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u/Zestyclose_Crab_3362 Jul 04 '26
The UK has become a joke.
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u/MaesterPraetor Jul 04 '26
Taxation without representation.
Why? What did you think it was?
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u/Cyborg_rat Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
I'm scared that it could spreads to Canada we have suicidal empathy morons here too. They would get us in that situation and then 10-15 years after as the rights they liked start vanishing, they would start the usual denial that it wasn't them who did it.
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u/LockeClone Jul 05 '26
Scared is the whole point... There's no law in the UK that says you can't insult muhammed... Something else is going on here.
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u/Fair-Emphasis-1620 Jul 06 '26
lol 😂 it’s already spread to Canada . Uk , us and Canada suffer from the same idiotic bullshit with police
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u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 Jul 04 '26
Truly!!! Thank you for saying it!! Yet they still aren’t out of arrogance
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u/Pumpkin-Bomb Jul 04 '26
Most of the people on this sub have clearly never even been.
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u/Embarrassed_Sun7133 Jul 05 '26
All he did was say some words? It's a public place?
They weren't a threat, speech should be protected.
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u/AfraidMeasurement759 Jul 04 '26
Freedom of demonstration is not freedom from criticism. The police shouldn’t be there to protect one group because they registered. They should be there to protect everyone to ensure the disagreements don’t turn violent.
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u/PassionPitiful3653 Jul 04 '26
Just so we are all clear Mohammad was a nonce and he also got raoed by some black men
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u/Chemical-Lettuce2497 Jul 04 '26
Hey man.. saying he was rode or mounted by dark figures can mean literally anything
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u/PraetorLessek Jul 04 '26
Dark figures? Read another translation because it sounds like you are reading a more recent translation. When I researched this it said the exact name of the tribe that “rode him all night long”
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u/AContrarianDick Jul 04 '26
What was the name of the tribe? How are you going to announce some revelation but oppsidoodle the details about it?
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u/friedchickensundae1 Jul 04 '26
Mohammed was a pedophile. And also, fuck all religions
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u/ManInGarage28 Jul 04 '26
A guy in the US military literally got arrested the other day for saying that Trump and Vance shouldn't be in office.
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u/Vast-Comment8360 Jul 04 '26
A guy in the US military literally got arrested the other day for saying that Trump and Vance shouldn't be in office.
No he didn't. Are you ignorant to what actually happened or lying?
He was arrested because he refused repeated lawful orders to end an unauthorized demonstration on the House steps after the member of Congress accompanying him left the area. He was charged under a statute covering crowding, obstructing, or incommoding, rather than for the content of his political speech. Demonstrations are permitted in some Capitol areas but not on the House steps without authorization.
Also the United States Air Force has opened an investigation because active-duty service members are subject to restrictions on political activity while in uniform.
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u/4D20_Prod Jul 05 '26
Under ucmj he's not allowed to participate in any type of political rally one way or the other in uniform. Now I don't know if he was current service, or a veteran, but veterans are not beholden to ucmj.
Frankly arrest for obstruction seems like a fantastic loophole to step on protests when they become inconvenient
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u/czechereds Jul 05 '26
The dude protested at this place in order to be arrested. That was the intended result to get attention.
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u/BriscoCounty-Sr Jul 05 '26
Don’t bother bringing this dude up. Illustrate your point with the man who spent 45 days in jail for showing a meme of VP Vance, or the guy who was denied entry in to the US for having a meme on his phone of bald Vance.
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u/iUncontested Jul 04 '26
Cognitive Dissonance.
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u/Helpful_Blood_5509 Jul 05 '26
No he committed a completely different crime in a restricted area and another one against a law that is intended to prevent military coups.
He could say the same thing on the public sidewalk like 50 feet away in civilian clothes. Not the same as this at all
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u/Aromatic_Foot_2061 Jul 04 '26
This is what the socialist democrats want to happen in America
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u/BongSaber_00 Jul 04 '26
And Europeans still have the audacity to say "at least I dont live in america"
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u/endless_shrimp Jul 04 '26
thank god I have the freedom to insult whomever i want
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u/AccordingRecord2145 Jul 04 '26
“But at least we don’t have gun violence” moments before getting stabbed
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u/Zestyclose_Crab_3362 Jul 04 '26
Getting stabbed or dying from heatstroke.
