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[Loud Whispers]

I'm still confused. Being rich doesn't make you more likely to be a paedophile. More likely to be able to fund and hide your perversion, perhaps.

Exactly, it just reveals who's a complete arsehole by handing them keys to impunity

[TD1]

Sometimes I wonder what I'd do with absolute power (insofar as a mortal can have it). Then, more worryingly, I wonder what absolute power would do with me.

[Loud Whispers]

Sometimes I wonder what I'd do with absolute power (insofar as a mortal can have it). Then, more worryingly, I wonder what absolute power would do with me.

Everyone pay your Dwarf Fortress tax or 12 years dungeon

[TD1]

“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Power freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Dwarf. And I shall not be dark, but ambitious and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”

He lifted up his hand and from the ring that he wore there issued a great light that illuminated him alone and left all else dark. He stood before the nations seeming now tall beyond measurement, and bearded beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then he let his hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly he laughed again, and lo! he was shrunken: a stout dwarf, clad in simple white, whose rough voice was harsh yet sad.

“I pass the test”, he said. “I will diminish, and go into the Forums and remain DwarfyOne.”
XXXX

"I would use this Authority from a desire to do good. But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine."

XXXX

Honestly, my ambition would be great, my intent honourable. But justice is subjective, and what liberates some oppresses others; it is not a mantle I'd willingly bear.

[Loud Whispers]

They said we have to aim higher, so we dug deeper

[da_nang]

Beating the simulation by rolling over into 0x7FFF...

[thompson]

Sometimes I wonder what I'd do with absolute power (insofar as a mortal can have it). Then, more worryingly, I wonder what absolute power would do with me.

The real issue would be maintaining power. You’d need an aristocratic class of corrupt sicophants who you could bribe with wealth and power of their own in order to keep you on to and prevent any upstart from usurping you. Then you’d need the odd purge to cleanse out the disloyal and instil a sense of fear in the others so that they remain content to serve beneath you. If you’re not a complete asshole, you’ll just wind up like Lenin while a real asshole takes the reigns. This is the fatal weakness of autocracy.

[Iduno]

So, is Cameron just making shitty decisions because he thinks that way people will remember him as something other than a pigfucker? Does he not know he can be "That pigfucker Cameron, who ruined the NHS" etc.?

Everyone stop bullying Americans, it's time to bully Europeans

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[ChairmanPoo]

So, is Cameron just making shitty decisions because he thinks that way people will remember him as something other than a pigfucker? Does he not know he can be "That pigfucker Cameron, who ruined the NHS" etc.?

Everyone stop bullying Americans, it's time to bully Europeans

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You know Cameron has been out of goverment for almost four years now, right?

What does he have to do with anything? As far as I know he´s in his house cooking bread.

[scriver]

Que no los bocadillos

[ChairmanPoo]

Que no los bocadillos

Scheisseeeeeeee 

Fixed now

[martinuzz]

God fucking damnit.Today there was a demonstration against the lockdown measures in the Hague. It had been forbidden by the government because they expected more people to show up than deemed safe because of corona.

Instead, people organised a 'picknick' and came anyways.The mayor gave in to the protestors, and allowed them to have a demonstration after all (from 13:00h to 13:30h).

This all went peaceful, until football hooligans came to riot.Police used water cannons and cavalry charges to disperse them and around 100 people have been arrested.

I am okay with that. If some rednecks come and turn a peaceful demo into riots, sure, put a water cannon on them and book them (note that dutch police are in no way comparable to US police. Dutch police serve the public and are your friend).

But what I am not okay with, is that a Volkskrant reporter, who happened to ride his bike a few blocks away from the demo, was coerced towards the demonstration site by the police, and when he got there, he was arrested by the riot police. Even after showing his press card, he was not released and is still being held.

And that pisses me off.  Free press is one of THE pillars of our free democracy.  Not sure what to do, I am toying with the idea to call 112 (911) to report the mayor of the Hague for endangering democracy (a charge which falls under the terrorism laws nowadays).
(why the mayor you might wonder, that's because in the Netherlands, the mayor is the chief of police)


Keep your stinking fingers off our reporters!

[Loud Whispers]

Wait, so they forced the reporter to join the riot and then arrested him for being there? wut? There's entrapment and then there's this

[martinuzz]

Police forced the reporter to join the peaceful protest and then other (riot) police arrested him for being there.  There were no riots at the Malieveld, there was a sit-in.
The rioting football hooligans were rioting somewhere in the city center.
At the end of the day, over 400 people were arrested.
In a statement, our prime minister did not condemn the demonstration, but he did add that 'football hooligans who had used tons of cocaine'  ruined the peace.

[Loud Whispers]

Reading knife attack confirmed to be terrorism. Police keeping an open mind as to motive, but considering he was trying to return to Libya to join a militant jihadist group, probably wasn't an environmentalist