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[lucio 5,418]

14 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

However all the stories about the holy inquisition are grossly exaggerated - by Hammer films and the like.
During the 800-900 years of holy inquisition only 1800 people were burned and many of them were real criminals.
Capital punishment was the norm everywhere and the states killed many many more for the pettiest of offenses.
As for Spain they were no worse than the British with the witchfinder general (Vincent Price).
But the anglosaxon propaganda made the Spanish inquisition look much meaner than it really was and there was a reason for it as Britain and Spain were bitter enemies.

Same for the crusades , they were a  defensive response to several centuries of Jihad which had conquered 2/3 of the christian world including almost all of Spain and Portugal 

 

[MoroccanBlue 5,216]

The United States of America. 
 

Home of the free just so long as you don’t crticise Israel. 
 

House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war

[Fulham Broadway 16,434]

1 hour ago, MoroccanBlue said:

The United States of America. 
 

Home of the free just so long as you don’t crticise Israel. 
 

House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war

Thats how they nailed Corbyn, Livingstone and other politicians here, by expanding the definition of criticism of the 'chosen people' 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,769]

6 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

The United States of America. 
 

Home of the free just so long as you don’t crticise Israel. 
 

House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war

Its actually shocking how bought out most of our politicians are. Its hilarious.

I can't see myself voting for Biden behind this genocide.

[MoroccanBlue 5,216]

2 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Its actually shocking how bought out most of our politicians are. Its hilarious.

I can't see myself voting for Biden behind this genocide.

A unanimous vote amongst the republicans and moderate democrats even though this would in turn make their precious bible hate speech under this new bill. 

[Fulham Broadway 16,434]

Seems Netanyahu is the de facto US President

[Vesper 27,412]

3 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Its actually shocking how bought out most of our politicians are. Its hilarious.

I can't see myself voting for Biden behind this genocide.

that definition is crazy broad

https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

 

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

 

1. Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
2. Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
3. Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
4. Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
5. Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
6. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations. (Fucking madness, AIPAC endorsed and funded 109 traitorous election denying, pro insurrection Republicans, all because they are RW christofascists who vote for anything that gives money to Israel, as they need the Jews in Israel to bring forth the chritian end times Armamgeddon, AIPAC doesnt giver a fuck about American democracy, they are a foreign power projection corrupting the American government)
7. Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
8. Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
9. Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
10. Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
11. Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel. (lol, YET if you rip Israel, then the Jews say you are attacking EVERY Jew)

[Vesper 27,412]

[cosmicway 1,263]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

that definition is crazy broad

https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

 

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

 

1. Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
2. Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
3. Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
4. Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
5. Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
6. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations. (Fucking madness, AIPAC endorsed and funded 109 traitorous election denying, pro insurrection Republicans, all because they are RW christofascists who vote for anything that gives money to Israel, as they need the Jews in Israel to bring forth the chritian end times Armamgeddon, AIPAC doesnt giver a fuck about American democracy, they are a foreign power projection corrupting the American government)
7. Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
8. Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
9. Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
10. Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
11. Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel. (lol, YET if you rip Israel, then the Jews say you are attacking EVERY Jew)

There are two types of antisemitism:
Nazi and Arab/communist.
The nazi type is hardline antisemitism foreva.
The Arabs/commies don't hesitate to play it soft against Jews -sometimes- with respect to the above definitions.
But a few rocket-drone-skud attacks against Israel are perfectly justified.

The commies are antisemitic ever since USSR decided to make the Arab states into client states.

[Fulham Broadway 16,434]

9 hours ago, Vesper said:

that definition is crazy broad

https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

 

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

 

1. Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
2. Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
3. Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
4. Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
5. Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
6. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations. (Fucking madness, AIPAC endorsed and funded 109 traitorous election denying, pro insurrection Republicans, all because they are RW christofascists who vote for anything that gives money to Israel, as they need the Jews in Israel to bring forth the chritian end times Armamgeddon, AIPAC doesnt giver a fuck about American democracy, they are a foreign power projection corrupting the American government)
7. Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
8. Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
9. Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
10. Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
11. Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel. (lol, YET if you rip Israel, then the Jews say you are attacking EVERY Jew)

Their own Ministers admit anti semitisn is a trick

 

[Fernando 6,385]

15 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Its actually shocking how bought out most of our politicians are. Its hilarious.

I can't see myself voting for Biden behind this genocide.

So if it's not Biden then it's trump....

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,769]

7 minutes ago, Fernando said:

So if it's not Biden then it's trump....

Trump is the biggest con artist to ever live. I'd never vote for him. Right now I'd simply vote democrat down ballot and leave the president question blank.