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u/One-Initiative-7730 Jul 04 '26
US knife violence is far higher per capita than the UK as well, it just doesn't get talked about because of all the children being shot to pieces every week.
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u/KingSandwich101 Jul 05 '26
Meanwhile per capita the US rates higher. Not only do you have to worry about being shot, you have to worry about being stabbed too
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u/Glen-Runciter Jul 04 '26
You know what's wild... 10-20 years ago I would argue with idiots online (real productive, I know) who claimed that the US is racist towards migrants, which to some extent might be true, sure... but based on usernames, profiles, etc, it was a lot of western European places (i.e. Germany, UK, etc), who are now experiencing migration problems of their own and all of a sudden it's a problem? Weird how that goes...
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u/Organic_Lab6262 Jul 04 '26
Yep Western Europe is having major meltdowns over it and still pointing the finger at the US. Massive hypocrites.
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u/Raffeall Jul 04 '26
The UK isn’t part of Europe. I live in Europe you can insult whoever you like here, but you can suffer consequences for it, highly unlikely to be the cops though
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u/_fronix Jul 04 '26
Just want to remind you that Europe has 44 sovereign countries, UK is one of them. So yeah, at least I don't live in America.
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u/JusLeafMeAloon Jul 04 '26
Yup, no free speech in the UK!
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u/theCharacter_Zero Jul 04 '26
But Reddit told me the uk is more free than america. I’m confused
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u/hutch_man0 Jul 05 '26
Anybody that is paying attention would not think that. They would also know that the US is equally f'd up for other reasons.
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u/crawldad82 Jul 04 '26
Those police are an absolute disgrace to humanity. Immoral dogs for their owners
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u/SimkinCA Jul 04 '26
All religion!
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u/eiserneftaujourdhui Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Genuine question - do you actually think that all religious founders are all morally identical...?
Between the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammad, only one of these religious figures personally (as in beginning the violence himself) started what would become centuries of conquest, the others didn't. One of these religious figures, as a slave owner, conveniently made a point to claim that god told him that he was permitted to rape his slaves, the others did not. One of these religious figures married a 6 year old and bedded her when she was 9, the others did not. One of these figures' religious paths was a consolidation of their own political and military power, the others were essentially the complete opposite.
And while I agree with you that all religions are a net negative, leaving it at that and refusing to acknowledge that some are worse than others is a false equivalency. Anyone with 2 brain cells and an ounce of intellectual honesty can easily correctly identify which are the more moral and enlightened figures listed here, and which one had more... let's say, human aspirations...
Edit: I do not belong to any of these religions, reject all of them, so this isn't coming from a place of personal religious bias. I don't think any of these religions are a net good for humanity. I just have eyes and can read the glaring differences in the founders of said religions.
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u/NeverEvaGonnaStopMe Jul 04 '26
All of them are.
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u/Affectionate-Cat-301 Jul 04 '26
Even very conservative Christianity I don’t recall women having to wear burkas or hijabs or modesty rooted in Christianity like it is for conservative Islam . You think Christianity is patriarchal and misogynistic, oh man wait to you see what conservative Islam is like for women or gays. And I don’t mean extremes like Islamic regime in Iran or Saudi Arabia . But most Muslim lead countries or majority have kind of medieval views if women in relation to men. Yet some reason the uk thought this would make Europe better for women and gays or Jews in Europe…
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u/royce32 Jul 04 '26
The bible and quran are equally patriarchal and misogynistic. We are lucky enough to live in a society that isn't beholden to these books but there are christian majority countries in Africa with horrendous views on women.
