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Comment: Open mike 15/08/2024
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 5:31 pm, August 15th, 2024
The emotional temperature in Israel's changed significantly since 7 October last year, for sure. But the Jews still have a long way to go before they're anywhere near the Arabs' enthusiasm for a Final Solution.Comment: Open mike 15/08/2024
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 2:22 pm, August 15th, 2024
It's the last thing the leadership of either side wants, which is quite a problem. Netanyahu's a turkey that isn't going to vote for Christmas, and Hamas' whole strategy relies on propaganda featuring Palestinians killed by the IDF. Good luck to anyone ...Comment: NZ not attending Nagasaki event, insists decision unrelated to Israel invite snub
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 5:27 pm, August 13th, 2024
I doubt you'll get any takers for that question, because the answer would be "This govt hasn't and won't 'boycott' WW2 commemorations" and the questioner doesn't really have any follow-up from there.Comment: NZ not attending Nagasaki event, insists decision unrelated to Israel invite snub
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 12:24 pm, August 13th, 2024
You can wish the NZ Govt would back the wrong side in Gaza all you like, it isn't going to, no matter which party's running things (unless the Greens become the govt, I guess, but that isn't likely). The propaganda about "genocide" only works on people who ...Comment: NZ not attending Nagasaki event, insists decision unrelated to Israel invite snub
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 7:07 pm, August 12th, 2024
People have opinions, yes.Comment: Open mike 12/08/2024
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 6:59 pm, August 12th, 2024
Have any journos asked Seymour what happens to beneficiaries whose rents take more than half their income? Haven't seen that question asked yet. He was on the news telling us it's about what the govt and taxpayers are expected to pay for, like an old-time ...Comment: NZ not attending Nagasaki event, insists decision unrelated to Israel invite snub
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 6:47 pm, August 12th, 2024
The letter, dated July 19, warned that if Israel was excluded, “it would become difficult for us to have high-level participation” in the event as it would “result in placing Israel on the same level as countries such as Russia and Belarus,” both having ...Comment: Open mike 11/08/2024
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 10:50 am, August 12th, 2024
Exactly. A huge number of Palestinian Arab Muslims have had their lives ruined or just plain ended due to the insane conviction that the 1948 war is ongoing and will one day end in victory of the Arabs over the Jews. Gaza didn't have to be a shithole, it ...Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 5:08 pm, August 11th, 2024
To be told by a bloke that my arguments are “shit” or "trivia" is nothing new. I'm old enough to remember very clearly how some men in the labour movement and on the wider left reacted to the emergence of the women's liberation movement. It's so ...Comment: Open mike 11/08/2024
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 4:57 pm, August 11th, 2024
The problem the Israelis would face is that any Palestinian state would devote itself to building a military force to use against them. The Israelis can blockade Gaza to try and minimise the amount of weaponry going in because it's not a country, but they ...Comment: Open mike 11/08/2024
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 4:52 pm, August 11th, 2024
Depends what you mean by "Palestine." The Palestinians see "Palestine" as Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, so "Palestine" is only free if Israel ceases to exist. The Israelis aren't going to oblige. For the sake of argument, if the Israelis did oblige and ...Comment: English rising anti-fascism
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 3:02 pm, August 11th, 2024
I call them far-right, because the rioters were mostly Muslims and Islam is a far-right totalitarian ideology as well as a religion.Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 6:40 am, August 11th, 2024
Genetic 'sex' is fluid across many animal species, including humans. I could give you many examples from species that change 'sex', to various types of outright hermaphrodites, to animals that just clone themselves naturally. That is absolute bollocks. ...Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 6:32 am, August 11th, 2024
Legal identity is irrelevant to sport. Biological sex is highly relevant, especially to combat sports due to the safety factor involved. The people trying to replace sex with identity (in this case, the IOC) are putting women's health and safety at risk.Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 8:45 pm, August 10th, 2024
