The October Revolution in Russia famously started with the sailors taking action. Just saying.

Send the police.

I misinterpreted this phrase then, thinking you were addressing it to him:

Now go enjoy your £15 chippy tea and a nice swim at the sewage beach.

You’re directing this to a guy with dementia. That’s very silly.

In my opinion, in the long run, if they let this stand, this is a mistake. They should commute the punishment to life in prison. This is what the newly democratic Greek government did in 1975 with the fascists who overthrew democracy in 1967. By letting them rot in prison they never became martyrs and they slowly lost all credibility as relics of a violent past. Greek democracy is better for it, even though all stripes of the political Left at the time considered the commutation to be a betrayal to the victims of fascist repression. This is one of those (rare) cases where the Centre-Right was actually showing some wisdom.

Different contexts of course, and a key difference is that Assad is not held by the Syrian government, which is also yet to prove its democratic bona fides.

But there is something to be said about disavowing the slave master’s tools after taking over the slave master’s house. Syria will be a better place without the death penalty, even for vile criminals like Bashar al-Assad.

These are eminently reasonable demands.

“[Iran’s Supreme National Security Council] called for the United States to lift its naval blockade and sanctions on Iran, withdraw the U.S. military from around Iran, pay war reparations and release frozen Iranian assets, as well as end attacks on Iran’s allies in the region and threats against the country.”

What an unreasonable list of demands, how dare they complicate things.

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White centibillionaires with a background in apartheid of course.

Unless you’re an ecofascist neonazi, in which case the same phrase gets interpreted as “use of resources by the wrong kind of people”.

Oh you mean eugenics and reproductive control. Yea, also genocidal.

Scientists argue that the indiscriminate use of Earth’s resources by humans has led to environmental effects, ranging from biodiversity loss to climate change.

Motherfuckers will find it easier to imagine genociding half of humanity than ending capitalism.

Someone paid attention to the way Ukraine counters Russia.

They care about enforcing censorship and keeping a lid on “politics” disrupting “social harmony”. Once again Palestine is an issue that unearths the deeper fractures and contradictions in a society.

It was the last straw for me to switch back to Linux after 15 years and I’m eternally grateful for that. Thanks Microsoft.

Fifa statute 14.1b obliges members to play in their competitions

Ok, so send the Fifa army.

Fuck off…

That’s a circular definition: the Labour government passed laws that defined Palestine Action as terrorists so therefore they are terrorist because the courts said they fit the description of the laws.

The other thing that you seem to have forfeited is a sense of proportionality. So, if you want to go around declaring yourself …a “terrorist sympathizer”, don’t let me stop you. I’ll keep on insisting that Palestine Action should have never been proscribed in the first place. All of the craziness follows from that first moment of Labour stupidity and overreach.

What’s your point with this whataboutery ?

Thank you for the technical clarification.

The word “terrorist” is not merely a technical designator. It is highly emotionally charged and political. It is a word that evokes hundreds of victims in blind attacks on trains or on buildings and aeroplanes. It evokes fanaticism and destructiveness, frothing hatred and irrational bloodlust. “We do not negotiate with terrorists.” Terrorists are the villains in every movie ever. In the wider society, a “terrorist connection” is a connection to all that.

So splitting the legal hairs here is at best irrelevant. We live in a society not a courtroom. The government has slapped the Big Scary Word on a thing it shouldn’t have.

And even if this government gets all the benefits of the doubt (personally I really don’t think they should) because they are trying their best to balance between impossible political attractors (personally I think they are just enablers of a genocidal apartheid regime for political expediency), the next one or the one after the next one will not hesitate to use the Big Scary Word not as a technical designator but as a political sledgehammer.

Labour has paved the way for Reform to go full fascist.