It's amazing to study history and they're like "this guy was a military genius, crushed everybody in his path"
"what did he do?"
"he gave his troops slightly longer spears"
I'm as pro-abortion as they come, but getting an abortion specifically because you'd end up with a child with down syndrome is some eugenicist nonsense
they have the exact same face of the women who called me a whore in the middle of the street because i was wearing shorts as a 13 yo, or the teens in the bus who told me id go to hell because my hair wasn't covered
i'd draw them uglier <3
There’s a dark irony to Marjane Satrapi being from a family of leftists and being someone who fled Iran’s theocratic regime to live free, only to be attacked online by leftists in the last few years (and now again with her death) as a mouthpiece of western propaganda vs Iran
Got made redundant in February but I still know the code to access my old work canteen from the street so I go in twice a week and get a free bacon roll and coffee on the way to my new job.
-born into a family of marxists
-protested against the shah and disliked him heavily
-uncle killed for being leftist
-strong against foreign intervention
-still dunked on by tankies and campist
You can’t win with these people
It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.
Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.
Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.
Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.
The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.
this desire to “support ukrainians in a way that russians can’t even feel” is the biggest oxymoronic nonsense still accepted as a serious political stance
People are so incredibly mean to this woman because she actually had to live through the consequences of their favourite theocracy and didn’t say it was epic wholesome chungus.
Islamism is ultimately not compatible with any kind of progressive or left-wing politics. It's just not. Advocating against war in the Middle East should not mutate into sympathy for Islamist politics. Full stop.