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Greed and Death wrote:

Loben III wrote:Uh....what racist word is paint sprayed there?

Article says the Nword is there my guess is they didn't want to publish a photo of it.

Amazing.

Vassenor wrote:ALM

I read "ALM" and went "Aryan Lives Matters"? Otoh there's not much difference...

Vassenor wrote:

Loben III wrote:Uh....what racist word is paint sprayed there?

So because not every facet of the graffiti is in the article it's not a real hate crime. Got it.

Also the photo we do get reads "BLM TALK TOO MUCH" and there's references to ALM in the text. Use your imagination.

That doesn’t really mean much tho. Unless you consider dissent against BLM to be a hate crime worthy of MP attention.

Loben III wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
So because not every facet of the graffiti is in the article it's not a real hate crime. Got it.

Also the photo we do get reads "BLM TALK TOO MUCH" and there's references to ALM in the text. Use your imagination.

That doesn’t really mean much tho. Unless you consider dissent against BLM to be a hate crime worthy of MP attention.

It's a discipline and unit cohesion problem. Who else do you think would be in charge of the response? The Cypriotic media?

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:

Loben III wrote:
That doesn’t really mean much tho. Unless you consider dissent against BLM to be a hate crime worthy of MP attention.

It's a discipline and unit cohesion problem. Who else do you think would be in charge of the response? The Cypriotic media?

I was thinking more whoever is in charge of the British army’s “it’s ok to cry” regiment.

Loben III wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
So because not every facet of the graffiti is in the article it's not a real hate crime. Got it.

Also the photo we do get reads "BLM TALK TOO MUCH" and there's references to ALM in the text. Use your imagination.

That doesn’t really mean much tho. Unless you consider dissent against BLM to be a hate crime worthy of MP attention.

So you're still acting like that one photo of the rear quarter of the car is the full extent of the vandalism because it helps your narrative.

Vassenor wrote:

Loben III wrote:
That doesn’t really mean much tho. Unless you consider dissent against BLM to be a hate crime worthy of MP attention.

So you're still acting like that one photo of the rear quarter of the car is the full extent of the vandalism because it helps your narrative.

Now if the fine journalists at whatever the fuck would be so inclined as to include the entire extent of said vandalism I would be more inclined to be empathetic.

Loben III wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
So you're still acting like that one photo of the rear quarter of the car is the full extent of the vandalism because it helps your narrative.

Now if the fine journalists at whatever the fuck would be so inclined as to include the entire extent of said vandalism I would be more inclined to be empathetic.

Still doing it.

Vassenor wrote:

Loben III wrote:
Now if the fine journalists at whatever the fuck would be so inclined as to include the entire extent of said vandalism I would be more inclined to be empathetic.

Still doing it.

And I will keep doing so for as long as this topic is relevant in the UP thread.

The Archregimancy wrote:

Loben III wrote:
Uh....what racist word is paint sprayed there?

The accompanying photograph only shows part of the car.

As the story clearly notes:

'The racist abuse sprayed on the car includes the N-word'.

Given the BBC's recent difficulties over the latter word, it was presumably a deliberate decision to not include it in the photograph.

Although that is a decision I strongly disagree with. Showing the full thing would be better journalisms, with a greater impact. It would make people understand the matter more.

Censoring something bad makes it look less bad.
If you want people to feel the full impact show the full thing.

Loben III wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
So you're still acting like that one photo of the rear quarter of the car is the full extent of the vandalism because it helps your narrative.

Now if the fine journalists at whatever the fuck would be so inclined as to include the entire extent of said vandalism I would be more inclined to be empathetic.

All news outlets appear to be using same photograph.

The credit for that photograph is 'Forces Compare', which offers specialist military car insurance for the Armed Forces.

The decision to only provide an image of a portion of the vehicle therefore seems to rest, at least for the present, primarily with the relevant specialist insurance company, not with the journalists.

The Archregimancy wrote:

Loben III wrote:
Now if the fine journalists at whatever the fuck would be so inclined as to include the entire extent of said vandalism I would be more inclined to be empathetic.

All news outlets appear to be using same photograph.

The credit for that photograph is 'Forces Compare', which offers specialist military car insurance for the Armed Forces.

The decision to only provide an image of a portion of the vehicle therefore seems to rest, at least for the present, primarily with the relevant specialist insurance company, not with the journalists.

Fair point. If that is all the have, that is not their fault. But in general censoring something bad makes it look less bad.

The Archregimancy wrote:

Loben III wrote:
Now if the fine journalists at whatever the fuck would be so inclined as to include the entire extent of said vandalism I would be more inclined to be empathetic.

