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There's no way out of the US gun culture when you've got cunts like this. I know Heston is dead but the ethos is the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYVCML8xeE&ab_channel=JaredLaw
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Idk what you can do
There’s a few ways of affecting (or more correctly, effecting, I think?) cultural change. The principal causes and main actors are already identified. Suing them into the ground and campaigning against anyone who supports them is a start, but comes with consequences most people are understandably afraid to face: financial hardship, social isolation, legitimate security concerns about gun-toting wackos.
Hollywood and the music industry are complicit with the gun industry in equating guns with play things rather than ultra-specific tools, and in reframing shooting a person as a footnote rather than a pivotal moment in a character’s life. They occasionally pay lip service to the victims of violence but you don’t see A listers putting their money where their mouth is and refusing roles.
The demilitarisation of the police post-9/11 is something that will require a much greater effort.
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I called the police on a guy waving a gun around outside Iceland. It looked like a Glock. I assume it was a replica but I never found out. He was videoing himself while giving a lecture about weapons to passers by. It went like this: "guns are bad, knives are bad, when you're dead, you're dead, forever. Bang bang!" He pretended to shoot his friend, who fell down. It was early afternoon on a weekday, so the audience were all slack-jawed ladies with shopping trollies, plus me, the busybody grass describing the lecture to the 999 operator. A convoy of gun police showed up very promptly. By then the gun and video camera had been put in a suitcase and the lecturers were getting ready to leave. I pointed out the main man to a very angry, scary officer. There were no preliminaries. Both men were immediately trussed up like chickens. Much aggrieved protestation. The officers didn't want a statement from me. They said the arrests would be dealt with by local officers. Then they drove off to their next appointment. Total time on scene 5 minutes. I never heard any more about it. No idea whether the blokes were charged.
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72 hours in French politics:
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1801114239572328663.html
ChatGPT summary:
In an unprecedented turn of events in French politics, President Macron dissolved the National Assembly following a significant loss to Le Pen's Rassemblement National in the EU elections, prompting a scramble for new elections. The left quickly formed a "Popular Front," despite attempts by Socialist Raphael Glucksmann to prevent it. On the right, chaos ensued as Les Républicains President Éric Ciotti's alliance with Le Pen faced internal revolt, resulting in his contested ousting. Further right, Marion Maréchal's bid to ally with RN led to a split with Zemmour. Macron criticized the left-wing alliance, accusing them of antisemitism, while prominent intellectual Alain Finkielkraut controversially considered supporting Le Pen. The political landscape is highly unstable ahead of the elections.
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When i was about 18, in my childhood home. I was up early-ish, about 6. Looked out the front window and there were loads of armed police creeping through the front garden and outside the low front wall. Turns out that the flat 2 doors down (above a small architecture practice) was a drug dealer's den.
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What, they only designed small buildings? What were you doing up before 12 when you were a teen?
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Not exactly news, but from The Gruniad, which used to be a newspaper:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/gallery/2024/jun/14/homes-for-sale-for-cyclists-in-pictures
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
The Pentagon reportedly ran a secret anti-vax campaign to discredit China during the covid pandemic.
One reads about horrible campaigns and tests and campaigns run on unwitting populations by western intelligence agencies and militaries, and it feels like they’re a thing of the past. Shocking to see this happening nowadays.
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As a footnote to my previous.https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/448482.debate-on-replica-guns-flares-up-after-jason-gifford-inquest/
I had worked with the officer that shot this man. He was treated very badly by the police. All the evidence was there to show that the officer had no option left but to shoot and yet he was suspended and nobody was permitted to contact him etc. Of course after the inquest verdict, ruling it a suicide by police, they let him back into the fold but he jacked the job in and emigrated.