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  • You can be an anarchist and still understand the system we currently live in.

    Recognising a people are being genocided and should be given legitimacy on the world stage, to help protect themselves, to get aid that they couldn't unless they're a nation state, is more anarchist than always living in the theoretical, hoped for, future world.

    Eventually, yes, borders should get to fuck. But we don't live in that world yet. Right now Israel is killing Palestinians in droves.

    Might Is Right is less anarchist than borders.

    Being anti genocide is more anarchist than being anti borders.

  • Former head teacher arrested under terror laws – for holding up Private Eye article

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  • I'm sorry, but there have been regular protests since the proscription of Palestine Action, around the country, and large enough for the attention of national news.

    And another direct action group has formed and already got to work.

    Apart from No Kings, a one day event more akin to a parade than a protest. And some unrest in LA that never amounted to anything. What has America been doing against their rise of fascism? Fuck all.

    Not to mention our population is unarmed, protesting in the knowledge they are risking 14 years in prison, and doing so on behalf of people on the other side of the planet, not for their own benefit.

    The UK is making America look like a push over in comparison.

    Land of the Brave Cowards.

  • Isn't capitalism great?

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  • Where's the Curly Wurlies?

  • Why Starmer’s government has waited until now to take action on Israel

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  • For anyone who would like to learn more about what Nigel is talking about I recommend you watch this documentary: The Labour Files

  • UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds

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  • Yeah but guys, you've got to remember, money doesn't grow on trees.

    So despite me owning multiple properties, owning so much land I must employ people to maintain it for me, and owning multiple cars that are worth more than you earn in an entire year, you have to remember it's the immigrants that are making everyone poorer.

    Look! They dress and look slightly different from you, therefore it must be them at fault. Ignore that they're here because their country is currently going through war/genocide/famine/mass poverty, they're different!

    What do you mean you want me to pay 2% more tax per year? Fuck off you communist scum!

  • Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies

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  • For a decade, Russia has submitted a text denouncing the 'glorification of Nazism'

    In the context of the war in Ukraine – and with Russia justifying its invasion, which began on 24 February, by the desire to "denazify" the country – many states that had previously abstained decided to vote against the resolution

    In its explanation of the vote, the European Union recalled that it had been advocating "for years that the fight against extremism and the condemnation of the despicable ideology of Nazism must not be misused and co-opted for politically motivated purposes that seek to excuse new violations and abuses of human rights."

    According to the press release published on the UN website, Ukraine called this text hypocritical believing that, contrary to its title, it was a pretext used by Russia to justify its brutal war against its country and the despicable crimes committed against humanity.

    The countries opposing the resolution emphasize at every turn that they do not in any way condone the Third Reich. "We reaffirm our strongest condemnation of all forms of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," Ukraine insisted in 2019, while recalling that 8 million Ukrainians died in the Nazi offensive.

    Before the vote, Australia managed to get an amendment to the draft resolution adopted (63 votes in favor, 23 against and 65 abstentions) inserting a new paragraph in which the General Assembly "notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism."

    https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html

    Hmm...

  • Learn we must

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  • Kyoto lodging asks Israeli guest if he committed war crimes | The Asahi Shimbun

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  • That's how English aristocrats (and aristocrat wannabes) say rugby. Whether that's what they mean I dunno though

  • Kyoto lodging asks Israeli guest if he committed war crimes | The Asahi Shimbun

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  • Tulsi Gabbard fires top intelligence officials who contradicted Trump

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  • gestures broadly at the UK...

  • Tulsi Gabbard fires top intelligence officials who contradicted Trump

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  • Because English is an arse of a language and I am a dumb dumb 🙃

    A dumb dumb capable of providing credible sources though, which is funny considering the downvotes and the context of this thread. Maybe y'all aren't as different from Gabbard as you think...

  • Tulsi Gabbard fires top intelligence officials who contradicted Trump

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  • Proven? Is it? Care to provide some sources or argument beyond just an assertion? An administration does not an empire make.

    It's intriguing that posts with references get downvoted but posts without get upvoted. Great critical thinking Lemmy users 👍

  • Tulsi Gabbard fires top intelligence officials who contradicted Trump

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  • Did you read any of my sources?

    The BBC doesn't outright say red is blue, because they're not idiots and their target audience aren't idiots, but to state they're not comparable flies in the face of reason. They have shown on multiple occasions to push agendas, to the point that the criticism page on Wikipedia is huge. They are not the bastion of good journalism that they're held up to be by the general public.

    The Guardian has it's flaws too of course but that is a far far better source than the BBC. It doesn't claim to be unbias, it doesn't lie to you that you'll hear fair and even coverage from "both sides", it doesn't give preferential treatment to the ruling party in government because of fears its funding will be removed.

    Edit: What's scarier? An obvious bias source screaming nonsense 24/7 or a supposed unbias source subtly distorting facts when it suits them? Which will have more influence on public perception? Which is a better propaganda machine?

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  • Nick Robinson and Laura Kuenssberg were by no means unbias (particularly Kuenssberg) and they were both previous BBC Political Editors:

    https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24627111.laura-kuenssberg-worst-moments-boris-johnson-deleted-tweets/

    The BBC were also found to be bias during the Scottish independence referendum:

    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum-new-report/

    And they've had journalists call out pro-Israel bias:

    In November 2024, 230 members of the media industry including 101 anonymous BBC staff wrote a letter to Tim Davie accusing the BBC of providing favourable coverage towards Israel and failing its own editorial standards by lacking "consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza".

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC

    The BBC are a giant government funded media company, they know how to present a good image of themselves and have years of good publicity and marketing to solidify that image. But be under no illusion that they are unbias. They push political agendas as much as any American private news organisation, just with more subtlety and an air of professionalism and officialdom to more legitimise their stance.

    That's not to say they don't do good journalism or can't be used as a credible source at times. But just to remember that they too are bias and have masters who push agendas.

    Edit: to add more context:

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/22/bbc-tells-pm-evan-davis-to-stop-hosting-heat-pump-podcast

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stephen-doughty-labour-mp-s-jeremy-corbyn-onair-resignation-prearranged-by-the-bbc-a6801846.html

  • More than 350 stars condemn Gaza ‘genocide’ in open letter in time for Cannes opening

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  • It's not going to stop the genocide, obviously, but would you rather they just shut up and put up with it? Would you rather they supported Israel?

    This is a show of solidarity.

    The more there are, the more emboldened others are to do it too. The more people condemning genocide, the more likely politicians are to do something about it. Particularly if those people have public followings of their own.

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  • "I never wanted to stay in my small town"

    "Uprooting for adventure is one thing"

    Y'alls reading comprehension is pish.

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  • You were looking for a reason to leave. I covered that in my comment, "Uprooting for adventure is one thing".

    OP's comment reads like sigma male bullshit, essentially saying "I worked harder and smarter than everyone else, they just didn't have the work ethic I do". It's wank. It repulses me, therefore the phrase "makes me feel sick".

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  • If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bike.