They haven't released that info and as it's their private medical data they don't have to. However, the IBA invites us to read between the lines: they didn't pass a test looking for XX chromosomes and their testosterone levels were high. "Has bollocks" is ...Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 6:46 pm, August 10th, 2024
That definition's pretty dubious. Anyone claiming evolution has no influence on behaviour is almost certainly wrong, so it's entirely reasonable to believe "males and females are born with distinctively different natures, determined biologically rather ...Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 6:36 pm, August 10th, 2024
We can be sympathetic to the fact they had the appearance of being girls when born. I believe so too. If your society's told you you're female from your earliest memories and you have genitalia that look more female than male, you can be forgiven for ...Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 3:43 pm, August 10th, 2024
Disappointed but not surprised. We've been treated to the spectacle for years now of grown men and women trying to pretend there's no way to tell the difference between men and women. The lack of self-respect that must take just doesn't bear thinking about ...Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 3:36 pm, August 10th, 2024
What is there to discuss? If the IOC's rules allow participation by competitors who don't meet the stated criteria of the competition, the rules are unfit for purpose. That's not really a discussion topic, just a statement of fact.Comment: Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 1:47 pm, August 10th, 2024
This is bullshit. Women aren't disputing these two boxers' right to punch women boxers because they think the two look overly masculine, they're disputing it because sex testing has shown that both are male, ie yes they do have the advantages of male ...Comment: English rising anti-fascism
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 1:26 pm, August 10th, 2024
True, but it's also true that just ignoring that gross over-representation, or worse, ignoring the crimes themselves (as the police did because they didn't want to be accused of racism), encourages people in those areas to support the parties that will ...Comment: English rising anti-fascism
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 12:49 pm, August 10th, 2024
But we still need to be able to call the fascists fascist. Absolutely. There's a lot of distance between someone who decides to vote for a far-right party because those are the only ones recognising an important problem, and someone who's willing to set ...Comment: English rising anti-fascism
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 10:27 am, August 10th, 2024
...many people no longer believe the idea that immigration isn’t an issue. And those people are the ones turning towards the fascists (and who they don’t see as fascists). What’s the alternative conversation we can have with them? For a start, we could ...Comment: English rising anti-fascism
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 8:33 am, August 10th, 2024
The point was idle rhetoric, yes. As is often the case with rhetoric, the reality exists and people aren't blind to it.Comment: English rising anti-fascism
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 6:14 am, August 10th, 2024
True, but it wasn't me that raised the subject, I'm just pointing out the problem with it as an argument.Comment: English rising anti-fascism
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 9:05 pm, August 9th, 2024
The majority of group based groomers of young children in the UK remain white. Well, duh. The overwhelming majority of the UK population is white. It's a simple fact that the male Pakistani Muslim population is grossly over-represented.Comment: Israel is in Serious Trouble
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 12:41 pm, August 8th, 2024
The last time these was a attempted or actual state invasion of Israel was 1973. That was 51 years ago. Israel's insane neighbours include the terrorist orgs running the Palestinian territories and the Iranian proxy Hisb'allah that controls southern ...Comment: Israel is in Serious Trouble
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 7:57 pm, August 7th, 2024
The belief that others would probably share one's views if only they were sufficiently educated is usually false. In this case, it's definitely false. The fact that Israel's had racist right-wing govts for a while now means nothing worse for Israel than ...Comment: Open mike 07/08/2024
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 12:56 pm, August 7th, 2024
Yep. The results of sex tests for competition eligibility aren't "hallucinatory inferences," they're just facts.Comment: Israel is in Serious Trouble
Written By: Psycho Milt - Date published: 12:53 pm, August 7th, 2024
Since its inception, U.S. aid to Israel both military and economic has been essential to the viability and survival of Israel. Not so! US aid started after 1970. Israel fought the Palestinians in 1947 with locally procured or manufactured weapons and the ...
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