Yeah, well, in a world truly fucked up by speakers of English (and usually little else) it's fair comment. Sorry to whomever I have offended
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Yeah, well, in a world truly fucked up by speakers of English (and usually little else) it's fair comment. Sorry to whomever I have offended
That nearly 4 in 10 in the US think anything this demented pedo fascist does is any good is very worrying for the world
It's more like the 1930s sadly. There was at least hope of a progressive future in the 1970s, though Thatcher set things back in the 1980s and, together with Reagan, sowed the seeds of what is now fast-growing into full-blown oligarchic fascism
The biggest national emergencies are that the UK stupidly Brexited, fucking its economy, and is now, in large part thanks to Labour's legitimisation of Reform-type hatred, on the fast-track to Farage fascism, fucking everything
Ok, just fascist appeasement and genocide then, but not quite Enoch Powell
Parroting Enoch Powell on immigration and using bases carved out of one Levantine casualty of empire to aid the genocide of neighbouring Levantine people, who are an even more tragic casualty of empire? The only thing worse is full-blown Farage fascism, which Starmer is paving the way for
Probably not much swerve left after Starmer's stupid EU red lines, punching down on poor/vulnerable, Farage tribute act, and, most inexcusably, enabling of genocide. Labour, and UK, are toast unless they get rid of him and very soon
Sadly I think most decent people have concluded that Starmer is just a genocidal racist fuckwit who's paving the way for full-blown Farage fascism
Why does anybody expect that Starmer, being content with genocide, would be any less racist than Farage?
And because they hate non-white people
Is this a threat other than to white supremacists? The so-called West is responsible for a lot of wars, enslavement, colonial plunder and genocides, as well as destruction of the planet
What makes anyone think Starmer isn't just as racist fundamentally as Farage? How much more racist can you get than to aid the genocide of the people of Palestine?
Not probably in the US and UK, in my experience, where sadly too many people's sense of superiority is matched only by their ignorance, including of other languages and cultures
Killed in Gaza? More accurately murdered by Israel in Gaza
"I completely get Kristallnacht. People have legitimate concerns. I'm all in favour of patriotism and always sit in front of a swastika flag myself." Does Starmer realise this is what he's sounding like to anybody with a decent bone in their body?
Maybe about the same number as those who voted for Labour in order to aid Israel's genocide of Palestinians
Good night plus three exclamation marks? Is that a sign of defiant frustration? Like an angry red-carded footballer who kicks a water bottle into the crowd as he goes off. Knowing he ain't coming back
Has this God actually ever done anything? Like prevent genocides for instance?
No one, whatever their leanings, who's familiar with developed, civilised countries that are not swamped with guns and that afford universal healthcare can surely regard "being American" as a privilege - especially as the US descends deeper into full-blown fascism
For the last time?
Surely everyone knows several languages and is familiar with the accusative case, which refers to the thing that has the action done to it in a sentence. English has mostly lost the accusative distinction, though it survives in pronouns like me, him, her, them, and just about clings to life in whom
Whom is the vestigial accusative case of who, sometimes used in certain turns of phrase like 'To whom it may concern', 'For whom the bell tolls'. But few today would say something like 'Whom did you see there?'
What about all those in the US with less than half a brain who voted for Trump?
Albeit posthumously, when Jimmy Savile, one of the UK's most popular celebs, was finally and conclusively exposed as the pedo he was, he went from hero to zero overnight. All the signs had been there but victims were ignored and Savile was protected by the media, political establishment and monarchy
It's the genocidal state that needs to be stopped, like Nazi Germany was eventually stopped
Leaving aside any files, given all that's known about Trump, including the evidence of his victims, it is overwhelmingly likely that he is guilty of raping multiple women and children. In a supposedly law-based democratic republic, why has he not been arrested, charged and tried accordingly?
When the prospect of your impending death causes such widespread excitement and joyous hope, you probably haven't lived your best life
So the other 195 Nobel prizes were won by Native Americans! Wow!
After fucking up their economic/sound govt credentials with Brexit, Johnson and Truss, all the Tories had left were bigotry and racism, which fascist Reform do better. And Starmer's Labour has more far right shittery about them than the Tories ever had even with Thatcher. So what are the Tories for?
Someone who always sits in front of a union jack is in serious need of help
Trump looks pretty lively on South Park when he's exposing his tiny penis everywhere and trying to fuck Satan. Is that not like real life?
UK also can't have European levels of prosperity on Russia/Belarus levels of membership of the EU
Now do Netanyahu and Israel
Purely indigenous Brits are now second class citizens in their own country to fellow citizens who are entitled by descent to an EU passport and the rights and freedoms that affords. Well done Brexiteers, that showed everyone!
