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David Lammy's denial of genocide in Gaza is scandalous. He must retract it
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We shouldn't be surprised. Lammy is a cabinet minister in a UK government. You're not going to get a different answer on this topic. Deselect him if you feel strongly otherwise. These people don't listen to anything else.
He's also a hardcore Christian. Listen to his views on assisted dying for example. Whilst still in opposition he was asked about this on Question Time not that long ago. When the topic via Esther Rantzen first came up. He said he would seek council from his constituency and then made it clear that it was his church constituency that he was referring to. Forget about the electorate. His head and heart is firmly aligned with what his congregation wants. I suspect on this matter it is much the same.
PLP keep overriding the selection process around me to ignore local candidates or skip the process completely. If you want to be serious about politics in the current climate you need to be serious about inflicting permanent harm on politicians.
I don't think you phrased that in the best way... I hope you mean punish them at the ballot box
and that's why you will never see change in your lifetime
Going round harming or killing MPs that you disagree with wouldn't bring any positive change at all. MPs on all sides and the public have absolutely no tolerance for it and would rally together against anyone doing this. You'd look like deranged extremists no matter your position.
It excuses the other sides to also use violence to achieve their aims and it would be utter carnage, making the government crack down extremely hard and probably bring in even more draconian police powers.
It must be easy to fantasize like this from your armchair while you profit off the refugee crisis as it washes up in the imperial core. When do you plan on actually doing something other than thriving in a fascist state though? Are you trying to delegate this task to other people? How does this work?
I mean if I know anything about your industry, the Lebanese refugee crisis is doing to be a huge windfall.
Hey Voight, you made it to Vietnam yet? Or are you still here because I was right about them not wanting to be friends with you either?
Don't bother, the guy is a legit weirdo. He got banned from a comm and then got pissy at me in dms, only to follow me into the mega
He's done similar to me twice before, I just wanted to confirm it's him before reporting this account as an alt too. The first name I knew him under was @Voight, so he's obviously not super inventive with usernames.
Lol thought I recognised the name
Yes and they didn't even bring up my unusually dismissed case, which I was worried about. Nobody at immigration tried to make friends with me. They also didn't seem to know what Chapo Trap House is for some reason. 😒 Gonna talk to those guys a lot more though so there is hope for you that I fail the Voight-Kampff Test and prove you Right Online.
So I take it you accept the L? Fine with me, take it as constructive criticism. Or it can just be another narcissistic injury that twists your personality further until you die.