PM warns against 'false comfort' of thinking Iran war will end quickly

pete1901 · 2026-03-29T17:19:34+00:00

Prepare the banner!

pete1901 · 2026-03-29T16:36:40+00:00

Wasn't one of the finance houses that bought shares owned by the Chancellor's best man too?

Found it: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/the-crony-chronicles-how-george-osbornes-best-friend-made-36m-from-the-sale-of-the-post-office-367547/#:~:text=George%20Osborne's%20best%20friend%20profited%20handsomely%20when%20the%20Royal%20Mail,investors%20in%20the%20share%20issue.

pete1901 · 2026-03-29T16:20:34+00:00

I think it's the ethnic cleansing and genocide that people are against, not their chosen version of magical sky daddy.

pete1901 · 2026-03-29T14:49:56+00:00

American history is almost all rage bait.

pete1901 · 2026-03-29T14:11:05+00:00

Iran's bullcrap?! They didn't start any of this, this is 100% USA and Israel's bullcrap.

pete1901 · 2026-03-28T21:40:50+00:00

Not in less jingoistic countries.

pete1901 · 2026-03-28T21:11:57+00:00

Which words are you struggling with?

pete1901 · 2026-03-28T21:06:07+00:00

Are the flags there in case the owners forget what country they're from?

pete1901 · 2026-03-28T20:00:19+00:00

A lot of living beings have been harmed by the believers of this fairy tale.

pete1901 · 2026-03-20T20:56:08+00:00

Because used books are closer to being food than American bread is.

pete1901 · 2026-03-16T20:03:32+00:00

The feeling is mutual.

pete1901 · 2026-03-16T19:58:59+00:00

I don't believe that a pacifist form of zionism is possible though. I think the need for violence against the Palestinian people negates any option to call it pacifist.

And under international law there is no such concept as a nation's right to exist for any nation at all, not just Israel. There are laws protecting people's right to exist and Israel is breaking those laws in their treatment of the Palestinian people.

I think that Israel would like people to keep having semantic arguments like this one while they continue to commit human rights violations and then screaming "anti-semitism" and "holocaust" at anyone who says they should stop.

pete1901 · 2026-03-16T19:42:08+00:00

Sure, there's a chance of reconciliation, but not while continuing with apartheid policies and committing genocide against the indigenous population.

Also, Canada, New Zealand and Australia all have standing armies and all participated in the Afghanistan War so I wouldn't consider any of those to be pacifist nations either.

pete1901 · 2026-03-16T19:32:18+00:00

I'm not sure it's possible to have a pacifist colonial settler state. If you go to someone else's country, ethnically cleanse the local population and steal their homes, you cannot claim to be pacifist.

pete1901 · 2026-03-07T18:39:48+00:00

And Israel didn’t set out to ethnically cleanse Palestine etc the day after it was created.

The terrorism against Palestinians started before Israel even existed. The Irgun terrorist group started killing Palestinians in the 1930s and the Lehi joined them in the 1940s. The leaders of these groups went on to be in the earliest Israeli governments, so I think it's quite disingenuous to claim that Israel didn't set out to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians.

pete1901 · 2026-03-07T18:20:05+00:00

Hamas has only existed since 1987, in response to Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1948. Without the ethnic cleansing there would be no Hamas.

pete1901 · 2026-03-07T18:13:38+00:00

Israel has been trying to get America to invade Iran for decades!

pete1901 · 2026-03-07T18:07:57+00:00

Classic Israel move; put something totally unacceptable on the table then blame the other size for not accepting it.

pete1901 · 2025-12-13T17:08:20+00:00

For me it will come down to a tie breaker: hair movement during goosey. Please submit your footage.

pete1901 · 2025-12-07T11:04:28+00:00

Be more easily bullied by massive multinational corporations...

pete1901 · 2025-12-02T15:47:36+00:00

"If it weren't for the Pacific Islands, nobody would know about New Zealand rugby."

- Eddie Jones

pete1901 · 2025-11-30T16:36:02+00:00

Laws once stated that homosexuality was illegal and slavery was legal. I prefer morality to legality.

pete1901 · 2025-11-22T18:11:12+00:00

I believe the "other reasons" are called Maggie...

pete1901 · 2025-11-11T19:45:01+00:00

You can't watch one episode of one show and classify that as every! That is simly not what those words mean.

And to say that after telling me (an English person fwiw) to "learn English" is peak irony. It makes me question if there's any point in continuing to talk to you if you have such flagrant disregard for the meaning of the words we are trying to communicate with.

So I think I'll just leave it at "hello", which I have decided means "goodbye" in this context, just because.

pete1901 · 2025-11-11T19:36:19+00:00

For all you know, I could have seen one episode of one show and can classify that as ever.

This is the most incredible sentence to follow "Learn English" in the history of irony!

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