Michael Laidler

Centrists who react to Nazis gaining ground with "we should try to reach out to them more" and react to socialists gaining ground with incandescent rage and tutting about populism are letting you know that their "centre" exists somewhere off beside Augusto Pinochet

You just seem to have a higher than average amount of weird, terminally online fans.

I know these types of posts just become outlets for people to name clubs they don't like but I would agree with Liverpool. I'd also chuck in Arsenal along with our neighbours up the road.

No, it's just you and Leeds. The rest of us are sensible, measured and realistic with our expectations.

"Well when I served nobody was ever gay!"

The Eric Cartman "Just Asking Questions" school of political commentary.

"We're not racists, we're realists" is a line that has been trotted out by far right ethnonationalists, supremacists and other assorted racist wankers for decades.

Image banned by venue: Stop genocide. Stop illegal occupation. Stop Ethnic Cleansing.

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea and Northern Ireland secretary Patricia McKeown lead members in a demonstration outside ICC Belfast.

‘When Palestine is under attack. Stand up. Fight back. When UNISON is under attack. Stand up. Fight back.‘ UNISON members demonstrating outside ICC Belfast.

UNISON walkout after Belfast conference venue bans Palestine image

General secretary Christina McAnea and UNISON Northern Ireland secretary Patricia McKeown lead members in a demonstration outside ICC Belfast convention centre after Palestine image is banned by venue.

Seen as Woke Football is trending it gives me an excuse to repost my redesigned England badge I posted when everyone was raging about the St George's cross being a funny colour on the shirt

Upside-down Sausage must be there, alongside Scottish Lad on a Roof

FFS 😆

YouTube video by michtyme3 Reggie Perrin - Forces of anarchy

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She's a coward.

This. The LP aren't trying to appeal to student MLs who tweet how morality is bourgeois and the USSR was brilliant, actually. They're trying to win over those who think universal human rights are "woke" and that people from certain backgrounds should be assumed to be rapists until proven otherwise.

Not "extremes". ONE extreme. There are no front-line governing politicians in the USA, UK or most other places promoting Stalinism.

And it is not extreme to be wholeheartedly in favour of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.

To expand on that...a curiosity about the world has been lost because young lads don't have to sit through the "boring" bits of Eurotrash waiting for the tits and fannies to arrive.

I've come across people who maintain friendships with the objectively fucking awful, e.g. actual Neo-Nazis. The rationale being "he's no bother, we just don't talk politics". TBF I can see how the subject of other people's basic humanity might make a game of scrabble more tense than it needs to be.

There's something to be said for "meeting people where they are" but also you have to be able to call a twat a twat.

If "they had a family" or "They were a Christian" are the best you can come up with in response to examination of a person's character, that should probably give you pause for thought.

Euphemising Kirk's politics as 'right-wing activism' is playing straight into the hands of Trump and his attempt at political recuperation of the murder to unleash more authoritarian measures

It shouldn't have to be said but we do not have to accept his narrative or discourse

"Yaffle!"

When people tell you that Israel is a democracy, they are also telling you that they don't view Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as disqualifying it from that classification. In other words, they are effectively telling you that they view Palestinians as sub-human.

One night while pissed I thought it would be a good idea to watch the Frieza Saga for a nostalgia fix, fuck me, I forgot how much staring and going "Hnnrrr" at each other there was before the good bits.

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They got there first.

Hewwww lads and lasses...leave the Bosstones alone #totp

I've heard them described several times over the years as "a silly club" and it seems so on the money and I really can't explain why.

You're offering a knock off, watered down version of an existing product that nobody wants.

It's their history that's part of the problem. Too many German brains have been cooked by Holocaust guilt.

Gaza Notifications @gazanotice • 11h An Israeli soldier in Gaza proudly posted a story from one of the U.S. Israeli backed death traps, aiming a sniper at starving Palestinians seeking aid. Beneath is a photograph, shot through a sniper rifle’s reticle with a cluster of dozens of Palestinian civilians clearly visible in the sight. The image surrounding the reticle frame has been blurred for operational security, to prevent the sniper’s location from being identified.

Everybody with power continues to behave as though they’ve got no idea what this is, nor that they have any way of finding out. Meanwhile, the perpetrators appear to be under no illusions, acting with complete operational clarity and a belief in their own impunity.

One thing I've learned is that the calls for "compromise" only ever seem to come from the centre towards the left. It's worth thinking about why that seems to be regarded as the "sensible" position and what might influence this.