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Well, the US is accepting refugees from South Africa, so there's that possibility.  I think what the UK really needs is for your fellow countrymen to get fed up enough to rise up and throw the crooks out of Parliament and take their nation back.  Sadly, I don't see any peaceful way this can happen, but who knows.  I have seen stranger things come to pass, so one can always hope.

Oh well, maybe the US will start accepting free speech refugees in the next few years. Should give me enough time to save up the money.

Unless, of course, the UK goes full Germany and starts fining people for trying to leave...

I'm afraid they do not grant legal rights to birds. 

(sigh)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwydl81dg13t

I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. Anyone fancy acting as a sponsor for an immigration visa?

I would also like to add this classic for a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPbzrgjOi04

Prophetic

I would also like to add this classic for a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPbzrgjOi04

I will bring two comparisons to the table.

Iryna Zarutska vs George Floyd.  One was an innocent refugee that fled from war and was brutally murdered without provocation, the other was a career criminal that was on fentanyl and meth and died while resisting arrest.  The first case has been mostly ignored, the second resulted in riots and burning cities.

Tucker Carlson vs Jimmy Kimmel.  When the first was cancelled it was celebrated by the same people that are decrying the cancellation of the second.  What's good for the goose, as they say.

The worst part of Charlie Kirk's assassination is that his killer did not have to become what he did.  He was influenced by a culture of intolerance and hate that preached violence - a sad irony as that's what, in his mind, he was trying to eliminate - and he chose to embrace that worldview.  He ended two lives that day - Charlie's, and his own.  Those who are celebrating Kirk's death care nothing about the two families that have been utterly devastated by this.  All they see is someone they hate is dead.  Such blood lust is unbecoming of a so-called civilized people.

Well said.

And you are correct regarding silent prayer - the most famous case is a woman named Isabel Vaughn-Spruce who was arrested for silently praying within an abortion clinic exclusion zone (yes, you read that right). She pursued legal action and won her case with West Midlands Police issuing a formal apology, but as with all of these cases, the process is the punishment.

I myself remain areligious. That said, I am no longer willing to allow my moral principles to be used as a shield by those who do not hold them. The same people who were dancing on Kirk's grave and calling for more are now getting sacked, and suddenly they care about free speech now that the cancel cannons have been turned in their direction. Five years ago I would have condemned this - I maintain that no one should lose their job over a tweet. However, it would appear that the only hope for reconciliation is that, maybe, being forced to live by their own principles for a while will finally make them understand why we hold ours.

Cathartic? Perhaps. Pragmatic? Certainly. Effective? I have my doubts, but when these people are more upset by a talk show host getting sacked than an innocent man being gunned down on a debate stage, let alone what happened to that poor Ukrainian lass the weekend before, what alternative is there?

I am definitely saddened by what has happened to the UK.  What has happened over the last century is that people have been pitted against each other, Left vs Right, Republicans vs Democrats, Europeans vs Americans, etc... when it really comes down to good vs evil.  Speaking out against evil has resulted in people being labeled as "haters" or "phobes" by evil's apologists.  It has always been a false equivalency.  Some behaviors should never be tolerated, but being labeled as intolerant is scary, so a lot of people just silence themselves and let things happen.  What happened with Charlie Kirk is the result of tolerating evil for too long and letting those who espouse such rhetoric to go unchecked.  Good people decided it was OK to surrender their rights and authority to the devil, and now we see the hell that has followed.

People label their enemies as haters while being full of hatred, call them Nazis when they themselves are behaving like Nazis, decry leaders as fascist while praising their own fascist ideas.  That is the problem with hypocrites - they are undisturbed by their own hypocrisy.  Meanwhile, there are very rich and powerful people that seek even more wealth and power at the expense of order and sanity.  Questioning, thinking for yourself, and just asking for what used to be considered common sense leads to persecution.  I understand that now in the UK if you're even suspected of nodding your head in silent prayer in the wrong places you'll be arrested on hate crime charges.  Yet, half the country is now bowing to Mecca 5 times a day without fear of any repercussions?  That's certainly not just.

A lot of people - atheists in particular - like to throw around the phrase in the bible "Judge not, lest ye be judged".  There is another phrase I am fond of myself - "By their fruits ye shall know them".  A diseased tree bears rotten fruit.  When looking at anyone - politician, social leader, activist, what have you - I always look at what manner of fruit they have produced.  It doesn't matter what they say they're doing.  If they leave a trail of desolation, poverty, strife, and misery in their wake we know what they are.  They can try to hide by labeling, accusing, and slandering their critics, but the truth is there to be seen.  How people react to tragedy befalling their ideological opponents is very telling.  Anyone that is truly loving, tolerant, and peaceful does not celebrate the murder of someone who simply disagrees with them.  Those people are evil, and I pray for them daily that they would repent and come to learn what true love and compassion really mean.

But that would be "pandering to the far-right", or something.

One thing I've learned over the last decade or so is that "far-right" is nothing more than a euphemism for "working class" - basically shorthand for, "your concerns are not only to be disregarded, but actively worked against", hence the UK now has the fastest population growth in all of Europe, despite having a negative birth rate, meaning that the sexual and violent crimes are only getting more and more frequent.

Add in the fact that the Home Office, which decides who gets to stay in the country and who doesn't, is effectively run by a network of around 700 Islamists and you have little room for wonder as to how someone like Tommy Robinson was able to get around a million people to march on Westminster just last week for a free speech rally.

I was once a lefty, but the events of the past 15 years have had me questioning everything that I "knew" about the society that I live in, culminating finally in the horrendous events in the US last week and the reactions of people not just online, but who I considered friends. It's been a tough thing for me to navigate on top of everything else going on here. Thing is, I never really paid much attention to guys like Charlie Kirk, but seeing some of the ghoulish shit people have been posting in the wake of his assassination has been sobering, to say the least.