"You give me any of that juris-my-DICK-shun crap, you can blow it out your ass. I think we can handle one. little. girl." "No, lieutenant, your men are already dead." (Yeah yeah I know it's a different movie, it's the energy that's important here.)
I stood up. For decades. Exposed millions, then billions in corruption. I did my job. Did it well. Too well. Now I can't get a job. Broke. A week or three from homelessness. Try and get rich first before you take on the world, because no one else will help you when you piss off enough of the big boys.
Thanks ay, and sorry if that came across as discouraging. Would gladly do it all again. I just wish I hadn't been as naive, believing that if I just did my job right, I'd be supported.
The raw truth? Is that even the biggest media outlets cannot afford endless law suits and defamation cases. We can 'handle the truth' - but we can't afford it.
My son is 28 and decided to go into the 1% chance the pill didn’t work. He wanted to live. He has some regrets… Seriously though, nowadays? Aside from being too old (personally thinking), I wouldn’t have children. I’d fight tooth and nail to have a vasectomy.
Good for them. Earth is a failed experiment; they can have it. If climate change bewilders them, I'm not worried about them figuring out rocket science and ever making it off the surface. They're free to propagate, consume, and die like any other parasitic infection that strangles its host.
Careful now… take that statement in the context of what is happening in the UK at the moment. This is being adopted by right-wing anti-immigrant groups.
The UK doesn't have absolute free speech. You are not free to incite violence, you are not free to preach hate, you are not free to spread lies about people, you are not free to deliberately spread misinformation.
Indeed. This is both good and fucking bad as of late. Because we’re seeing where those rules are getting applied arbitrarily. For example this thinly veiled racist British flag bullshit is seeing next to no consequences. While saying “hey free Palestine” is getting you a pit in the back of a van.
You seen the news? That sign was probably put up by our local equivalent of MAGA, who are trying to make our flag into the equivalent of the Confederate flag as a symbol right now.
That's why it's just about tolerable, depends on context. Thought it was St George's flags that was the popular thing at the moment, haven't seen any Union Flags go up around here - perhaps they're just too complex to spray paint onto a mini roundabout.
Makes sense to me, we’ve been made to feel ashamed of that flag, fear it, when in fact the world is better for our empire existing, we did many firsts, many atrocities too but I’d like you to point me to a country that hasn’t committed any… doesn’t excuse the fact but we now know what not to do in the future.
Spoken like a truly ignorant imperialist. We didn't want you, we would have much preferred if you never came here. The population of Ireland has ONLY NOW, some 160 years later, recovered to where it was when ye last committed genocide here, and you cunts are still occupying a chunk of the country. We are made much the poorer by being forced into your empire.
The world is not better for the empire, we enriched ourselves while systematically draining those we ruled of everything they had, we built roads and bridges to help extract resources faster, we educated it was so the workers we enslaved could extract more efficiently, the biggest issue with rose tinted imperialism though, we tried so hard to make so many people "British" people who very much were not white, why do the flag shaggers have a problem with non whites now trying to become British?
The UK did the most bad stuff anywhere and and still one of if not the worst countries in terms of doing bad stuff to any given group. We "owned" 30% of the world at one pont, was it to make it better? No it was to make money and bring it back to old blighty. The UK invented the wanker, not the word but the white van man. Fuck the UK and all the racist pieces if shit that I have to deal with every day.
Ah yes I'm sure that all the mass murder committed by y'all made the peoples you slaughtered better for it. You absolute fucking knob. In the finest tradition of your people, the world is the worse for your continued existence, and we all the dumber for having to perceive the words coming from you.
Some goods came out of empire, just as some goods came out of WWII. In no way should either happen by choice. There's plenty to be proud of in Britain, but empire isn't one of them.
lonelyrangerofthedreams
Too late for that “if”
EllisHobbs
theyallwenttoMexico
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Becker37
I've tried standing up and it never works. There is no justice
TheePerfectComment
tanebot
"You give me any of that juris-my-DICK-shun crap, you can blow it out your ass. I think we can handle one. little. girl."
"No, lieutenant, your men are already dead."
(Yeah yeah I know it's a different movie, it's the energy that's important here.)
cidjen
I mean,
cidjen
If you tolerate this then your children will be next
titoitoi
I stood up. For decades. Exposed millions, then billions in corruption. I did my job. Did it well. Too well. Now I can't get a job. Broke. A week or three from homelessness. Try and get rich first before you take on the world, because no one else will help you when you piss off enough of the big boys.
Etherealvalentine
Thank you for standing up and doing the right thing. Please don't discourage others from doing what's right. It's always worth doing Right.
titoitoi
Thanks ay, and sorry if that came across as discouraging. Would gladly do it all again. I just wish I hadn't been as naive, believing that if I just did my job right, I'd be supported.
The raw truth? Is that even the biggest media outlets cannot afford endless law suits and defamation cases. We can 'handle the truth' - but we can't afford it.
Etherealvalentine
*hug* I understand. I wish we could go back and do things with the knowledge we have now, too. Thanks again, friend. You are appreciated.
