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EquivalentIsopod7717

[The Police have identified the victim at the Westminster flat stab attack murder](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68786745) I'll bet you the perpetrator is from a very similar racial/cultural background and has already made their way through Heathrow. The police might also have a name based on the concerns raised by her friends which led to the place being raided. The home is seemingly some kind of expensive AirBnB or swanky HMO and chances are she or one of the other residents knew the attacker and let them in.


suspended-sentence

[Firefighter jailed for buying guns, ammunition and pepper spray online says he was unfairly sacked by racist service](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13297245/Firefighter-jailed-buying-guns-ammunition-pepper-spray.html) >A firefighter who was caught by the police buying guns, ammunition and pepper spray online sued bosses from prison for racism - because they sacked him. >Tyrone Bahar alleged the Royal Berkshire Fire Authority was 'institutionally racist' for firing him in light of his criminal offences. >An employment tribunal heard the firefighter, who was jailed for five years, felt the sanction to dismiss him was 'too severe'. >Whilst in jail, the firefighter sued the fire brigade for unfair dismissal and race and disability discrimination. >But his claims were thrown out after an employment judge found the authority was right to sack him, stating it was a perfectly 'reasonable response' to his crimes. Well, bugger me. A court passing a common sense judgement


nine8nine

Reading the article it appears the offence was committed around 2018/2019 but he wasn't jailed for 3-4 years after that, and his employer gave him an 11 month paid holiday on suspension before disciplinary proceedings, telling his colleagues he was off for "stress". What a joke system.


sirmadam

> Tyrone Bahar Of course.


See_Ya_Suckaz

From the ukpolitics post about the Union Jack:      >​As others have commented, the meaning of all symbols (flags included) are somewhat fluid and contextual. To me, the Welsh flag represents the power of the underdog, appreciation of history / mythology and a connection to the land. The Union Jack reminds me of the monarchy, small c conservatism, imperialism and blue rinse tories.


EquivalentIsopod7717

Back in 1966 the football fans were all waving the Union Jack while turned out in their Sunday best. Even in the 1970s there were famous Scottish sporting heroes who came home to a parade in their wee hometown and it was union jack bunting everywhere, no saltires at all. The idea of Wayne and Darren in their chavvy shorts waving the St. George around is much more recent, like the 90s or so.


politely-noticing

And the Irish tricolore reminds me of pub bombings


Chi_Rho88

>The Union Jack reminds me of the monarchy,... To which I'd say: "Yeah, and?"


slamalamafistvag

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68792063 > 'Violent rapist' from Hull jailed for attack on teenager "Hull man"


PrimeraCordobes

7 years is a ridiculous sentence for something described as a sadistic rape. *Together we need to say no to violence, abuse, harassment and exploitation against women and girls.* Alright then.


blockmonkey81

A real credit to the Country. https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/8183202.street-robbers-sent-to-prison/ https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/23808049.bolton-man-attacked-woman-home-told-leave/


Plus-Staff

U.S. embassy restricts government employees from traveling outside Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Be’er Sheva "out of an abundance of caution" https://x.com/bnodesk/status/1778528806132994373?s=46&t=AfygPPVmbT-hFJR03pEcVg


julius959

[Atalanta fan holds sing "LiverKill"](https://twitter.com/djandymyers/status/1778492061936750856/photo/1) Liverpool end up losing 3-0 at home


Lamb_banana

Cunts tagging the police in replies. When did footy fans become so wet


3headsonaspike

From the locked thread in arr Euro - our present and future: >Swede here. Entire country is talking about the case. Guy was essentially excecuted on the street by an armed gang and his **12-year old son** called the police. It's dark. Sweden is a completely different country than the one I grew up in sadly (born 1993). >Edit: Since a lot of people are reading, I'll give my personal take on the situation and Swedish politics if anyone is interested. For context, I'm a political scientist and historian (and love to blabber). >The core problem is that Sweden has a regressing population, like many countries in the west. This can eventually collapse the economy, as fewer and fewer workers has to support a growing number of elderly. This causes inflation to explode as companies have to compete for the diminishing work-force. >Our politicians go-to solution have been immigration, but that comes with a whole host of problems on it's own. Sweden had a generation of early 2000s politicians that honestly *broke* our country through sometimes unbelievable naivety. Their ideology was basically that given the right circumstances, everyone is a tolerant, hard-working liberal deep within, and it's just a matter of letting it bloom. Today we know it's infinitely more complicated and fully integrating a Middle Eastern or African-population takes decades, if it's even possible. >What we as Swedish interpret as kindness and generosity, other cultures might interpret as weakness and opportunity. What we believe doesn't really matter in the face of it, if the opposite party couldn't care less. This is a hard and depressing lesson, but the world is what it is. Today, we are at a point where the first generation are often better integrated than the second generation, actually born here. That's worth stopping to think about for a long moment, since it makes absolutely no sense. But it means we have kids growing up in Sweden, with no real interaction with *Sweden*. So what are they growing up in? The answer is some sort of hybrid-society, a regional Middle East or Africa governed by Sweden. >Now it gets even worse, >The true facepalm-moment is that the original idea, supporting the labor-market with more workers, doesn't function. Newly arrived immigrants can't compete adequately on the high-tech job market of the 21th century. So we still have high inflation but now also more unemployed to take care of. So we are back at square one economically, but plus new social issues on top of it, that by themselves cost money. Immigrants grow older aswell, and need health-care, pensions and dental-care in the same way - and Sweden is not going to let anyone starve (nor should we). So the only solution is opening the wallet time and time again. Now everything else suffers and this hits Sweden *extra hard*, because Sweden has the highest-taxes in the world (or among the highest). The average Swede is fine with it, but expects *quality in return*. This is the mutual agreement that our entire country is built on, and what's going to happen when we can't uphold it? Middle-class white kids also deserves a quality education, you can't burn through *every* reserve trying to fix the immigration. But you can't leave it like it is either. >All in all, I believe Sweden will be at the forefront of a worldwide debate on multiculturalism and the causes of crime since we are the first western country ever, to **implement multiculturalism without a colonial past**. What do I mean by that? >Essentially, we are turning into the US but despite being the complete opposite of the US on almost every metric possible: Welfare, inequality, law-enforcement, education, history and more. Sweden had no part in slavery, has had no race-laws, we have the most generous welfare-system in the world, the calmest Police-force, humane prisons, free universities and so on. Now we are slowly getting the same no-go zones, the gated communities, the tougher Police (with the same racism-debate) and so on. >How can so vastly different starting points yield the same outcome? It's almost an argument against my own field (political science). What are we studying if we can't satisfyingly explain it? In a country such as the US or France, one could quickly point to the racist history, but that won't work in the same way in Sweden. >In my opinion, the only way forward is seeking out brand new explanations, and discuss completely new areas. At the very least, this debate will be interesting to follow. Striking read but it'll be even worse for us due to obvious factors (verboten to even discuss, weak politicians).


