@TheHauskarl Watched it yesterday. Narratively it seems a little all over the place, and feels more like "Vigilante's greatest hits", chaining loosely interconnected events of maiming street thugs and gunning down cops and rapists than as a full story in its own right. Worth a watch though.
@afneil Any halfway promising firm will be over-taxed and over-regulated into mediocrity, before inevitably being purchased by some US corporation and asset stripped to nothing. If the government really wanted to help then they'd get out of the way, but we all know they won't.
@SeverusChud This was likely done so that the project would be eligible for Oscar nomination. Whether Nolan was behind the casting decisions or was forced to swallow the studio's choices may or may not be revealed once the audience figures start coming out.
@LeftwaffenWatch@Alexandr4Denman It could probably be a number of different things, and the worst part is it wouldn't even really matter. The charges don't even need to stick. The police know the subsequent restrictions and investigations will be so onerous that the process would itself act as the punishment.
@PluckyDad@afneil@EvoAngelic The very real human cost of NHS failure ordinary people are forced to pay. Enduring that kind of loss is something no parent should have to. That it was due to systemic failures and incompetence of the very institution that should have saved her makes it 100x worse. I'm sorry.
@elonmusk When people say that the white population of SA should cut their losses and emigrate, remember that their ancestors built the country out of nothing. Then consider wherever they flee to is likely undergoing the same metamorphosis into a low-trust high-crime hellhole. It's sad.
@RestoreBritain_ Ironically it wasn't all that long ago that Farage himself was the one seen as being just "one angry man" saying stuff. The rest is well documented history.
@zatzi It's not like he doesn't know this, is it. He's fully aware of where the high costs come from, and is ideologically happy with this. He just wants to gaslight everyone into thinking that everyone else is the cause.
@LeeHurstComic People in politics always fail upwards. They also have a habit of inexplicably becoming suspiciously wealthy on 80-100k a year. That's something that definitely needs to change.
@TheLaurenChen Mud sticks, especially accusations like this. How many men who have done nothing wrong have had their lives and careers ruined through vexations claims, even after being exonerated? Let's not forget that it also trivialises genuine cases of assault. Penalties should be severe.
@peterrhague@bulkeley_john@ThomasLMatula@skisidjames Expensive, yes. But the main reason for not doing it as far as I can tell is that it would need specialist infrastructure and expertise to keep it running and maintained, and the UK has allowed both its civil and military capabilities to atrophy over the previous few decades.
@BasilTheGreat@MaggieOliverUK Whilst the government needs to be held to account, any damages are underwritten by the taxpayer anyway. The government have already demonstrated that they don't give a shit about what happens to our money. Individuals need to be personally prosecuted over this.
@Sargon_of_Akkad I've probably spent more time in Tesco's over my lifetime than that. Therefore I demand a full salary, employment benefits, and preferably a seat on the board of directors.