They did make a rally inspired version! Although I think it’s more racey than longer suspension.

That Peugeot would be brilliant. I want more hot hatch electric cars. Instead of all these fucking SUV mimics.

See the new Renault 4 and 5

To clarify, it is a significant stretch that under British law Palestine Action committed any acts of terrorism.

It is mostly an authoritarian overreach.

And the reason that people are protesting so vehemently is two-fold:

Firstly, it is critical for the functioning of our society, that the government is not able to freely carry out gross abuses of power such as the designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Secondly, it is relatively trivial for the government to use their proscription of Palestine Action as a basis for the proscription of subsequent protest groups, and they have also already used it to arrest people simply for signs which say things like “free Palestine”.

In other words, protestors are able to make twice the impact with a single protest.

You are correct that the protests are specifically about the group Palestine Action. Which while they have committed crimes within the UK haven’t committed any acts of terror. And therefore should not be classified as terrorist.

The terror act was extremely controversial when it was enacted because it grants the government far reaching authoritarian abilities which are fundamentally against our standard of human rights.

It is only acceptable for extreme cases of groups which are in fact committing acts of terror against civilian population.

Therefore, it is protesting against the decision to designated a group which is not terrorist as terrorist

Yeah my bad, didn’t realise he was being held in a prison. The article linked is just a tiny snippet so I was missing context.

It’s not el Salvador’s responsibility to transport him back to the US.

I don’t think he is being stopped from leaving, but it’s up to the US to make it right, not El Salvador

I think it’s a good point. The hypocrisy and double standards have really come to the fore in the past 3 years.

However, I think it’s partially due to a lack of empathy/inability to understand the desperation that drives some parts of the war machine, survive at any cost.

Land mines are a horror of war that bite long after the conflict ends. They are also one of the most cost effective ways of slowing/containing a large scale enemy assault.

Personally, I don’t know where I stand on this news, existential threats shift viewpoints drastically.

I think it’s fair to say: we should not use landmines, we should wish for other countries to not use them. However, I don’t think that they should be demonised. And they should be used as “reasonably” as possible. (E.g. securing a border or military base, not near a residential area). Of course when survival comes into play, soldiers will do what they feel they need to at the end of the day, and who are we to judge from the comfort of our screens?