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Makes me livid just reading about this, and other such happenings in my country - but as just a regular Northern tech worker, what on Earth can I do about it? M

Makes me livid just reading about this, and other such happenings in my country - but as just a regular Northern tech worker, what on Earth can I do about it? My mother was in London at the weekend and said there were people outside the Old Bailey chanting "Free Assange", but not many. What can one do in the face of what seems to me to be flagrantly violating our own "justice system" to pander to the Americans?

chmod775 6y ago
What do people - whose Government is acting against their wishes, outside their control and who are without recourse by means of the judiciary - what do they usually do? And no I'm not saying one needs to go all the way to revolution, but people have brought countries to a halt over less important matters. Look at the french! It was fucking gas prices(!) the last time they set things on fire. I don't necessarily agree with the goals of all groups of people rioting and going on strikes recently, but nonetheless it's a healthy thing to have now and then. Reminds those in power who they are beholden to. Without a good scare now and then they might get ideas - and they will - just look at countries where it's been altogether too quiet in recent history: "When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
- edoceo 6y ago
  Liberté, égalité, fraternité That is to say: revolution. An assault on the aristocracy
- lukeramsden 6y ago
  The issue I see is that most of the populous don't even know or hear about, never mind understand, what's going on and what's being done to them - because if it's not in the media (Sun, Mail, Standard, Telegraph, etc) then as far as most of the country is concerned it either doesn't exist, is a conspiracy theory, or is Russian bots causing trouble. How do you rise up when it's your own people, not just your government and media, trying to pull you back down?
Synaesthesia 6y ago
Make a noise, talk about it, because it’s being silenced. If enough people are outraged, we can really make a difference.
- dontcarethrow2 6y ago
  Great way to continously alienate myself. I expect a great amount of eyerolls, and if anyone in my peer group even remembers the name Assange, I assume I can be remembered as some rapist supporter. I will just use this to poke my future armchair enemies that consistently and confidently speak up about what a champion of human rights the West has been since FoReVeR. Shill of the day I will be!

chmod775 6y ago

What do people - whose Government is acting against their wishes, outside their control and who are without recourse by means of the judiciary - what do they usually do? And no I'm not saying one needs to go all the way to revolution, but people have brought countries to a halt over less important matters. Look at the french! It was fucking gas prices(!) the last time they set things on fire. I don't necessarily agree with the goals of all groups of people rioting and going on strikes recently, but nonetheless it's a healthy thing to have now and then. Reminds those in power who they are beholden to. Without a good scare now and then they might get ideas - and they will - just look at countries where it's been altogether too quiet in recent history: "When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

edoceo 6y ago
Liberté, égalité, fraternité That is to say: revolution. An assault on the aristocracy
lukeramsden 6y ago
The issue I see is that most of the populous don't even know or hear about, never mind understand, what's going on and what's being done to them - because if it's not in the media (Sun, Mail, Standard, Telegraph, etc) then as far as most of the country is concerned it either doesn't exist, is a conspiracy theory, or is Russian bots causing trouble. How do you rise up when it's your own people, not just your government and media, trying to pull you back down?

Synaesthesia 6y ago

Make a noise, talk about it, because it’s being silenced. If enough people are outraged, we can really make a difference.

dontcarethrow2 6y ago
Great way to continously alienate myself. I expect a great amount of eyerolls, and if anyone in my peer group even remembers the name Assange, I assume I can be remembered as some rapist supporter. I will just use this to poke my future armchair enemies that consistently and confidently speak up about what a champion of human rights the West has been since FoReVeR. Shill of the day I will be!