le_pouffre_bleu@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoJust Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK]www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up1457cross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1457external-linkJust Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK]www.theguardian.comle_pouffre_bleu@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square140fedilinkcross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
minus-squarefebra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up85·1 year agoAmazing. Losing democratic rights quite quickly up there in the UK, I see.
minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·1 year agoThe solution is to break the social contract on both sides. Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
minus-squareqdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 year agoNothing will be accomplished without violence.
minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoCivil disobedience, more likely.
minus-squareendhits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoCivil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
minus-squareqdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoAgreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoCivil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
minus-squarepinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoPor que no los dos?
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWhat are you talking about? They still have the right and ability to vote.
minus-squarefebra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-21 year agoYeah because we know democratic rights evolve just around the right to vote and nothing else on top of that
minus-squareowen@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI’m sure North Koreans feel blessed with democracy and freedom every time they hit the polls LOL
minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey would be totally good if they got 2 choices instead of one.
Amazing. Losing democratic rights quite quickly up there in the UK, I see.
The solution is to break the social contract on both sides.
Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
Nothing will be accomplished without violence.
Civil disobedience, more likely.
Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
Agreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
Por que no los dos?
What are you talking about? They still have the right and ability to vote.
Yeah because we know democratic rights evolve just around the right to vote and nothing else on top of that
I’m sure North Koreans feel blessed with democracy and freedom every time they hit the polls LOL
They would be totally good if they got 2 choices instead of one.