• theposterformerlyknownasgood
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    4 months ago

    Questions about Galloway's allegiances aside, the world would be so much better if British leftists just started using their libel laws. Corbyn could have sued and won cases against half the British media, and he was just too nice for it.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Cobryn could have funded the revolution itself with how much libel money he could have gotten from so many sources

      • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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        4 months ago

        The man had a credible case on everyone from the numbers girl on 8 out of 10 cats to every single person on newsnight, from The Times to The Sun.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    4 months ago

    The UK having a lack of "free speech" on Twitter is one of the funniest things ever to me

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      American leftists are being counterrevolutionary by not using this fact to denigrate every single elected official in the UK from the moment they wake up until the moment they go to sleep

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    libel laws have such a weird amount of variation by country

    amerikkka: you can say anything about anyone and as long as you don't have a lot to gain from it and a vault of evidence that you knew you were lying, it's fine

    ukkk: if you say disparaging stuff you sure better be able to prove that it's not just rhetoric.

    japan: you cannot say provably true things about other people if it looks bad for them, even if the true things are about how they've hurt others.

    i agree with other posters that long-corbyn could have and should have taken ownership of the sun and the daily mail for what they did to him.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    Galloway has a certain amount of power in that people actually believe his threats.