"The Chairman and the non-executive members for the nations are appointed by HM The King on the recommendation of Ministers while the other members of the Board are appointed by the BBC through the Board’s Nominations and Governance committee."

"The BBC is primarily funded by a compulsory annual TV license fee paid by UK households."

That's a state media, regardless of what it may view itself as.

Edit: Also, I wasn't wrong about the House of Lord being dictatorial. The things I was wrong about was the complexity of the dictatorship. Instead of it all being chosen by the monarch, some of it is chosen through bribes, some by theocrats and some by politicians. None of the seats are directly chosen by the people, like in a democracy, and that was the whole damn point!

That's somehow even worse and more corrupt than I thought it was.

BBC

So you're just going to pretend that the house of lords don't exist?

Half of the UK parliament is chosen by the monarch. The other half is chosen through the problematic and undemocratic first past the post voting system. UK streets have CCTV everywhere. UK libel laws are extreme. The state-owned media defends pedophiles and transphobes, while the private media focuses on gossip and lies rather than reporting on the news (on top of also defending transphobes and pedophiles, of course).

It's time for people to admit to themselves that the UK, especially England, is a dictatorship.

But that's not the line in the sand in the comic. In the comic, the line in the sand is people being uncertain about trans issues. This can just as easily stem from a lack of information or inherited values as it might stem from genuine bigotry.

The problem with this line of thinking is that if anything but total purity is rejected, then your side of the line in the sand is quite small in comparison to the other side.

I agree in theory that human rights are non-negotiable. But in practice, movements need popular support, and that support relies on compromises.

In my view, fascism is the unionization of all groups and individuals that a democratic society considers to be immoral. The harsher a society is in its moral judgements, the larger the "out group" becomes and thus fascism grows stronger. This is not a moral question, btw. It is a simple question of cause and effect. In a perfect world there would be no fence-sitters or bigots. But we don't live in a perfect world.

That reminds me of when I was a kid and I and my family would play the home-made hybrid game "croquet golf" on our (very uneven) lawn. It was really fun. Essentially, it was golf rules with croquet equipment. My dad dug nine holes in our lawn for that game.

"What the heck is a human?"

• Dinosaur, probably.

No, YOU specifically are a Russian troll.

lol. Ok, RT troll.

A change away from the old super powers, the USA and Russia, and towards the new super powers, the EU and China.

Yes, the US is falling but that doesn't help Russia stay afloat. The US-Iran war may be going massively in Iran's favor but it also ties up Iran's military production towards home defense rather than exports to Russia. And Russia will continue spiralling towards irrelevance as it relies more and more on China for its survival. Russians have started viewing China as a possible threat to Russia's independence.