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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 4h

The Bangladeshi Government was like lol nope, this person has never been a Bangladeshi citizen.

She was trafficked into ISIS at FIFTEEN.

Fucking UK Supreme Court. Absolute cunts.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 4h

I looked it up and it's WAY worse than I remembered: She lost THREE kids and was almost certainly trafficked. She was a UK citizen from birth, born in the UK, who in fact WAS rendered stateless. The British courts simply CLAIMED she was actually also a citizen of Bangladesh (not Pakistan).

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 11h

(Also, Shamima Begum ***was groomed by members of ISIS as a child*** and coerced into an abusive marriage at 15. Iirc she'd had three babies and lost two of them by age 20. And the British press treated her like literally the worst person on Earth.)

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 11h

I am still upset about it today, frankly. I don't understand why people can't think three or four steps ahead and see what the ramifications of actions might be.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 11h

Those who only have UK citizenship can never be stripped it because it would render them stateless. Dual citizens, on the other hand...

I was so upset about that ruling. Literally NOT A SINGLE PERSON I KNOW agreed with me. I was told that I was basically supporting ISIS for thinking it was wrong.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 12h

The ruling basically said they couldn't have done it if she didn't hold another nationality.

So basically those fuckers created the precedent that dual citizens are second class UK citizens who can be punished by removing their citizenship.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 12h

That's what I said when the UK did it to Shamima Begum. I was livid. The supreme court ruled it was ok to strip her of her UK citizenship ***because she was also a Pakistani national*** i.e. taking her UK citizenship away didn't render her stateless.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

Someone tell that evil sniveling little dipshit Sam Altman that when we say "fuck ChatGPT", THAT IS NOT WHAT WE MEAN

he really is one of the WORST people alive

I want to see his stupid rat face pelted with cold dead slightly manky farmed salmon (the factory farmed kind full of parasitic fishlice)

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

pet this poor baby IMMEDIATELY

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

and what you say about the hope is so true and so important - he doesn't just sneer and then congratulate himself for being able to deconstruct shitty systems while being clever and funny and eloquent

he and his team actually do the real hard part, which is to think of how things could be BETTER

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

they seem to really actually CARE, and with real empathy and kindness driving that rage

it's so hard to think of prominent cishet white men in comedy who genuinely might be good eggs, who deliberately use their ego and need for attention for real good - John Oliver is defo on my very short list!

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

he did an episode on an obscure topic I know a lot about (deep sea mining) and it was fab - really going into institutional and systemic issues & getting facts right

it makes me trust him and his team on topics I *don't* know well - and they *always* seem to stand up for marginalised people

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