Just look at what's going on in Trump's US with ICE etc, and now imagine the rights of brown and Muslim people in the hands of a UK fascist government led by the pedo's fanboy Farage
Trump will claim he rose from the dead and proclaim himself the messiah. When in reality he's a very naughty boy. Who rapes children
As one whose ancestral island was abused by Brits, who extracted bases used to help annihilate fellow Levantines, even if I grant Starmer (despite eg throwing out Diane Abbott for feeling black people have it harder than whites) is less racist than Farage, genocide complicity is utterly inexcusable
Maybe being racist, fascistic, misogynistic, homophic, transphobic, ultra-religious, anti-science, gun-loving etc should be defined as mental illnesses, being conditions manifestly harmful to oneself, those around one and the wider society. Those not susceptible to treatment should be sectioned
Is Trump going to claim he rose from the dead?
Indeed
Involvement with Jeffrey Epstein = being a rapist of trafficked underage girls. Surely that's just common knowledge about Trump
As evil as I knew the British Empire had been, and even after the throwback nastiness of Brexit, I naively thought we'd never get to the point where the UK government would back genocide and treat those opposing it as terrorists
Isn't anyone selling Trump pin cushion dolls?
Indeed. And then there's the complicity in genocide. But anyone warning of the dire consequences of where this is leading, ie Farage fascism, is then accused of being on the side of the fascists!
Migrants are people, often from countries fucked up by the UK or the West generally, and should not be demonised or made into a political football to appease racist shitheads. And certainly not by anyone leading a progressive party that needs to appeal to progressive voters
Wish it were nonsense, but you have a good day too
Just "something"?
Fascist and fascist-lite - though I'm wondering about the lite bit in Starmer's case
I'm warning about the reality of what is facing the UK. If only it were just a "narrative". But Brits, like Americans, show themselves to be remarkably blinkered
Starmer aided and abetted Israel's genocide, even abusing bases carved out of my ancestral homeland. And Starmer's Powell-like comments on immigration were also beyond the pale. Farage frankly should be in jail for treason and inciting hatred. Instead, with Starmer's help, he'll likely end up PM
Being ridiculous? Just pointing out realities of Starmer's moral depravity. He's pissed off anyone decent and progressive and validated racist shitheads who'll vote Reform anyway. Not for me to propose a replacement. It's for Labour to work it out if they want to save themselves and prevent fascism
Unless Starmer the genocider and Reform appeaser is replaced and soon, get ready for Farage fascism. The lesson from the US with the Dems is clear. Being shit and relying on the other lot being shitter is never a winning strategy
Sorry. For some reason I thought you were connected to Ireland or N Ireland. The island of Ireland is still sadly divided but the independent part has done well as a progressive EU state. Hopefully newer generations will increasingly see less need for historic sectarian animosity
It would be some irony if Biden outlives Trump, attends his funeral and says something typically gracious (if undeserved) about his old adversary. MAGA heads will explode
Always hard to get one's country sorted after imperial fuckup and divide and rule, but good for you. Generally EU membership and removing borders helps, and overcoming historic ethnic/national/religious conficts (often whipped up by fascists) was a key reason for the EU's formation
Also bigging up one's own to beat down others, eg Aryan
Living in the island of Ireland and regarding onself 'British' is one thing. Using it as a means of entrenching division of the Irish homeland and, for many years, oppressing indigenous Irish people caught in the carved out enclave was not good, in my view
Sadly Palestine has been in large part ethnically cleansed and what's barely left isn't fully recognised. Some even deny Palestinians the right to consider themselves a nation/ethnicity, seeing them as just "Arabs" to be removed or genocided. Tragic, worse than NI, but another UK imperial legacy
Agreed provided it does no harm and is not used as a stick to beat others with
Doesn't sound much like a meaningful ethnicity. More like a religious holdout that was a great excuse for the UK to do what it used to do best and impose division. I'd worry that Farage will fuck things up again though. And no one should ever be forced from where they've lived for centuries
You're now conflating nation with recognised independent state, which is how it's sometimes used but just adds to the confusion. Many peoples have been under occupation for centuries while still considering themselves to be nations and being denied independent statehood by the occupier
Kurds are equally an example of a nation that hasn't been granted a unified state
People can say what they want but are often inconsistent. On Ireland, I believe its division is a travesty and not justified because a minority on the island living in part of Ulster think they're somehow British, even though that really means Protestants of Scots descent
Palestine is way older. As a state it's still not fully recognised eg by US or UK
What are the national borders of the Kurds? Or are they denied the status of nation because they don't have a state? Do the Scots only become a nation if they get independence? It's nonsensical. As I said, you're entitled to differ but there's no meaningful consistency. I know because I've lived it
Not sure. Some seriously obese people are being recruited by ICE
In Farage's Britain this lot will be joining UK ICE and going around abducting anyone brown or Muslim. And everyone thought Brexit was bad. The sequel Fascism will be much more horrific
And often unhelpful ones at that, as well as being confused with nations. They should not be relied on
...without a state. Which is why the Palestinians are so f*cked. Most of what was Palestine having been seized, are Israelis now the nation there, or just a subgroup of an ethnoreligious tribe mostly from Europe? It's all a bit of a mess sadly and too often just leads to conflict
So you contend the Sioux are a nation made up of ethnicities. Whereas Germans, say, are an ethnicity made up of >1 nation: Germany, Austria, maybe some of Switzerland (though Swiss feel they're 1 multilingual nation). While Kurds, Basques, Catalans, Scots are what? Unless nation doesn't count...
