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Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Why do these deep-fried rectums need to be in quasi-military garb and high-visibility vests?

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 212 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I reckon the T-Shirts need some artwork as well to reduce confusion. Maybe some 1980s Plasticine Claymation TV show characters like Gumby and Pokey.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gumby+pokey&ia=images

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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 161 points 1 week ago (20 children)

About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’

“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”

The officer seems to understand his mistake at least

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[–] ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world 118 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pardon my ignorance, but is wearing a shirt with the word Palestine on it and arrestable offense in England?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But it doesn't even say that.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 161 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Palestine Action yes. An activism organization called Palestine Action was classified as a terrorist organization a few weeks ago by the UK government.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 115 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Y'all seem to have a lot going on across the pond, what with "who's a terrorist," or "is this dystopian?"

Have y'all considered electing a terrorist leader so that you instantly know the answers to those questions?

We are all domestic terrorists

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[–] ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah, thanks for the explanation

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some people of Palestine Action threw ink on a military plane parked on some airbase which is normally used for the surveillance flights of Gaza that the UK is doing to give the data to Israel, hence they were officially classified by the Home Secretary - Yvette Cooper - as "terrorist group" via a process which has no strict well defined criteria or Judicial oversight at all.

Because of that anybody who supports them in any way (including merelly voicing their support for them or holding a written paper with the name of the group) risks a prison sentence of (if I remember it correctly) up to 10 years.

Hence in the UK wearing a t-shirt with the words "Palestine Action" in it is a terrorist offense with a prision sentense of up to 10 years: it's all pretty similar to the legislation Putin has to stop people in Russia demonstrating against the invasion of Ukraine, only I believe the prison sentences in Russia are actually lower.

(Britain isn't quite at the "hold up blank piece of paper" stage like Russia yet, but judging by the copper arresting somebody wearing a "Plasticine Action" t-shirt, the police are already thinking along similar lines - the coppers in Britain are well aware that their job is to "serve the powerful" not "serve the public")

Britain is a complete total authoritarian clown shown nowadays, though this shit is a pretty natural stage in the evolution of authoritarianism and represssion masquerading as Rule Of Law over there since around Tony Blair's time.

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

so weird how we've mangled the word terrorism around to mean impeding a military machine or body. maybe this is just my brain turning to worm food but I could have swore it was explicitly when you kill civilians or destroy infrastructure in order to coerce a policy change. but that alteration probably wasn't intentional or for any specific purpose.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

By an amazing coincidence over-broad legislation made on top of a legally undefined word ended up used against things and groups which weren't at all the claimed targets of that legislation.

This was also totally unexpected and nobody could ever had foreseen how they could be leveraged for such uses when those laws were first drafted and approved.

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

They graffitied two planes in protest against England's support of Israel's genocide, which makes them evil dangerous terrorists!

Not that I'd support them of course, I'm no terrorist - I fully support whatever genocides my country wants to participate in please do not gulag me Kid Starver oh no he's in the hou

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[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not fans of claymation, I guess.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 92 points 1 week ago

Not fans of AI, actually. Under the Plasticine Action, it says "WE OPPOSE AI GENERATED ANIMATION"

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Palestinian Faction is still allowed, no?

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