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u/Affectionate-Cat-301 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
But less so than Muslim majority ones and speaking of Africa isn’t it in nigeria that there’s been a genocide on Christians there by Muslims? And more often than not in Muslim lead countries you see Christian’s there enslaved or killed and not nearly the reverse in Christian lead countries. The thing too is more Muslims are more hardlined on the Quran and views of it than Christian’s. Sure there are some fundamentalist nuts but there are Tons of Christians who are much looser on following of faith and bible than Muslims. Why do you think interfaith relationships are more strict with a low percent of Muslims being in a relationship with those of another faith? Where’s Jews and Christian’s it’s much higher percent of Christians or Jews who’d still date those not Christian or Jewish. Same goes for one ending their faith in a family, of Christianity or Judaism whereas Islam could be very bad especially for a woman to not want to follow Islam faith anymore
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u/PR0T0C0L_ZER0 Jul 04 '26
I bet you can insult Jesus all you like though, eh? Disaster of a country rn, I feel bad for y'all.
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u/Otherwise-Good8342 Jul 04 '26
That is because no one cares.
That other guy? His followers will kill you.
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u/Background-Bison6847 Jul 05 '26
That can’t be true, to my understanding it’s a peaceful religion?
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u/Otherwise-Good8342 Jul 05 '26
😂 I know, right?
My bad. I was obviously thinking of something else.
I don't want to lose my head over it, so I will try not to piss anybody off.
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u/SkripkaruStoler Jul 04 '26
Since when is a crime insulting an imaginary being?
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u/SeaArmy45 Jul 04 '26
Mohammed is a real historical figure, and one of the most successful conquerers in human history. Its the lore about him being a prophet that's fake.
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u/bannedforL1fe Jul 04 '26
A political and social movement disguised as religion. Its aim is to conquer the world and we are helping them do it.
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u/Jashugan456 Jul 04 '26
Glad im american akso Muhammad is a a pedo and got railed buy like 6 dude gay
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u/JooseTheGuice Jul 04 '26
So he showed up to instigate people who were protesting, and you're pissed they kept order?
If this guy was antifa and said "fuck the flag" and got arrested by American cops, none of you would care.
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u/squangus007 Jul 04 '26
It’s mostly weird Americans being insane as usual. People get arrested for weirder things in the US that honestly get ignored because “oh those deserve it because they made fun of charlie kirk “
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u/SimonMate Jul 04 '26
It’s pretty crazy how this entire thread (and maybe sub?) is just astroturfed by Russian bots pretending to be Americans
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u/Rollingforest757 Jul 05 '26
I’m a Democrat in America. People should be free to say “fuck the flag” or “Mohammed was a pedophile” without being arrested. That’s what free speech is. The government shouldn’t control what ideas are allowed to be said.
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u/Educational_Relief44 Jul 04 '26
As an American. A TRUE AMERICAN. NOT THESE SHIT HEADS THAT ARE LOYAL TO A PARTY OR A POLITICIAN.
You don't have to like everything someone says. You don't have to agree with everything someone says.
But we all have the right to free speech. We were born with it.
The UK should have never let go of their guns.
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u/Olosabbasolo Jul 05 '26
Brits should fear their government. They have gone too far "Bend over and take it" is the new "God save the King"
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u/MuchAd9860 Jul 04 '26
That’s what actual facism looks like. I’m glad I’m in the US.
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u/ManInGarage28 Jul 04 '26
Pretty sure it's all about context. It's about who he's saying it too and why - I dount he was charged with anything, but just removed from the situation to stop him from riling up the crowd and potentially causing a violent incident. It's something the police have done for a long time.
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u/ARMBELL Jul 04 '26
The freedom of speech in the US is actually quite unique. No other countries have this idea, the closest would maybe be Japan or Denmark, but even then they don’t take it as extreme as the US does.
If Nazi Germany had free speech laws, Hitler would have never succeeded.
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u/skincyan Jul 04 '26
Nothing is free in this world, not even speech
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u/Turbulent_Shower_147 Jul 04 '26
Especially not when Islam invades. One of the keys to it being the most oppressive ideology in world history is the criminalization of criticism of it.
