https://lemmy.world/c/leftymusic
A good place for protest music
https://consumerrights.wiki/Brother_ink_lockout_%26_quality_sabotage
Mixed messages coming from this write up.
Too fucking right. If you're around, there's an anti Trump protest in Aberdeen this Saturday. Starts at 12 noon at the Wallace statue on Union Terrace.
https://stoptrump.org.uk/stop-trump-scotland-protest-details-26-july/
In the past, yes, certainly. And I'm of the view ACAB. However, the Equality Act passed years ago, LGBTQ people are legally not to be discriminated against. The police showing support is therefore a good thing. It solidifies their commitment to uphold this law and treat LGBTQ people as equals in a country that still has a discrimination problem amongst the populace. It reminds both bigots and police officers which side police forces are now on and that there will be consequences for acts of discrimination.
To push them away will not help the cause.
These rights took decades, many people fighting tirelessly, and sadly many deaths and injuries to achieve. Why would you want to throw all that away? Just because you dislike cops? They're finally on the right side with this. Yes, they're twats for a myriad of reasons, but in this regard they're in the right. This is very important support to have, because there are people in society who are doing what they can to overturn this progress. The cops being on side helps prevent that.
Also, remember, that just because something is illegal doesn't mean that law will be enforced. Police forces have previously chosen to decriminalise things like personal amounts of cannabis by just refusing to bother enforcing it. It's still illegal but if no cop arrests you, is it really? They could do the same with regard to the Equality Act if they choose, decriminalising discrimination again. It's harder for them to justify doing that if their vans are covered in Pride livery. It's harder for individual officers to tolerate discrimination if they have a personal positive view of LGBTQ people.
This isn't America, Peelian principles are still at least vaguely adhered to. Community policing is still a thing here.
Except by definition it is a democracy.
Barely.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index#List_by_country
Well of course they do. She's too left wing for Keir's right wing party.
Take the hint that they don't want you Diane and join Corbyn and Sultana in making a genuine left wing labour party. Fuck the red Tories, let their party bleed.
If enough jump ship they might finally take the hint that pandering to Reform and the far right, when they're meant to be the party of unions and the working class, is fucking moronic and traitorous.
Aye, happened in Aberdeen too.
An independent basement gig venue, with a standard old man pub on the ground floor, been there for years without issue. Right in the city centre so no expectation of peace and quiet, pubs and shops all over that street. Gigs finished at 11pm normally as well so not like it was a club playing music until 3am.
Then someone moved into a flat nearby. Made a noise complaint, kept pushing the council about it despite public backlash, got the gig venue shut down because they couldn't afford £80,000 for extra insulation, and then the cunt moved out and left to another city.
Aberdeen lost a brilliant independent venue that hosted the small obscure bands that other venues often wouldn't, and then a month later the pub shut down too.
RIP Downstairs and The Malt Mill