Europe and UK people have been so busy pointing and laughing at the US that they don't see their own governments quietly following suit.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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Its not quiet. Im pretty sure its illegal to go to the bathroom if your trans in the UK too but you'd never hear that from them so long as Trumps around for a good chuckle.
Unfortunately, that's because a majority of British people are casually transphobic, so see the recent Supreme Court ruling as common sense rather than something bad. It's pretty common for brits to accept that trans people are real, and assume that means they can't be transphobes, despite advocating for treating everyone as their AGAB in the eyes of the law and sport and every other way that isn't whether they can wear a dress.
It's a new world order... USAs fuckery is just part of the process.
As George Carlin once said, "In WWII, the Nazis lost, but Fascism won."
We're seeing the ramifications of that play out in real time.
How’s that? Does he meant that Fascism won in Europe before the Nazis went and lost the war?
I think he meant that, even though the most notable supporters of Fascism, the Nazis, had been beaten, tried, and executed, the IDEOLOGY won big in worldwide exposure, which allowed it to fester everywhere.
We can definitely see that in the rise of modern populist Authoritarianism movements.
IMO he meant Italian fascism.
Italian fascism promoted a corporatist economic system, whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy.[3] This economic system intended to resolve class conflict through collaboration between the classes
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Ok but unironically the goal is always blackmail. It's what they did for MLK and they're doing it to us right now. Look up cointelpro. The gov thought he might inspire leftist revolution so they recorded MLK in his private life and told him to kill himself. With republicans cracking down on political rivals, it's merely part of the fascists equation.
UK residents and anyone else who needs ID for verification should look at this website https://use-their-id.com/ . I strongly suggest not doing it because you can create parody drivers licenses featuring your favorite UK politicians.
Absolutely yeah. We should never endorse using the likenesses of others or submitting fraudulent identification.
It definitely would not be funny or help frustrate the privacy invasion that this is intended to be.
Please, trust the masters. They know what's best for you.
If this actually works, it’s amazing.
It shows just how performative the ID checking systems are.
Wait, you submit a photo?? Is there no electronic ID card in the UK?
Can confirm we don't have an official identification card, let alone electronic ones.
We use driving licences for that purpose. And kids in my area get child identification cards, but I'm not sure if that's a national thing or not. (The name of the card has the county in it, hence why I'm not sure).
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You know you can get Lemmy on the PC, right? You don't actually need your cellphone license to view memes. Now I've just got to hand over my picture ID and insert this rectal scanner.....
and......
now I can post this comment :)
mate you've had that inserted for three hours now, let me have a go
Jesus, the line for rectal verification is huge. Stop hogging the log in!
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Daddy Kier said that you're a naughty little citizen
And do nothing about it because why would you?
And soon they won't be doing anything against their government ever again because organizing will have been made impossible
Great going UK! But at least the kids are safe now, right? Right? Remember those kids whom this was all about? How are they doing now? Child porn now no longer exists in the UK, right? Well if anything goes wrong there I'm sure that the kids can confide about their abuse with priests for help, I'm sure priests would love helping them out with that.
Non-Brit, non-American here: what's this about?
tldr; new UK laws are extremly privacy invading requiering ID and face photos to acces any explicit material including sites like Wikipedia, similiar to some USA state laws and it looks like EU might just follow.
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The UK government have effectively repressed protests against the genocide in Gaza by classifying Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
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Americans when they realize that GAFAMs are foaming at the mouth at implementing the exact same thing in the US A without even being mandated to do so....
Americans:
Ideally companies would just block the UK, like they did to the EU to avoid GDPR regulations.
That would put other nations (and the EU) off doing this nonsense themselves.
But it seems like the corporations have been brought to heel. Just when their usual attitudes would have come in handy.
like they did to the EU to avoid GDPR regulations.
I dont get this part. Are you saying that the GDPR is a bad thing?
There are certain sites that don't follow GDPR regulations, and they decided not to allow EU traffic. So when I come on those sites they say: "Due to GDPR regulations, we are barring you from accessing our site"
Is that really a thing? I've seen exactly one such site and that was when GDPR was new and someone linked to that site for exactly that reason.
It isn't common, but it happens. For example, local news websites.
No, but it is expensive for companies to do properly.
It's not. The advertising lobby pushed a narrative that it stopped you doing lots of things out doesn't, so lots of people are overly cautious, but it really just stops you doing things that no one would consider reasonable. Unfortunately, if you run targeted ads or use Google Analytics, they'll be doing things no one would consider reasonable, so you have to not do that, but that's not expensive.
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I feel more justified by the unnecessary i2p, vpn and portmaster layering on my pc every day.
The UK makes The US look like adults
Never thought I'd see the day that Labour would be higher than the Tories on my list of parties to never vote for. David Cameron's government was a liberal utopia compared to Starmer's.
Also Brits: America, for some baffling reason
It's very ironic, that this is being posted by a so-called conservative here.
You sleep in the bed you make yourself. Don't complain when you push "liberals" so far to the right with constant moral panic about "communism" they implement the very thing your side always wanted.
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