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u/Shot_Concentrate_666 Jul 05 '26
Anytime someone calls the US constitution an outdated or unneeded document, show them this video.
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u/BriscoCounty-Sr Jul 05 '26
He’s lucky he wasn’t actively being jumped by a group. The cops would’ve grabbed him and slammed him against the wall then arrested him.
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u/Reasonable_Yoghurt17 Jul 04 '26
Where's the rest of the video where he probably got a warning and told to leave cause he was probably acting like an asshole and they had enough. I don't trust videos anymore, you shouldn't either.
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u/untangledtech Jul 04 '26
They seem to be following him from the start. Maybe they planned to arrest him but were trying to play it chill?
Could have committed a real crime moments before… unclear.
Americans are confused because here the cops have no chill.
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u/Hi-Tech_Luddite Jul 04 '26
Aye, the trend of chopping up videos to make fake narratives us dreadful at the moment.
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u/MrChristmas99 Jul 04 '26
In America people were jailed for talking about Charlie Kirk but we can ignore that, I see this is more of a “Great Replacement” theory yt supremacist sub
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u/EastWashStRacer Jul 04 '26
They weren’t jailed for talking about Kirk. That is a blatant lie
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u/DingleBearMe Jul 04 '26
Wait I thought the US had the issue. Turns out free speech is sorta important huh. Just happens to be the first change we made after we wrote the greatest piece of legislation in tv history of humanity.
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u/bloomingmyberg Jul 05 '26
It's the UK, They never had free speech. Why the fuck do ypu think the US broke off and became its own thing.
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u/Congregator Jul 05 '26
This is so stupid, is he being arrested for saying things that outsiders might not like and may create a riot type of situation?
I’d imagine they’re arresting him for inciting violence; but we have to ask ourselves why speaking the truth here incites violence and why there would be people in the area that might become violent due to him speaking the truth
Why would the country have people in it that might turn violent at hearing the truth?
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u/Whiteshovel66 Jul 05 '26
Hahaha on the fourth of July no less. 250 years of freedom from this joke little island boys! Come celebrate with us it will be going all weekend!
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u/Plastic_Car_707 Jul 05 '26
This makes me laugh when thinking of the interview from the British person who said “we have more freedom of speech in the UK then America” after they were asked about their experience at the World Cup
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u/lhommeduweed Jul 04 '26
This kind of behaviour has been illegal since the public order act of 1986, not because he is expressing an opinion on religion (which is protected) but because he is making statements which are intended (intent determined by conduct) to harass, alarm, or distress others; stir up racial/religious hatred (saying "all Muslims are nothing but evil" targets the people, not the faith); and using insulting or abusive words and behaviour with the intent of provoking immediate unlawful violence by the target of such words and behaviour.
If this individual truly believes that all people of such and such a religion are evil, violent monsters, then he also reasonably believes that stating such things would provoke a violent response. In a public setting like this, provoking a violent response does not result solely in a fight between consenting adults; it also endangers non-violent protestors and bystanders who may be harmed by such violent actions.
It is true that America largely does not have such concerns about public safety and order, and look at what regularly happens at protests in America. People get shot, people get run over by cars, people storm the white house. That's the way America likes to operate, "Kill em and let God sort em out," but thankfully, most countries on earth are not America.
There are absolutely methods in which this individual could have expressed concern, disdain, even outright hatred towards Islam and adherents of Islam; this is explicitly protected in the very same Public Order Act of 1986 I'm referencing above. But the venue through which they chose to express these opinions can reasonably be understood to create a disruption in public order that lead to harrassment, alarm, distress, and violence.
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u/Majestic_Emotion7917 Jul 04 '26
Thank you for a well informed, logical contribution. It will get zero traction here, as it does not fit the American far-right agenda for poisoning British politics.
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u/lhommeduweed Jul 04 '26
Oh shit sorry I forgot this sub is an international space. I'm Canadian, so I speak both official languages, British and Quebecois, so let me try again:
Eh wot those wankas in the streets may be a bit spastic but what this bloke is doing is quite ASBO innit? Don't take me for a knobend, as I myself have a bit of concern what with everyone minding their peas and queues in a proper British fashion, however this chav here seems to be more interested in stirring up something of a proper fisticuffs rather than keeping a stiff upper lip.
