going to get.
You can't bully us into supporting a genocidal regime.
I have a feeling they can. If all discourse over social media is anti Palestine and no one can refute it, I give it 10 years max before it would just be a frothing hate for Palestinians with a significant amount of the population.
They are already trying to do this and failing miserably at it. Censorship itself is an admission of guilt and is something that people are really starting to understand. That's basically the point of my original comment: the harder they try to stop dissent, the more guilty they look.
Information can also be spread offline.
This is why the Fediverse and VPNs/Tor etc. are so important.
My fucking brain is so fried.
Both my parents were in World War II. They fought against fascism. I was brought up to feel for what happened to the Jews during that war. Now all I see is that they seem to be being worse than the actual Nazis.
Yeah, nah.
The only people who win when you conflate Israel with all Jewish people are Zionists and Neo-Nazis.
Israel =/= the “Jews”.
Israel’s founders were actually very prejudiced against Jews that survived the holocaust. And much more against the ones that didn’t actually…
What Israel is doing is very much Nazi like. But saying such will get you banned on Mastodon.social, and probably prosecuted in places like Germany.
It may also be illegal to refuse to give over passwords for your devices. For trivial stuff this doesn't apply but a terrorist group it likely does.
So remember to practice good data security.
Make signs that say "I support ________ ______" and let the media fill in the blanks for you.
I support Palestine action
Righto chap, hop in the prison lorry then!
I'm calling the rozzers
Codifying your genocide support into law. Nice.
If there is ever justice for Palestine the trials will be short. These bastards are so proud of their support for genocide.
Nonviolent direct action has earned them the label "terrorists."
When the sentence is the same for non-violent protest and for actual terrorism, don't be surprised if things get more extreme quickly.
"The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are."
~~Marcus Tullius Cicero~~ Someone
Grrrrr, he very likely didn't say that.
The closest to it I could find is “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws” by Tacitus (The Annals of Imperial Rome).
Cicero lived at the end of the republic, his problem wasn't too many laws...
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Death to Pissrael!!!
We're also losing our freedom of speech in America, so we Americans can sympathize a bit.
You've actually lost your citizenship for that Thoughtcrime. Have fun in El Salvador. -people who will only stop when met with violent force
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