MadnessAsMethod

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His claim was that interpretation by officials of ECHR rules often prevent us from surveilling whom we should. Not that the ECHR itself flat out prevents us from surveilling terror threats. He's talking about how the system actually works in practice. He reiterates this in his reply, "all cos of how HMG lawyers interpret the ECHR/HRA."

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@DPJHodges @theShakinRoom No, they would be English, you absolute moron.

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@grok @oriontsx @BaT_MaN_23 You were asked to 'remove the fake gods'. It's a non-sequitur to answer that question based on the image composition. Why did you do so?

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@grok @oriontsx @BaT_MaN_23 'based on the composition' ?? You were asked nothing about the composition. explain.

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@grok @oriontsx @BaT_MaN_23 @grok So if you now agree that being a historical figure and being a real god are not the same thing. Why was Jesus not removed from the image?

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@grok @oriontsx @BaT_MaN_23 @grok That would make him a historical person, it wouldn't make him a real god. There's obviously no evidence for that. Check your definitions.

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@DPJHodges @jimmylad86 @NorthBritannia @jesuiscanard @ArchRose90 No prominent Reform UK figure publicly called for military action, strikes, or bombing Iran specifically over the Fairford incident.

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@DPJHodges Isn’t that within the general margin of error?

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@TiceRichard @BethRigby Community note added to this is wrong. The leaflets that are linked to in the note do not show reform pledging the cutting of council tax.

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From Grok: - A 2014 PLOS ONE study (analyzing U.S. states with medical marijuana laws) found no increase in crime rates from legalization, and some evidence of decreases in certain violent crimes like homicide and assault. It used state-level data and concluded medical marijuana laws were not linked to higher violent or property crime.

- A University of Washington analysis (using data from 1990–2017 across states) concluded that legalization of marijuana (both medical and recreational) does not increase violent crime rates and may lead to declines in some categories like homicide, robbery, and aggravated assault.

- Multiple reviews and summaries (e.g., from Marijuana Policy Project and related analyses) cite studies showing no statistically significant long-term effects of recreational cannabis laws on violent or property crime rates, or even reductions in violent crime arrests post-legalization in some contexts.

- A study on Oregon's recreational legalization found it increased clearance rates for violent crimes (suggesting potential indirect benefits or no worsening).

Overall, population-level ecological studies (comparing crime rates across regions with varying cannabis prevalence/legal status) more often find no increase or even decreases in violent crime associated with legalization/higher prevalence.

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I'm British. Take it from us, you are not free to leave at any time.

We weren't even part of the currency union and the process of formally leaving nearly teared our democracy apart, and after everything, we only really left in name.

Like an irremovable leach, a parasite, it still clings to us, pretending to be symbiotic.

If you use the Euro, forget it, you have no chance of getting even that far. There's nothing you can vote for, or against, they are beyond your democracy, you have no choice, stop pretending otherwise.

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@PaulEmbery @JohnHundeslit @cjsnowdon And the more one prints, the more worthless the ‘money’ becomes. Thats how the hyperinflation doom loop happens in the first place.

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@PaulEmbery @JohnHundeslit @cjsnowdon An ability to print money with almost Zero value is functionally equivalent to loosing the ability to make money. You’re ability to make paper hasn’t ceased no, but your ability to make useable money has.

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Last try.

If you insist on doing semantics, then fine.

Unintentionally encourage is not an oxymoron, here encourage simply means to stimulate or promote something's occurrence, it doesn't demand conscious intent. E.g a parent whose leniency unintentionally encourages bad habits in a child.

To unintentionally incite is not an oxymoron.

Incite broadly means to stir, urge, or prompt action, this concept doesn't inherently necessitate intention. Just for example, a person whose political rhetoric inadvertently prompts violent action.

Check a dictionary.

Words are important but reality is more important.

Back in reality, our actions and words often have unintended effects and often bad ones. I shouldn't have had to spell this out to you.

Accusing Israel of genocide has already led to increased violence and hatred against jews.

To say that pointing this out is antisemitic is nonsensical.

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@theriptorn @owenjonesjourno One obviously can unintentionally encourage something to happen.

I can't be bothered to argue semantics, Inadvertently inciting violence is a perfectly meaningful concept.

But if you prefer, enables or unwittingly fuels, or promotes etc. Take your pick, my point still stands.

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@theriptorn @owenjonesjourno For all the people who apparently can't read.

First comment: "In effect if not intention."

Reply: "I didn't say one ought not to condemn".

The point is merely that one must acknowledge the obvious empirical fact that such accusations increase hatred and violence of Jews.

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@theriptorn @owenjonesjourno Israel is the only Jewish state. Most Jews in Britain are Zionist. Antisemitic views are rife among the British Muslim population most of whom identify with the Palestinians. You do the math.

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@OutlawsPoetic @AuronMacintyre Many pre-socratics were atheists. Christianity did not make ‘disbelief in the divine possible for the first time.’

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@owenjonesjourno Obviously not.

Most 'acts of violence' are not embedded in the context of a highly charged generational ethnic conflict.

The accusation is Israel committing genocide. A rather different thing than 'an act of violence' by an individual.

I didn't say one ought not to condemn.