HermitBee

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[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Abbreviated to ispabiogatcoopbafciyauftwbmatprayatwkyn for when you want it on a placard.

 

I wonder how many levels of remove are needed before the police will actually leave you alone.

"I support people who support people who support the Palestine Action hunger strikers' mums"

"I explicitly oppose all actions of Palestine Action, but support every one of their members on a purely personal level"

"I support Palestine Action if the police officer who arrests me is a wanker, otherwise I don't"

"Sometimes I support Palestine Action, but only when there are no people under the age of 80 within 50 metres of me"

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

I mean it sounds like you'd just be better off ignoring it, tbh.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Spoiler: It's never.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Me too, although I'm not sure how this one is their fault - I split blame between the "activists" who brought/funded the supreme court case, and the judges who ruled on it without (in my view) sufficient consultation of expert groups.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

What do you mean by "the west"? Some people in western society do those things, many don't.

And given that one of those things is holding all Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli government, isn't that a somewhat hypocritical accusation to level at the entirety of western society?

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

It's misleading to characterise accusations as evidence.

What makes you think I'm characterising them as evidence?

cupcakezealot implied that it only takes accusations of calling out Israel for genocide, for the UK to cry antisemitism.

I'm saying these accusations are a lot more serious than that.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sure, but the whole thing is alleged. My point is that it's misleading to characterise those accusations as merely being an accusation that she said Israel committing genocide is bad.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

To me, that's a little stronger than "it's bad Israel commits genocide", but judge for yourself.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

Quite. And I think that a lot of people can agree that this country absolutely needs reform, but that Reform would be a disaster.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, but only one is at the foot of the Mourne mountains, and only one would have organisers from BDS Belfast involved, and that's the one in County Down in Northern Ireland...

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd be putting down a novel with this storyline because it's just such a cheap caricature of how the left behave.

 

As well as discussing how the Greens won't be able to deliver on their promises, he also talks about why Labour are going to raise tax, despite promising not to, and how great ID cards are going to be, despite the fact that ID cards were not on the manifesto.

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