And yet, it happens.

At least in the US, that is illegal to do. Now good luck prosecuting that until a lot of police reform happens because that’s a whole issue as well, but that is illegal. Over there he’d be convicted and sentenced on top of being held.

Listen I know it doesn’t mean much but for what it’s worth I’m sorry the entirety of lemmy is (evidentially) too fucking stupid to feel the searing sarcasm of your comments here today. Consider this a formal apology on behalf of my “contemporaries.”

Me: Prosecute? Speech? You can’t, get fucked.

Glastonbury

Oh that sounds bri*ish as hell, makes sense, didn’t have a chant starting loicense.

Steaming letters open is a thing. More work though.

Call me when you accomplish at least half of something, 20%er.

Sorry, DDG says no, and I’m gonna have to agree with it here. 20% is 20%, that’s an 80% failure rate, hardly “hugely successful.”

We’re just gonna have to 20% agree to disagree.

1/5th success.

Well, they only got 20% of the guns that time, and the vast majority of them were .22 “pea rifles” and shotguns. In fact only 204 automatic weapons were turned in (for a rate of 1 in 1,000). Also they had about 3.2 million registered firearms before the ban, which reduced to about 2.2 million, only to now be back around 3.2 million, but with a lower % of Aussies owning them.

Also violence was already on the downswing before the buyback, both firearm and non-firearm homicides generally lowered from around '79 on, though while firearm suicides decreased, non-firearm suicides increased.

Don’t get me wrong I’m sure the bans effected the rates a little, but not much and they were already decreasing over a decade earlier. It seems that AUS is just not that murderous, and that those who would have shot themselves seem to have just found another way.

(I think their point was that it should be taught unilaterally instead of used as a punishment because the teachers administering the punishment could be overly sensitive, overly passive, or even directly weaponize it.)

Tbf that argument is not without it’s merits, that might be better, in addition to being harder to abuse it as a punishment, it also wouldn’t limit it to witnessed/reported misogynists, and teaching it to even young women could help them have the courage to call it out when encountered or even just recognize it, or even help with internalized misogyny. Idk, sounds good to me.

Tbf he did say “diaspora” meaning he’s talking about Lebanese that have moved (or dispersed) abroad, and he’s saying those who moved are mostly christian.

I can’t back up his claims (because honestly idgaf about your internet argument and am not going to look into it at all), but the “54% Muslim…” seemed to say that was in Lebanon, not all those who have migrated elsewhere, so it’s possible you’re both right.

(Though also I’ve seen articles saying he is Muslim so unless those are wrong this is all a moot point anyway.)

Of course, afaik almost no billionaire’s money is liquid either, it’s in properties and businesses and shit.

Like I’m sure bezos has plenty liquid, but most of his billions is just a valuation of amazon/aws/whatever other shit he owns.

Like, if we wanted to take all his money we’d have to completely liquidate amazon and aws, and his house etc, selling the assets off to whoever can afford it, it’s not just breaking into his Scrooge McDuck vault full gold coins.

Not that it’s impossible, it just seems that many people don’t realize this and think it is just the Scrooge McDuck vault.

I’m sure that’s next on his list lmao.

Fucking christ NZ can’t even have magnets?!

That sounds like something the british would do.

You know what? There is NO Easter Bunny! Over there, that’s just a guy in a suit!

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Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It’s not a schooner… it’s a Sailboat.

Right, for people as famous as Banksy and nobody else, that’s partly what I’m talking about. Sure legal murals get protected all the time but writers/bombers (like King Robbo who banksy dissed,) and even most “street artists” who don’t write, (like Blek Le Rat, who Banksy bit) get chased by the cops (or train yard bulls), it’s the name of the game, and frankly it wouldn’t be as fun without it.

Hell yeah lol, stay up!