Dear UK. WTF?

UK is lost if they don't act soon. Complaining about migrants destroying their society is considered terrorism. The cops there literally show up and arrest you for gardening tools.

Ehh... While some people can't understand that there's a time && place for everything... && watching porn in a parliament is !appropriate, the things being done to the Internet are abhorrent.

Makes me miss the good old days, when even as a kid, all you had to do to get into a site would be to click 'Yes, I'm over 18'.

Done.

The idea that the gov. needs to 'protect && police' us when it comes to the content we wish to watch is insulting.

As if we're little kids !knowing what we want.

@YourMom spend less time on the internet mate, the UK is nothing like the professional victims of the right want to project it as being, and it's quite tiring having to read it.

We just bang up people who try to burn down occupied hotels, hardly the USSR.

@atheist stabbing death by % of deaths in US: 0.05% UK 0.01%

Both are negligible, frankly.

The strange thing is giving up your access to knives and tools for the 0.01% figure.

@atheist it's quite scary when you see the extent of it. Every day YT seems to recommend to me another "UK News" channel, all of it is AI-slop and it's always pushing a Reform-approved narrative, my old man would think it's legit.

@AlgoRythm I've never been asked to hand anything in to the authorities. What are you referring to?

@MM83 and I've never been in a school shooting. I wasn't asking about your personal experience.

@AlgoRythm ...in which case I'll ask again: what are you referring to?

@MM83

probably this:

https://walesonline.co.uk/news/...

@YourMom ah, some isolated misunderstanding in Wales, from that you've decided that we get arrested for having gardening tools as a matter of mandate. Lol.

Mind if I ask where you do your own research?

@atheist it's mad being told what your own country is actually like from people who don't live in it, eh? Here I was, casually cutting a sarnie in two with a bread knife, blissfully unaware that this could land me with a million-year prison sentence.

@MM83 I hear things from a lot of different places. Sometimes its a thing and sometimes not. I avoid the MSM/AP as much as possible. I have found them misrepresenting or flat out lying on numerous occasions. They especially like to omit stuff.

So mostly Telegram, Reddit, Youtube right now. Then I will search around to see if I can find out what is really up. But like I said, I have huge distrust for AP.

@YourMom I'm not sure that any of those will pass master for a dissertation source, and they're all basically mainstream too, but either way.

I'm British, if that's worth anything, I can tell you that you're being fed a different load of shit to the "mainstream" line. We don't live in some Orwellian police state where you get a life sentence just for saying you're English, so long as you're not a dick and/or causing trouble to bystanders, you can basically do what you like.

@jestdotty so I saw that suicide was a leading cause of death in Canada. I thought that can't be. So I looked i up, assisted suicide is the 5th leading cause of death in Canada in 2024. It is really fucked. Yet people are like that must be fake like I thought originally. I don't know what are the contributing factors to this though.

@jestdotty your PM is right, everyone who has ever implored anyone to "do your own research" is a bit of a tool, at best.

@jestdotty nothing irrational about it, we all know that "doing your own research" means googling your own opinion until you find enough people who agree with it, the notion of primary and secondary sources doesn't really get any more advanced than "my mate down the pub who knows for def" or "my mate down the pub's mate, who also knows for def", but sure, I'm a low-IQ troll, like everyone who disagrees with you on the internet probably is.

@atheist bloody mainstream outlets, with their legal obligation to report accurately. The facts can really get in the way of a good yarn.

@atheist AFAIK we have regulators like IPSO and Ofcom, which are basically powerless to actually *stop* any of the bullshit, but can compel any news or press outlet to retract and correct (even if it's 4px font on page 300), and fine them rather paltry sums if they don't behave. It's not much, but it's honest.

The places where these people "do their own research" have no such oversight, but they probably see "the freedom to bullshit idiots like us all day long" as some kind of triumph over the deep state or whatever.

@atheist Indeed. We wouldn't want to bring Infowars into disrepute.