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I get the feeling that governments around the world now view terrorism or terrorist attacks as an opportunity to further some other political agenda.

Not saying that they do or don’t commit these acts but that they may allow for something to happen by relaxing anti-terror measures in order to gain the political consent for whatever project that they would otherwise be met with serious opposition for (internal or external).

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There are no such thing as conspiracies. Only our enemies use propaganda.

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The same company takes photos at my daughter’s special needs school.

My girlfriend said she wouldn’t be surprised if it was the school trying to pin it on the photography company.

Very weird situation, probably boils down to one persons ignorance on either side rather than policy.

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Clearly they took a photo before the disabled kids got organised and came down, which was a bit of a mistake, and then offered parents the choice which was a much bigger mistake.

School and company both fucked it right up.

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Quite. Conspiracy theories always seem to emerge when the most obvious cause of a terrorist act is beacuse a country’s security and intelligence services are caught with their pants down.

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They exist because humans conspire to fuck each other over. But some believe that we live in some utopia where conspiracies aren’t real.

It’s just a silly term that lazy people use to discount any opinions that don’t match the official narrative.

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Another reason to love Germany :heart_eyes:

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Just do it here ffs

Legalise it, set up regulated shops, tax it and ring fence the money for the NHS

Colorado alone makes like $5bn a year in taxes

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Interesting to see that Tajiks were involved in foiled terror attacks in NL and Germany.

So are we saying that the US, the UK and Ukraine are behind these as well to make the Tajiks in Moscow look more credible? :thinking::thinking:

Or has there maybe just been an uptick in ISIS recruitment in the Eurasian step and these sleeper cells are being activated now? More than 4,000 tajiks apparently answered the ISIS call when the caliphate was still running.

You can never say never of course, but I just don’t see it happening in the UK.

Our tabloids would have a field day if any government even attempted it.

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Yeah we need to wait for all the boomers to stop being able to vote.

Applicable to recreational weed, saving the environment, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, financial regulatory reform, student debt reform, the list goes on and on.

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I’m sure we’d all like democracy more if people who disagreed with us couldn’t vote to be fair.

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Haha. Is recreational weed that essential to you?

Well sure, especially if that group of people have destroyed everything they touch.

I’m sure people who had opposing views to you on all the issues you just mentioned might say the same of you and believe the world would be better if you couldn’t vote.

Also, I don’t think the age demographic is the only reason for division on all the issues you mentioned.

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Well yeah. We’ve got plenty of right wingers here who don’t want people voting. That’s why they’ve gone all in on wacky conspiracy theories around mail-in voting and pushing lies about voter fraud.

And obviously it’s not only based on age.

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I used to think this but some of the vilest pricks we got here are young fresh from the student unions with no experience and look to politicians for a career in and of itself - so just crave power.

Just droids.

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We definitely have some real younger shitheads. People like Madison Cawthorn, Lauren Bobert, Anna Paulina Luna who are all under 40. Charlie Kirk is also a conservative political activist who’s younger and a real piece of shit. I’d probably throw Ben Shapiro in that crowd too. He’s awful.

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