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  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court rulingEnglish
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    24 days ago

    From the article:

    The move comes after Linzi Smith, 34, a gender-critical lesbian from Newcastle, brought a case against Northumbria Constabulary, arguing that it had been wrong to allow uniformed officers to actively participate in an event that promoted gender ideology and was supported by transgender activists.

    From the BBC:

    People who filled out the 2021 census in England and Wales were asked: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” According to the ONS, 262,000 people - around 0.5% of the population - answered “no”.

    The ONS states that there are 60,238,000 total people in England and Wales.

    Gender critical people, almost always cis women, can go to hell. They go out of their way to try (and lately succeed) to suppress any support for trans people and to exclude trans women from any space that is oriented for women. They fear monger, calling us perverts and degenerates that want to prey on poor, defenseless, innocent women.

    Anyone who advocates for the disenfranchisement of trans people is an objectively shit person. We just want to live our lives and not be singled out for discrimination.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I would still download a car if I could. 🚗English
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    1 month ago

    The amount of people that take these moral high roads is fucking ridiculous.

    Well, the faceless mega-corp made it difficult to purchase or stream

    I don’t like that I have to play the game on Steam

    Akshually I’m just copying it, so it’s not theft

    There are too many streaming services, so I shouldn’t have to pay for ANOTHER service

    I’m not depriving the content creator or publisher from any money, since I wasn’t going to pay for it regardless

    Just fucking own up to it. You are downloading content that you did not pay for. I don’t take some enlightened stance when I download a movie; I just do it. What I’m doing is not right, but I still do what I do. I don’t try to justify it with some bullshit political take.

    We all have our line on what we deem acceptable or not. The only piracy that, in my opinion, could have a leg to stand on is when it is actual lost media. No physical copies available, no way to stream or pay for it. Anything else is just the lies we tell ourselves to justify our actions.

    Just admit that you could pay for the content if you wanted to, you just choose not to, because you are a pirate. You are depriving someone somewhere from a sale or some other form of revenue.

    Edit: I worded “Just own it” poorly. Clarified it to “Just own up to it”. That was the original intent, just an oversight on my part.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zonetopolitics @lemmy.world•An Iowa bill would make students sing the national anthem every day. One lawmaker sang itEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s conditioning. The children are a captive audience. They do not have the option to stay seated and not participate. They are compelled to take part in this, by the government.

    Article 1, section 7 of Iowa’s constitution states:

    Liberty of speech and press. Every person may speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appears* to the jury that the matter charged as libellous was true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. *In the original text, the word is “appear”, see original Constitution, Art. I, §7