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2022 Jul 12, 1:18pm   34,562 views  579 comments

by Patrick   follow (60)  

Arrived in London this morning. Internet is spotty, but I'll try to report thoughts.

- almost no homeless, saw just one so far
- lots of trash though
- prices seem reasonable, a bit lower than SF, but that's because the pound is so low against the dollar
- the majority of people on the street are clearly not English; they are from everywhere else on earth

I did not know there was a Saint Chad:

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408   MolotovCocktail   2025 Aug 5, 4:10pm  

Patrick says







I think that cartoon is now banned in the UK.


410   Patrick   2025 Aug 8, 9:01am  

https://x.com/RMXnews/status/1953747379959611446


"There's f**king kids about!"

A migrant exposed himself on a London overground train and started screaming at those who told him to pull his pants up.

Several Brits stepped in to throw him off the train.




Good to know that at least some men in Britain will still protect the public from such filth.
411   Bd6r   2025 Aug 8, 9:12am  

Probably polish immigrants.
412   HeadSet   2025 Aug 8, 3:06pm  

Patrick says

Several Brits stepped in to throw him off the train.

Unfortunately, those blokes will be the ones arrested.
415   Patrick   2025 Aug 11, 9:14am  

https://x.com/JamesHarvey2503/status/1954857743350743242


Saying YOU DO NOT want your taxpayer money being used to fund "IMMIGRANTS THAT RAPE OUR KIDS" is apparently a crime punishable by 20 months in prison.

Free speech is dead.



418   MolotovCocktail   2025 Aug 13, 8:41am  

And since it's practically illegal to fly the Union Jack, they should fly the Norsefire flag from V for Vendetta, instead.


421   MolotovCocktail   2025 Aug 17, 2:48pm  

UK goes after 4Chan. Is fining them £20,000 per day.

4Chan lawyers say: Fuck You, UK!


424   The_Deplorable   2025 Aug 20, 1:08pm  

He was arrested in the UK for saying he loves bacon? Arrested?
425   MolotovCocktail   2025 Aug 21, 5:42pm  

The_Deplorable says

He was arrested in the UK for saying he loves bacon? Arrested?


Yup. Friend of mine who lives there confirmed it.
426   Patrick   2025 Aug 21, 9:41pm  

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-struggle-30-arrests-a-day-censorship/


UK free speech crackdown sees up to 30 people a day arrested for petty offenses such as retweets and cartoons ...

Maxie Allen, a radio producer in Hertfordshire, was on a Zoom call at home when he saw police standing over his shoulder from the camera view on his screen. Six officers came knocking — his partner Rosalind Levine, who answered the door, thought their disabled daughter had died — to haul the couple off over comments they posted in a private WhatsApp group for parents at their children’s school.

In the chat, the couple had been repeatedly critical of the public school’s slow pace to recruit a replacement headteacher.

“It’s shaken the faith of the country I thought I lived in. I never imagined that just by airing your views about how an organization was run, trying to hold people to account in public office, that you get arrested for that,” Allen, 50, told the Post.

“If you have a vague law and then it’s enforced to an officious and stupid degree, then it’s always going to end in tears.”

Similar stories abound. In 2018 a man identifying himself as “Adam” phoned into the British talk radio station LBC to describe his encounter with police earlier that year.

“I’m Asian myself and I did this drawing of a mate of mine, who’s also Asian, and I said, ‘you look like a terrorist.’ And he took it really well. He thought it was funny,” he told the host.

But someone else saw the humorous doodle, took issue, and called police. Months later, Adam and his friend were interviewed by authorities — the friend told cops he laughed at the drawing and wasn’t offended — but police still made an official report for a “non-crime hate incident” and forced Adam to write a letter of apology to his friend, which he had to email to him.

Last year, 21-year-old student Jamila Abdi of East London, who is black, was charged under the Communications Act of 2003 for “indecent or grossly offensive [speech] for the purpose of causing distress or anxiety” after she used a version of the n-word in post on X out of frustration while watching a soccer match.

“I’m so p—-d off let me get my hands on that f—–g n—a,” she wrote about black footballer Alexander Isak. ...

The stories are so shocking, it’s caught the attention of the White House, which is taking an increasingly aggressive stance against censorship in the Eurozone. In a fiery address to the Munich Security Conference in February, Vice President JD Vance blasted “a crisis of censorship” in Britain.

On Tuesday, the US State Department’s annual Human Rights Report slammed British authorities’ “serious restrictions on freedom of expression,” writing that the “human rights situation worsened” in Britian over the last year, and criticized laws like 2023’s Online Safety Act.

“We consider freedom of expression to be a foundational component of a functioning democracy,” State Department press secretary Tammy Bruce told reporters, calling Britain’s chilling government actions “intolerable in a free society.” ...

This July, the Home Office announced it was assembling an elite force of special agents drawn from across the country to monitor speech on social media.

Also this summer, the UK government updated its definition of terrorist ideologies to include “cultural nationalism,” singling out Westerners who express concern over mass migration.
428   Patrick   2025 Aug 22, 7:05am  

MolotovCocktail says

The_Deplorable says


He was arrested in the UK for saying he loves bacon? Arrested?


Yup. Friend of mine who lives there confirmed it.


https://x.com/JamesHarvey2503/status/1958534781618073797


Young lad arrested for saying, "we love bacon."

The police told him this is because it could be PERCEIVED as being "RACIALLY ABUSIVE."

Disgusting.



439   MolotovCocktail   2025 Aug 22, 12:29pm  

Patrick says

UK free speech crackdown sees up to 30 people a day arrested for petty offenses such as retweets and cartoons ...


Haha. Check this out:


440   thenuttyneutron   2025 Aug 22, 1:58pm  

zzyzzx says


Booger says







Apparently true:
https://nypost.com/2024/08/10/media/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-to-extradite-jail-us-citizens-over-online-posts-well-come-after-you/#!



I would cheer so much if Trump publicly stated in no uncertain terms that the full might of the USG will be brought to bear on any foreign power attempting or threatening to violate the civil rights of USA citizens. This police commissioner has publicly threatened violence on US citizens engaging in a protected activity. Open an investigation, and arrest this person if probable cause can be made to obtain an arrest warrant.

The USG needs to make an example of these types of people! Violating a person's civil rights under the color of law should be aggressively prosecuted.
441   Patrick   2025 Aug 22, 2:03pm  

https://substack.com/home/post/p-171275977


In Eastern Europe, by contrast, private lives were essentially ignored, Left doctrine was not aggressively advanced in most areas of life, and mild public dissent was generally tolerated, with the main tool of suppressing dissent being that someone seen as an excessively vocal enemy of the regime would have trouble getting a decent job… For a native Englishman opposed to the Regime, he must modify his life to comply with regime demands more than any Eastern European did in the 1970s or 1980s—even compared to a citizen of the more repressive Communist regimes, such as Rumania or Albania. And the UK is moving backward, becoming increasingly totalitarian as time passes, rather than less.
442   The_Deplorable   2025 Aug 22, 2:12pm  

Patrick says
The police told him this is because it could be PERCEIVED as being "RACIALLY ABUSIVE." Disgusting.

And the policemen, like robots, are enforcing this nonsense!
445   DemoralizerOfPanicans   2025 Aug 26, 3:16am  

Baby Boudicca



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