All news outlets appear to be using same photograph.

The credit for that photograph is 'Forces Compare', which offers specialist military car insurance for the Armed Forces.

The decision to only provide an image of a portion of the vehicle therefore seems to rest, at least for the present, primarily with the relevant specialist insurance company, not with the journalists.

Ah.

Carry on.

The HQs of the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems, and the Greens were attacked with pink paint yesterday by people calling themselves the Beyond Politics Party.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53770794

A serious party or a bunch of attention seeking tossers? My guess would be the latter - anyone heard of them before?

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:A serious party or a bunch of attention seeking tossers?

...yes.

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:The HQs of the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems, and the Greens were attacked with pink paint yesterday by people calling themselves the Beyond Politics Party.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53770794

A serious party or a bunch of attention seeking tossers? My guess would be the latter - anyone heard of them before?

"Beyond Politics Party" is such a contradiction in terms. It's like saying "beyond fascism fascists"...

And they seem like total wankers, looking at what creepy weirdness they were doing:

Beyond Politics's Twitter feed shows a man dressed as a priest and a woman in a pink T-shirt standing outside Conservative Party HQ in Matthew Parker Street, holding a banner saying: "Treason, Treason, Treason."

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:The HQs of the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems, and the Greens were attacked with pink paint yesterday by people calling themselves the Beyond Politics Party.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53770794

A serious party or a bunch of attention seeking tossers? My guess would be the latter - anyone heard of them before?

"Citizen-led decision making" and "[N]either the government nor any of the political parties are effectively standing up for the planet" make them sound like green anarchists.

Celritannia wrote:

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:The HQs of the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems, and the Greens were attacked with pink paint yesterday by people calling themselves the Beyond Politics Party.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53770794

A serious party or a bunch of attention seeking tossers? My guess would be the latter - anyone heard of them before?

"Citizen-led decision making" and "[N]either the government nor any of the political parties are effectively standing up for the planet" make them sound like green anarchists.

They are - it's the extinction rebellion lot, they've been chucking paint at NGOs for a few weeks now.

The Notorious Mad Jack wrote:

Celritannia wrote:
"Citizen-led decision making" and "[N]either the government nor any of the political parties are effectively standing up for the planet" make them sound like green anarchists.

They are - it's the extinction rebellion lot, they've been chucking paint at NGOs for a few weeks now.

Them lot? FFS.
I am all for strong environmental policies, but this is just stupid.

Celritannia wrote:

The Notorious Mad Jack wrote:They are - it's the extinction rebellion lot, they've been chucking paint at NGOs for a few weeks now.

Them lot? FFS.
I am all for strong environmental policies, but this is just stupid.

It gets better, their entire raison d'etre is collapse the government, replace with citizens councils (Reign of Terror style from the sounds of it), 'fix' the country, then resign.

The Notorious Mad Jack wrote:

Celritannia wrote:
"Citizen-led decision making" and "[N]either the government nor any of the political parties are effectively standing up for the planet" make them sound like green anarchists.

They are - it's the extinction rebellion lot, they've been chucking paint at NGOs for a few weeks now.

Are you sure it's them under a different name?

The Notorious Mad Jack wrote:

Celritannia wrote:
"Citizen-led decision making" and "[N]either the government nor any of the political parties are effectively standing up for the planet" make them sound like green anarchists.

They are - it's the extinction rebellion lot, they've been chucking paint at NGOs for a few weeks now.

Extinction Rebellion seem to be saying they are a separate organisation

https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2020/07/ ... ics-party/

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:The HQs of the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems, and the Greens were attacked with pink paint yesterday by people calling themselves the Beyond Politics Party.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53770794

A serious party or a bunch of attention seeking tossers? My guess would be the latter - anyone heard of them before?

The United Kingdom already has an Official Monster Raving Loony Party, who may not be the loonies we deserve, but are at least in a grand tradition of mostly harmless British loonies.

Would Howling Laud Hope, Baron Von Thunderclap, or The Incredible Flying Brick throw paint at the HQs of other parties.

They would not.

I for one stand with the OMRLP in rejecting this latest outbreak of serious looniness, and calling for a return to good old fashioned harmless loony values.

I always have a mini heart attack when I see a mod post.

crap, what if I sleepshitposted?

Crysuko wrote:I always have a mini heart attack when I see a mod post.

crap, what if I sleepshitposted?

Since Arch posts here frequently he can't make any rulings here. The fists are encased in giant balls of cotton wool upon entering.