Trump administration accuses United Kingdom of failing to uphold human rights

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Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights

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3d ago

Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights

www.theguardian.com /law/2025/aug/13/trump-administration-accuses-uk-of-failing-to-uphold-human-rights

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3d ago

Trump administration accuses United Kingdom of failing to uphold human rights

www.theguardian.com /law/2025/aug/13/trump-administration-accuses-uk-of-failing-to-uphold-human-rights

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3d ago

Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights

www.theguardian.com /law/2025/aug/13/trump-administration-accuses-uk-of-failing-to-uphold-human-rights

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"I'm over here committing human rights violations left and right and you assholes haven't lifted a finger to try and stop me!"
The UK is officially too evil for Trump
- The complaint is that they're not doing enough forced platforming of fascists.
  
  No it's that they banned organized protesting and require ridiculous things like ID for online and licenses for watching TV
That is a bold statement coming from an administration who is rounding up people to be put in prisons under terrible conditions
- oh no, those prisons don't have conditions
  
  "we towed it outside the environment"
- Less prison, more camp for concentrating abductees.
- I mean, that's sort of the joke. Just ICE Spiderman pointing at MET Spiderman.
  Starmer's out there doing Liberal Fascism to satisfy a bunch of Zionists who won't be happy until Nigel Farage has his head on a pike. Not unlike how Biden, Hochul, and Adams handled the Columbia student protests.
  Trump gets in a few face punches because his liberal opposition are too busy fishing in their pants for AIPAC donations.
Very pot and kettle
- The problem is that we don't have kettles in the US. And there's no reason for the pot to call the 'microwave you use on your water' black.
Pretty bold statement coming from the mouth of fascist America.
Pot-kettle assholes.
Every accusation is an admission.
- You know just because a fascist says something doesn't make it untrue right? Like always double check what they say but them saying it doesn't make it untrue. The UK is following so much closer behind the US than some people want to admit. Hell half of Europe is still an elections away from ending up with a far right candidate. Now that Trump has been president for a bit I wonder how much of that immediate reaction you saw with Germany will continue.
  
  I didn't say it was untrue.
  
  If anything the UK is miles ahead when it comes to fascism
They did the same with Germany. The US is not able to conduct independent evaluations anymore, as the authorities are more and more driven my political decisions. This makes the content of the evaluations irrelevant, their only purpose now is to use them as political instruments.
- Trump's doing all he can to help his fellow fascists. For example, by complaining about German anti-Nazi laws that could (and should) be applied to AfD.
- I mean thats true but this is one of the few times they are right. UK and Germany as well are really failing at upholding human rights.
  
  Compared to the US? You are insane if you believe that.
- They did the same with Germany.
  Germans murdered my family in the Nazi genocide. Now Germany is targeting me for protesting Israel’s Holocaust in Gaza.
  Coming from Trump, it's more of a "They can do it, so why can't we do it?" fascist whining. But West Germany remained a fascist enclave from the 1950s straight up until the 1980s. And fascists continue to riddle the police, the media, and the financial sectors to this day.
  This makes the content of the evaluations irrelevant
  It's a pot calling the kettle Nazi. But it isn't wrong.
  
  They did the same with Germany.
  Not for suppressing pro-Palestinian protests: for considering using their anti-Nazi laws to ban AfD.
- I expect they're going to do this to every country that doesn't fall in line. The sides for WW3 are being picked
Bold coming from pedophile fascists...
Every time I see Vance, I want to piss on his face
- That's horrible. With all that piss on his face, when I shit on it, it won't stick.
- How do you expect me to punch him after that?
  
  With piss fist for 3x damage
- he might like that.
No self-awareness of any kind
"Also Prince Andrew was a personal friend of Epstein!"
Broken clock is right twice a day.
- You mean when the hand is pointing backwards towards themselves? Otherwise I'm not following this adage. 😅
  
  Like, you see the news coming out of the UK right? It's not as bad as Trump but it's still awful.
  
  No the us is failing to uphold human rights sure thats true but so is the UK. Hypocrisy doesn't make the statement "the United Kingdom is failing to uphold human rights" untrue.

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