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If I enjoy the rights/freedoms of speech and expression in the UK while using those very freedoms to demand the silencing of those whose views differ from mine, I am not edgy, I am subversive
The measure of a free society is how confidently I - we -protect the right to disagree
I meet far too many people who openly advocate silencing/violence against those whose political views differ from their own and/or don't affirm their pov
They forget that protecting freedom of expression means protecting ours and others right to disagree without fear of violence
Cardinal Richelieu famously said 'Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him'
Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin’s secret police in the old Soviet Union, declared 'Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime'
Be fascinating to know which accounts on @X are manufactured, created or amplified by UK Government or Whitehall
To know which accounts are pretending to be ordinary but in fact professionally driven by a political party, Whitehall or their agencies to nudge/influence millions
Knuffsed - Adam ❤️🔥💭 retweeted
I always find it weird that people think violence against those they disagree with is OK
Not just silencing or violence, not just arrest or imprisonment, but death
Disagreeing with someone re their politics is not a justification for violence against them, what are we becoming?
When masked violent groups riot in the street, cause £billions in damage, burn historic buildings, brick police vehicles, loot shops, destroy everything in their path, call for an end to democracy, justify electoral fraud if it stops political opponents
All to stop 'fascism'
Knuffsed - Adam ❤️🔥💭 retweeted
Who I listen to
Who I talk to
What I read
Who I respond to
These are my (our) choices to make
So what’s the alternative?
The UK Government decide?
Whitehall decide what I hear, read or who I can talk to?
That is State overreach/oppression/suppression
Cc
@SpeechUnion
Mad how business owners can take money out of a profitable football club while loading it with £billions debt
They rinse the profits, borrow more to fund players and infrastructure, the debt stays with the club, not owners
The owners continue to rinse profits, load it with debt
Mad how those owners can sell the football club £billions in debt
Maybe build a new stadium using more debt which makes the brand more profitable
The new owner takes on the brand, new stadium, history and debt
Previous owners walk away £billions richer
Is this @ManUtd ^
Who I listen to
Who I talk to
What I read
Who I respond to
These are my (our) choices to make
So what’s the alternative?
The UK Government decide?
Whitehall decide what I hear, read or who I can talk to?
That is State overreach/oppression/suppression
Cc
@SpeechUnion
Freedom/liberty mean being able to hear, consider and informed of different views contrary to my own
To read different opinions, have conversations
Without UK government or Whitehall or quango ever-increasing overreach deciding who we can listen/talk to
Cc
@BigBrotherWatch
Knuffsed - Adam ❤️🔥💭 retweeted
Loved this jumper my gran knitted me
She passed away when I was 19, I still miss her
We must never feel like we have to 'move on' and distance ourselves from the memories, we are allowed to treasure those memories ❤️🩹
In January I banged my head
losing my appetite for reading
Late summer holiday I had unexpected access to a library reading 2 pages of 75+ classics incl East of Eden
My love of reading hasn't returned but I have Borrowbox audiobooks
East of Eden is avail today so here goes
Given the capabilities of UK government to influence social media
• 6,000+ professionals, specialist agencies + paid influencers
I expect these resources are used to amplify selected @X accounts
Artificially boosting their reach and fabricating popularity through astroturfing
Tiring listening to politicians who parade around with a progressive self-appointed halo
Branding themselves a paragon of virtue
Preaching righteousness using rehearsed polished rhetoric to disguise their audience from their ego, ambition and relentless pursuit of self-interest