Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy∞Bound

Patreon: writer / techie; in UK. He/Him #BlackLivesMatter
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[Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy∞Bound @BoundGalaxy]

Given the Bluesky exodus, if anyone wants to follow me there, you can follow the bridge from my Mastodon, as I have little interest in joining Bluesky directly:

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@VivaItalia2020 @BakerShaka @BritainisCool @TriorityN In the UK system, a significant proportion of changes over the last century have been forced through by governments with only a minority of the population behind them.

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@VivaItalia2020 @BakerShaka @BritainisCool @TriorityN Legislation *should* be held hostage to the whims of a minority when the alternative is that a minority steamrollers through legislation that doesn't have majority support.

That's a feature. There's no democratic legitimacy to such changes.

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@RubinWeston @Jam_mil73 @BritainisCool They manage to work together in plenty of countries with PR when it is necessary. When they choose not to, it is because *they* don't consider the people they decide to work with to be "the worst people". The solution is pay attention to the views of the parties you vote for.

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@AlphaMageSos @latestinspace If you think it didn't, I'm sure you can present testable hypotheses and evidence, right?

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@VivaItalia2020 @BakerShaka @BritainisCool @TriorityN Clearly you do, seeing as you're spouting utter bullshit about it.

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@Cryptofactor2 @dreckdub @kennardmatt Clearly they don't appear to think security matters enough to take proper steps to stop people at all.

[Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy∞Bound @BoundGalaxy]

@Cryptofactor2 @dreckdub @kennardmatt But it's also rarely the right response to shoot first without understanding whether someone represents a threat and *how* if you want to maximise security. Dead man's switches are a thing, for example.

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@Cryptofactor2 @dreckdub @kennardmatt I'm saying that random people shouldn't find it so easy to sneak into military bases, irrespective of their cause in the first place. The harder you make it to get in, the harsher the response may be justified if you've still made it past security.

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@Michael30733165 .. in those cases, to allow prosecuting and locking up anyone who is a threat. Successive governments have chosen not to fix the issues because it's easier for them to point at scapegoats.

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@Michael30733165 Nothing in the ECHR stops the UK from securing its borders. They're using the ECHR as a scapegoat to trick gullible people like you into opposing it. The ECHR sometimes prevent returns, but it e.g. wouldn't stop the UK from passing laws asserting extraterritorial jurisdiction ...

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@Cryptofactor2 @kennardmatt They only managed to *throw some paint* because the security was so appalling random unauthorised people could get in without being stopped. If anything, they did us a favour in exposing the incompetence of the RAF.

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@Michael30733165 Human rights only upset those who wants to oppress others. It's not "elite politicians" that are protected by the ECHR, but regular people. It's "elite politicians" that have led the assault on ECHR. That you're so gullible as to fall for this nonsense is quite telling.

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@_ROTE_ @BurnieBitch420 "The Troubles" is far too understated for a name for anything in the US.

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@Michael30733165 Clearly I touched a nerve, and you ran out of actual arguments at the same time. There's nothing patriotic about your wish to tear your country apart, and strip your people of rights.

[Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy∞Bound @BoundGalaxy]

@Michael30733165 The US, Australia, and Canada all have codified constitutions that contain significant human rights protections. The UK does not.

And you're conflating the EU and Europe, you clown.

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@richardcalhoun @BritainisCool FPTP has ensured the vast majority of UK governments in the last century has not had a democratic mandate. The *only* exception after the war was the 2010 coalition.

Coalitions are the only viable way of producing democratic mandates.

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@SenseVet @richardintheuk @BritainisCool Oh, look a far-right extremist racist proudly promoting his participation in the attempt to continue the South African Apartheid regimes oppression of South West Africa.

Big surprise that he opposes a system that dismantled white minority rule.

Fuck off.

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@SenseVet @richardintheuk @BritainisCool Nothing of what you describe has anything to do with PR vs. FPTP, which suggest you don't understand either system.