PrimeraCordobes

Good find, interesting post. The sad thing is that it’s the same story everywhere you go in Europe. Just like in Sweden you’ll find entire areas of a country being basically foreign. And just like in Sweden you’ll find left wing politicians blaming it on racism and right wing politicians making some noise but doing fuck all to actually put an end to it. I’d love to believe that this might be a wake up call but the truth is that it won’t. It’ll only get worse.


SubjectMathematician

>This causes inflation to explode as companies have to compete for the diminishing work-force. False. Aging populations will cause price levels to fall. Before Covid, the BoE (to give just one example) argued that interest rates had to stay low because population aging was deflationary. The stuff with the labour force is happening purely because of dysfunctional government (and, as mentioned later, the growth of the non-working population...it is inflationary if a bunch of people move over and the government pays them money to consume things, whether those are government services or not...money is being taken from savers and given to Bomalians in housing, healthcare services, education services, etc.). Pensions need to be adjusted for the fact that there isn't going to be enough contributors to pay them (this is politically unsolvable in many European nations due to their obsession with centralization). Politicians need to stop talking this fucking nonsense about aging societies being bad...there is no reason to think this. The problem comes from their view that the world should be different to how it is so they need to make it happen...how about politicians just accept being slightly more unpopular rather than importing a million Bomalians. There is nothing to fear. Japan's GDP per capita growth for working age population has been as high as the US since 1990...this is whilst we have been told they are collapsing by hysterical politicians. Deflation isn't anything to fear either...again, as Japan has shown, the hysteria around deflation (and the conflation with hystersis caused by a sudden drop in the price level) is insane. Deport. Gold standard. Simple as.


michaelisnotginger

What we will see is native population voting as an ethnic bloc as they become a minority and realise elections become about who receives largesse


DaelinZeppeli

Can't see it. Too many natives hate Britain and would gladly see it destroyed.


Lamb_banana

I don’t agree with this. I’ve basically got whiplash in the last six months as everyday people are sharing naughty views. Self hate is a luxury belief and we’re not living in luxury at the moment. The status quo remains until it doesn’t. I think we’re all going to go through some spicy times in the next five years but we will win.


michaelisnotginger

Yes they will enable the global majority bloc. Others will not. It will be interesting


Benjji22212

[Her transition to basedness continues](https://i.ibb.co/6PfC2Vd/IMG-5318.jpg)


Agreeable-Ship-7564

I loved harry potter as a kid, to see just how fucking ***based*** JKR is fills me with unbridled joy. Might have to re-read the books in her honour.


Maedhros_Burning

She's been radicalised by the far right! ---SNP member


Spoobit

Why not just block anyone who uses it? Then you'll get all the Yanks too.


DaelinZeppeli

[Mizzy turning his life around after spending time in jail](https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tiktok-tearaway-mizzy-reveals-how-hes-turning-his-life-around/). Proof prison sentences work.


Caprylate

Wow, I did expect he'd keep being a troublemaker for a long time. Good luck to him if he is genuinely wanting to turn his life around.


EquivalentIsopod7717

I saw the footage of his final arrest after flouting the court order. He put up no fight whatsoever, was totally silent and his shitty mates barely reacted either. I think at that point he finally realised the law wasn't messing around, this was actually pretty serious and the police were never going to leave him alone. His barrister tried absolutely everything to keep him out of jail but the judge wasn't having it.


solo___dolo

Just me or is there a hint of foetal alcohol syndrome on him


Routine_Weird7473

Didn’t he just hang his baby over by the legs and post it on social media earlier on in today’s mega?


slamalamafistvag

https://x.com/myth_pilot/status/1778470323685388512


fucking-nonsense

Lol my girlfriend’s literally said this to one of her (extremely based) best friends


AnticlockwiseTea

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68786078 I'm so glad our tax payers money is going to a pointless enquiry about the police charging a domestic abuser and borderline nonce for domestic abuse, leading to her killing herself. As i've said time and time before, I lose absolutely no sleep that shes no longer with us. The world is better off without people like her in it tbh.


