Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Fri May 31, 2024 12:13 pm

Its still pretty frightening.

Which part?

Striking troops as the build up to cross the border is a valid defence of Ukraine. Shooting down Russian bombers are they fly towards Ukraine (but are still in Russian airspace) about to drop glide bombs which will likewise cross over and blow up Ukrainians is a valid defensive. There are already bo...

He certainly has the most successful charges against him of any former President, I think this "clear politically motivated attack" will embolden some of his supporters while pushing some don't knows and conservative republicans to stay home if not vote for Biden...

In all honesty, I don't think anyone cares. We have two party leaders who were both chosen to lead their respective parties primarily because they were nothing like Boris. Starmer has all the appeal of a cheese and salad cream sandwich that has been left overnight in a lunchbox. Sunak is a slightly...

Hamas accepted the recent ceasefire proposals, right? The Israeli government refused. Biden is withholding a shipment of arms (thousands of bombs), as a reaction. Many people boycott the Eurovision as it allowed Israel compete. Students win protest with university to get them to cut ties/investment ...

The effect of the right wing press can be over-stated. That is true. However, it's not complete bollocks. These statistics don't exist in a vacuum, and have to be interpreted in the context of the overall national picture in 2024, which shows us that after years of well-publicised incompetence and ...

To he clear, there are also two groups (at least) and they may be conflated at times. The LGBTQ+ community and the Queer community. Being Queer as a political alignment and subset of LGBTQ+ people is more closely aligned to anarchist thought. The reject the notion of marriage equality, because they ...

https://youtu.be/rzQcDcDs8-A

On Israel and Iran

Not the nuclear site itself, in fact. Israel, in a brilliant display of hotspur, targeted the missile defence system that protects the nuclear site. So, the dialogue of the last few weeks can be summised as follows Israel assassinate Zahedi while he thinks he's safe in the fake consulate: "We're pi...

That it isn't a fact is Jamie's opinion That it is a fact is Fritz's opinion One of those opinions happens to be true, but it is a fact that regardless of how strongly those opinions are held it is not possible to conclusively prove which one is correct. I by and large disagree. It is entirely poss...

The assumption is that they are needed, Pride events can't police themselves, or don't have their own arrangements. If a gay cop wants to take off their uniform and attend pride, that is sligthly different (though I know some would oppose that aswell). Strategically there is definitely a Queer and a...

Police and corporations using these events to make themselves look good is not particularly new. Is there a queer counter movement protesting this?

Seems likely that anarchists would hang around these kinds of groups, but I don't know anything about anarchist in Australia.

Iran made a complete pig's ear of its response. But if it were to attack an Israeli - US meeting that would be a massive strategic mistake and unleash a world of pain on another level, which is why they're not going to do it. On this we are agreed. But it is not a moralistic position (unless you be...

So Israel provoked Iran by bombing their Embassy, what is the appropriate level of responce to someone blowig up your embassy and killing your citizens? What would the US or UK do in these circumstances? How has this changed the media narratives /likely good of further deaths in Gaza? The US and th...

Or maybe Iran provoked Israel by sponsoring a terror group that murdered 1,000+ civilians last fall? Or the decades of support for Hamas and Hezbollah? Or their stated aim to get nuclear weapons and use them to finish what Hitler started? Obviously Israel isn't blameless here but it's ridiculous to...

So Israel provoked Iran by bombing their Embassy, what is the appropriate level of responce to someone blowig up your embassy and killing your citizens?

What would the US or UK do in these circumstances? How has this changed the media narratives /likely good of further deaths in Gaza?

There remains to this day a significant religious minority in Israel which has a particular direction they are pushing policy. I am not claiming they are the only force in Israeli politics, but they are significant. Being that my point was religion and conflict can go hand-in-jand, especially since ...

If you want to talk about the bible then create a thread about it. If you want to talk about the one state which is controlled by right wing, some would say extremists, adherents of the Jewish faith, using their past to justify committing genocidal acts against an oppressed population. Then by all m...

If the option was "do nothing and watch deaths mount" or "try rolling out a vaccine to as many people as possible" which would you choose? Given that the vaccine had some effects, it did also have risks, but they were lower than the risk of catching covid at the time, so vaccinations everyone instea...

Is the Right Wing fascination actually not so much about the state, it is about having a single strong leader, which they see as able to do no wrong? Like cult worship? It is fascist leaning (also an ideology associated with authoritianism) rather than Communist Authoritarian. But it follows all the...