Posts by djr@union.place
(DIR) Post #ATuayiUV8WS9QzxfYe by djr@union.place
2023-03-23T15:00:33Z
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@LoZab61 This was very much part of the rhetoric used to support #Brexit.
(DIR) Post #AUO4BycAvWGLNnrJvU by djr@union.place
2023-04-06T21:05:47Z
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@KimPerales #KingGeorge as you know him - #George the Third as we do - had #JohnWilkes expelled several times from the #HouseofCommons. It did not end well - except for #JohnWilkes himself - who was returned several times and later was #lordmayoroflondon !One would have thought the #Scopes "monkey trial" would be enough for the reputation of Tennessee!
(DIR) Post #AYIaI4274yYUhYbk0m by djr@union.place
2023-08-01T21:05:30Z
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@wjmaggos It is all about suppressing critical and nuanced thought and promoting bigotry through groupthink on both sides. A dispiriting and thankless task to respond to it but not everyone on either side will be a provocateur or have an entirely closed mind. Or so one. has to hope. Do not give up.
(DIR) Post #AYIeeiXrXKKmXEW29A by djr@union.place
2023-08-01T21:54:23Z
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@wjmaggos Slightly more plausible anyway than the story about #davidcameron having been fellated by a dead pig while at #oxford #University
(DIR) Post #AYJsUkaAhTpSTRhHhQ by djr@union.place
2023-08-02T12:03:24Z
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@EU_Commission This is entirely the right thing to do. There can be no hierarchy of victims of genocide.
(DIR) Post #AYKB2GrnUHJZKi4hvc by djr@union.place
2023-08-02T15:32:01Z
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@lowqualityfacts Add plagiarising a mushroom!
(DIR) Post #AYbTzVC9jcuqVKfySm by djr@union.place
2023-08-09T16:56:27Z
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@AnthonyFStevensClearly some degree of equivalence although more so on the right than the left. Prorogation of parliament in 2019 by the #Conservatives and subsequent attempts to intimidate parliament fit the bill reasonably well. The case against the left a lot weaker although not lacking entirely.
(DIR) Post #AYbTzX2ItEDuDM58Ns by djr@union.place
2023-08-09T19:05:33Z
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@AnthonyFStevensIn my view the result in December 2019 was rather overdetermined. #labour failed to respond organisationally to June 2017 as well as the #Conservatives did - and that is a charge against #Corbyn and to some extent #momentum .However even if they had - given the games the #libdems and the #snp were playing - not to mention the sheer amount of disinformation #tacticalvoting websites were putting out it would have at best reduced the size of the #conservative majority!
(DIR) Post #AYbTzYrk5SxntB9jCS by djr@union.place
2023-08-10T12:17:31Z
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@AnthonyFStevens With regard to the #snp you have a good point. At least in the short term their tactics in 2019 paid off. The same cannot be said to apply to the #libdems - who were guilty of "hubristic incompetence" on an industrial scale. Their approach did not gain them seats overall but helped to lose #labour around twenty or thirty. And of course some of those operating #tacticalvoting websites may have been actual "bad faith actors".
(DIR) Post #AZE3O7Ld7VtrKHAqXo by djr@union.place
2023-08-29T14:30:00Z
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@wjmaggosAn entertaining and instructive map. Please note that on the eastern side of the Atlantic ocean what you call "Sour" beer is referred to as "bitter". A bit of a translation/usage issue!
(DIR) Post #AZOudCMT1bdDjEFDgO by djr@union.place
2023-09-03T20:13:50Z
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@wjmaggos There is a similar pattern with regard to #vaccination and deaths in the #uk - according to "more or less" on #radio4 last Wednesday.
(DIR) Post #AbEdiUnen24TKoKVLk by djr@union.place
2023-10-28T16:55:53Z
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For exactly the same reason as I find myself justifying Muslim fears of ethnic cleansing in the light of what has happened in Bosnia and Rakhine and why I am being taken to task currently for suggesting that a second Nakba is a more immediate risk than a second holocaust.I am also aware that the use of the word genocide can incur penalties in some jurisdictions and within some political organisations.
(DIR) Post #AbbJY74h3AqpcpVgo4 by djr@union.place
2023-11-08T15:33:34Z
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@wjmaggos The Swiss Confederation has had most of those features since the middle of the nineteenth century so it can work!
(DIR) Post #Ac0UwM20J1Xh2vT2Dg by djr@union.place
2023-11-20T18:58:58Z
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@cainmark Shortly after the end of the #RomanEmpire in the West someone appears to have found a way to glaze the interior of pottery . The effect of this was to render large jars used to transport olive oil, wine etc. reusable. The result was that the previous piles of discarded and broken jars disappear from the archaeological record. A minor but significant example of this effect.
(DIR) Post #AdD1JstNdAR4ugC7H6 by djr@union.place
2023-12-26T16:34:14Z
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@makkhorn That was the original definition of a "dictator" in Roman law as distinct from any other official. All other officials could be prosecuted for their actions and often were! However a "dictator" was not normally allowed to serve for more than six months.
(DIR) Post #AdTtt7cVttkEuf9Ria by djr@union.place
2024-01-03T21:27:33Z
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@Penelope I think she came from #NoviSad .
(DIR) Post #AhsqDxAOjCxPYbvAWG by djr@union.place
2024-05-14T13:29:19Z
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@Lassielmr @fkamiah17There is also a lot of influence exercised through the #georgian #orthodox #church which I understand to be linked to the #moscow #patriarchate rather than the one in #istanbul ..
(DIR) Post #AhsrLY3W4eLlwot6Mi by djr@union.place
2024-05-14T13:54:54Z
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@wjmaggos @Lassielmr @fkamiah17A coup from either side ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled there for later this year would be wrong. Far better that the elections are scrutinised to ensure that they are free and fair. As someone who visited #georgia a score of years ago I can remember just how economically ruinous for #georgia the security policy of #russia in the #northcaucasus was. It destroyed the export trade in fresh fruit and vegetables to #russia #georgia had relied on .
(DIR) Post #AhtUkNDrNvXDnjYRDE by djr@union.place
2024-05-14T21:16:27Z
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@wjmaggosUntil very recently quite a lot of them - especially in #europe - did give special rights to such people. Sometimes they still do - try being a #muslim in places in #italy - most recently #monfalcone - and see if you get treated equally! Or be #roma or #sinti almost anywhere and see what happens ! And #uk immigration and nationality law introduced the concept of 'patriality' more than fifty years ago.
(DIR) Post #AkYR4Xf95puaRsAXJo by djr@union.place
2024-08-02T11:02:40Z
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@wjmaggos Perhaps when they see large number of police injured in the line of duty as a result of disinformation as has occurred in #aldershot , #hartlepool , #london and #southport over the last few days!