 

I do think democrat campaigners do themselves a disservice with the hyperbole surrounding him though because its always the same bucket they take to the well. Every 4 years we get doom-splained about how the next republican boogeyman will be the one who "Takes all of our rights" and "ends the world" but at the end of the day its all trash. 12 years ago "Money Mitt" was going to end civilization as we know it, but 2 years after that he was "One of the good ones" because he saw Trump for the grifter he was? Bush is better than trump after sending our generation to die in a war built on a lie that killed millions? Its all kabuki, and its always been. 

 

[cosmicway 1,263]

Everything in this world happens for money, ulitimately.
There are variations and hues and there are some other things the populace is occupied with, such as the Trump scandals.
But ultimately everything is about money.
The poor everywhere are crying for money. I don't know about Sweden with IKEA but every other place they 're crying for money.
They ain't gonna get it because if they would, we would n't call it money - we would call it sweet peas.
But still they are crying.
The rich too. Their purpose is different. They want to steal your piggy bank and send you to the countryside to live with the foxes.

The commie world lies somewhere in between.
They will give you some raw corn and burned shoe soles for dinner.
But the party bosses enjoy everything.
Did you know that for the Soviets the famous Bolshoi ballet was thought of as a girly show ?
The party members grabbed any dancer they liked.
What about the North Korean traffic girls ? Ain't that strange ? In such a country they have a spectacle like those gorgeous traffic girls ?
It's a regime trick - be loyal and the party may fix you a date. Pie in the sky Kim style.

But in general every other activity such a antisemitism, prosemitism, pro white-black integration, against white-black integration is subservient to the economy.


 

Edited May 3 by cosmicway

[cosmicway 1,263]

52 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Trump is the biggest con artist to ever live. I'd never vote for him. Right now I'd simply vote democrat down ballot and leave the president question blank.

 

I do think democrat campaigners do themselves a disservice with the hyperbole surrounding him though because its always the same bucket they take to the well. Every 4 years we get doom-splained about how the next republican boogeyman will be the one who "Takes all of our rights" and "ends the world" but at the end of the day its all trash. 12 years ago "Money Mitt" was going to end civilization as we know it, but 2 years after that he was "One of the good ones" because he saw Trump for the grifter he was? Bush is better than trump after sending our generation to die in a war built on a lie that killed millions? Its all kabuki, and its always been. 

 

The current betting is Trump 2.00, Biden 2.10.
As for the closest to end the world that might have been Barry Goldwater (*), but Trump is also a good candidate.
During his term he was checked by the Congress but he is a good candidate.
That he wants to hand Europe to his friend Putin is undisputed.

(*) I remember back in 1964 the most rabid of rabid Greek conservative press were carrying daily editorials in favour of LBJ and against Goldwater - the monster with the nukes

Edited May 3 by cosmicway

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,769]

39 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

The current betting is Trump 2.00, Biden 2.10.
As for the closest to end the world that might have been Barry Goldwater (*), but Trump is also a good candidate.
During his term he was checked by the Congress but he is a good candidate.
That he wants to hand Europe to his friend Putin is undisputed.

(*) I remember back in 1964 the most rabid of rabid Greek conservative press were carrying daily editorials in favour of LBJ and against Goldwater - the monster with the nukes

Thing is, I dont believe he is a good candidate and the evidence backs it up.

 

He won a tight election(in which he lost the popular vote by a wide margin) against a lady who had been vilified for decades prior. his mid terms his candidates have been embarrassed each time. He then lost a presidential election. He has only proven he can beat a historically unpopular woman.

Also the idea that Barry "Muh rights to discriminate" Goldwater was going to end the world was literally doom-splaining by the Democrats working for Johnson:

For the record I believe Johnson was one of the best Presidents in American history, but the same rhetoric was used there. Goldwater would have been an objectively worse president, but he wouldn't have ended the world any more than any other "leader"

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,769]

And the never trumper shit is a tale as old as time:

We are expected to believe the party which trafficks in white supremacy, xenophobia, ignorance, and general hatred among other things is above the Orange man?

Trump is a pice of shit not because he is different from the GOP, but because HE IS THEM. If it wasn't him it would be someone else whether its some small dick punk yelling at Obama during his address, or some small dick punks crying in the streets with their tea party about how a man with a white mom that was born in Kanas isnt American, some christian trying to blow me up in my hometown at the olympics because Jesus told him that women shouldn't get abortions, or some small dick punks smiling in Reagans face as he started his presidential campaign in a small Mississippi town that just 15 years before was the place freedom riders met their end. Thats the party, he's no different.

[Vesper 27,412]

Conservatives crushed by ‘worst local election result’ in years

Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/03/tories-face-worst-local-election-results-40-years-sunak-sunak

The Conservatives are facing one of their worst local election results in 40 years, with striking Labour gains across England and Wales in key battlegrounds they need to secure victory at the general election.

