@londonette pakistan is a country not an ideology. someone could obviously disagree with the ideology underpinning the pakistani state and not be racist
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ttocsic
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socialism or barbarism | the world has gone beyond parody
انضم Mayıs 2019
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Just trying to imagine this scenario. Greens out canvassing. Pakistani man approaches them.
"You don't like Pakistan do you?"
Greens, laughing: "no".
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The Green activist actually laughs when this man tells them he’s Zionist.
And when he then says “you don’t like Zionists”, the woman replies “yeah”.
Honestly these people are such numpties.
Rob.Errol@ErrolRob17238
@nicolelampert Greens in North West London being told to sling their vile hooks
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@ErrolRob17238 @nicolelampert thanks for immediately proving why zionists should be disliked
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Jo’s book about porn and the impact it has on our lives, and especially the lives of our young people, couldn’t be more important.
Because she was vocal in saying males shouldn’t be in female safe spaces and we should pause before giving children life-altering drugs, her book talk has been cancelled.
Jo Bartosch@jo_bartosch
Well, it seems I misjudged this one… 😂
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@ErrolRob17238 @nicolelampert how much do you bet the guy yelling "this is a jewish area fuck off" is also the type to go on about muslim no-go areas and not see any irony 😂
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@ZoeJardiniere @RobertJenrick Zoe, do you think these people believe literally everyone on universal credit is a scrounger that is ripping off the system? from the way they talk about it, it sounds like they think most of the people on UC are literally defrauding the state
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@RobertJenrick “Poor families should be excluded from learning about our history by visiting British cultural sites” says the patriotic reform party.
Nasty.
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No.
Working people are being taken for a ride.
Under a Reform UK government you won’t be able to use benefits to get discounts like this.
Michael Simmons@Simmons__
Is this fair?
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@ClerkOhms @StatisticUrban firstly, he is just better off in a society willing to and capable of feeding orphans. secondly, i would rather everonye be worse off by less than 10 cents but still living comfortably than an orphan be dead. if he disagrees with feeding orphans he can vote accordingly
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@Ttocsic1 @StatisticUrban To the man who you stole from, there is no difference. He is worse off after you've taken what's his, no matter what you use it for. If you would argue he's better off, then make that case and no force needed.
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At a certain point you simply have to say to the libertarians "no, wrong." An orphaned baby does in fact have the human right not to starve to death in the street. Any form of society that can't guarantee that right is bad.
edelnougat 🐿️@edelnougat
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@ClerkOhms @StatisticUrban theft is not just theft. if I'm stealing from you to fund my orphan crushing machine that is not the same action as stealing from you to fund my orphan feeding machine.
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@Ttocsic1 @StatisticUrban I'm trying to prevent my labor product from being stolen. What you use it for is irrelevant - your theft is theft. Your theft doesn't suddenly become virtue because you use it for something you deem good. Otherwise you could justify any theft in any amount.
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@ClerkOhms @StatisticUrban you're trying to prevent the state from feeding a starving child, why would you be as justified in using force?
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@StatisticUrban Then I'm equally justified in using force to prevent the theft. It is theft by every definition. More people, including governments would hesitate to use "coercive force" if they thought a proportionate (or disproportionate) violent reprisal was forthcoming.
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@WoocashWombat @kaptenh_ @sleepy_devo the study only compared psychological morbidity, which can be correlated with but is not the same thing as life satisfaction or regret rates
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the problem with this study, like other similar studies, is that the control group is c!s people. they're not comparing people with GD who transition with people with GD who don't transition, to see if things actually get worse specifically as a result of transitioning.
Kurt Mahlburg@k_mahlburg
Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years. Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged. A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵
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@TheNot @sleepy_devo I'm not sure whether it's the case, but it's feasible that more frequent contact with psychiatrists is part of transitioning via a gender clinic, which means the detection rate of psychological morbidities will be higher among people in the process of transitioning clinically
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@sleepy_devo The deeper problem is that they used frequency of psychiatric usage as a proxy for severity of symptoms without actually looking into what that usage was.
And they use specialized care as a proxy for severity when gender related care is in that category by default.
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@Dr_JDietrich @sleepy_devo doesn't this table show that mtf ppl that transitioned had about the same psych contact as mtf that didn't transition and ftm ppl that did transition had less psych contact than ftm that didn't transition? in other words transitioning had little effect or a positive effect?
