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Not doing Elon Musk Twitter.

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It occurred to me that I didn't have a pinned tweet. So now I do.

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@sentdefender Q: "Why did the Bryansk oil depot "Druzhba" (Friendship) burned down, even though it's 110 miles from the Ukrainian border?"
A:

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@Full_TiltBoogie @omnisophos @gwynpw @MattJLloyd https://t.co/TgPfeugoKt

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Corbyn has popped up again, emitting the usual clouds of flannel and his implicit endorsement of Russian imperialism, and with him comes the wuzzascam-sters stamping their feet and demanding evidence of Corbyn's antisemitism.

So, once more, to the wuzzascam-sters. /1

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@Jessthelefty Jeremy Corbyn, claiming to be antiracist, led his party into a racism scandal so comprehensive the EHRC had to step in. I guess it’s hard to face your own hypocrisy.

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@RALee85 Has it started popping up on eBay yet?

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@Zokko18 @GreatDando @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar Well, if 2015 wasn't enough to turn you against Corbyn, and 2016 wasn't, and 2017 wasn't, and 2018 wasn't, and 2019 wasn't, and 2020 wasn't, and 2021 wasn't, why should 2022 be?

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@Zokko18 @GreatDando @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar If we were trying to associate Corbyn with some random scrawl found on a wall somewhere, he'd have a point. But a full article arguing *for* Russian imperialism on the website of the organisation Corbyn ran? Different story.

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@GreatDando @Zokko18 @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar Not “their website.” *His* website, the website of the organisation he chaired at the time it was posted.

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@StuartDillon1 @splootman @spicymoregano @PippaCrerar No, the EHRC report. I've read it. Have you?

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@StuartDillon1 @splootman @spicymoregano @PippaCrerar The EHRC didn't consider the question of whether Corbyn is antisemitic. They didn't say he was and they didn't say he wasn't.

It's a very simple point the Corbynistas, in their desire to defend their Antisemite in Chief, routinely get wrong.

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@Zokko18 @GreatDando @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar Is the day after Tuesday actually really Wednesday? Well, we don't know where Corbyn stands on this because he hasn't issued a personal statement -- and the fact that every calendar he owns says as much is not to be taken into consideration.

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@Zokko18 @GreatDando @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar The alternative being that Corbyn was present but not involved. In a group he chairs. Somebody might fall for that.

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@GreatDando @Zokko18 @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar And?

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@GreatDando @Zokko18 @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar "Discussion piece"? At Stop the War? 😃

They don't do discussion pieces, because they don't do discussion. They are a famously top-down organisation, as befits their ideological Marxist origins.

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@Zokko18 @GreatDando @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar It seems entirely sensible to accept that he agreed with a prominent statement made by the group he chaired, in the absence of any evidence he tried to distance himself from it.

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@Zokko18 @GreatDando @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar I've yet to see any Corbyn condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, either in 2014 or 2022, that didn't immediately pivot to "of course, the west made them do it."

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@Zokko18 @GreatDando @Meh3625555 @juliefr88667164 @PippaCrerar Awarding Russian imperialism by giving Crimea to Putin was the Stop the War party line. It's famously a get-in-line shout-the-slogan shop, not a let's-wander-the-ramifications-freely-in-the-spirit-of-comradely-debate shop.