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    Internal monologue: “I’m scared of them because they are cooler than me, and maybe even smarter.”

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    If you replace “woke” with “human rights”, you understand what these people are talking about.

    These people hate basic human right.

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        Free speech is just one humen right they hate. They also hate based on gender, color of the skin, being poor, religion and even basic decency

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        Literally these people think freedom of expression equals with buying Levis jeans and Adidas shoes, because they heard they were hard to come by in the Soviet Bloc.

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    Dyed hair… ankh… fashion conscious business attire…

    I for one welcome our new Goth representation in government. We need more of this.

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    I would guess that it’s more because there are three people in the shot and they are all young women, and two of those young women look slightly different than the OP wants them to look (one has dyed hair and one has a scarf).

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    I fucking love seeing women with partially dyed hair. YOU GO GIRL!

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      I’m summarising, but I bet it went along the lines of

      • “be nice to people”
      • “everyone deserves to live and enjoy some modern comforts”
      • “maybe we shouldn’t destroy the planet we live on”

      You know… Real sick shit

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    I lived in Wales for a year a few years back. Actually colored hair was way more common over there when I was there. Even in older adults.

    Had teachers with pink hair in their 60s.

    Tattoos also more common. I recall one of the professors lookee like a Goth girl. She also gave me mediocre grades on everything I submitted to her. 😅

    Septum piercing. Always wore black. And long jet black hair. She also told us how to pirate research papers and textbooks on day one. In a power point.

    Idk. The culture there was just more chill about alternative style. At least while I was there.

    I was in Swansea.

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      maybe it’s Wales, maybe it’s just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world

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        Surely. But I’m still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.

        Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.

        I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can’t think of anyone else with either.

        Maybe it’s just that culture at that university. Swansea was just really different to me.

        Also something funny about Wales.

        So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn’t you say,?

        Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters. All hanging around starbucks. But not in Wales.

        Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain. Starbucks was like. … idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I’ll try.

        Rough people hung out at Starbucks.

        Like. People who looked like drug addicts. Always outside chain smoking. Rough people. The 2 am Denny’s crowd. You know.

        Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn’t know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.

        I’m 100% serious.

        Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.

        I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).

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      It doesn’t matter what she said, they hate her for her appearance. Plus there’s nothing more dangerous than a young person engaged in politics like this.

      I used to be a part of the UK Youth Parliament, and whilst there were a decent number of Tories, I never met someone who was a part of UKIP. The young people who support UKIP/Reform are a completelt different archetype

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        Other than the title of the post, which might or might not be made up, how do we know they hate her for her appearance?

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      they talked about climate change and how the people in power don’t do anything to stop it iirc

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      It’s essentially a model parliament, but one that gets contact with the actual government. Under-18s fight for election and hold debates in the same manner as the House of Commons

      No, I have absolutely no idea how this makes it “woke” beyond that some people just use the word to mean “thing I don’t like”

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        I’m not really against but I think instead we should just ban anyone over 60 from voting…

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          Pretty sure he’s just some edgy teenager.

          He probably spent most of last month hanging flags upside down on lamp posts, and calling himself patriotic, it’s the sort of thing people like him do. Everyone else calls him a prat

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            The funny thing is that the Union Jack is not quite symmetrical. You can hang it upside down, but it takes a very trained eye to see it’s upside down.

            That’s part of why ships fly a solid red flag with a Union Jack quarter, so it’s readily apparent when they are in distress.

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              The point is: the people hanging them on lampposts don’t know that, hence half of them being upside down.

              To be fair, as somebody who has put flags on lampposts, it’s slightly difficult to coordinate the flag orientation when you’re at the top of a ladder.

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              Never mind getting the Union Jack the right way up, at least some of those dumb fucks managed to paint the Danish flag on a roundabout because they forgot what the English one looks like