Exactly. But in this case I’m talking about the ‘western liberal democracies’ which constantly fall back on the idea of a diplomacy that they never actually meaningfully attempt before washing their hands and going back to supporting genocide.

I don’t think so. If Israel succeeds you’ll see them double down & embark on a national cultural project to whitewash their crimes in a similar way many of post-Soviet Baltic states are about their Nazism now.

It was pointed out to her that this is totally false, including in immaculately sourced 500+ word multi-example threads by journalists. Naturally she ignored it.

Because she finds it easier to stand up for and internationalremoved sex trafficker, millionaire spy-heiress than brown people being genocided.

The time for talking about diplomacy was sometimes during the last 75 years. At this point a moral and practical country would be choking Israel in military & technology sanctions, arresting any & all members of the government & military who set foot within their borders, shooting down Israeli jets & drones to enforce a no fly zone, and bombing any & all Israeli military & paramilitary targets into dust.

Comrade Columbo never misses.

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There’s loads of old Trots in British media too, they’re just ‘socially conservative’ neocons now though.

Exactly. Plus it’s a red meat political issue for the kind of reactionary gammons they’re exclusively chasing for votes now in the way that a private company isn’t (even though the RAF planes were owned by a hedge fund).

Not yet. It’ll be debated in the Lords later today & likely come into effect at Midnight on Friday night.

There’s also an online action meeting about next steps at 7pm UK time on Friday and if people are new to direct action there’s still a crash course online at 7pm UK time (but for international audiences) you can signup for tonight.

Here in the UK the Co-Op supermarket has dropped Israeli products entirely after it won a vote in their AGM. The banking & insurance side of the business already doesn’t do business with Israel.

Dino grabber emoji when?

I don’t know why the Dino grabber is wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat but this is really cute.

Somehow there’s something even sadder (and just as disgusting) about these centrist melts doing the nostalgia ‘Return’ thing for an era as recent as the 90s. I have zero tolerance for the fascist longing for an imaginary 1950s that didn’t exist but at least it feels far enough away and there’s a lack of media of ordinary life that you can make it into kind of fantasy themepark of nostalgia. Somehow this shit is even more pathetic.

He was the Health Spokesman for them up until 2021. I don’t know what if anything he does now. He tried to become a Green MP candidate at one point but did pretty badly. He was like the sixth choice or something.

Yeah, they are better than most but there is only 4 of them.

Exactly. Even here in the UK we recently agreed to meet Trump’s demand for 5% of GDP on military spending and stalking about building a war economy, but even then we’re doing it by fudging the budgets to include not only traditional military spending as per NATO request but things like ‘border security’ and domestic surveillance. Lots of which won’t be used in service of Ukraine or missions abroad, but repression at home.

The timeline of the process over the next few days:

There’s also an online action meeting at 7pm (UK time) this Friday about broader resistance next steps and direct action introduction workshops online every evening this week before the process is finalised.

I hope she chains herself to the gates of an alligator farm & live streams herself crying because the gators didn’t obey her commands.

Never. The espresso machine is already liberal + it’s a huge mechanism that actually only trickles down to a tiny few, carefully proportioned.