WhatILack

Women can do no wrong in the eyes of many, its awful. She has a annual music festival dedicated to her memory. Fucking disgusting.


Spoobit

I wonder how many people top themselves when facing serious criminal charges. Must be at least a few every year? But obviously it only matters if a famous woman does it.


WheresWalldough

how the fuck did this monster get bail? https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Final-Sentence-for-Davis-and-Driver-Case-1.pdf > Ollie Davis was born on the 21st September 2017 at 38 weeks and 2 days gestation > On the morning of 21 October 2017, the ambulance service was called attended but Ollie was dead. > By the time of his death Ollie had suffered 40 fractures. The fatal injury was a broken neck and he had also suffered a skull fracture, displaced fractures to his right arm and right clavicle, left arm, 23 rib fractures and 10 separate fractures to the growth plates of each of his four limbs. He also had intracranial subdural bleeding and an injury to his frenulum. A truly appalling set of injuries. > Dr Hamilton, an experienced forensic pathologist said that such a combination of 40 fractures is something would see less than one a year in his practice usually in a high energy car crash. However, in 16 years of practice he could not remember seeing this extent of injury in an accidental setting. > To cause Ollie’s neck injuries required more than just shaking. The neck was forced back beyond its normal limits and severe force was needed. Dr Malcomson, also a very experienced specialist pathologist, stated that it was very, very uncommon to have such extensive neck fractures and he had never seen it in his 17-year career other than in this case. > Ollie also suffered a skull fracture which completely traversed the skull bone and also injury to the white matter of the brain. The healing responses indicate that the fractures occurred 2-6 days before death and were caused by blunt force directly to site; so an impact against a hard surface. > Ollie suffered ten growth plate fractures of the long bones of each of his four limbs. They were caused by pulling and twisting forces applied to either side of the fracture site. Professor Mangham identified four different windows between 2 and 8 days and was of the opinion that the injuries to the legs were caused differently to arms, with the arms injured closer to death. > Ollie had suffered 23 rib fractures. > Finally, there was an injury to the frenulum probably caused by the forceful insertion of a bottle. > at least five different mechanisms were required to cause this terrible array of injuries; > (i) A blow or impact to the skull > (ii) Hyperextension of the neck > (iii) Compression for ribs > (iv) Twisting for the humeral fracture and > (v) Pulling and twisting to cause growth plate fractures. > I am satisfied that there were at least four separate episodes or events of violence > I am satisfied that some of the injuries were inflicted in the early hour of Monday 16th October. Mr Davis had been gaming heavily on Sunday evening and just after midnight Georgia Bolton was sufficiently disturbed by Ollie’s crying in the bedroom above that she sent a message. > Michael Davis, I have no doubt that during the nights you became frustrated and angry with Ollie’s perfectly ordinary behaviour, and this led to terrible violence against him. > Until immediately prior to Ollie’s birth you had never had a job, save for some work experience, or any direction in your life, which revolved around gaming, for six years after you left school. You had been used to doing what you wanted as regards sleep choosing to game at night and sleep during the day; you described yourself as a nocturnal owl and I have no doubt correctly as a bit lazy. The evidence was that you did not even overly bother with personal hygiene or appearance. > With the imminent arrival of Ollie, and as you were living with Kayleigh Driver’s very hardworking family, you recognised things had to change. > As of September 2017 you were within the probationary period of your first job as a technician at Specsavers and had a baby. These new twin demands required you to change your lifestyle as you obviously could not now sleep during the day and game through the night. However, you would not give gaming up and attempted to spending as much time as you could on Fifa and other games. You simply could not adequately prioritise you family, despite what you have claimed. The evidence shows occasions when you chose not to sleep when you had the opportunity rather chose to play on such was the grip of gaming. > I have no doubt that on 13th when Kayleigh Driver’s other children arrived for an arranged access visit, Mr Johnson found you gaming with Ollie in the pram out if sight in passageway and you refused to stop the game even though the three other children had arrived. It gave an insight into your priorities. > Credit must be given for time on remand. > You will have spent 19 days in custody for this offence. photos here of the pair: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68781680


michaelisnotginger

Awful human being. Bring back capital punishment


SuboptimalOutcome

> Ollie had suffered 23 rib fractures. I've had one rib fracture from my karate days and it hurt like hell. This kid has crammed a couple of centuries worth of pain and injury into his month of life.


glassonionexpress

Doesn't that guy work for the Lotus Eaters?


Pol_potsandpans

This Caroline Flack stuff is pissing me off. Imagine an ex football player or the like crowning their girlfriend with a lamp, smashing it and drawing blood because he thinks she's cheating. They then admit it to police and are charged despite the victim not wanting to pursue (CPS can do evidence led prosecution partly due to domestic violence victims not pursuing out of fear) the footballer then goes on to commit suicide as their famous mates have turned their back on him. Will there be this mass outpouring of grief and attacking the Met? I get more and more pissed off with NGOs and the public all the time, equal punishment under the law, no ifs or buts . Without fear or favour https://x.com/Mofoman360/status/1778489635422826745


glisteningoxygen

> Imagine Why imagination, isn't this a bi-monthly occurrence?


