als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoIn 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square301fedilinkarrow-up11.27Karrow-down126cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11.25Karrow-down1external-linkIn 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.www.theguardian.comals@lemmy.blahaj.zone to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square301fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarezarathustra0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up101arrow-down2·edit-226 days ago “The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Someone
minus-squareQuik@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up29·26 days agoGrrrrr, he very likely didn’t say that. The closest to it I could find is “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws” by Tacitus (The Annals of Imperial Rome). Cicero lived at the end of the republic, his problem wasn’t too many laws…
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·26 days agoBang on mate. It’s here in the “Misattributed” section https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days agoCicero was world class complainer after all.
Grrrrr, he very likely didn’t say that.
The closest to it I could find is “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws” by Tacitus (The Annals of Imperial Rome).
Cicero lived at the end of the republic, his problem wasn’t too many laws…
Bang on mate. It’s here in the “Misattributed” section https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero
Cicero was world class complainer after all.