I'd say it's debatable that they are centre-left. I know they are labelled that everywhere, but Starmer has made notable shifts to the right (or at least towards centre) from the slow left movement since the very much centre-right New Labour of Blair.
I know there's a constant scare about UK knife crime, but compared to other countries it's really not the epidemic it's made out to be.
Nobody said it is, but stopping people walking down the street with literal swords is probably helping.
It's interesting you are saying it's 6" like that's not a bad thing when the law in the UK is no longer than 3".
I guess if it is plastic the sentence seems a bit harsh, but you would also get in trouble for a plastic replica gun that looked realistic. Seems like he has plenty of priors which is probably more the issue.
All in all, not oniony.
EDIT: It doesn't seem plastic
Important to note that this wasn’t just a prop. The blade was sharp.
Man arrested for walking down street with sword has been sentenced.
Is it meant to be oniony because it is a video game sword?
Racism isn't inherently a political issue and isn't the whole story of slavery, but is a major factor when talking about enslaving a race. However, its close relationship to other major factors like colonialism, nationalism, supremacism and xenophobia, as well as financial structures allowing such enslavement and ownership, are all found well to the right of the spectrum.
No. "Republican" does not equal "Right wing". Maybe in the modern context, but political parties evolve and shift on the left right scale over time. The Republican party was originally established as a less Conservative opposition to the Democrats.
Besides, the policial party pushing for the thing is surely much less important than the thing itself. The act of enslaving a portion of the population, based entirely on racial divisions, is an extremely right wing position.
Interesting choices. I think the only valid one there would be the second attempt on Gerald Ford (Sara Jane Moore), who wanted to spark a revolution.
The first attempt on him was by one of the Mason Family (Lynette Fromme), who were sometimes described as hippies, but were also keen on bringing about a race war.
John Wilkes Booth seems surprising to call left leaning, as he was pro-confederacy and angry about the abolition of slavery.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a Soviet defector, and did indeed call himself a socialist. However there's the whole probable scenario that he wasn't actually the shooter and never went on trial.
To mention other presidential assassinations, there's Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield, who was a loyal republican, but felt he was personally wronged by the President (as well as mental illness).
Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley would probably support your hypothesis more than the others, as an anarchist.
All in all, not really overwhelmingly left leaning.
Not very oniony.
Lucky physically. But I fear the guy who tried and failed, then looked around flustered while shimmying off stage may never recover emotionally.
But they hit so many buzzwords. 20 year old buzzwords even!
He could even start some kind of alternative social media site and branded bibles.
Give that man $31 million dollars, he's doling out free life pro tips with his global economy crashes.
Come on now, they said you can have some at home. Now go and retreat into the tiny box that you pay half your salary on and enjoy your life peasant.
But then he wouldn't make any money.
Yeah, I've personally had them tagged as "leftist trump bot" since interacting with that sub once and getting banned immediately. I've since seen them post sane stuff elsewhere on the fediverse and was surprised as within that sub they seem completely unhinged.
Oh yeah, that community is horrible. I saw a ton of their posts popping up on my feed and made a comment on there before blocking it (some question about the heavy advocacy for voter apathy) and was immediately banned.