BenjyX55
You guys are having children?
Cowmayihelpu
Psionickitten
I can't even afford to support me and my disabled partner, much less think about children.
QuantumPlonk
In this economy?
MadamPuddifoot
Fuuuuuuuuck no
swofromtherock
As a millennial, we are the children in this sign...fucking boomers.
KatInTheCorner
Personally I'm not. But I do teach sex ed.
Keep in mind there are a lot of folks who don't get a choice. We have no sex ed, no reproductive health care, no right to our body.
Many relationships involve reproductive coercion, folks can't afford birth control, and even the best birth control fails.
Not to mention an inordinate amount of people are brainwashed into believing choosing their own body over a fetus makes them a literal murderer.
There are so many factors at play.
bambulina
Hell no. My 30th birthday gift to myself was sterilization.
CallMeCourierSix
Decided over 25 years ago I wasn't going to have kids.
And honestly? ZERO REGRETS BASED ON HOW SHIT HAS TURNED OUT!
aqueueforyou
FR. AF
Comet260
Agreed! Knocking on the door of 40 and I AM SO HAPPY I NEVER REPRODUCED!!!
ToenailClippingsJar
My son is 28 and decided to go into the 1% chance the pill didn’t work. He wanted to live. He has some regrets…
Seriously though, nowadays? Aside from being too old (personally thinking), I wouldn’t have children. I’d fight tooth and nail to have a vasectomy.
ForgotMyUsernameYetAgain
The cultists are.
brownribbon
Are they?
NaughtButOne
Good for them. Earth is a failed experiment; they can have it. If climate change bewilders them, I'm not worried about them figuring out rocket science and ever making it off the surface. They're free to propagate, consume, and die like any other parasitic infection that strangles its host.
swil22
Careful now… take that statement in the context of what is happening in the UK at the moment. This is being adopted by right-wing anti-immigrant groups.
labsarethebest7
is it right wing to expect free speach?
kelmo
The UK doesn't have absolute free speech. You are not free to incite violence, you are not free to preach hate, you are not free to spread lies about people, you are not free to deliberately spread misinformation.
stupidglueboy
This is the best response, you cannot go around with hate speech and call that free speech.
JustDontCare
Indeed. This is both good and fucking bad as of late. Because we’re seeing where those rules are getting applied arbitrarily. For example this thinly veiled racist British flag bullshit is seeing next to no consequences. While saying “hey free Palestine” is getting you a pit in the back of a van.
myloveforyouislikeatruckberserker
On a Union Jack of all flags? To many countries this was the image of oppression
dashers
I'd hazard a guess that this is probably in the UK, where the national flag is probably just about tolerable.
artrald
You seen the news? That sign was probably put up by our local equivalent of MAGA, who are trying to make our flag into the equivalent of the Confederate flag as a symbol right now.
dashers
That's why it's just about tolerable, depends on context. Thought it was St George's flags that was the popular thing at the moment, haven't seen any Union Flags go up around here - perhaps they're just too complex to spray paint onto a mini roundabout.
xcarbanner101
Makes sense to me, we’ve been made to feel ashamed of that flag, fear it, when in fact the world is better for our empire existing, we did many firsts, many atrocities too but I’d like you to point me to a country that hasn’t committed any… doesn’t excuse the fact but we now know what not to do in the future.
VinnieJonesDiary
Spoken like a truly ignorant imperialist.
We didn't want you, we would have much preferred if you never came here.
The population of Ireland has ONLY NOW, some 160 years later, recovered to where it was when ye last committed genocide here, and you cunts are still occupying a chunk of the country.
We are made much the poorer by being forced into your empire.
tigoda
The world is not better for the empire, we enriched ourselves while systematically draining those we ruled of everything they had, we built roads and bridges to help extract resources faster, we educated it was so the workers we enslaved could extract more efficiently, the biggest issue with rose tinted imperialism though, we tried so hard to make so many people "British" people who very much were not white, why do the flag shaggers have a problem with non whites now trying to become British?
Frogyz
The UK did the most bad stuff anywhere and and still one of if not the worst countries in terms of doing bad stuff to any given group.
We "owned" 30% of the world at one pont, was it to make it better? No it was to make money and bring it back to old blighty.
The UK invented the wanker, not the word but the white van man.
Fuck the UK and all the racist pieces if shit that I have to deal with every day.
GlowstickJedi
As a fellow Brit, you REALLY need to study our history. And not the whitewashed BS we were fed in school.
Zyrixion
Ah yes I'm sure that all the mass murder committed by y'all made the peoples you slaughtered better for it. You absolute fucking knob. In the finest tradition of your people, the world is the worse for your continued existence, and we all the dumber for having to perceive the words coming from you.
swil22
If you are proud of your history, you are not reading history - you are studying propaganda.
dashers
Some goods came out of empire, just as some goods came out of WWII. In no way should either happen by choice. There's plenty to be proud of in Britain, but empire isn't one of them.