@KneesupG @johnbarrett2468 There were still clear differences between the two albums: Stand and Deliver was very showbiz and camp compared to the raw energy of the Kings of the Wild Frontier single.
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@RonOBrien17 @johnbarrett2468 You are kidding?
Adam used to go to Pistols gigs before forming the Ants. Their early stuff was certainly punk influenced and the first album Dirk Wears White Sox was a combo of punk/ new wave & cabaret.
The King's album was their transition to the New Romantic movement.
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@HorEmperor @varadmehta @gerardtbaker Here we go again. 'Israel has the right to defend itself'. But no other country in the Middle East possesses this right, only Israel alone. And if feels like attacking any or all of them, it is perfectly free to do so.
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@RonOBrien17 @varadmehta @gerardtbaker Why would I "admire and respect" murderous barbarians who are threatening MY nation's national interest?
Why should I regard them as anything other than enemies to be crushed?
Your willful, suicidal stupidity is truly pathetic.
Now scuttle off, Eurotard.
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The casuistry here is remarkable. This is the simple reality: Like most Americans, most Europeans think this war is a bad idea.Their governments are being asked to take a huge risk by a man who has proved unreliable, volatile and intemperate over and over. Who would do that?
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, theyโre doing what theyโve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
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@schaeffer100 @steve_hanke Your messiah and spiritual leader begs to differ:
middleeastmonitor.com/20260121-netanโฆ
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@steve_hanke The ever so subtle racism clad in the veneer of a Harvard professorship. The only democracy in the entire region and for the professorโs information, Israel is fighting for its survival, not some racist fantasy about seeking regional hegemony.
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Distinguished Harvard Prof. Stephen Walt on Israel's Achilles heel:
"Israel has been fighting in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria... [and] now... against Iran... This is a small country... trying to exercise hegemony over a vast region... [and] it's gradually wearing out its own forces."
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@HorEmperor @varadmehta @gerardtbaker Isn't Iran 'acting in its self-interest'? You surely admire and respect them if all you say above is correct.
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@RonOBrien17 @varadmehta @gerardtbaker "International law" is fiction. Always has been, you silly person. Nations act in their self-interest. Civilized peoples hate & crush barbarians. Thus it has ever been.
You've spent your life in cloistered safety... won by OUR effort, expense, & sacrifice. Now reality comes back.
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@HorEmperor @varadmehta @gerardtbaker International law was only ever meant to be applied to 'the other guys' and 'the terrorists', right? Don't complain then if you're ever on the receiving end of war crimes and terrorism.
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@Greatgonchar @creepydotorg Indeed, most people in the country were active collaborators. These unfortunate women were easy scapegoats.
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@creepydotorg How many menโwho supplied the Nazis, served breakfast in cafรฉs, and turned their Jewish acquaintances over to the Gestapoโhad their heads shaved?
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After the liberation of France in 1944, thousands of women accused, sometimes with little evidence, of having relationships with German soldiers faced public humiliation.
Their heads were shaved, swastikas were drawn on their faces, and they were paraded through the streets as a form of punishment, often before being sent to jail.
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@OksoImgay101 @dirk7890 I think it was Janet Ellis - this was 1980s Blue Peter
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@dirk7890 Peter Duncan, Simon Groom, and.......
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@HorEmperor @varadmehta @gerardtbaker Good luck with that one when your own country is attacked. If there is no such thing as international law or war crimes, then 9/11 was a perfectly legitimate act and no laws were broken (as would future 9/11s).
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@HorEmperor @varadmehta @gerardtbaker Yes, and that was almost certainly illegal under NATO's own rules - going rogue like Trump and Netanyahu and bombing the hell out of the place. Also, that Rutte clown would love to get NATO involved in Hormuz to help out his boss Trump, but the NATO states won't play ball.
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@varadmehta @HorEmperor @gerardtbaker NATO cannot become involved in overseas wars, not unless one of its members is attacked. The US chose to attack Iran, in order to help Israel. Individual NATO countries could choose to help Trump if they wanted to (and they don't want to) but NATO has no mandate.
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@RonOBrien17 @HorEmperor @gerardtbaker The US has bases in Europe. If the Europeans say we can't use those bases for things besides NATO, then there's no point to the bases or NATO. You won't like how that goes.