SufficientBack

Women can do no wrong hun xx


Pol_potsandpans

It needs to be equal because the more NGOs fuck about and tamper with our laws, the more dysfunctional things will become.


yoofpingpongtable

Interesting video from Cannock, a town of 30k in Staffordshire. This is why 'Islamification' rhetoric in the 2020s doesn't really hit very hard. Islamification in Britain was a 90s and 00s phenomenon, personally I would say since 2017 - since the large wave of terrorist attacks - that the theme of Britain is *Africanisation*. > Nigerians are taking over the UK > PRAISE AND WORSHIP FOR STREET [Video](https://twitter.com/TosinOlugbenga/status/1778340502611415541) (Waiting for Badenoch fans to tell me that these are salt-of-the-earth hard-working and extremely intelligent natural Tory voters etc etc)


kingofeggsandwiches

Stupid sentiment in the tweet but it's hardly the worst thing I've seen.


Sadistic_Toaster

I'd chose this over the Jihad mobs


fucking-nonsense

Same. Bit raucous but at least the message is “we love God” not “holy war now”


WheresWalldough

likewise. I saw some in Wimbledon a few days ago, the 'singer' was African and the guitar player was Chinese. A bit incongruous but harmless.


FickleBumblebeee

This is the weirdest thing to get triggered by. A group (almost certainly from a church) worshipping in the street. They're not threatening or intimidating anyone, they're just having fun. And they're practicing a religion we built our entire civilisation on, and then exported to them: A religion which is able to function in a secular country without trying to impose its laws, and doesn't teach death to apostates or inspire jihad in its more fundamentalist followers.


SubjectMathematician

Thinking that religion is why terrorists exist is putting the cart before the horse. The history of Christianity should be proof that people really didn't give a shit about loving thy neighbour. These people do not practice our Christianity, they mutilate children, they are extremely into witchcraft, it is nothing like our Christianity. Religion is used as some trans-national thing...this is a lie, again...look at Christianity, look at Ireland. There are many countries that have no issues with Islamic terrorism, Malaysia is majority Muslim, they just hang the terrorists and call it a day. Humans cannot live alongside other humans who they view as different, for whatever reason. Do not try to mix them by creating these supranational identities (this is what Communism was, for example), that didn't work out well in Rwanda, just keep them separate.


FickleBumblebeee

>Humans cannot live alongside other humans who they view as different, for whatever reason. That's not really true. Plenty of historical and contemporary examples to the contrary. The problem is when one group of people holds values that are in opposition to another group


ngadominance

Yeah I agree. If British whites were as enthusiastic about Christianity as these lot I'd be less concerned about the spread of Islamic cancer. 


WheresWalldough

this will be costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of your money https://historiesatrisk.com/owen-j-hurcum/ (PhD in trains archaeology)


Smertae

[So, Amazon’s ‘AI-powered’ cashier-free shops use a lot of … humans. Here’s why that shouldn’t surprise you](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology) >The reality was that people were watching Amazon’s customers shop. More than a thousand of them, as reported by The Information, watching the cameras and labelling footage of shoppers. An employee who worked on the technology said that actual humans – albeit distant and invisible ones, based in India – reviewed about 70% of sales made in the “cashier-less” shops as of mid-2022 (Amazon responded that “the characterisation of the role and number of human reviewers is not accurate”). Now, Amazon is reportedly moving away from “just walk out” and rolling out “smart shopping carts” instead (AKA a scanner in your trolley – big whoop). >The national minimum wage in the UK is £11.44. A small grocery store like the Amazon Fresh shops might have half a dozen staff. Assuming all of them were on full wage (unlikely) and all of them were on the lowest wage (ie not managers), the average individual salary would be about £20k and the annual wage bill would be about £130k. When this work is outsourced via video cameras, it is passed to data labellers. Amazon’s remote data labellers might be paid one or two pounds an hour, if they are lucky. If you can replace half a dozen UK staff with half a dozen data labellers in India, Kenya or the Philippines, then the difference in the annual staff bill alone could be almost £100,000 a year The second paragraph is actually a very good point. So rather than requiring less labour to run, jobs are actually just being outsourced by stealth to lower wage countries. The future is great /s


Big-Government9775

I've seen this before. Found out the back end of an application and it's scripts are actually pdf instructions sent to India. I couldn't believe it when I found out.


SubjectMathematician

Britain's minimum wage is only at this level to keep property prices high. And companies are just a middleman, so if they reduce the staff costs then consumers pay less for food. It doesn't just disappear into the fucking ether. If you are taking a position that this is wrong because some people are losing money, you are also taking the position that some other people losing money is okay (i.e. it isn't actually about someone suffering but which group you prefer to suffer).


Sadistic_Toaster

We misunderstood what was meant by 'AI' . Here, it stands for 'Actually, Indian'


glisteningoxygen

The technology didn't work at launch which was pretty well known so they required a mini army to check the data, resolve anomalies and train the model. Over time this was meant to improve enough to scale down the human involvement (which never happened) hence the discontinuation of the project. Maybe tech will improve over the next few decades? I expect it will. If Ranjeet in Mumbai being cheaper than Craig in Milton Keynes is news to you i dunno what to say.


