Mr Poletski

It’s an expression fgs. I care not about the feelings of Nazis. I do, however, care a lot about how far we are willing to degrade ourselves in order to defeat them.

And aside from anything else, you are just helping the enemy with this kind of utterance. Look what’s happened since, it’s been turned into 1) a big stick to smash the bbc with 2) calls to legislate on artistic freedoms 3) antisemitism the topic of the day everywhere again. What about 4 and 5? 4) raise awareness of the genocide 5) actually help palestinians in a more tangiable way

How did we do on 4 and 5?

Well I tell you what’s a more interesting question, because if they had just said ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘send your aid money here’ or even ‘stop the genocide’ or something similarly not technically illegal to broadcast, then how different would 4 and 5 be to what they are now? because they’d come without the expense of 2, maybe not 3 either, and as for 1, the BBC would actually have a leg to stand on defending themselves.

So why spoil it for everyone and take two big steps backwards? How about we use language that doesn’t make us sound no better than they are?

Agree with such chants?

You start your chart with ‘death to…’ then you’re playing the wrong game.

Whilst I’ll never agree with such chants, see the thing is whilst this embassy official might not give two shits about the amount of wanton death being inflicted by the IDF, others do.

A partially lit cigarette

dafuq?! how was this not bigger news?

hey go easy on that nail buddy.

It’s about time somebody called him a jewish supremacist to his face, live on TV.

We should be going the other way, we should be forcing media outlets to become partially or fully cooperatives.

‘directives from up on high’ are a threat to independent journalism, when billionaires buy outlets, that’s just going to start happening eventually, if not immediately.

I mean, it’s not journalism, but look at musk and grok. Forcing grok to inject south african white genocide statements into totally unrelated posts? Imagine if this had actually been done competently? What if it already has been for other subjects?

Imagine if musk bought out a news organisation instead of just twitter?

Well people just like musk, except less of a melt and more scheming, already own media outlets.

Aint no billionaire going to tell them what to publish if they can’t use their power to enforce it, and they wouldn’t be able to do that if they couldn’t own the actual outlet. Because the outlet has to be owned by the people working there.

I’m sure there are holes in this idea, but it’s my best answer to today’s ‘media problem’.

That’s actually a pretty nice idea. Thing is they’d have to forcibly buy shares off the shareholders to sell to the government, might get messy. In principle however, sounds great.

“Thames Water’s survival as a private company depends on the industry regulator Ofwat being lenient over fines and penalties, its boss Chris Weston has said.”

BINGO, now cough up, asshole.

“we asked the Israelis for all the evidence they had of their genocide and they came back with nothing”

quite probably, but I think ‘splitting the vote’ doesn’t fully describe how much supoort the tories have lost. 68% of their council seats up for election gone, I mean when was the last time an opposition party lost so many seats in a council election?

I’d say it’d be more accurate to say reform are taking the conservatives place.

Personally, I hope the lib dems fill in more of the vacuum.

They are utterly fucked and it’s glorious.

I’ve been letting reformers have their victory day, but the reality of those local election results isn’t a massive blow to labour, oh it’s a blow, but they had hardly any seats in those councils to begin with. The tories lost about the same amount that reform gained. Also, good day for the lib dems too. Reform keep saying they’ll win the next GE. I’m not so sure, but I think we can all agree they are going to end up with more seats than the tories.

Should we tell them about the bats?

Did you see what God just did to us, man?

Labour should have come out and said: that given the ambiguity in the law has been resolved but in a way that doesn’t account for trans people, we will be bringing forward updated legislation to close the gap.

110%

There are THREE sides in the trans debate (besides not interested in it).

You are either pro trans rights, anti trans rights, or a russian bot sent here to pretend to be one of those previous two and drag the debate into the sewer as much as possible.

careful, this could be just what reform need to revive their leave the ECHR bullshit.

Well that eveidently happened at Scottish water, their infrastructure investment is like 35% higher per household than it’s private counterparts.

https://www.believeinscotland.org/scottish-water-a-victory-for-the-scottish-people-v-the-uk-government

Ah, I see the ‘Truth Unconfortable for Cretins’ chief has uttered another uncomfortable truth.