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> outlandish claims I dunno, have you seen US news recently?

• arethuza 10mo ago
  I'm just nervous about you-know-who realising that Scotland is in the Western Hemisphere!
• notahacker 10mo ago
  tbf the US is a very different place where you'd have to at least double check rumours that the executive hadn't decided that tanks in cities were the best way to address crime in cities. The UK rumour people probably believe is more likely to be "English police suppress tweets of valued contributors to the Scottish nationalist movement"...
  • arethuza 10mo ago
    "tanks in cities were the best way to address crime in cities" Given the amount of tanks the UK has I think it would have to be "tank in city" - mind you tanks have been used in Glasgow! ;-) https://euppublishingblog.com/2018/10/03/georgesquarebattle/ https://euppublishingblog.com/2018/10/03/georgesquarebattle/
    • pjc50 10mo ago
      Or the Ruth Davidson rent-a-tank: https://news.channel4.com/election2015/04/29/update-4401/ https://news.channel4.com/election2015/04/29/update-4401/ (more seriously, let's not forget the deployment of the Parachute Regiment to Northern Ireland, although that was a while ago)
      • notahacker 10mo ago
        I think last time we had a tank at a protest the protestors had rented it! https://www.vice.com/en/article/yer-das-gone-rogue-guido-fawkes-bloggers-drive-a-tank-into-broadcasting-house-to-petition-jeremy-clarksons-suspension-303/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/yer-das-gone-rogue-guido-faw... Northern Ireland is a big part of why the UK doesn't think the optics of deploying tanks are a show of strength and doesn't think it comes without a cost...
      • arethuza 10mo ago
        That's not a tank - looks like an Abbot SPG? ;-)
    • HPsquared 10mo ago
      Interesting! There's also a Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square
    • DonHopkins 10mo ago
      They cut the tanks up to make Irn-Bru!