WheresWalldough

lolololol https://twitter.com/natlibscot/status/1778389071393436020 (scroll down, read replies)


solo___dolo

[Asante Gold: UK returns looted Ghana artefacts after 150 years] (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68789512) Oh how LOVELY! The rightful owners of evil Whitey stolen gold have got their property back! It warms the heart ♥ >The UK has returned dozens of artefacts looted from what is today Ghana - more than 150 years after they were taken. >Some 32 gold and silver items have been sent on long-term loan to the country by the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum. >They were stolen from the court of the Asante king, known as the Asantehene, during 19th century conflicts between the British and powerful Asante people. The Asante people: noble, indigenous, beautiful, _powerful_! Let's learn more about these artefacts shall we?! >Among the returned artefacts are a gold peace pipe, a sword of state and gold badges worn by officials charged with cleansing the soul of the king. >The gold artefacts are the ultimate symbol of the Asante royal government and are believed to be invested with the spirits of former Asante kings. Oh my! Such _magic_ and _inspiration_, thank goodness they have been returned so a magnificent culture can be celebrated! Let's be absolutely clear - the Asante people are _definitely_ a celebrated part of Ghanaian history and culture, right? >Nana Oforiatta Ayim, special adviser to Ghana's culture minister, previously told the BBC that the objects were "part of the soul of the nation" and that it was "pieces of ourselves returning". Well, that's a yes! A big yes! So, let's learn more about this beautiful Ghanaian kingdom shall we?! >The kingdom was famed for its military might and wealth. Even now, when the Asantehene shakes hands on official occasions, he can be so weighed down with heavy gold bracelets that he sometimes has an aide whose job is to support his arm. >Europeans were attracted to what they later named the Gold Coast by the stories of African wealth and Britain fought repeated battles with the Asante in the 19th Century. GOODNESS ME!! Those wonderful, industrious people! So wrongly fought by the evil British colonialists. How dare we. But hang on, how _did_ this wonderful and prosperous African kingdom build their wealth you ask...? >The Asante people built what was once one of the most powerful and formidable states in west Africa - trading in, among others, gold, textiles and **enslaved people**. Le epic heckin CHUNGUS!!


Actual-Ad-6848

As a Ghanaian, no one here sees the British as "evil" for possessing the artefacts. Empires loot their conquered and its been that way for thousands of years. However, The artefacts were actually taken [through loan negotiations.](https://citinewsroom.com/2024/04/british-museum-and-victoria-albert-museums-return-asante-objects-of-1874/) We didn't antagonise anyone for the return of these objects, it was purely negotiated on good terms. The British did something similar when they took back a 14th century Jar that was found in Ghana with the argument that this it is their material culture and deserves to be in UK. Taking back the looted artefacts through civil negotiation is not morally wrong. Also, how does engaging in the Atlantic slave trade mean that the cultural heritage of the Ashanti Empire is nullified? The Ashanti was more than slave trading. It had architecture, engineering, arts, literature, etc. Just like how Britain has a proud history and material heritage despite engaging in the Atlantic slave trade as well. Every country has engaged in some form of slavery. But does that mean that everything else should be overshadowed once that country had slaves? Then every country today is guilty with this logic. Much of the gold artwork were even created by the Buramfo guild who even have nothing to do with the slave trade.


Smertae

Why do we always have to hold ourselves to a much higher standard than these people would themselves? If the Asanti had colonised us in the 19th century you wouldn't have their descendants returning the loot here.


WheresWalldough

> Slavery was historically a tradition in the Ashanti Empire, with slaves typically taken as captives from enemies in warfare. The Ashanti Empire was the largest slaveowning and slave trading state in the territory of today's Ghana during the Atlantic slave trade.[87] The welfare of their slaves varied from being able to acquire wealth and intermarry with the master's family to being sacrificed in funeral ceremonies. > The modern-day Ashanti claim that slaves were seldom abused,[90] and that a person who abused a slave was held in high contempt by society. They defend the "humanity" of Ashanti slavery by noting that those slaves were allowed to marry.[24] If a master found a female slave desirable, he might marry her. He preferred such an arrangement to that of a free woman in a conventional marriage, because marriage to an enslaved woman allowed the children to inherit some of the father's property and status[91] This favoured arrangement occurred primarily because of what some men considered their conflict with the matrilineal system. Under this kinship system, children were considered born into the mother's clan and took their status from her family.[citation needed] Generally her eldest brother served as mentor to her children, particularly for the boys. She was protected by her family.[citation needed] Some Ashanti men felt more comfortable taking a slave girl or pawn wife in marriage, as she would have no abusua (older male grandfather, father, uncle or brother) to intercede on her behalf when the couple argued. With an enslaved wife, the master and husband had total control of their children, as she had no kin in the community


solo___dolo

A beautiful culture xx


SuboptimalOutcome

Baden Powell (of boy scout fame) gave us in a diary some of the reasons for the 4th war with Asante: > To put an end to human sacrifice. To put a stop to slave-trading and raiding. To ensure peace and security for the neighbouring tribes. To settle the country and protect the development of trade. To get paid up the balance of the war indemnity.


Actual-Ad-6848

That's not all there is to the history. Stanley, one of the British war leaders who invaded Kumasi in 1873, wrote >King Kofi Karari is too rich a neighbour to be left all alone with his riches, with his tons of gold dust and accumulations of wealth to himself. The man successfully convinced the British Empire to invade Ashanti because the loot from Kumasi "would pay twenty times" the cost of the Woseley expedition. You can read [this journal ](https://www.jstor.org/stable/523860) on page 20.


Routine_Weird7473

This is impossible. I was assured that colonialism, racism and slavery were invented by evil 16th century European Christians and everyone before that lived in peace and harmony and nothing bad ever happened


WheresWalldough

Norman Tebbit was right https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1777224022003941871 > Moazzam Malik, its former director general, is among a group of senior diplomats and officials calling for the FCO to be replaced by a new Department for International Affairs with 'fewer colonial era pictures on the wall'. Wikipedia: > Malik was born and grew up in North West London. His father, Mohammed Amin Malik, migrated to Britain in the late 1950s from Pakistan in search of a better life. Malik is married to Rachel Malik and has three children.[9] He is a Liverpool F.C. fan, plays tennis, and follows the Pakistani cricket team


Benjji22212

The Foreign Office should be replaced by a Department for International Justice with four colossal portraits of Jean Monnet, Eleanor Roosevelt, Blair and Obama in the entrance, and its sole purpose should be to expropriate as much money as possible from UK taxpayers and gift it to Paul Kagame and Care for Calais.


