Yeah this is classic cult brainwashing. What's next, food deprivation? (Food and sleep deprivation are used by some cults)

If they were guilty or complicit, I am not against pardoning them for testimony.

This. Except the person who created the paper trail may not have committed an offence and may not need pardoning.

Trump is certainly better prepared now. He has had four years to get ready to rule.

Nick who?

It's not even clear that the poster is even biologically female, there is a lot of transgender content on their profile.

Me too. We won. Let's just hope he delivers what he promised.

I agree, except Wokism was exploding way before Trump in 2016. That is what brought a lot of people into #GamerGate. It was accompanied by leftists smearing everyone in #GamerGate, even moderates or elderly female academics as card carrying murder-Nazi-incels.

Trump's first success was in part a reaction to Wokism. Not the other way around.

The tide is turning though, culturally and politically. People want low to negative immigration, free speech, less regulation and an end to Wokeness.

The question now is, will Trump and other 'Conservative' leaders around the world reconsider?

We had this story here a few weeks ago. It's still disgusting though. Looking into whether one of the old Blockbot team are involved.

Hey u/Archie78 u/dagthegnome that is the concern isn't it? Will Jenrick deliver?

All we can say is he's nailed his colours to the mast. These are unequivocal top-line campaign policies. So, I voted for him.

I posted this OC here because a lot of people feel strongly on immigration. The candidate for leader of the UK Conservative Party I am backing has radical solutions in mind, so some people might be interested.

Some people in the West have difficulty in grasping the concept of an oligarchy.

It's quite an interesting legal point. GoG of course are subject to EU laws requiring them to remove certain materials, however the contract is governed by consumer law and its own principles of proportionality. It seems to envisage forum bans in preference to account bans. It is difficult to see how an account ban could be appropriate unless you were actively hacking (which is a crime as well as a ToS breach). A forum and / or multiplayer ban would likely be sufficient for most other types of misbehaviour.

At the same time, Huw Evans, a former BBC presenter, received a sentence of 6 months (suspended - he does not actually go to jail) for possession of child pornographic images.

If the Western plan for victory in Ukraine is to publish propaganda stories that Putin (checks notes) scratched his nose a few times, then the West maybe needs to consider lowering their expectations.

They must be terrified Kamala will lose. Before I became a Conservative I was Labour Party staff and an elected councillor. I can't remember us ever sending hundreds of staff over there!

Plus, we were very shy of it because of the time Bill Clinton laid into the Conservative Prime Minister John Major over supporting the Republicans and Major had to personally apologise.

This 'remake things worse for more expense' business plan does not seem to be working for much of the entertainment industry.

Nope I am a right-wing Conservative blogger. I've been harassed by police over my positions in the past and have had to take legal action against them, representing myself, to force them to back down. I even published the police apology in my article here.

Hi there,

You believe that a person should be punished for their speech

Well yeah, sometimes. To quote US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v US, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting 'fire' in a theatre and causing a panic". Freedom of speech is not freedom to write monumental falsehoods in the knowledge it is not true. That is called, 'malicious defamation'.

You’re not aware of this because you just came here from Reddit. You came here from an ideological bubble where you have never been challenged and never needed to defend your positions

Wut ...? I'm a right-wing Conservative blogger who has been harassed by police over my positions and has had to take legal action against them, representing myself, to force them to back down. I even published the police apology in my article here.

Speaking of defending my position, I've been (counter)-sued in the past for defamation and defended myself and won and here is the public judgment. Unlike Jones, I complied with court rules and then flayed the other side's case to death with (legitimate) procedural motions.

TTRPGs are a waste of life once you are adult. I enjoyed Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay as a child. As a child. As an adult it is a futile endeavour. Spend the same energy improving your actual life! Not playing a sad fake one in a sweaty basement or online.

CRPGs are different insofar as there is graphics, musical and story content as well as some objective challenge, but they get samey in the end and find myself losing interest in recent years. Wrath of the Righteous is the only one I have spent much time on recently, and also the Rogue Trader CRPG.

I remember when TTRPGs died for me. I was listening to this woke dude at university lecture on how he had, 'enlightened' his little school friends back when he was at school.

These kids had been playing Dungeons and Dragons, getting the rules wrong and having a blast. For example, they allowed healing potions to take you over the hitpoint cap so they could have hundreds or thousands. The guy corrected them and turned their childish but fun power fantasy into the joyless, humourless, pompous crap that is mainstream TTRPG. The woke dude thought he was impressive. It felt to me like the day I put my Transformer toys away for the last time. Sad on so many levels.

The police officer is not to be faulted at all.

It is a shame though that he did not have a taser or something to enable the mentally ill perpetrator to be apprehended and taken to a suitable hospital, instead of killing them.

I just wish they would hurry up and roll out this feature on web. It's always been stupid to prevent blocked people seeing the blocker's account, especially as it is legitimate to have multiple accounts on Twitter so you can just read from an account with a different use case.

It was not the feds though. He got sued by his victims - people he had defamed and / or their families. He then chose to breach the rules of litigation and had default judgment entered against him.

Alex Jones deserved to be punished. He was the subject of a default judgment due to litigation misconduct. He did not answer questions or comply with discovery. After he lost and had damages awarded against him, the bankruptcy court found he could not discharge many of his debts in bankruptcy due to "wilful or malicious injury".

The only thing I disagree with is punitive damages which are out of all proportion to the loss incurred. Punitive damages are only allowed in limited circumstances in my country, England, and they are still limited to some connection between the wrong and the alleged loss.

Make no mistake though, Jones is a scumbag. If he had followed the rules the other side would have had to prove actual malice. He did not follow the rules and he lost because of it.

The irony is that the polls were close - some even said she was ahead.

Then she started speaking to her nation.