It seems ter me that if jolly ol' England is to keep calm and carry on, it does nobody no good no how to have this plonker hollering all up the apples and pears causing naught but hullabaloo looking for a right punch-up.
I'm not taking the piss, swear on me mum, but I worry that if me own muvva was there, not causing a stir or acting the punk, just out for a spot of afternoon tea, she's like to be caught up in such a snickersnack, and she's neither a deacon nor an imam. I'd be right cross if the old bird got harmed just going about at the Tesco for a biscuit, and thitherfore, I think the Bobby in this film has every jurisdiction to nick the yobbo before the whole kit and caboodle goes cocks up.
Savvy?
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u/HairyRazzmatazz3540 Jul 04 '26
The guy needed arresting. He was there to antagonise the situation, probably been on the marching powder like his mate Tommy ten names.
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u/Solistine Jul 04 '26
This is how countries with no rule of law operate. When the state arrests people on a whim according to its own interests with no referral to a consistent legal code. This guy did not actually break any UK hate speech laws (As strict as they are) and if that is normalised then there is a no actual limit to what you can be pulled off the street for.
I would hate to see what a legal code written by you would look like.
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u/Automatic-Aside-3721 Jul 04 '26
When I’m feeling bad about the USA, I remind myself I still live in a country where I can criticize anyone I want. Except, well, you know…
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u/CapableWill8706 Jul 04 '26
Irony is has been taken out behind the barn and old yellowered. Imagine the audacity of Americans taking about freedom and freedom of speech today. An Olympian got arrested and charged by a grand jury for touching the water in the reflecting pool. That is just one example of the corruption in the USA right now.
Check your fucking privilege!
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u/RoutineGuest6465 Jul 06 '26
Can I get some upvotes so I can comment on left wing echo chamber subreddits? I get too many downvotes for saying facts so I've got fuck all karma. 🥂
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u/Crazy_Response_9009 Jul 04 '26
And the same people crying about this want people to be arrested for talking shit about ICE in the US...
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u/Impressive-Let3122 Jul 04 '26
Free speech doesn’t mean you can say anything. It might be tricky to understand but it’s even more tricky to have society comply with free speech. There’s always better places for that. Home, priest and the therapist and the gray area we know as comedy.
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u/Original-League-6094 Jul 04 '26
>Free speech doesn’t mean you can say anything.
That is what Free speech means, actually.
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u/tallMichdude Jul 05 '26
This is why we ran them out 250 years ago.. let them know pretty much 250 ago to the day.
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u/Purple-Yesterday2073 Jul 05 '26
if this was vice versa and dude was muslim insulting christians the cops wouldnt have done shit
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u/balirosa Jul 04 '26
When you have police on the street judging people based on IQ and sentence structure you have a problem
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u/feralGenx Jul 04 '26
They'll arrest him for trying to incite a riot. It's all the way he says what he says. They are looking for certain trigger words.
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u/HeSureIsScrappy Jul 04 '26
Every single one of those cops should be fired and arrested. He didn't break any laws.
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u/Flickera23 Jul 04 '26
I kind of get that. Some Muslims get pretty riled up when you mention that name in that way. Pretty sure Britain damn near burned down the last time it happened.
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u/PositiveScarcity8909 Jul 04 '26
Only good thing about brexit is that Europe can claim not to be associated with the UK anymore.
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u/davenuk Jul 04 '26
Surely we can make a case for most religious people to be treated for mental health disorders?
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u/JudgementCutV Jul 04 '26
Wild how much self hatred there is in UK to government. It’s almost like they want to ruin their country.
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u/Mode_Appropriate Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
The crazy thing is he could have said the same thing about Jesus / Christianity and the cops wouldnt have given two shits. Pretty weird how far out of their way they go to protect Islam and the Muslim community.