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photos taken from the great outdoors, for the most part

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@laidlaw_stuart Which part? That Elbit supplies UK MoD in which case property damage alone is enough for a terrorism upgrade in sentencing? Or that Elbit drones are killing civilians? I'm not really gonna waste more time on you man

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@laidlaw_stuart The final section re proscribed orgs in a whole other thing, but re our discussion: when it can be applied to property damage (alone) to a private organisation engaged in producing arms for export for the wholesale murder of civilians, because the UK is another of their customers

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@laidlaw_stuart @TONE1923 @ProfHall1955 Then why were they not tried under terrorism charges? Unless the point is that a) the definition as used is usefully over-broad and b) if the jury was told of this intention, they might fail to reach a guilty verdict, as they agreed with them

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@laidlaw_stuart Which also operates under common law, is derived from the English judicial system, and as such has precedents which can be considered highly persuasive in English courts. It was a very similar case, and it's well worth examining

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@laidlaw_stuart They received sentences within a wide range of values, with the sentences having been increased by virtue of the judge labelling them terrorists.

In all of the discussion of this I've not once seen a mention of Pitstop Ploughshares. Ye have the moral development of 12 year olds

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@laidlaw_stuart @ProfHall1955 doing incredible work not understanding the point here

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@MichaelDop1 If a genocide is being committed, the first duty of individuals is to oppose it

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@DanielNothing @JoyceCarolOates It's a real colour photo, though as stated it has been touched up. It's not generated by a model from whole cloth, though whether AI was used for other things (final choice of colour, upscaling etc) is a different matter
https://t.co/QhyUeTT3sp

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Up the mountains to the Hill of the Witch, where the Cailleach Béara let fall her load of stones from her apron

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@ShumBaloo @james_e_b_ lmao no

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@james_e_b_ We call it Ireland. Republic of Ireland is fine in discussion of these here political entities, as it's a) specific and clear, and b) shows knowledge as to the character and nature of the place (as opposed to "didn't we used to own you?" which I've been asked more than once)

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@JoesephBlowsep1 @JasonKPargin Pretty much. In the North & South downs & the Chiltern Hills it's basically at the surface, in other areas there's localised basins with younger material above it. It's present in much of the south of England

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@MikeFromHC This varied by location, age cohort & by social class.

Overall, in Britain in the mid-19th century, 15% of children did not live to see their first birthday, while
25-50% did not live to see their fifth. By and large adults were not dropping dead at 35.

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@MikeFromHC That's the problem with averages - infant mortality formerly skewed that way down. There hasn't been that much change at the top end, though we've gotten much better at keeping sick people alive

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@OnlyDoinks42069 Scotland played Nazi Germany at Ibrox in October 1936.

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@antidissident I _am_ one of those people, and I'm telling you that you should examine your assumptions, because they're leading you down a pretty weird path. No argument on the tax haven shit, mind.

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@antidissident Obviously as an Irish person I could hardly be considered as objective as a Canadian, but maybe it's easier not to view my countrymen as an unwashed mass of bomb-flinging lunatics when viewed from within

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@antidissident Heaney's poems at this time are about the personal and the local. It's the main reason for his enduring popularity in Ireland. I worked on farms in Ulster many times & what's described in this poem really resonates. Reading it a call to genocide is some really out-there stuff.

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@antidissident I'd in fact guess that it's the narrator's way of framing the deaths of the kittens as a slaughter of innocents

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@antidissident The Troubles started in ~1968, & this poem was first published in Death of a Naturalist in 66. I'd have said it could be a nod to the anti-Catholic pogroms of the late 60s, but those peaked in 69. So I'd guess a nod to purges in a more general sense - plenty to choose from in 20c