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Bullshit.
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"With no understanding or awareness, she [Yvette Cooper] would call them [WSPU] terrorists as well"
Has a pretty inescapable implication that calling the WSPU terrorists is obviously ridiculous.
When if you have some knowledge of the relevant history it's pretty accurate.
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So what?
My response was only about a comparison made to the sffragettes (WSPU), which had the implication that they weren't terrorists.
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Unlike the WSPU; Palestine Action have limited their protest to property damage and have as yet avoided actions likely to endanger life. On that basis I think that designating them as terrorists is unreasonable.
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I said nothing about Palestine Action.
Just that it's fair to call the WSPU terrorists as they described themselves as terrorists. Several attacks were intended to cause death and others were reckless as to whether death was caused.
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That doesn't mean that elections are unfair.
The unionists were concentrated in the northeast and were violently opposed to nationalist rule over them. The partition was a,recognition of that fact.
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I ignored that as frankly both patronising and condescending.
It's highly questionable that the WSPU terrorism actually made much difference. There was a consistent majority in the Commons for women's suffrage before it started. The problem was getting enough parliamentary time.
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Being the minority and being outvoted doesn't make elections unfair.
The unionists could equally argue that all Ireland elections were unfair as the protestant population in the northeast would be heavily outnumbered.
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Your statement implied that putatively describing the suffragettes as terrorists was in some way unreasonable in order to criticise the intended designation of Palestine Action as terrorists.
This is kind of undermined as rhetoric by the suffragettes calling themselves terrorists.
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The suffragettes were terrorists and described themselves as terrorists so it's quite likely that Yvette Cooper would describe them as terrorists.
Cooper might be more in sympathy with the NUWSS strategy of non.violent civil disobedience.
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What you claimed was that he said "fair elections couldn't happen in Northern Ireland." Which he did not.
It is true that Northern Ireland was created to include the unionist majority areas in the northeast. This gives the unionists an advantage, it doesn't preclude democratic elections.
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The suffragettes actually described themselves as terrorists.
The WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) engaged in a bombing and arson campaign 1912-14 which killed four people.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrag...
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He said nothing of the sort.
Sinn Fein was the largest single party as it got nearly all of the nationalist vote with the SDLP virtually disappearing. While the unionist vote was,split between the DUP, UUP and TUV. The unionists still got more votes and seats than the nationalists.
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Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden commented on this 12 February 1941.
"Never had so much been surrendered by so many to so few."
Riffing on Churchill's famous statement a few weeks before.
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That's why body snatchers would strip the body before selling it to for dissection. The burial clothes were property while the body belonged to no one. If you discarded the clothing you could only be charged with interfering with a grave not theft.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_sn...
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Cartoonish counterproductive evil seems to be Israel's speciality.
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On a higher level no, for individuals some were perfectly honourable people who were conscripted by an evil regime.
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As far as soldiers go doing your job without causing unnecessary or excessive harm to civilians or prisoners is seen as honourable.
It's not a terribly high standard.
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The screenshot included a post where you said "Honourable Waffen-SS? That's a new one to me."
Which implies they were all war criminals. That was the claim I was disputing. At least some of the conscripts were blameless.
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That's why it also specified that they not be implicated in "such crimes". Some chose not to commit atrocities.
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My point was that not everyone in the waffen-SS was a war criminal. Some were conscripted and not there from choice, at least some of them did nothing blameworthy.
While I agree with your general point you somewhat overstated matters.
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It's not specified. However it probably has some connection to denazification.
Presumably membership of a criminal organisation by itself was a generally minor offence if not compounded by war crimes. A conscript might be exonerated while a volunteer would not be.
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That's due to a substantial number being conscripted during the latter stages of the war. They were exempted from.The designation of the waffen-SS as a criminal organisation due to it's major involvement in war crimes and being an integral part of the SS.
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The Waffen-SS was designated a criminal organisation. However if you had been conscripted you were not considered to have committed an offence simply by being a member, unlike volunteers.
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$93,000 per annum is more than Eton costs. (£63,000 about $85,000) It would literally save money to send the children to Eton even accounting for the plane tickets.
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A decent portion of the non german waffen-SS were conscripted. The conscripts who hadn't participated in war crimes were exempted from the designation at Nuremberg of the waffen-SS as a criminal organisation.
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And?
That's the entire point of a market. Things get produced where it's cheapest and most efficient to do so.
Ending the tariffs is a win for the British people.
Why should the rest of the population subsidise inefficient farmers?
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The price of new release games has dropped over the last 35 years.
In 1990 it was typically about £25 which using the Bank of England inflation calculator is £61.63
New release games typically cost £49.99 at most on steam. Dune: Awakening is £41.99 pre-release.
