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I'm glad the bigots are tolerant of homosexuality now, it really shows the progress society has made!
Did you see the ~~softcore porn~~ training shorts gif halfway down the page? 🤣
Now imagine you're the first ever black female MP in the UK, who points out just what you've stated, and you get kicked out of your party for it.
Oh, wait, silly me, you don't have to imagine. That happened.
For anyone who got muddled like me, this isn't the newly done up port in Aberdeen at Nigg Bay, but one just north of Inverness.
Loosely related, this song begins with that poem. I don't understand Swedish so I've no idea what it's saying but I return to this album regularly just because the music is beautiful.
WARNING: depressive suicidal black metal, album artwork depicts a man holding a gun in his mouth
Unfortunately your anecdotal evidence doesn't change history. My experience has been very mixed bag. Some have been despicable bastards and some, as you said, have gone above and beyond. But their history, and government inquiries confirming institutional racism etc cements them still in the bastard category.
I do believe they're improving, the force isn't just 6ft+ white, straight, cis, British men any more. It's diverse enough that homophobia, racism, etc are challenged and not tolerated like they once were, but it still happens. They're still not good enough to throw off the badge of ACAB.
ACAB is legitimate here. It's not a Trumpism. Day to day community policing, yes, you can have good interactions with them. But they also have no qualms smashing a peaceful protestor over the head with a baton if they're allowed as well. There's been enough stories of corruption and abuse within multiple UK police forces, throughout its history and in modern times, to say ACAB.
Also, is it fuck a fair kingdom.
But you can be surprised when the police don't let you go after realising the thing is mostly blunt. What looks like a knife edge on the right hand side of that picture isn't sharpened like a knife, it's more like how a spade has a keened edge, because it's a fancy type of trowel. The saw edge is sharp though, but again, not as sharp as a wood saw.
Plus, the law allows for the carrying of a knife for a reasonable legitimate purpose. The accused was carrying a basket of vegetables, having just harvested them using the "knife". It's a legitimate purpose, and it wasn't even a knife.
Add on that it was also sheathed, and we have a clear case of moron cops being heavy handed and abusing the law.
Normally when you sign an employment contract it will say something like you work 37.5 hours per week between 9am and 5pm with 30 mins lunch break, or whatever.
A zero hour contract doesn't state how many hours you will work, so there's no guarantee you get any hours. One week you might work 40 hours, the next week you get nothing, and the next you only get 10. It makes planning life difficult because you have no idea how much you'll earn each week.
Managers use it to bully, companies use it to exploit staff, and workers are usually too desperate to dare turn it around and use it to their advantage. The contract goes both ways. If the employer wants you to work and you have prior commitments you can usually refuse, but most workers fear being denied hours in future if they stand up for themselves so instead they get shafted, as usual, by business interests.
They're an awful tool of exploitation that only suits a very small subset of people who wish for extreme flexibility in their work, but are increasingly being used as standard employment contracts by companies wishing to control and manipulate staff.
They have a legitimate role, but 9 times out of 10 that's not what they're used for.
When he was arrested, Rowe said, the officer pulled the trowel out of its sheath, and said: “That’s not a garden tool.”
“I said it is, because it was in the Niwaki-branded pouch that you get at garden centres,” Rowe said.
Rowe said police had questioned him on whether he was “planning on doing something” with the tools, and he said he was also asked to explain what an allotment was.
“I had to explain in very basic terms what an allotment is to this guy,” he said. “So it didn’t fill me with a lot of confidence that I was going to be let off.”
Manchester's brightest at work. Experts enough to know what is and isn't a garden tool but don't know what an allotment is 🙄 ACAB
Nothing revolutionary about this.
Massive for-profit private interests being catered to by the government instead of public transit for the public.
And before the point gets argued like last time I brought it up. Yes in some scenarios cars can't be replaced, but the majority of transport required by the majority of people is better served via bus, tram, train, or bike. I'm not saying abolish cars, I'm saying they don't need massive government subsidy, other modes of transport do.
Loving the completely unfounded speculation that it must be ~~Eurasia~~ Russia or ~~Eastasia~~ China in this thread.
Y'all are so deep in propaganda you don't even know it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four