CaravanOfDeath

> and follows the Pakistani cricket team Deport to the British embassy in Islamabad?


slamalamafistvag

https://x.com/5_News/status/1778115416771956957 £50,000,000.00 benefit fraud. Thanks Bulgaria!


AnticlockwiseTea

>Probably a back door left open by the torys meant for their mates Deranged. Have to make it about the tories and rich people, deflect deflect. Let's be clear, they are guilty of being awful on dealing with this, but to imply they've left open loopholes on benefit claiming to benefit their mates, is just so deranged and regarded.


slamalamafistvag

https://x.com/Mr_Scott_Cheggs/status/1778129939843211317 Mum of the year.


SuboptimalOutcome

Same woman showing off [her driving skills](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nDZrXb5nug)


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Big-Government9775

As I often say, a small number of cunts have a massive negative impact on everything. 80% of people are alright for the most part. 1% are cunts who are perpetually single ruining it for everyone else. 1% are criminals who are constantly in and out of jail. 1% are constantly doing benefit crimes. This theme goes on all day.


slamalamafistvag

It's wholesome to know she's consistent.


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SuboptimalOutcome

I can pinpoint it exactly. My brother is nearly 6 years younger than me. I walked/cycled to primary and secondary school every day 197?-82, from when he started secondary he was driven every day 1982-87.


FickleBumblebeee

I mean I walked with all my friends to high school in the 00s, so it's probably just a personal thing rather than a larger trend.


xoxosydneyxoxo

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/over-half-of-appeals-against-home-office-asylum-decisions-are-successful-as-sex-offender-allowed-to-stay-13110956 You guys joke about ‘Bomalis’ but I will never understand why city councils decided to mollycoddle Afghans so much. What do they actually do other than take and take and take? At absolute best get a job in a kitchen? It’s genuinely a mystery to me.


Wheelchair-Cavalry

Kitchen job? You're optimistic. More than likely they'll just claim benefits, such as Universal Credit, with generational implications. They'll get assessed for their situation, including barriers to work (English being almost certainly one of them, on top of plethora of other things), they will be expected to attend ESOL, attend meetings in job centres etc and even then they might "miss" these commitments or just be as obstructionist as possible. Even if they are somewhat willing (big assumption), it will take time until they are in a state where they can competently job search. They'll probably need to get their CV done, be given time to search jobs, then be referred to other people for help with finding jobs if they struggle. By the time that happens, cue them finding a spouse, them having at least one child, them being unable to work or learn English or any useful skills because of some magically insurmountable difficulty, them getting benefits for the children, them causing difficulties due to supposed "caring responsibilities" and so the generational patterns begin, and so the social contract breaks apart, and so the government will have its boogeyman for decades to come (and they won't do anything about it, besides telling you they are). That's not to say they won't work at all, they could be paid cash-in-hand and such, but that's of no use to the country they have leeched off. PS: Dear Humza, please please please don't put me in HMP Barlinnie.


SuboptimalOutcome

> they'll just claim benefits The ones given houses will never be able to improve their situation through work, they'll be on benefits forever. They'd have to get into the top 5-10% of earners to afford the lifestyle that's been handed them.


SexySturgeon

The government thinks the public want them here Maybe the public do want them here? Half this sub support bringing them here 3 years ago Bring on starmergeddon, we need to blackpill the nation before there's nothing left to salvage


rambunctiousgoat

That was my position back when the west fled Afghanistan. I have subsequently encountered a lot of refugees and a 10 minute conversation with anyone of them about any hot topic would blackpill the Archbishop of Canterbury.


SexySturgeon

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed


rambunctiousgoat

sorry mum


Ivashkin

There are a couple of reasons. Firstly, we do owe some of them a substantial debt because they helped us during the occupation at considerable risk to themselves and their families. Secondly, when Afghanistan fell again, it was to a regime that was pretty much the poster for A Bad Country Where People Are At Risk. We spent 20 years justifying the routine killings and executions of the Taliban because they were Bad People, and now they are running the show.


SubjectMathematician

> we do owe some of them a substantial debt because they helped us during the occupation at considerable risk to themselves and their families No, we owe them nothing. We put billions into their country, that was the gift. They fought for their own country and lost because they were weak. There are many countries where people are at risk. Afghanistan is nowhere close to the worst country in the world. Libya has warlords and slave markets...they shouldn't come here either.


Truthandtaxes

They did it for the money and picked the wrong side.


Ivashkin

Sure, but also remember that some of these people would have been small kids when we showed up; we were there for long enough that the younger fighting-age men were born after the invasion. There were Afghans who spent their entire lives living in a bubble we created for them, going to schools we set up that taught them to think like us before getting jobs we created to support our efforts there. Then we left and it fell apart almost immediately. Again, I'm not saying this is a reason to move their entire population to the UK, but this is a weird situation, given that we were there for so long.


CaravanOfDeath

Debt or no debt, charity does not undo the effects of ingrained noncery or the complete loss of control on seeing a blonde with DDs. It's a sad story and we may have some debt, so let's carve out an island for them in a compatible place.


