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It was only after Miles Pickering arrived at Scotland Yard following his arrest that the police realised they had got things embarrassingly wrong.

The T-shirt worn by the Brighton engineer did not express support for a proscribed terrorist group, instead the words on it read “Plasticine Action” and inside the letter “o” was an image of the stop-motion character Morph giving two thumbs up.

Speaking to the Guardian, Pickering admitted it was designed to be an easy mistake to make, appearing to look like the logo of Palestine Action, the protest group banned under terrorism legislation last month, but text underneath the logo reads: “We oppose AI-generated animation.”

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[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As much as the US is fucked and how much we hear about how it’s fucked, it feels a little bittersweet to see other developed countries’ governments fucking up just as bad. The fact that you can’t protest about Palestine is asinine.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 13 points 19 hours ago

The US and UK have been in an arms race to see who can tank their country the fastest for quite some time now.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Britain has been using the Troubles for a long time to justify all manner of perverting freedoms and rights. They're not far behind China in surveillance and suppression.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

They’re not far behind China

They're leagues ahead. We just don't like to acknowledge it, because they're White Westerners rather than Evil NonWhite Communists.

Re: Reddit DC Sub

I'm a naturalized immigrant and loudly anti-regime online. Just today I had two people tell me to "go back to China and see how long you last criticizing the government there"(ironically they never seem to realize that they're advocating for Chinese style authoritarianism under trump), and "Get out of this country you commie."

Most non-POC simply don't understand this reality of racism and tension in this country. It's the definition of privilege. Not needing to think about how police forces or others will react to you because of the color of your skin.

This is just normal treatment of any kind of POC in a western nation in the modern day. Getting randomly screamed at, assaulted, or reported to the police entirely due to skin color and accent.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's kind of grating that it's so bad in the United States that people start applauding the EU doing stupid shit too.

We should be united against this stupid shit, not laughing at each other over our particular forms of suffering.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 19 hours ago

This has nothing to do with the EU though

As true as that statement is it is very unnerving to see a lot of countries see a rise in the alt-right movements gain footholds and numbers in elections in multiple countries … with we could all agree nazis are bad again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