SevenAgate1

uninformed online lefty, just because I disagree with you doesn’t mean I don’t like you

[Archy✝️ | Richard Nixon Democrat @ArchysLife]

The man who was incredulous towards the suggestion that a child has read a 310-page book has left me grievously upset.

While growing up, I had full access to the bookshelves of my parents and grandparents, and I received serious books - fiction and non-fiction alike - as gifts.

[SevenAgate1 @SevenAgate1]

@lou_is_rep__ Non zero chance the relic takes over his dead body right? With what was implied by Hellman they wanted dead bodies or the brain dead

[SevenAgate1 @SevenAgate1]

@JoaquinG56637 @DarkWokeAcolyte Argentina is a colony

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@PunishedFredda Called being lions

[goosie 🐭 @pollypocketmode]

Is anyone else constantly terrified that our agricultural infrastructure is going to collapse in the next ~15 years due to climate change

[SevenAgate1 @SevenAgate1]

@ThatchEffendi The aesthetics are terrible but I think Nolan will make a good narrative adaptation

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@_fromthedale I do think her being a humanitarian helped

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@PunishedFredda We’re gonna be moving like Harold Godwinson (we will not fall for Norman trickery tho)

[Robert Skvarla @RobertSkvarla]

Nixon was a mobbed up dork with a chip on his shoulders who had dirty money in CIA banks and was attached in some capacity to many of their most notorious covert ops, specifically the Bay of Pigs, for which he was on the planning committee

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Two important, maybe contradictory take-aways from this.

The first is that this is a change in tone that has been forced by the left exercising its power inside but mostly outside of the Labour Party. Burnham is in office because the Greens helped destroy the Labour Party in May's local elections, which has scared MPs and empowered parts of the Party that wanted a change of approach. So to the extent that this an improvement on Labour's position, it is a reflection of how an electorally relevant and competent force to the left of Labour does impact on our national discourse and forces Labour to humanise its messages. And a change in tone from an incoming Prime Minister does have some, at least limited, impact on shaping our national discussion on Israel's genocide.

The second point is that it is just tone. It's a three minute video for social media. It's not even set-piece for the cameras or in front of the national media. In the context of genocide, it's pretty thin gruel that many will undoubtedly find flippant and incidental.

Certainly, the contrition obscures that on substantive policy, this is no different to the Starmer government's approach. No significant increase in sanctions, strongly implying that there will be no ending the F-35 carve-out from existing arms license restrictions, hiding behind (and effectively misrepresenting) international court rulings to not call out genocide or war crimes, and certainly no steps towards accountability for complicity for domestic actors. It is little different to what Hamish Falconer has been telling Parliament for months.

And it is nowhere near enough. Doesn't even approximate being near enough, which will have to include a total and complete arms embargo, deproscribing Pal Action, and taking the concrete steps to prevent a genocide as required by the ICJ.

So the left must now organise and use the power it has gathered to itself in order to continuing demanding and extracting the concrete changes that are needed to end this genocide and secure justice and accountability. If Burnham wants to cohere an electoral left-alliance to save his skin, some hand-wringing and watery eyes won't cut it.

[SevenAgate1 @SevenAgate1]

@Agus_HQ @th_greenlight @Milo_Edwards How’s it what’s right it 99% of the people living there voted to be British?

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

English King Alfred who massacred thousands of Vikings is 'found buried' under Hampshire car park days before England play Norway in World Cup https://t.co/JIpYC5MQcf

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

"The establishment are running g scared of me!!!". "OK, Nigel, do you have the courage to debate a bin?". "Er....".

[A-100 gecs @PinstripeBungle]

I assume anybody in a position of national power has a deranged personal life but its crazy especially in a time of global realignment and grand diplomacy that there's a guy who rolls up to summits in aviators and everyone is like oh his much older wife is hitting him again.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.

[hen @afterwayafter]

It's colonialism not to let America cheat at football. It's classist to say Americans shouldn't work at Lockheed Martin. It's racist to say that Tourette's is a real illness. Saying anything that denies an American the right to feel like a good boy makes you worse than Hitler

[Evan Morgan Grahame @Evan_M_G]

Did the US win many fans during this tournament? No. Did they do the moral thing and denounce Trump’s role in the Balogun saga? No. But did they at least exit the World Cup without embarrassing themselves further? Also no #FIFAWorldCup

[León Krauze @LeonKrauze]

I’ll leave it here, but I find it astonishing that American colleagues I respect, in sports and beyond, are either celebrating or minimizing what should be obvious: overt political interference in a disciplinary decision at a World Cup is unethical, unacceptable and profoundly dangerous. Whatever one thinks of Balogun and the red card itself, the debate is now beyond it and precedent is indefensible. The integrity of the tournament depends on the idea that what happens on the field is judged by the rules of the game, not by pressure from political power.
To celebrate this is...baffling.

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@PunishedFredda Hastings time

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

The “centrist dad” thing being forced as this iconic political archetype by the UK press is one of the most self indulgent things ever done by a media class in modern times