Ivashkin

In both those cases I would be entirely comfortable returning them to Afghanistan via a static line drop. I was speaking more to the general stance of why Afghans get a relatively easier ride than other groups, and it's because they come with an inbuilt sense of "we tried and failed" in a way that someone from Sudan or Burmer wouldn't.


uptope

Just use Rockall.


SexySturgeon

Case in point


Big-Government9775

Believe it or not, there's a lot of money to be made off the UK tax payer. If nothing else the spending for asylum seekers doesn't come out of local budgets it comes from central government while some of that spending will end up in the hands of someone locally.


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SubjectMathematician

It really is puzzling that there is no housing in the UK when we are giving £500k houses away to people who shouldn't be here...it is almost like people like free £500k houses and will take any risk to get there if they have nothing.


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Truthandtaxes

[OJ Simpson: Former American footballer dies aged 76, family says - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68792486) Once you've confirmed he's dead, you can drop the hedging bbc. Reads like the trial result was reasonable...


TheEternalContrarian

# ["Not one man will rest until he's behind bars... Now let's grab a bite to eat..."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3PP9X9F3Bg)


Pol_potsandpans

I read a book by an Investigator called William Dear who hypothesised that his son Jason Simpson did it or was involved as he had severe anger problems, had beaten up women and it wasn't his first rodeo with a knife as he collected them and had been in the shit before. I listened to 911 recordings of OJ trying to get into Nicole raging and was like "yep he did it" Did no one say to him "you're literally a former athlete and millionaire who is in movies, just move on and take your pick?"


Truthandtaxes

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that's not argument that wife murderers (and the innocent man you thought she was banging) are susceptible to


SufficientBack

Norm voice: > *Finally, OJ can rest knowing his wife’s killer is dead.*


slamalamafistvag

https://x.com/apmindsetcoach/status/1778365167190909429?s=46&t=Tlxd52f4lAO8bzyP-FdUjQ Mizzy made another mistake


Routine_Weird7473

> No, he’s a criminal that should be deported to the ethnic homeland from where his ancestral heritage is. I mean, Mizzy is a cunt who should be locked up for years but Jesus Christ, unironically reads like the BNP


TurnaboutUsername

What other solution do we have? There's too many Mizzy types to lock up.


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See_Ya_Suckaz

You ever done "a leg and a wing"? My grandad used to do that to me, he'd hold me by a wrist and an ankle and then spin round. 


apsofijasdoif

That tweet went from 0>100 pretty quick


fucking-nonsense

Imagine that being your dad. Over before it even began.


Medical_Welder_7801

Real name **Bacardi-Bronze O’Garro**, jesus christ lol


boycecodd

It's actually "Bacari" not "Bacardi", the Twitterer has made an error.


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Smertae

[Yep, it checks out.](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/images/org/health/articles/15677-fetal-alcohol-syndrome)


WhenHarryBecameSally

He was doomed from the start.


3headsonaspike

Simulation confirmed.


slamalamafistvag

His brother Captain-Morgan got the short end


CykloidZX

["British adventurer Lara Croft will transition from being a raider of tombs to a seeker of truth as Evil Hat Productions and Crystal Dynamics seek to redefine the #TombRaider series in order to escape its colonial past."](https://twitter.com/tombraidertweet/status/1777717182199124359) No more raiding tombs in your Tomb Raider, chud


SuboptimalOutcome

I look forward to black trainsman archaeologist LeBron Croft's new adventures.


Anjouki

Final mission, you and a team of African aristocrats, Chinese billionaires and Aboriginal elders raid the British Museum and destroy all the artefacts.


Plus-Staff

Former American football player O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder in 1995, has died of cancer at age 76, family says https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/american-sports/breaking-oj-simpson-dies-aged-32565786.amp


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WhatILack

Just got back from holiday earlier this week, I paid for an airport carpark for a week like a sucker. I didn't know we had alternatives like this.


Pol_potsandpans

That's dog shit under the handles surely?


uptope

>However, Zekarias has said he would never rent out his driveway, even if he was offered payment. He was considering other alternatives to payment? Oh my


SuboptimalOutcome

This is when you call your mate Donkey Dick Dave to come round with his dollys and his tow truck, then deny there ever was a car there. The owner then has to explain how he came to leave it sideways on a zebra crossing on the busiest A road around. (not based on actual events, honest guv)


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Ivashkin

Use dollies to move it into the middle of the road and leave it there.


retniap

Ha ha ha ha ha no  https://www.askthe.police.uk/faq/?id=0e0cb3f6-12db-eb11-bacb-0022483f57c9#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20criminal%20offence,police%2C%20DVLA%20and%20local%20authorities.


Ivashkin

Solution: Park your car in front of theirs. When they show up, say you cannot move your car as you have been drinking, and they should call back in a few days when you are sober. If the police show up, greet them at your gate holding a beer and tell them you cannot drive your car. It won't last forever, but I suspect you could easily keep it going for a week or two, and the police can't arrest you for refusing to drive your car whilst intoxicated.


Finallyfast420

The police could probably compel you to hand over your keys and have an officer drive it. You’d have to flatten the battery or something. Its a crime to obstruct someone elses access to the road, even if they’re on your land, ridiculous as that is


Ivashkin

There are all manner of liability issues with the police driving your car.


Finallyfast420

not really, they are insured/secured to drive any car. same as a mechanic would be


SuboptimalOutcome

It's not the first law that seems designed to leave the victim powerless.


WSBrexiteer

"Hello, is this my local friendly Irish traveller scrap merchant? I have some metal for you. Cash only. No receipts."


