UK policy on "hate speech" or weapons = perfect demonstration that the slippery slope fallacy is not always a fallacy.
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
Weapon-wise they aren't doing fairly terribly are they? You can still own a semi-auto and the like. The hate speech thing *is* bloody stupid though. "Lol let's take 'trying to incite violence,' and turn it into 'outlawing tasteless memes not meant to be shared.'"
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Replying to @gypsy_panther @lsthmus
Have you seen the "knife free" stuff? It's astounding.
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
To be entirely fair, government propaganda is kind of standard. Exaggerating to get people to do what you want is normal across every government; just take a look at all the media produced for the War On Drugs, for example. The promotion shouldn't be focused on more than policy.
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Replying to @gypsy_panther @sonyaellenmann
I can't tell if you're serious. Is this War on Drugs apologia? Have I misunderstood you?
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Replying to @danlistensto @sonyaellenmann
Absolutely not! It's just stating that progaganda is standard across every government - it's not something unique to knives or the UK. You should focus on the policy behind it all, because governments broadcast propaganda on almost every issue.
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ok, thanks for clarifying. I think both the knife-confiscations and the war on drugs fear porn are great examples of ineffective (or even counter-productive) propaganda actually. they make the government seem transparently absurd rather than interested in your safety.
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most things do. admittedly I'm a bit off-the-reservation even by the standards of my cohort, but I've never met anyone where that type of propaganda was effective. the statistical measures kinda back this up. American drug use did not decline during the war on drugs.
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