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@sleepy_devo Did you actually read the study. They also looked at people who went to gender clinics but didn't transition.
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@WoocashWombat @kaptenh_ @sleepy_devo so if you can't ethically make the comparison then don't. there are other ways to assess the effectiveness of transitioning like regret rates and change in life satisfaction before and after transition
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@kaptenh_ @sleepy_devo But a control group that doesn't transition is not a control group for those that do because if they were so desperate they would transition. It's unethical to ask them to not transition for 25+ years is it not? Hence, impossible standard.
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@Jamie154182 @joelhistory @JamesEFoster @haveigotnews @jeremycorbyn the palestinian authority and PFLP has been accused of terrorism could have been talking about them
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@joelhistory @JamesEFoster @haveigotnews @jeremycorbyn He was talking about Hamas, obviously. What other Palestinian organisation would he be talking about lol
Again, it was not a quote or a transcript
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Kanye West has been banned from entering the UK to play Wireless Festival, as it would have been terrible to have a prominent public figure going round Finsbury Park condoning antisemitism
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@JonathanLongar @KnugenafLind you're complaining that Europe isn't awake to real threats when we've been dealing with an invasion for 4 years
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@Ttocsic1 @KnugenafLind Who the hell is “we?” I’ve supported three brigades in Ukraine since day one.
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Americans have genuinely forgotten they threatened to invade us and seize Nordic territory just 2 months ago.
Harold__Finch@HaroldWren22
Most Europeans have no idea how absolutely furious with Europe America is. This is not just another disagreement. Betrayal is not something you just let slide. And the mouthy responses from Europeans are pouring gas on that fire. They have misjudged the situation gravely & it will have grave consequences for Europe— economically AND militarily.
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@JonathanLongar @KnugenafLind we've been supporting Ukraine in holding back your second most powerful geopolitical rival for 4 years. the real threat is the nuclear armed state invading Europe, not Iranian schoolgirls
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@KnugenafLind Maybe we just want Europe to get off its ass and wake up to real threats and get out of our pockets.
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@RobSchlue @Illumimatti @TheFl0orIsLaVa and god forbid we have laws about what can be sold in our countries, how awful would it be if we wanted to ensure products were safe for people and the environment. what's the life expectancy in the US again?
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@RobSchlue @Illumimatti @TheFl0orIsLaVa yeah Europeans were completely absent in Korea, the iraq war, the Afghanistan war and the iraq war again. do you think maybe Europeans showing up and dying for you every decade and then you forgetting about it and calling us lazy is part of why the relationship has changed?
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A lot of Americans on my timeline: "Europeans don’t understand why we’d lose millions in tech to save a pilot. They don’t care about their troops".
That's not true. We care deeply and that’s exactly why we didn’t agree to send our people into Iran in the first place.
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@Illumimatti my country is a gerontocratic ponzi scheme i don't need an Americans help criticising it, you famously lack introspection
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@Ttocsic1 Hey if we lose to China this century I’ll come to you for tips on how to be a formerly relevant declining superpower. For now just take the backseat and tend to your four ships or whatever.
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@RobSchlue @Illumimatti @TheFl0orIsLaVa you think the US entered the world wars out of altruism? in ww1 germany forced the US' hand and in ww2 they literally declared war on you. why do you think what your ancestors did last century absolves you from the fuck ups your countrymen are making now?
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Always thought this was such an interesting way to view Americans. If you look at the last 120 years America has saved Europe from its own disasterous wars TWICE, then helped rebuild once it was over and took the refugees from the countrys devastated by Europes wars. Then, 60 years after that, America on its own dollar protects and defends all of Western Europe from the USSR. Just to be called snooty, stupid and worthless by the very people we saved. Interesting relationship
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@WTStead @mattparlmer this is 1 of 30 fatal shootings we'll have this year in the UK. you'll have more than 30 by tomorrow morning in the US.
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@mattparlmer A 14 year old school boy was shot dead on Thursday, and teenagers decided to go rampaging through Clapham.
I'm sure Oxford Street was nice though.
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London was great honestly, all the dooming seems overplayed
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@MrTCHarris @rvh1t removal of the taliban regime: back in power 20 years later
removal of the Iraqi regime: creation of ISIS
removal of the venezualan regime: didn't actually happen they're still in charge
why would the removal of the regime necessarily be a victory?
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I get why people might have opposed America's war on Iran. But surely, now that it's underway, sensible Brits should be hoping for an American victory?
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