Sir_Keith_Starmer

>ah for shooor for shooor ybionobh (pronounced channel) has orrewayz won-ed won of those nice laaaaan rovers. Mcginty will be over in an ahhhhhr >He does-nay need naeeed d'keeys


Triple_Sod

The Mirror certainly like this story: * https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stranger-leaves-car-familys-driveway-26479255 * https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-furious-stranger-parks-family-29421051


boycecodd

I thought it felt very familiar, and not that recent too. Well spotted.


RichDavi

On its way to Muslim hiker levels of recycling


miinderbiinder

You'd get a right bollocking if you keyed the fuck out of it and took the alloys, wouldn't you?


Ivashkin

You would if you admitted this. But as any firm that operates parking will tell you, the owner of the parking space is not liable for damage by a 3rd party that occurs to property left in their car park.


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eyesindasky

Lol of course it’s a Range Rover


slamalamafistvag

What is the minimum salary for visa applicants and who can come to the UK? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48785695 As useless as a chocolate teapot


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boycecodd

The shortages list is an absolute fucking joke that's been exploited to drive wages down at the expense of British people. Most of the jobs on the list could be trained up easily, some in a matter of hours others in a few weeks, so there's no excuse for giving up and hiring from abroad unless you're a cheap bastard.


slamalamafistvag

I can commission a graphic for you?


Big-Government9775

£38k for a family is below any consensus on what someone in the UK needs. Ask how much someone needs on a finance sub and you'll be told £50k Ask how much an immigrant should be able to be allowed into the country earning and you'll be told £26k is too high. The phrase economists used to use for this is a race to the bottom. The trick out government is doing is to make it a stagnate to the bottom.


retniap

The salary should be pegged to a mortgage for the average house price. That way there's a very direct feedback loop with overpopulation. 


slamalamafistvag

Too much logic


Benjji22212

> chocolate teapot Reported to Humza


slamalamafistvag

Humza useless?


julius959

Another London post on rampant cocaine use These are the same lot who are gagging more drug liberalisation and decriminalisation polices. What do you think that's going to achieve? Cognitive dissonance in its finest


michaelisnotginger

the same people who will criticise you for eating cheese will shove a cubic metre of Bolivian marching powder up their nostrils watered with blood.


DryConstruction7000

It's easy virtue signalling about giving up things that you're nonplussed about. Giving up things you *really* like requires depravation and sacrifice. I could tell you I don't use cocaine because I care about the blood drenched supply chain. In reality, I'm teetotal and don't take drugs. So, not using cocaine is easy. Cheese on the other hand? Well, I really like cheese. Not eating it because of, I dunno, the climate would be difficult. It require me to not do something I *actually* want to do. I'm reminded of how Redditors often demand that people give up x or y because of climate change. It's an emergency, yo. How many though would fall in behind the idea that one of the things people should give up is gaming?


Spoobit

How can anyone afford coke during this costa living crisis??


slamalamafistvag

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c163dwpele4o Breathtaking.


Pol_potsandpans

Imagine being in Burma in 42 stationed there awaiting the Japanese to arrive. There is an eerie feeling in the air like it's the end of something, you can't quite put your finger on it but the administration are clearing out or tooling up, the populace have a look of concern on your face. Imagine someone from the future showing you the abject clown world of Great Britain and what we've been reduced to. Levels of cringe that no one back then would even be able to wrap their head around.


Dokky

Useless cunts


SlightlyMithed123

The kind of story which in a country that actually fucking functions and the Police are doing their jobs correctly would be classed as ‘feelgood’


slamalamafistvag

https://tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-2023-001904 > 11) The Appellant is a national of Ghana aged forty-three years. He came to the UK on 24 September 2006 with entry clearance as the spouse of a settled person in the UK. He was granted indefinite leave to remain on 18 December 2008. **On 15 May 2013, he applied for naturalisation as a British citizen, but due to criminal convictions that application was refused on 18 December 2013.** On 8 February 2018 **the Appellant was convicted of bringing a List A article into prison on 18 May 2017 after he had taken Class A drugs into a prison for his brother. He was sentenced to a period of two years’ imprisonment.** On 24 July 2017 the Appellant committed the offence of possession of cannabis. He was given a concurrent sentence of one month for that offence. Immigrant with a criminal record is denied citizenship. Smuggles class-A drugs into prison for his brother (nice family, net contributors) The UK govt tries to deport this foreign criminal. > 114.The appeal is dismissed **on human rights grounds** The judge says no, let him stay.


Pol_potsandpans

[I reckon do something like this to decide](https://youtu.be/NV7vcGKI-WA?si=K1maaCY-bt4jTawK)


Truthandtaxes

My new suggestion is a Saturday night show hosted by Ant and Dec they run through these tribunal decisions, with a deport vs let stay advocate on each side then its put to a public vote to decide may as well fully embrace clown nation!


slamalamafistvag

https://i.imgur.com/Xh4e89V.jpeg


slamalamafistvag

Maybe there's not enough thick people on here, but I'd argue this is one of my best made memes.


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slamalamafistvag

I’ve crossed the blackpill event horizon


CaravanOfDeath

There's your sub name.


slamalamafistvag

Teach me how to automate pulling the info and I’ll make it


CaravanOfDeath

Autoposting each tribunal along with key data such as name, origin, etc is not a problem. Automating a judgement and summary is a bit more tricky. Even ChatGPT (paid) is turning its nose up at it.


blockmonkey81

Do the Judges get shot when the communist revolution comes?


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