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Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:31

@LinuxGnome @drbobgill as far as I know the Labour staff who called Crick to try to humiliate Dianne Abbot were never sanctioned in any way. Aside from revealing them to be racist scum, it incidentally shows they were refusing to do their jobs, which was, of course, to support Labour MPs.

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:25

@MisturrWhiskurs @David__Osland what is true in any specific case is hardly true statistically, unless you think it’s a total coincidence that 50% of all online abuse directed at MPs (and there are 650 MPs) just happens to be directed at one Black woman

Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:21

@huwspanner @David__Osland You look at the numbers. Out of all abusive tweets sent to all 650 MPs, roughly half are sent to Dianne Abbot. Are you suggesting it’s a coincidence she also happens to be the best-known Black woman in Parliament?

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:13

@LinuxGnome @drbobgill Yes I especially loved the high-up LP staffers who, on hearing Abbot had broken down in tears over racist abuse, rushed to tell a hostile reporter where to find her to add to her public humiliation. Starmer’s response? “WE MUST INVESTIGATE! TO FIGURE OUT WHO SPILLED THE BEANS!”

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:39

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland @guardian @Freedland @OwenJones84 I’m not interested in the vague impressions of someone with an obvious axe to grind. Go count the numbers of positive & negative pieces by regular columnists or Comment is Free pieces, as others have done, or stop thinking anyone is interested in your biases

Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:48

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland @guardian this at a time when the Guardian ran literally hundreds of pieces about the antisemitism controversy. Sorry. They are guilty as hell. Their news coverage too: it’s been documented how many completely false statements they contained, invariably to Labour’s disadvantage

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:47

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland @guardian I know literally dozens of people who tried to get pieces addressing that into the Guardian, invariably refused. I wrote a piece saying this sort of thing endangered me, as a Jew, & was directly told by the editor I would not be allowed to make such statements in the Guardian

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:46

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland @guardian one is a letter, none of them actually say there was a campaign by the right wing of the party largely by non-Jews to use the pretext to destroy the Labour left. To say that was basically forbidden, despite the fact there’s now documentary proof it was true.

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 10:07

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland For instance during the Corbyn antisemitism controversy, the Guardian basically forbade anyone – even Jewish activists – to say the obvious truth that much of the campaign was politically motivated. I was told directly by editors I would not be allowed say this.

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Sat 18 Jul 2020 21:00

@Itmechr3 and of course if he had written up a critique, he couldn’t have directed at me and I’d hardly have replied, since I had him blocked 5/

Sat 18 Jul 2020 20:59

@Itmechr3 but you’re still asking for reform. Direct action would mean going out and digging a new well yourself & daring them to stop you. So 2nd, it’s bizarre to claim creating a communal alternative to neoliberal water privatisation is neoliberal. 3rd, we never actually debated this 4/

Sat 18 Jul 2020 20:56

@Itmechr3 it’s actually hard to list how many ways this is wrong. For starters the actual quote had nothing to do with Madagascar. It’s a hypothetical: say there’s a community where there’s a state-sanctioned water monopoly. If you blockade the mayor’s house that’s civil disobedience 3/

Sat 18 Jul 2020 20:54

@Itmechr3 apparently he likes to claim I had once given an example of Malagasy who built their own well rather than rely on the state as a form of direct action, & I had no answer when he pointed out that this was just reinforcing neoliberalism 2/

Sat 18 Jul 2020 20:53

@Itmechr3 Doug Henwood tried this on me repeatedly; I once considered him a friend but he’s become so systematically dishonest an interlocutor that I’ve long since blocked him, so I only find out from third parties.

Sat 18 Jul 2020 15:08

@life_on_eairth yes “Russian spies are spying” is somewhat oxymoronic. So are Italian and Brazilian and Indian spies presumably but no one seems to care about those.

Sat 18 Jul 2020 01:44

@nikadubrovsky both drive on the wrong side of the road; both have elaborate tea ceremonies; are constantly apologising except when they really ought to; have a kind of cult of social awkwardness compensated by drinking culture & love of stand-up comedy …

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Sat 18 Jul 2020 01:43

@nikadubrovsky I’ve always had a theory that Japan and England are kind of the same place. Two formerly feudal constitutional monarchies located on large islands hanging off opposite sides of the Eurasian landmass….

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Fri 17 Jul 2020 21:15

@Palomar_qfwfq @FeardorchaR @noisegroove there’s a scene where he basically says “sure, having a king with a palace & flashy guards is going to impress the goyim, but just wait till he starts nabbing your prettiest daughters for the harem & making all sorts of demands… you’re going to regret it.”

Fri 17 Jul 2020 21:11

@Palomar_qfwfq @FeardorchaR @noisegroove the witch rocked. It’s definitely the best part of the Bible. I think they had a lottery but somehow chose the tallest guy anyway, which was suspicious, and anyway, God fixed it. Samuel was against the project & tried to warn them.

Fri 17 Jul 2020 21:05

@Palomar_qfwfq @FeardorchaR @noisegroove I like the part where everyone complains “we really need to take someone and make him king, because if we don’t have a king, none of our neighbours will take us seriously” so they just choose the tallest guy

Fri 17 Jul 2020 21:03

@notimnotandrei @JebbyMc do you think you’re telling anyone anything they don’t already know? If you have some reason why you think it’s better to have the gov’t support private profit-based research rather than fund non-profit research directly or indirectly then tell us, otherwise, what’s your point?

Fri 17 Jul 2020 20:14

@notimnotandrei @JebbyMc Yeah but biomedical is unusual the fact that in most fields it’s different is what’s relevant to any argument that keeping life-saving knowledge secret to guarantee private profits is acceptable because “someone has to pay for it”