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@kilkeeman @thelaymanstake Not true - Israel has been bombing Lebanon since November 2024 (in breach of the ceasefire agreement).
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@thelaymanstake Israel did not attack Lebanon until Hezbollah started firing rockets. Hezbollah started it.
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Notice how he frames things to manipulate your perceptions.
Hezbollah "Lanched yet another war" even though it was responding to a war started by Israel.
But Israel "Entered the Iran conflict" when they clearly started another war.
Very telling
John McGuirk@john_mcguirk
UNIFIL has had the objective of disarming Hezbollah in South Lebanon for 50 years. It failed. Hezbollah launched yet another war on Israel when it entered the Iran conflict. Now the Israelis are doing what UNIFIL was supposed to do, and the UNIFIL countries are mad about it.
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@HorEmperor @gerardtbaker NATO is a purely defensive organisation. It has no mandate whatsoever to go the Strait of Hormuz to fight an illegal war on behalf of one of its members who has gone rogue and which has started that war.
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@gerardtbaker Your lies are ridiculous and contemptible.
An alliance is either real or meaningless, and the Europeans have chosen โmeaningless.โ This will have consequences.
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@MazS56 @commonsense1191 @PolitlcsUK Age profile of these guys wouldn't tend to suggest 'terrorism', more along the lines of vandalism or criminal damage one suspects, even if there is some sort of political motivation - one of them is so young that he can't even be named by police.
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@RonOBrien17 @commonsense1191 @PolitlcsUK Not quite. Iran has proxies so not exactly ruled out is it.
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๐จ BREAKING: Three people have been charged over the arson attack on the Jewish community ambulances
Hamza Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, and a 17-year-old dual British-Pakistani national will appear in court tomorrow
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@Brian_196c @Martina That was definitely happening under the regime in previous decades. But such reports seem to have largely faded out in the last few years. I was responding primarily to the poster above who claimed Martina would be automatically executed by the state if living there now.
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@RonOBrien17 @Martina As of 2008, it's estimated that 4,000 - 6,000 gay men and lesbians had been executed by the Islamic regime of Iran. Why would you defend such evil?
google.com/search?q=how+mโฆ
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We are the criminals now. We are the terrorists. USAโฆ.
Ramy Abdu| ุฑุงู
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A French TV correspondent in Tehran reports that U.S. and Israeli targets in #Iran included hospitals, eight pharmaceutical factoriesโincluding a cancer drug facilityโ60 pharmacies, and the Pasteur Institute in Tehran.
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@DrWinSA @Brian_196c @Martina 100% agree - nobody is suggesting for a moment that Iran is liberal or tolerant or progressive, far from it in fact. But they would be pretty much the same on this as the entire Middle East, including 'trendy' states like the UAE, who are big US allies.
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@RonOBrien17 @Brian_196c @Martina Ron - itโs no fun being gay in Iran if the authorities are made aware of it.
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@JackTrout10 @Fx1Jonny Are you sure? Your regime has become the most hated place on the planet since then.
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@commonsense1191 @PolitlcsUK Motivation for the attack could just as easily been over Gaza, the West Bank or the invasion of Lebanon - an Iranian link doesn't exactly seem the most obvious one.
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Many Al Qaeda and ISIS may not be able to speak Farsi, but that doesnโt stop them speaking Arabic, Azeri Turkic, Kurdish, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Arabic, or Balochi. All of which are languages spoken in Iran.
It also doesnโt stop them publicly proclaiming support for Iran and issuing fatwa against Israel, Jews and Americans does it?
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@commonsense1191 @PolitlcsUK The claim that was all over the UK press was that 'an Iranian backed terrorist group' was behind the attack. These three individuals do not have Iranian sounding names and almost certainly cannot speak Persian.
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@RonOBrien17 @PolitlcsUK It's weird that you seem to know their motives. Did they discuss them with you recently?
Or are you talking balloons?
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@commonsense1191 @PolitlcsUK It also rules out the 'Iranian terrorist group' nonsense - none of those three suspects have anything to do with Iran.
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@PolitlcsUK Well this is awkward for all of the numpties claiming it was an inside job...
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