I assume everyone in government just hoped the big Israeli military barbecue wouldn’t happen on their watch but now it has, and it’s extremely awkward because all those people spent *years* roaring absolutely filthy abuse at anyone who told them something like this was coming, and needed preventing.

What kind of abysmal scumbag would put the boot into his own side trying to fuck everything up for the entertainment of wingnut cranks, as a way of boosting their personal career interests

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The blunt problem here - touched on, but not made explicit - is that the entire Starmer project was an utterly bleak fraud and it can’t be explained by focusing on Sir Keir personally, any more than you can understand what McDonalds is by staring hard at the statue of the clown beside the front door

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This is completely insane, lads. It’s not her that’s obsessed with anything, it the tiny gaggle of absolute headbangers who have not stopped screaming at her about it for five years. *You* are the wackos here, not her.

The explanation for this is entirely within the British ruling elite too: in 2003, Tony felt quite confident basically telling a zillion protestors to fuck off. The more criminal and genocidal the wars have got, the louder the shrieks and denunciations get, the more the authoritarianism intensifies.

all my friends are on Labour Lists

Israelis are really, really sick............... and there is no cure I really hope some country can cure the disease, until then a total global embargo might help stop it spreading.

More or less the story of the immaculate conception - it was actually just, 'an' immaculate conception, they were very common at the time.

the government is saying “underage girls are testing positive for pregnancy at ICE detention centers” instead of saying “ICE agents are raping & impregnating underage girls.”

Absolutely incredible here. America has set half the world on fire but what really matters is Jonathan pretending to be terrified that one of his own colleagues approves of vandalising bakeries (his colleague does not approve of this, but the worst wingnut swine in Britain are pretending he does).

Again, you can find out why the lads regard protesting or public prayer as insanely extreme and threatening by looking at the things that they do like and want, and asking: which of these things is crazier and nastier?

The core problem with treating 400+ million people across the region as orcs or zombies, as a lawn that needs to be constantly mowed with airstrikes and white phosphorus so that Israel and the US can continue acting with total impunity, is not “it doesn’t work very well”.

OSSOFF: Your statement says that as a result of last summer's airstrikes, Iran's nuclear program was 'obliterated.' Correct? GABBARD: Yes O: The WH stated war was launched to 'eliminate the imminent nuclear threat' G: The only person who can determine what's an imminent threat is POTUS O: False

ok well good news for anyone who isnt a consumer i guess

Maddow: How is Jared Kushner's role in the U.S. attacking Iran not more of a show-stopping scandal?

Maybes aye and maybes naw, but I see no coherent explanations that ring true for how exactly these abysmal clowns could have rescued their party from “an existential threat” and then swiftly tanked it to fourth in the polls, while nobody important was wrong about anything at all.

"Why isn't NATO dealing with the consequences of my actions?" yells man on golf course.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Sure, dickheads: however you need to explain this to each other is fine, as long as you all recognise it’s yet another needless disaster

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You don’t have to think the Iranian military are a great bunch of lads to understand how critically important it is that the American government is forced to *eat shit* here. We shouldn’t even be letting them use our airspace for this brazenly criminal enterprise, never mind anything else.

That’s what the Spiked idiots are: rentawankers for anyone who is willing to pay, and their entire job is to explain to dullards that the positions of libs and the left - anti-racism, anti-austerity, antiwar - are dumb, hypocritical and disgusting, whereas being a total cunt about everything is Punk

Best 13 minutes you'll spend today. Probably.

A surprising number of Israelis seem to have already forgotten that they're the ones who started the war.

we now have an answer to “what if caligula had dementia?”

"I miss the Greens under Caroline Lucas"

Israel uses white phosphorous and cluster munitions on Lebanon, poisons the air of Tehran with burning oil fumes, bombs every school and hospital in Gaza, and all the media can talk about is liberating people from the Mullahs. When are we liberating the Middle East from Israel?

Oh, this one's a classic: One shoe, two shoe, Stop blowing up brown children with my fucking healthcare money, you murderous ghouls. I do not like it in a dump. I do not like it by a trump. I do not like it over there. I do not like it anywhere.

Did #bbclaurak speak in these emotive terms about Palestinians in body bags? Did she ask the Israeli president (who was also on the program this morning) about footage & images she's seen from Gaza & ask how on earth he justifies that? Of course she didn't.

Remember folks: opposing 25 years of escalating war, slaughter and horror is insanely extreme and possibly treasonous, a threat that the police need to crack down hard upon. Cheering it all on and baying for more is Sensible, Moderate and patriotic.

You can see the actual power of the right wing media by their agitation for the UK to attack Iran. They're capable of enforcing a lockstep position across their papers and of getting the BBC to echo it, but they've had precisely no success at convincing the public to switch off their brains.

UK democracy in action The state unable/unwilling to provide people with clean water, timely healthcare, social care, decent housing, pension, affordable education, energy, decent roads. Corporate profits guaranteed through PFI, privatisations, outsourcing, subsidies, regulatory inaction.

Like, I am not Gandhi here, I appreciate that sometimes motherfuckers do need to get bombed. But I do believe that should be as a desperate last resort, and not just supported whenever because e.g. we are paid employees of the nation’s nastiest, most jingo, extremely right wing media outlets.

*nods* and like the pipelines, we can reappropriate this for soup

I dust my house. My AI robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Unfortunately, if we say “LOL we’ve killed your leaders, this is the end for you, submit or die” then the other side are going to conclude that there’s no point in showing any restraint and they might as well inflict as much damage as possible.

You can actually just not get involved in wars 3,000 miles away. Throughout history this has been the standard policy of most governments (even some very violent ones!). They’ve often just looked at a map and said “no thank you.”

Wouldn't it be nice Tice and Oakshott who are trapped in Dubai used this experience to reflect on how quickly anybody can be forced to flee their home. Maybe realising that not everyone fleeing conflict has their millions but I somehow doubt it.

The blasts hitting Dubai are terrible. This poor guys face looks to have melted.

Keir Starmer: "Leftists go fuck yourselves. Trans people go fuck yourselves. Immigrants go fuck yourselves. Disabled people, go fuck yourselves. Muslims, go fuck yourselves. Anti-genocide protestors, go fuck yourselves." Also Keir Starmer: "Why are the Greens so divisive?"

This is so obviously an anti Green stunt But hilariously more people have posted like or love responses than angry ones

Farage is about to hold a press conference at a garden centre as the hair dye runs down his face

Today's the day the fleas are having their circus!

When I told Gorton and Denton to ‘channel their patriotic Blitz spirit’ I didn’t mean ‘defeat the far-right fascists’, says Farage flip.it/.4RSdU 😂 #satire

Keir Starmer is reading about the cold war today, calling it a "straight fight between the United States and France."

Knocking the 'red wall' down and planting a hedgerow