@EdKrassen Police in general, but particularly in the US are just really bad at de-escalation. Whatever the rights and wrongs, you cannot end up with a situation where children are watching police tase a man they (presumably) like and respect.
@Lowkey0nline Interesting to hear Netanyahu spell it out like this. Jesus. It’s obviously historically inaccurate, but even if it were try that the Palestinians had done ‘nothing with it’ to argue that that justifies violent displacement and land theft is to justify any kind of occupation.
@AllisonPearson Poor move by … rail bosses who are destroying rail while paying themselves huge bonuses. And dep. of transport who refuse to allow proper negotiation.
@TrishHodkinson ‘That poor lady’ lol. She’s had a privileged role that gave her unaccountable influence for decades. Why shoold we care about these people?
@WindshearTOGA@whatep@dave43law@PetronellaWyatt Lol. Bit of a stretch but I see where you’re going with that. I suppose you’d have to include in your fantasy world analogy a large population of british people of German ancestry. Who considered themselves British.
@MattMediaSnell@haggy83@bongosaloon@PetronellaWyatt But the context is significant. We’re still in the middle of the Windrush scandal which saw thousands of black Britons having their Britishness legally erased. That context (as well as myriad other forms of hurt and discrimination) matter.
@_HenryBolton Why are you comparing your experience when abroad with the experience or a black British person at home in Britain?
Could it be because on some level part of you thinks that a black British person in Britain is somehow, in some discreet way, not in their own country?
@darrengrimes I mean it is a pretty shit song though isn’t it?!
Especially if you a)don’t believe in God, b) don’t believe in the monarchy, c) don’t like turgid music.
@toryboypierce Growing up going to a rural Anglican Church was about as good an illustration of the irrelevance and austere, cold unwelcoming nature of that religion as you could wish for.
None of the good things about religion and lots of the worst
Every flippin Sunday.What a waste of time
@Full_TiltBoogie@LeftieStats What are the issues people have with him? I’m not from the area and don’t know him that well but he always seemed pretty good to me.