david

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[–] david 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

See, this is what's wrong with society today.

[–] david 1 points 1 year ago

This is genuinely lovely, but surely that's a weir, not a waterfall?

[–] david 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm happy to let mods carve out a bunch of niche communities with their own preferences. The fediverse is a big place. If you don't like instances that are protective of LGBT+ folks you're cutting it down a bit, but genuinely, you seem to be deliberately picking topics that troll the specific community you're posting on, then you complained that they took it down. Post where your post will be welcome, stop complaining when you post where you already know it's not. Reddit and twitter are pretty right wing and troll friendly. Maybe you'll be happier there.

[–] david 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my best friends says Tony Blair was the best Tory prime minister we ever had.

[–] david 1 points 1 year ago

If I was a betting man, I would put money on them soon enough blaming leftie lawyers for the forthcoming downturn in custodial sentences.

[–] david 1 points 1 year ago
[–] david 74 points 1 year ago

Top troll trolling.

[–] david 10 points 1 year ago
[–] david -4 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, yeah, you don't want to be reading anything more complicated than a sentence or two, otherwise the might be a risk of developing understanding or perspective. Best avoided.

[–] david -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry to have overestimated your attention span.

[–] david 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never underestimate the Conservative Party's ability to make a cynical and nasty policy decision and then implement it badly, leading to doubly unnecessary hardship for others. I'm that area, its abilities know no bounds.

[–] david 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, whilst I abhor the violent terrorism that Hamas have committed and abhor the overwhelming overreaction and horrific vengence that the state of Israel have, as usual, immediately begun, it's just not accurate to call what preceded recent events "peace".

The people I know who have separately and recently visited Israel and Palestine variously called it "viscious apartheid", "appalling", "military occupation" and phrases like that. No one called it peace.

I think you erroneously assumed that because it wasn't in the news, violence was not occurring, whereas I think it's more accurate to say that it wasn't in the news because the violence was so everyday and constant that there was nothing new to say about it. A child getting run over by a car won't make the national news either, for almost exactly the same reason.

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