The spread of the Conservative losses led one former minister to claim there was “no such thing really as a safe Tory seat any more”, but the prime minister appeared committed to clinging on until polling day, with rebels in his own party lacking the support to oust him.

The polling expert Prof John Curtice of Strathclyde University said the results added up to “one of the worst, if not the worst” performances by the Conservatives in four decades.

The party is expected to lose up to 500 seats when all votes are counted, with Labour advancing in areas of both the “red wall” north won by the Tories under Boris Johnson and the traditional southern Conservative heartlands.

Keir Starmer hailed “seismic” results, including winning a landslide byelection in Blackpool South, with the third largest swing since the second world war, as well as mayoralties in the East Midlands, North East and North Yorkshire, which covers Sunak’s own constituency.

Labour also ousted a number of Tory police and crime commissioners, and took control of at least seven new councils, including in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire and Sussex in the south of England.

Overall, Starmer’s party won at least 190 new council seats to reach a total of more than 1,000 seats, while the Liberal Democrats also made gains in the south and west, adding at least 70 more seats to reach at least 440.

But in a warning sign for the main parties, there was also a strong showing for the Green party, which won more than 150 seats and narrowly missed out on overall control in Bristol, and independent party candidates, who won 250 seats amid disillusionment with Westminster politics and Labour’s stance on Gaza. George Galloway’s Workers’ party of Britain won three seats in Rochdale, residents’ associations took 14, and the Women’s Equality party gained its first councillor.

A projected national share of the vote produced by the BBC on Friday suggested Labour was on 34% of the vote, the Conservatives on 25%, the Lib Dems on 17% and others on 24%.

Despite heavy losses for the government, the Conservatives pointed to pockets of success such as the Tory mayor Ben Houchen holding on in Tees Valley, and Andy Street likely to keep his mayoralty in the West Midlands on Saturday. Both men had distanced themselves from the Conservatives’ Westminster politics.

The Conservatives also very narrowly held on to Harlow council in Essex, which had been a Labour target, and there were claims that Susan Hall, the Tory London mayoral candidate, had run Labour’s Sadiq Khan closer than predicted.

Sunak appeared alongside Houchen in Tees Valley on Friday, but said little about the wider national picture. He accused Labour of trying to “stroll back in” to Tees Valley and said he was sure that the region’s voters would stick with the Tories at a general election – despite a swing in the mayoralty suggesting the opposition would have won all parliamentary seats in the area.

Sunak’s team had been braced for the possibility of a challenge to his leadership if Houchen and Street lost. However, Tory MPs said the rebels had abandoned plans to attempt to oust him and favoured getting him to take the blame for a likely defeat in a general election this autumn.

The only voice calling for him to resign outright was David Campbell Bannerman, the former Tory and Ukip MEP, who chairs the grassroots Conservative Democratic Organisation. Bannerman described Sunak as a “terrible prime minister: not a Tory, no vision, no charisma, no campaigning ability” and called for him to “step aside now and go to California where he will excel in AI”.

Kwasi Kwarteng, the Conservative MP and former chancellor, told LBC that there was “no such thing really as a safe Tory seat any more” but he also said it was not the right time to change leader as “stability and consolidation” were needed.

The results are likely to deepen the schism within the Conservatives about whether the party should swing to the right to squeeze the Reform party, led by Richard Tice, which came within 100 votes of the Tories in Blackpool South but gained no councillors.

Andrea Jenkyns, the only Conservative MP who has publicly acknowledged sending a letter of no confidence in Sunak, instead called for a “war reshuffle” to bring back former ministers Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg. She also told GB News that Sunak could consider trying to do a deal with the Reform party, which polled 16.9% to the Conservatives’ 17.5% in Blackpool South.

But a leading one nation Conservative MP and former minister said this would be a “daft idea” that would lead Sunak to cede even more centre ground to Labour, and he would need to “hold his nerve” and hope that Reform loses its appeal at a general election.

Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, said: “The Conservatives are much more vulnerable to their left and their centre than to their right.

“It’s easy to see Reform pose a threat to some Conservative MPs but the closer they move to Reform-style policies, the more people they put off on their other flank.”

He also said Labour “perhaps weren’t doing as well as in the run-up to 1997, but if you look at where they have won, they do seem to be winning in the right places – in Swindon, Milton Keynes, Thurrock, and the East Midlands mayoralty and the big swing against Ben Houchen in Tees Valley – then a lot of parliamentary seats, if they are anything like the same way as in the locals, will end up going to Labour.”

Edited May 3 by Vesper

[cosmicway 1,263]

9 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Thing is, I dont believe he is a good candidate and the evidence backs it up.

I mean good candidate to end the world.