I don't think it's precise, consistent or scientific, or meaningfully distinguishable by most people from nationality or in some cases race. If you think otherwise, fine. Some supposed ethnicities are just recent made-up constructs, like "British"
That figures. I guess they prefer Mein Kampf
Helpful to what? Logic chopping spurious distinctions between so-called ethnicity and nationhood? Let me try this. Are Saami a nation or an ethnicity?
Because of some botched drafting of the sacrosanct 2nd amendment to a sacrosanct 18th century constitution that didn't think to even ban slavery for the best part of another century and which in all other respects doesn't bind a fascist president anyway
I don't think it needs to be anything. I think it's at best a vague, inconsistent concept no better grounded than that of nation or race, with which it's often conflated/confused, understandably. As I said, I know from experience, including my own heritage
I didn't say it was necessarily. My assertion is it can't be any better defined than the concept of nation in any consistent way that doesn't create other issues or controversies that too often aren't especially helpful. It's even worse when it's further muddled with reigion
Presumably the facts of evolution and the earth being round are insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans who are creationists and flat earthers
Indeed. As a hole (which the UK is currently) and as a whole!
Words change their meaning all the time and mean different things to different people and at different times. That's language for you. And if you're seeking to define ethnicity on, eg, DNA grounds you'll soon realise that's futile too
Confusing the meaning of words is a key factor in what changes their meaning. Any linguist will tell you that. And I disagree on ethnicity. It is not only vague, but unscientific, subjective, often controversial, and manipulable by racists, populists and nationalists. I know from my own heritage
Brown people need to be grateful to whitey. Because if you don't like it here (even if we stole 'here') then go back to your shithole country that you're not even from. Actually, better still, we'll deport you anyway
Now do Israel
Supporting genocide has sealed Labour's fate unless they get rid of Starmer fast. Farage fascism beckons. Anyone who can and hasn't should get an EU passport. A Trump-like UK will be unlivable, with UK ICE abducting anyone brown and all vestiges of rights, public services and democracy dismantled
Didn't Anne Frank write a diary about this kind of shit?
And some people wonder why the flag of St George, originally honouring a Greek Palestinian who killed a very real dragon, is universally associated with race hate
Death to America seems to be official US policy on guns as well as healthcare. And the US thinks it can ever be great? Great for whom? Not for ordinary citizens (especially if non-white), not for those who seek to live and visit there, and not for the rest of the world that just looks on in horror
What about investigating the link between being a gun-owning white male racist fascist incel with an increase in violence?
The UK prides itself in having defeated fascism 80 years ago. And now no one hears anything else but the vile views and lunatic escapades of a palpably fascist party led by pedo-admiring Nazi, who are being pushed by the media and establishment as the next UK government. The UK's gone horribly wrong
I truly hope so, but anyone who can lay their hand on an EU passport is well advised to do so
Indeed
See other response. I disagree. They fatally overlap in perceived meaning. What for instance is the essential difference between being of the Sioux nation or being of Sioux ethnicity?
Agreed, but ethnicity's still a vague concept, oft confused by ordinary people with nationality. I know from experience, even if dictionaries and legal people logic chop a distinction. Both basically describe people with a perceived common origin or characteristics and can get tainted with race
...still think people of NI would be better off as part of a reunited Ireland in the EU, but recognise this will face hurdles (and may never be allowed to happen if and when a fascist like Farage is elected PM). I respect your right to differ on any and all these points, but there it is
...with how the Protestants there have behaved historically (including on Brexit). I believe citizenship is a better, more neutral way of defining people's legal status, but not in such a way as to preclude people's reasonable freedom of movement. Overall, given the way the UK is heading I...
...from my own previous experience as a magistrate. Original meaning of both words is basically the same and they get exploited by racists who talk about 'are cuntry'. From my own heritage I'm sympathetic to homelands divided by the UK to suit their ends, such as Ireland, and have less sympathy...
Let's see what Farage does with the GFA, which Brexit and possible ECHR withdrawal are stretching to the limit. I can't disagree that some, maybe most Protestants consider themselves British, a concept that may be moot if Scots leave the UK. I know ethnicity and nationality are confused concepts....
There's a surprise. Now do Israel
Does this idiot Leavitt woman realise that she's making a powerful argument for atheism with this shit about prayers? If there were a remotely 'Christian' (in the moral rather than rabid MAGA sense) thing to do it would be to prefer childrens' lives and peace of mind over wretched fucking guns
In due course, post-Trump, the officers of the US Air Force responsible for this should face court martial and at the very least be dishonorably discharged
PS: If I was indoctrinated by the shitty Brit media I'd be cheering Farage, whingeing about migrants and Muslims, and thinking it was antisemitic to oppose genocide. That's where sadly too many Brits have got to now, whatever the reason