Amnesty International, Liberty, and the UN disagree with you.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-banning-palestine-action-disturbing-legal-overreach-uk-government-amnesty

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/governments-use-of-terrorism-powers-against-protest-groups-sets-concerning-precedent/

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/un-experts-urge-united-kingdom-not-misuse-terrorism-laws-against-protest

https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-world/2025

A country actively kidnapping people off the streets, removing due process and habeus corpus, deporting prisoners to random countries, building concentration camps, and deploying troops on the streets has a score of 84/100. Forgive me for not feeling particularly free with my score of 91.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House#Criticism

Having a read of this I think it’s fair to say boiling down a nation’s “freedom” to a single number is a silly unacademic metric, before even getting into the likelihood of bias and manipulation.

If it looks like a duck fascist, swims like a duck fascist, and quacks like a duck fascist, then it probably is a duck fascist. Regardless of what a likely bias think tank’s research may say.

https://youtu.be/3bZzM4s0Hgs

I think I would rather watch paint dry than The Big Bang Theory tbh

Thanks for the second source. The Telegraph is a right wing rag.

Hey now! The Americans have done far more than that, they’ve peacefully wandered around the neighbourhood and played some acoustic guitar. If that doesn’t attract the attention of politicians, what will?

/s

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-mounting-local-storage-in-linux-linux-permissions-primer

This guide may be of help.

What are you talking about? I’ve been keenly following UK politics for about 15 years now and can’t think of any examples off the top of my head.

John Prescott got a reputation but that’s because someone threw an egg at him in the street so he punched the guy. Other than that I can’t think of any famous examples of politicians fighting.

The term you’re looking for is an egalitarian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism

And this is why ACAB regardless of whether they’re a “good one” or not.

As long as police forces ignore the right of expression and protest, in favour of the whims of the government of the day, they are bastards.

Oh winter is coming.

It’s just going to take a while, but it will come.

And it will either be a nuclear winter or an ice age. Yay!

To save those, like me, that don’t know what Zapruder is, a search:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film

It’s a recording of JFK getting shot

Sweet, ta! I listened to The History of Rome a few years ago so I’ll check this one out.

Aye, true progress was being made and that couldn’t be allowed to happen. Germany’s Blitzkrieg tactics were practised on Spain before they began their expansion.

I tried but I have an unfortunate case of bees in my brain so I didn’t finish it. Need to give it another go. The portion that I read was interesting though!

Who’s the revolutions podcast by?

Edit: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia

The Spanish are a great bunch of lads

Fada beò an Spàinn!

I didn’t think it was that hard at all, he’s in the news every day!

Every one of your complaints stem from Americans not marching in the past. If you want a better life, a better country, more equal distribution of wealth, march! All the excuses you give for people not marching are conditions brought about because your population doesn’t generally march in the first place. As a culture, you’re so individualised that you forget how to stand up for each other, until it’s too late, and blood gets shed. None of us survive in a bubble alone, we all live in communities, we all rely on other people for various things. Unions work because alone we are weak, but together we’re strong.

We don’t take things like free healthcare for granted, it didn’t magically manifest itself, it was fought for by our predecessors. By marching. The same conservative rich fucks that prevent you from having healthcare are consistently trying to remove it from us. We have regular industrial action, attempting to prevent them from taking it away from us.

Do the same.

We have bullshit anti-protest laws too, we still manage to enact change though.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-alarming-crime-and-policing-bill-yet-another-assault-right-peacefully-protest

American democracy tends to be passive. You vote red or blue every now and then and that’s it. The politicians handle the rest. In Europe there’s more to democracy than just voting for your representative. Learn from us, claw your freedoms back. For starters, demand a real democracy where you can vote for more than just 2 choices.

The Arab Spring managed to enact change at least, No Kings hasn’t achieved anything yet. I hope it will, but so far the fascists still run the country.

The original numbers were 4-6 million, it’s only recently been corrected to 13 million by some sources.

4-6 million is pathetic. 13 million is a lot better.

Of course I’m negative when it looks like less than 2 out of 100 of you can be arsed to oppose fascism.

Well done for finally waking up, but you haven’t done great yet. Keep going. Until Trump and his ilk are gone you haven’t achieved anything but let off some steam.

Keep up the momentum!

Is that better? 🥕🥕🥕🥕

Not that it’s relevant, but Scotland. A country that is quite good at telling fascists and racists to fuck off.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/nigel-farages-previous-visits-to-scotland-arrests-protests-and-fleeing-from-royal-mile-pub-5147584

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/solidarity-in-an-image-glasgow-protesters-halt-deportation-of-two-members-of-their-community-269408/

A country that is welcoming to LGBT people and immigrants.

https://www.gov.scot/policies/lgbti/

https://www.gov.scot/publications/migration-helping-scotland-prosper/

A country, that despite being under the thumb of a colonial power, has still managed to gain its own parliament and enact progressive policies that Westminster opposes.

How? By fucking yelling from the streets! By not accepting what our supposed superiors tell us and demanding better.

That’s not how logic works. Jesus Christ. Absolute numbers aren’t how you compare these things.

Of course the country with 340m people can get a bigger crowd than the one with 18m.

I know the American education system is underfunded but why over the last two days have I had to argue this point to so many of you?

The Dutch are standing up for others, they could go about their day as if nothing is happening and nothing meaningful would change in their lives. But they chose not to.

Americans are only standing up for themselves, so they don’t lose their freedoms. The Dutch protest is therefore more impressive, even with it being a smaller turnout.

If 13m is the true number then that’s a lot better! That’s 3.86% of the population. Now keep it up! You still have a king as far as I can see, so why did you all go home on Sunday?

People are still being deported, people are still being snatched by masked men, the federal government is still breaking laws and doing what it wants, checks and balances be damned.

Keep the momentum going, depose these fascist fucks!