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They won’t be eating no woke vegan sausage rolls.

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Damon should know a thing or two about speed of play.

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Expect Scunthorpe to make a decision on Jimmy Dean's future this week, with a new man potentially in place ahead of the weekend. Think everyone can see that change is needed now. #UTI https://t.co/WuhGSK7wuU

— Aidan McCartney (@aidanmccartney) March 6, 2024

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Rene Artois

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Possibly the maddest US representative out there. Outdoes Boebert, somehow.

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A link might be helpful. I don’t know who this guy is.

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It did amuse me to see Peter Bottomley wearing a Ukrainian flag tie when walking next to the Putinist in Parliament today.

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In other words, a ceasefire would need unconditional release of hostages, not more attempts by Hamas to regroup and regather strength.

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And I am sure that one was full of reasonable demands and Hamas would be trustworthy, just as they were last time when they broke it in a week. A ceasefire will have to be feasible.

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Hamas are still holding hostages, and still refusing ceasefires because they will have to give them up, so there won’t be cessation of conflict until they do. I hope there is a ceasefire, but the reality is that there won’t be one unless both agree.

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I could keep saying that I understand why the conflict is happening and think there is justification there, but not with a lot of how it’s conducted, but I will still get the same questions and accusations.

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I would like to add that just because the victims are the victims of urban warfare, it doesn’t mean that it is good or even justified by those who launched strikes. Victims of Russia’s aggression in Syria and Ukraine are the victims of an unjustifiable war and careless regard for human life. Israel may have a more justifiable reason for war, in my opinion, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think they can’t do more to prevent civilian casualties. I would say they can, but it doesn’t make the victims any different in cause to the Syrians or Ukrainians in the bombing campaigns of Mariupol or Aleppo.

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It’s not an ‘excuse’. It’s the reality; every other urban war looks very similar, and some cases worse (Mariupol may have had 4 times the deaths in half the time, for example), but it’s not a competition. I am yet to be convinced that Palestinian civilian deaths are any worse than Yemeni, Syrian or Ukrainian, nor why Israeli is inherently worse than Russian, British or American. Civilian casualties in war are tragic and horrible. I have said that I think Israel’s actions are not without problems, to say the least, but that doesn’t mean the horrific casualties in this conflict can be judged in different standards to others. I have no doubt this will be ignored for more self-righteous proclamations about it and ‘supporting Netanyahu’ or whatever. Even though I think he’s a grotesque fascist, but anything other than slamming him or Israel as the worst person or country ever must mean I am a ‘Netanyahu supporter’ (nuance be damned). Never mind that the cause of this was Hamas, but I guess that makes me ‘pro-Netanyahu’ because thinking Israel have a right to at least defend itself (even if I am less so of how it is being conducted) and not accept its citizens being kidnapped and slaughtered by Islamic fascists means I am a fan of Likud and its gang of fascists or something.

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I get that. There is no clear ‘good guy’ who has done no wrong to the other in this conflict, but this is the nature of urban warfare. It’s brutal and similar has happened in other conflicts. Israel could and should do better, I think, in how they conduct the conflict, but the conflict was initiated by Hamas, so they carry a lot of blame too for what’s happening. Not like that absolves the problems in aid being sluggish, a tactic of war reminiscent of Bush in Iraq or Israeli soldiers raiding houses and posing with clothes etc. There won’t be a solution until the powers that be bring both together and cause a cessation, but Hamas don’t seem interested unless they get unreasonable demands met (including rejecting ceasefires because they don’t want to give up hostages).

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Hard to have negotiations for a ceasefire when Hamas keeps rejecting them* because it’s so vital that they keep their hostages apparently.

*and even if they did agree, they’d only use it to siphon money into preparing to attack Israel again and again, as they always have done.

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It’s obviously disgusting if this happebed, but has it been verified as an incident of firing? Or is it like al-Ahli where random sources just get trusted?

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Just Iron

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I’m just pointing out that the location data from the tweet says nothing about the authorship of those messages, just that you tweeted it from there, and is not a clue about the identity either way.

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cassidystash wrote:

Is the fact that it’s from New Waltham not a clue?

Not really, since New Waltham is indicating that fans64 tweeted the screenshots from there. It doesn’t mean the message was written in New Waltham. I don’t think fans64 is Hilton or the person who wrote that message.

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cassidystash

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I wouldn’t expect Hilton to be truthful and attacks on others’ character were something he did and encouraged. It’s hard to have certainty given it’s not verified, but I don’t see why it can’t be Hilton based off what was said.

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Sounds like the patter he’d come out with though, and similar to what that itonironiron account was spouting at the end of last year on here.

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ironingboard, Deereyme66

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Now that he has no control, his excuses and finger wagging just comes across as pathetic.

Yeah, we have to commit to a lower budget because of him. The division he tried to create while he was bad enough, we don’t need him trying to undermine the new board for his own ego. At least Swann has generally slunk into the shadows, only commenting when he felt he had to in order to present his side.

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What Rene is trying to say is that we haven’t had a case where we only had a run of 3 wins in a row before draw or defeat. When we have won 3 in a row, we went on to win again, so he classes it as a 4 game winning streak.

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Rene Artois

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Thought we played a bit better second half, but it was abysmal in the first. Elliott woeful.

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Yep. In terms of politics the people who have been dog whistling about Muslims have been Anderson and Braverman. Starmer made errors in parliament this week, but they all did (SNP and Tories included), and he made no comments which could be perceived as Islamophobia from my view.

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It must have been hard to cope after her disastrous stint as PM, but I almost feel pity to see this to presumably soothe her ego and make a buck at the same time. She must cringe inside when trying to sell this story to explain her failure.

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I see. Opposing mobs, of many different backgrounds, storming MP offices and calling for intifada means you’re an Islamophobe.

Opposing this is not the same as Farage wanging on about no go zones.

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So when Hoyle caves to perceived threats from a mob, it’s Islamophobia?

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Who encouraged it? How have they encouraged it? What is it that they have done that is connected to Islamophobia?

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No-one outside of the harder left cares about what the hard left think is Islamophobic any more when they have been so willing to excuse antisemitism under Corbyn and the continued harassment of MPs over the most pointless parliament squabble in history.

There has been a worrying rise in antisemitism and anti-Muslim bigotry since Oct 7th. Both are bad, yet those who will fight tooth and nail to avoid toning down antisemitism as genocidal chants are called outside parliament expect credibility as ‘anti-racists’ when they speak of other things. I have no idea how Starmer has enabled anti-Muslim bigotry either.

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Some would say that the lack of use of any nuclear weapon post-Nagasaki is vindication of MAD theory.

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