Real prices have fallen.
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That was me relying on memory. I had correctly remembered that the urine soaked cloth thing was specifically an improvised countermeasure for chlorine and not other chemical weapons.
I was sure that mustard gas was phosgene, obviously on this matter I was mistaken.
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That was the thinking at the time. Whether the effect was large enough to make a practical difference compared to a damp cloth is another matter.
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The urine thing was chlorine not mustard gas (Phosgene). Chlorine is water soluble so a damp cloth, is reasonably effective. A urine soaked rag might be more effective as urea reacts with chlorine to form dichloro urea.
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I was just giving some context to a claim.
Similarly ancient history is being used to justify Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing. It It's a pretty common tactic by racists and bigots to justify their appalling actions.
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There is an actual case for Jews committing genocide in Egypt. It:has nothing to do with modern Israel.
There were large scale massacres of non jewish communities in Egypt during the Diaspora revolt at the start of the second Roman-Jewish war (115-117).
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No we didn't.
We paid the compensation in full at the time using borrowed money.
Until 2015 we were paying the heirs of the people who lent us the money to buy and free 700,000 enslaved people.
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Lehi tried to negotiate an alliance with Nazi Germany in *1940* the documents were found in the German embassy in Ankara on 1945. For some reason this didn't disqualify on of Lehi's leaders at the time, Yitzhak Shamir, from becoming Israeli prime minister twice.
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Zionism more broadly is a variant of populism. Populism generally is bigoted and intolerant of cultural diversity. The Israeli right is decended from a mixture of avowed fascists and admirers of Mussolini such as Irgun and literal Nazi sympathisers such as Lehi (Stern gang).
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By supporting Israel as it actually is, you are supporting genocide. Israel has abandoned all attempts to even pay lip service to peace. Although it's been apparent for decades,to anyone paying attention that Israel wanted to steal land more than it wanted peace.
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Nazis don't generally want to call themselves nazis, much like terrorists don't generally call themselves terrorists. That doesn't mean theyaren't actually Nazis or terrorists.
Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are genocidal racists. Genocide racism is pretty much what distinguishes nazis from fascism.
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De-nazification didn't require mass killing. The ideology was discredited by defeat on the battlefield by the supposedly weak and irresolute liberal democracies.
Nazism is the most extreme and malignant form of populism. Its not something unique.
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If you don't immediately expel nazis from your government then you have a Nazi government.
If you are using Zionist you mean the supporters of Israel as it actually exists rather than the idealised Israel you think ought to exist then they actually are Nazi sympathisers.
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Some of them are Nazis. Smotrich and Ben-Gvir for two examples in the Israeli cabinet.
If there are two Nazis in your cabinet you have a Nazi government. Calling supporters of Israel as it actually exists Nazis is justifiable.
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Maritime transport is extremely efficient. It makes up a sizeable portion of the carbon emission for bananas only because banana cultivation emits hardly my CO2. The total carbon footprint is 80g per banana one of the lowest of any crop.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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They don't have a big carbon footprint. They have a lot of food miles, but that's a very different thing.
Growing them isn't terribly carbon intensive and sea transport is extremely efficient. A big ship emits a lot of carbon but transports an enormous amount of cargo.
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The Royal Navy has quite a few stone frigates. As do a few other Commonwealth Navies. The Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and Indian Navies all have them.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_f...
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I dont know what that intersection is but it isn't a roundabout.
It looks like someone saw a plan of a roundabout junction on a dual carriageway and didn't realise it was supposed to be multi level. The roundabout should be above or below the through road not on the same level.
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Serial killers are often described by neighbours along the lines of:
"He was such a quiet fellow; always kept himself to himself."
It just shows that monsters aren't always obviously terrible.
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The engine compartment was large enough for the much more powerful Rolls Royce Meteor engine. Which should have fixed the problem of the underpowered Bedford type 120 engine.
However with the superior Centurion proceeding apace the Black Prince was obsolescent while still a prototype.
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Sunak chose to sink all his political capital into the Rwanda scheme rather than anything that actually worked.
He preferred the attention to go to performative cruelty from Cruella so no one saw the things that actually had an effect.
Unsurprisingly he gets no credit for things he hid.
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With prostate cancer it's usually so indolent and the side effects of surgery so bad that if it's asymptomatic the recommended treatment is do nothing.
So it's perfectly possible they chose to do nothing.
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There were two other popes between Boniface VI and Theodore II. Stephen VI and Romanus, who were both deposed. Stephen died shortly after while Romanus' fate is unknown.
This is the period of the cadaver synod where Stephen VI had pope Formosus posthumously tried and executed.