The bitter sting of fascist tears - Orban conceding. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/hungary-election-latest-results-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-fidesz-tisza-russia-europe-live-news-updates#maincontent Tisza's Magyar says Orbán 'congratulated us on our victory' Oh. Tisza’s leader P...

It’s exactly what opponents of Brexit predicted: that the UK would end up following EU directives much as before they left but with the significant difference that the UK would no longer have any input into writing the directives. And also (something which wasn’t predicted AFAICR) much of it being a...

I hear a rumour Trump is in hospital? Et vous? I think you're late to the party on that one: Trump was uncharacteristically quiet for 2 days or so while there was a risk that the weapons guy missing after the plane went down might end up in the hands of the Iranians. Obviously that would have been ...

Yes, but I don't think things can continue as they are. Trump will up sticks, claiming he has won or whatever unbelievable story serves his purpose And as far as the rest of us are concerned as we watch the cost of living spiralling , the sooner that happens the better. Whatever brings the active s...

Does anyone actually have a source of the exact wording? There are tons of articles out there which suggest that there will be different jurisdiction approaches for Palestinian and Israeli citizens but I am struggling to find a source of the exact wording of the bill. Either way there is no way a c...

Canadian guy called Avi Lewis who points out that as long as Zionism has existed in its modern form there have been jewish people opposed to Zionism and its aims. The Zionists can't call him 'antisemitic' so he is called 'anti-Israel'. Which is an attempt to establish that if you aren't Zionist you...

We have observed on here repeatedly before that the country formally at the centre of this politicised accusation has a formal relationship with Hamas to undertake this lawfare. https://twitter.com/magicdan60/status/2038162037767860364?s=46 And look at the list of the other countries involved. And ...

He does, yes. Doesn't matter how many times it's explained to him that this is not the case. Lumpy will go around in circles for days on this, eventually tire of the topic and then pop-up a week later repeating the same talking point. He lives in an alternate reality with alternative 'facts' (I use...

The subject of the thread is whether or not Israel is a civilised democracy. I don't see it as such and see the modern Zionist as no different to the Taliban in psychology. Both call upon nutty desert scrolls to elevate themselves and to deprecate the 'infidel' or non-believer. There isn't a lot of...

You could consult Maimonides. Maimonides asserted that someone who murders a Jew is subject to the death penalty, one who murders a non-Jew is not (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Murder 2:11). According to another leading commentator, indirectly causing the death of a non-Jew is no sin at all (Rabbi Yoel S...

Interesting that the explanation you put forward actually confirms that the notion of Judaism becoming a 'nationality' rather than a religion with the advent of the 'modern' Zionist political movement. Which is indeed a fairly recent invention. As I've said before anyone at all is welcome to go blu...

Dear oh dear oh dear. We should really be trying to end this constant conflation of Judaism with toxic malignant Zionism. Associating Judaism with genocidal Zionism makes Jews everywhere unsafe and is a most egregious manifestation of antisemitism. I see you failed to take that up with Lumpy Talbot...

Zionism was invented in 1896 in Vienna as an ideology. Jewish people had their cultural identity long before 1896. Zionism is presented as a form of cultural identity but has a nasty core of an idea in the centre of it which was last prevalent in Judaism back in the days of the Sicari and the Zealo...

midlander12 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 2:10 pm I was commenting ironically on your claim that 'there don't seem to be any threats [to mayors] coming from the far right'. [/i]

Oh I got your meaning. You however seem to have entirely missed mine.…login to view the rest of this post

Well that's good news, nice to see things have improved since 2024 or so. https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/19/french-mayors-face-growing-threats-from-far-right-extremists https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/french-mayors-face-violence-and-intimidation-xenophobic-far-right-groups Umm, maybe. I'm puzz...

Hopefully we are looking at the LFI and the RN being equally toxic and in the process discouraging others from forming alliances with them, but I suspect it's a bit early to draw such conclusions. It's really quite hard for me to get my head around this, so deeply ingrained is the notion that the f...

The mainstream left seem to have done OK where they didn't do a deal with the LFI (Paris being the most obvious example) and not where they did a deal with them (and presumably turned moderate voters off). From what I can figure out from the overall results, the left seems to have lost ground to th...

I'm almost afraid to say it, but I think we have more evidence from both France and Germany that the far right's advance may have at least temporarily stalled. The first round of France's mayoral elections were held yesterday. The RN held on to their one incumbent large city mayoralty, Perpignan, a...

I'm almost afraid to say it, but I think we have more evidence from both France and Germany that the far right's advance may have at least temporarily stalled. The first round of France's mayoral elections were held yesterday. The RN held on to their one incumbent large city mayoralty, Perpignan, a...

As I already suggested, do try to keep it real - I never mentioned the ambulances. But now that were on the subject of ambulances, over 1,500 incidents were reported in the past year of vandalism of ambulances and attacks on ambulance personnel - it's not a unique phenomenon. Last March, a convoy c...

Roman Emperor wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2026 10:53 am If the West doesn't want refugees the West shouldn't create refugees.

You do know it was the Russians who wrecked Afghanistan? The west, and the US, stupidly tried to pick up the pieces afterwards and got cut by all the broken glass, to continue the metaphor.…login to view the rest of this post

Religion must be the single most evil thing humans have invented. Hmm. The atomic bomb and other explosives used to mass-murder innocents come to mind. Weapons in general. Also, on a more individual level: rape, multiple methods of torture (and keeping people alive using medicine in order to be abl...

Trump is either an extradordinary businessman or a complete and utter fool. Flip flopping every other day with his demands and threats. Having threatened to destroy Iran's fossil fuel industries, he's now been forced to declare a 'pause', since the Iranians logically said go ahead and we will destr...

Well they're not very safe in Israel, are they ! - and they certainly don't feel safe with nett emigration running at over 50,000 annually. Netanyahu (real name Mileikowsky) could always return to Philadelphia - his wife and son already live in Miami without too much difficulty. Larry Ellison, Mark...

To use the examples you gave when was the last time that western countries got together and gave a minority a nation of their own inside Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq? Second question- how do you think the locals would take to the idea? I was referring to the creation of Pakistan which, previous to 1947, ...