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Read this directly after the story about a 24 year old cracker who got away with removed a girl because he's "young and talented." 
I hate this world.
I know there's that saying "Don't let injustice sadden you, let it radicalise you," but this world is so completely unjust and there is such an overwhelming amount of awfulness that I feel completely beaten down by it.
Ones a victimless crime really. One has ruined someone’s life. Wow.
I honestly thought the tv license thing was a meme. And to learn this is being used to aid in social murder is a little hard to wrap my head around.
It is mostly a meme, but when they do enforce it, they're heat seeking missiles for the most vulnerable people. It's like the opposite of a lottery, except the most affected are still somehow the proles.
TV licenses are very much real. I read that one quarter of the women who are in prison in the UK, are in there for not paying their TV license.
what the fuck
TV license enforcement agents don’t have a “staying alive” license.
This isn't true. Most years there are 0 people in jail for not paying their TV license.
TV license as it stands only exists to prop up the enterprise of thugs that go round bullying vulnerable people. Oh and the criminal paper waste for sending out the threat letters that I get like every 2 weeks "are you in on the 24th we're coming for you". Not that they've ever sent anyone I imagine they specifically target people they know they can coerce.
Like if the charge is kept just roll it into the fucking cable subscription cost??? Make it subscription on the bbc website???????? It literally is just to keep the thugs for hire company going. Oh and the irony being the cost of sending out someone to do this and prosecute probably costs more than the fucking license does
As always, the money isn't really the point. Like over here where they periodically spend around 10 million AUD cracking down on "dole bludgers" (puke), arguably managing to "save" a few hundred K each time. But it's Money Well Spent, because it stops Those Undeserving Poors from Getting Something They Don't Deserve. Just don't ask about Twiggy Forrest, Clive Palmer, or Gina Rhinehart, who obviously Earned Every Penny. Ultimately, it's about destroying class solidarity, making the less emiserated workers feel like they have more in common with the capitalists than with the poor.
Also do people even watch TV anymore?? The aggressive way they've used threats the last decade or so has felt like the dying screeches of a dinosaur.
No cable is on its way out but that's why labour want to extend it to online steaming that's not just iplayer lmao
Given they have zero legal right to enter your home, they will also only have found evidence by lying and deceiving this woman into letting them inside, too.
“Oi m8 yew goht a loicense?!” but based and redpilled.
What in the fuck is a TV license
Basically a tax you have to pay to have a Tv.
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