I endorse this graphic.
Edit: I have to say the response to this post has been eye-opening (in an excellent way) and hilarioius. Special shout out to the lady from Texas - welcome!
@fkamiah17 so you might have an issue with the traditional custodians of this land who would rather argue that your lot have actually been occupying Terra Australis for the last 234 years. But in principle, I think there would be a hard agree on that subject. Particularly if you go beyond those 234 years and recognise that Aboriginal Australians have actually occupied this land for 65,000 years. 👍
@fkamiah17 what really annoyed me about the referendum was that british people who lived abroad for more than ten years were allowed to vote in it while i, who had lived here for more than ten years by than wasn't.
A tin of crushed pineapple, a packet of marshmallows and a hefty dose of pistachio dust and this delicious Georgia salad could be yours for lunch. 🤮
Optional extra: an entire tub of "whipped topping", whateverthefuck that is.
Americans: shut up about beans on toast forever.
@fkamiah17 the USA can go to hell. The trigger happy meddlers should be chased from every country. The USA has a long history of rigging polls, supporting military coups, channeling funds and spreading political propaganda in other countries for their own gain and it’s about time the world treated them no differently than Russia. This U.S. obsession with meddling in other countries seriously jeopardises world peace.
@fkamiah17 I agree. It's unbelievable that the ones once at the receiving end of genocide, go on to perpetrate it decades later. And they need held accountable, regardless of history.
Not excusing what Hamas did, but this is a complete overreaction.
I am watching both full of gratitude that Institutions like the #ICJ exist, full of admiration for #SouthAfrica, but also full of fear, a lot of fear, that the case will not lead to any change in Gaza but to diminishing the power of the ICJ etc and the overall crisis of multilateralism. Let’s hope i am wrong
The washing has been put away. Even the stuff in the DryPod, which I had forgetten existed 😔
I've even put another load on because I am, in fact, a masochist.
I expect to be showered with constant praise throughout the day.
Anyone who fails to do so will be blocked.
😂😂
The PLO recognized the Israeli state in 1993; the Israeli state has never recognized the existence of the Palestinian state.
No Palestinian actor has foresworn a right of people expelled from what is now Israel in 1948 or their descendants to return to their homes, this is true. This isn’t quite the same thing as “not recognizing the right of Israel to manage its own immigration,” as these people are not immigrants.
But, even setting aside the Israeli state’s apartheid immigration laws, it’s hardly the case that the Israeli state recognizes a similar right for Palestinians or even permits Palestinians freedom of movement; I’m not sure on what basis your complaint about the PLO here.
Israel did reject the partition plan. It rejected the partition plan in the sense that it lied about its acceptance of the partition plan while intending to conquer all of mandatory Palestine—again, Ben Gurion said this openly, explicitly, and repeatedly—and in the sense that it continues to hold territory beyond the partition plan’s allotment.
The partition plan was absurd and unworkable and illegitimate, but all that aside, it’s still hard to hold up adherence to the partition plan as some basis for moral and legal legitimacy when the Israeli state is just as “guilty” of throwing it away as its Arab neighbors were.
@fkamiah17 Unfortunately were stuck with this useless, damaging Tory government for the foreseeable future, so probably another whole year of incompetence and corruption. Labour desperately need to appeal to the disillusioned masses otherwise the election will be much closer than it should be. Tories always seem to get organised and turn out en masse. Brexit was a good example of that, a disaster caused by voting apathy rather than public demand.
@DoubleTreble
I totally understand the conflict as my dad was English.
Imagine living in a country where 99.9% of everything you see, read and hear is from another country e.g. everything on your TV and radio is from Ireland, with everything Ireland related and no reference to England. All quiz shows have questions mainly about Ireland. Imagine England being totally ignored. I know this example is frivolous but that's what we have to put up with all the time. @fkamiah17
@TCMuffin@fkamiah17 There's nothing wrong with it at all, but if you cook a decent amount of rice it's really nice, plus relatively inexpensive compared with a lot of kitchen gadgets. I cooked rice in the microwave for years myself. There's actually an interesting website that teaches college students and people without kitchens how to make whole meals in rice cookers, people even make cakes!
I had an "Uncle" Billy (he wasn't blood family), my Grandads best friend from the war. I saw him every year, he'd come and stay for a few weeks, he eventually lived with us until he died
He was the most Scottish man I've ever met, accent, turn of phrase, porridge for breakfast every day
On his deathbed I learnt he was actually Polish, came after the war to join his sister who was a refugee in Glasgow
This is a real piece of Government literature. Repeat, this is not a joke. @jkfanghanel you're even more right than you thought. #UKPolitics#Science#FFS
For me it was just a Cyprus thing, didn't equate back to home and the different strength of brandy. Others in my team drank Carlsburg, and woke up to regret it far more than me.
@fkamiah17@patrickhadfield@JackTheCat No denying that.
It’s odd that we’re usually good at forgetting unpleasant experiences, but not these intense ones. Is it triggering a ‘poison - avoid - remember’? Who knows.
I hope you guys can watch this clip but I'm going to transcribe it for those who can't. Here's Ammar Anwar, former (as of yesterday) Labour Councillor of Dewsbury West Council. He's in bits, shaking and crying, as he reads the following statement:
"As I came home yesterday, my five year old daughter, who was watching the news with me the previous night, saw images of what was going on in Gaza. She said to me, "Dad, what have you done ...
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" ... about the videos you were watching? That absolutely broke me. So today, with a heavy heart: I've been an active member and supporter of the Labour Party all my life. I believe in its views and principles. But unfortunately, under the current leadership, the Labour Party has let me down. I can no longer be part of this institution after its support of an apartheid state that is killing thousands of innocent people.
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"Investment bankers about the financial crisis: “It was an easy game for us to earn a lot of money”
Asked about his political position: "I support the British people. I do not want these people to fall into poverty. If I believe, for example, that the Labour Party can help me to prevent that, then I support them. The party leadership insists that it will not tax the rich. If so, then I cannot."
I did but it seems like a statement of screamingly obvious... When they are attacking the 'leftie middle class' publicly for objecting to the privatisation of the NHS, I think we know what we are dealing with.
An issue for #Starmer now is that he has lied so regularly - almost everytime he promises anything in fact (no exageration) he cannot now be redeemed. You'd have to be truly stupid to believe this crowd. About anything except their self interest.