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We The People's avatar

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered.

And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

Hence opposing terrorism and genocide is terrorism and genocide.

Plebians get with the program, kneel down and suck that government cock!

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Major Depressive 🎢's avatar

Fahrenheit 451

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alchemical daydreams..'s avatar

It’s all very orwellian. 😞

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Massimo's avatar

You know that I find your posts terapeuthic but this time I don't know whether to laugh or cry bc I think we have reached the limits of the absurd. Everything is upside down.

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Ronald Reed's avatar

When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger (as a prelude to its later being awarded to Menahim Begin, and still later to Barracks Insane "Tuesday afternoon 'let's-decide-which- foreigner-we-kill-today'" Obomber [the award having been bestowed before he even took office]), the noted American singer-songwriter-comedian Tom Lehrer hung up his spurs, saying that it was no longer possible to to satirize reality because reality was satire in and of itself.

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Massimo's avatar

I totally agree.

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Massimo's avatar

Therapeutic*

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Utopian Fool's avatar

And that's why the Israelis insist on saying "every Palestinian, including babies, are terrorists" because the same "logic" can now be seamlessly applied to anyone who's "anti Israel". Makes perfect sense!

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

And the statue of Mohandas K. was heard by some to whisper that famous line, "Oh god".

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Philippa Rees's avatar

Never was a Gandhi quote more apposite than his answer to the question 'What do you think of Western civilisation?' He replied

'It would be a good idea.'

We used to believe we had it, and it was indestructible. All the millions of us thought that, and it needed only two 'men' to prove us all deluded.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Indeed, I have always regarded the truly "civilized" on this planet as the indigenous who recognized that Nature was brilliant and flowed with that brilliance, whereas we brainiacs in the West who demanded that it conform to our ridiculous illusions of superiority have always been expert at interfering with that brilliance and calling it civilization .

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Well, all the misery can be traced back to this:

"Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground"

KILLING EVERYTHING ON THEIR WAY !!!

Humanity's biggest mistake after transition from hunter-gatherer to settlements, cultivation and stock breeding: Coming-up with a monotheistic, anthropomorphic Sky Fairy Tale ...

Aliens are right when doing their very best to avoid any contact ...

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Kevin L.'s avatar

I hadn't come across this great quote (whoever said it https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/01/05/civilization/)

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Philippa Rees's avatar

Thanks for correcting a possible error, although the quote would be punchier if it came from Gandhi! Correct is good, apocryphal is usually better!

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Tim Lount's avatar

An authentic and meticulously detailed account of the brazen and heinous actions of a clearly threatening 83 year old and her ferocious looking walking stick. As ever, exceptional reporting 👍

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Hilary Minor's avatar

Blimey! I was thinking of getting a walking stick as I turn 80 in August but now I'm not sure my walking stick would be safe . . .

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Hetty in Scotchland ;-)'s avatar

It could be classed as a weapon in Starmer's UknotOk, so you'll just have to hobble along. :-/

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Hilary Minor's avatar

It certainly looks like it. I was thinking of getting a golden walking stick as I'm now a "Golden Oldie". What a shame I shall have to give up my sparkly fashion accessory and revert to my old fashioned Kalashnikov instead :-( I had given up carrying it as it's an ugly, heavy, rotten thing and it doesn't go with anything I wear . . . I wonder, plaintively to myself, if there is anybody out there who takes my comments seriously??? Will I soon get the Old Bill knocking on my door demanding to take a Kalashnikov off me . . . ?

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Kate Walker's avatar

If I was rich I'd personally pay your pension.

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Liz Thompson's avatar

I've got two. One for each hand - makes walking easier, and you can lash out on either side!

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Hilary Minor's avatar

Now there's a thought! TWO golden walking sticks might be better than one!

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Robert Manby's avatar

Yeah. Weapon of mass destruction 😂

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Kate's avatar

Be ready. Present walking-sticks!

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Patricia O’Keefe's avatar

Sitting in blazing heat in Greece. Can't go anywhere in it. Bored shitless... and you pop up to cheer me up

Made my day 😂

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Abbas Virji's avatar

O come on Laura. The police need to have a useful job to do. How else can they show their devotion to Israel and esp the IDF, whom they are unbelievably proud as well as envious of.

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Dickdastadly's avatar

They were of course "just following orders" I've heard that somewhere b4.

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Rod Dawson's avatar

Starmer, Israel's prme minister, took just £50,000 for Israel's supporters (https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/ ) Anyone know what Hamas might get for just a thousand or so more?

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Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

Your comment begs the question of whether Netanyahu is the UK's prime minister!

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Hetty in Scotchland ;-)'s avatar

Or even PM of the whole world...well almost.

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Nicky Solomon's avatar

Certainly the President of the United States of Israel .

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Marc R Hapke's avatar

He's certainly the de facto POTUS.

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Rod Dawson's avatar

Interesting question. Clearly, any politician who takes money from foreign countries can be suspected of acting for those foreign countries. The war criminal, and yet to be judged for other crimes, genocidal racist religitard supremacist Netanyahu has clearly, and is clearly, taking money, weapons, intelligence, etc, from the UK government. And, of course, many other governments as well. Not least the USA. So your comment absolutely rams home the point, made many times before by thousands of people: their support support has indeed made Netanyahu the Prime Minister of the all nastiest Western governments. Wholly owned, unable to survive, always afraid of upsetting them. The UK's Prime Minister, obviously, because why else would the UK sends money and arms? Germany's. France's. Above all, America's. Without them, he couldn't do any of the things he's done. It's horrific to realise it, but the only possible reason Western governments support Netanyahu, is because Netanyahu is doing what Western governments want him to. The genocide. The Starvation. The infanticide. The UK's prime minister in London congratulates the UK's prime minister in Israel. It's the way It'll be until the UK finds a way to be decent again. Or, of course, until Turmp - Israel's President of America -tell's Starmer which way to totter. Which they'll both get wrong.

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Spunty's avatar

Israeli is in actual fact, the world's most powerful superpower. It's vassal states, the USA, Britain, Australia, Germany et al protect it.

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Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

We should be thankful they weren't under even worse orders (which they would have obeyed, heroically): e.g., "Don't take her alive!"

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salahuddin c's avatar

Sue Parfitt's walking stick has many, many times the combined humanity of Cooper, the entire Labour Party and the met police who were on arrest duty.

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Baz's avatar

The cops actually seemed confused….

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Marc Boulos's avatar

Thank you, Laura, for keeping life normal on an island somewhere. Thank you. Truly. I appreciate you.

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Ekowton's avatar

I once sustained blows from ski poles from an elderly woman who got angry at me for clashing with her on a slippery ski slope. 10/10 can confirm the terror and pain i felt and the ptsd i have only marginally endured for the last 35 years. Thoughts and prayers for the victims of this crazed terrorist monster!

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Sasha's avatar

Oh those poor police officers suffering blows from walking stick 😭🤣

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Rebel Nun's avatar

I love you, Laura! 💚

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RakB's avatar

These brave activists! I love their bravery - the true heros of our time

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