ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on UK airport staff get bonuses for spotting easyJet oversize bags, email shows 18 hours ago:
Most people check in online these days on something called the internet, grandma.
- Comment on Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds 18 hours ago:
That’s the hope
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
They weren’t fighter jets, they used crowbars as well, and even a tiny bit of paint in a jet engine can cause catastrophic damage at the sort of RPM and temperature they operate at.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
You didn’t disappoint. You shifted the goalposts so far they’ve reached the opposite end of the pitch, and I’m now expected to act as Palestine Action’s PR representative. Bravo.
I have no idea why they chose those planes. Maybe they’re imbeciles who can’t look simple things up on Wikipedia. Maybe they’re hotheads who wanted an adrenaline high. Maybe they have an ulterior agenda. Hopefully more will come out during the trial.
I will say though, if we allow a bit of wild speculation, that their US arm is run by Fergie Chambers, a massive fan of Putin and supporter of the invasion of Ukraine. These tankers are utterly pointless in Gaza, but quite vital in the event of a state actor like Russia putting military pressure on Britain. And such an attack would embarrass the RAF, the MoD, the Government and affect public confidence in national security. Russia has operated many times in Britain in recent years, such as the railway sabotage a while ago that caused travel chaos at an embarrassing moment.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
Indeed. If they are a well-organised group with rational people, it would seem odd and uncharacteristically incompetent that they managed to pick literally the most inappropriate target in the entire RAF inventory. Assuming their motives are as they say they are.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
I said these planes were used to bomb Palestinians. And that’s exactly what these mid-air refuelers have been used for, even if they didn’t carry any bombs themselves.
Verifiably false. The RAF has not been bombing Gaza. And before you bring it up, no, the RAF has not been refuelling Israeli planes either. The British use an entirely incompatible air-to-air refuelling system. And even if they magically didn’t, they wouldn’t be parking the planes in rural Oxfordshire.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
But then they won’t be able to impress their basement friends with their edginess.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
Two neo-Nazi groups were proscribed at the same time…
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
The Suffragettes did nothing to advance the cause, quite the opposite. They poisoned centrist politicians against suffrage, confirmed the claims of the opponents talking about “mad women”, and made it hard for supporters of suffrage to make progress.
It’s very likely women would have got the vote sooner if the militants just… didn’t.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
They threw paint into jet engines, which now have to be stripped down and rebuilt. They also went at the planes with a crowbar, and damaged security barriers at the perimeter. The damage is estimated at £7 million.
The army has nothing to do with any of this.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
Aircraft that are being used to bomb innocent civilians should be vandalized.
These planes are not bombers, and carry no weapons.
Setting fire to a UK plane that is being used to genocide people
These planes are not being used for that in any capacity.
I look forward to your moving the goalposts.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
/ air tankers, unrelated to any genocide
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 day ago:
Ah “liar”. They were tankers, not fighter jets. And paint thrown in an engine requires the engine to be completely stripped down for parts to be inspected and cleaned because it’s a plane not a lawnmower. They also went at the planes with a crowbar.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
The Suffragists were a group of men and women including MPs who worked within the political system of peaceful negotiation and consensus-building over many years, and had made some gains.
The Suffragettes were a paramilitary organisation tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst, and rejected the involvement of men (and working-class women).
The cause of women’s suffrage was advanced by the Suffragists, but once the Suffragettes started burning, bombing and racially harassing Jewish MPs, those gains were fatally undermined, and public opinion turned against women’s suffrage.
The cause was only revisited after WWI, based on the actions of women on the home front and the new demographic realities. It had little to do with the suffragettes who were still poorly received on either side.
It was a rewriting of history by a couple of propaganda books in the 1930s (largely ex-suffragettes trying to whitewash their crimes) that eventually led to the modern confusion between suffragettes and suffragists.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
That’s over 20 years ago, before 7/7 changed strategy.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
So the beheading of Lee Rigby wasn’t terrorism? Your definition doesn’t match the law or the dictionary.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
An attack on military assets for a political aim.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
The government didn’t make concessions to the Suffragettes either. The WSPU was a total failure.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
Paint and crowbars. The engines will have to be stripped down and rebuilt.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
They were willing to commit mass murder in London and Dublin, and to assassinate the Prime Minister. Also deeply keen on removing all Jews from the House of Commons. Things that today would indeed mark them as a terrorist organisation.
Later, Emmeline Pankhurst would found a political party with the aim of requiring all civil servants to prove their racial purity back at least 3 generations, and many of the more prominent members of the WSPU became prominent members of the British fascist movement.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
The Gestapo relied almost entirely on public informants. The Stasi had an extensive and qualitative surveillance apparatus.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
The group in question broke onto an airbase and put a couple of RAF planes out of action. They crossed a red line for the government.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
I’d argue the Stazi were far more effective than the Gestapo.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
Amongst other things, the Suffragettes attempted to bury 200 postal workers under the rubble of the biggest sorting office in London, attempted to flood a town by blowing up a canal embankment, left many bombs on commuter trains (now they have a TfL line named after them lol), attempted to kill the Prime Minister by burning down the packed theatre he was in, tried again by burning down his house, attacked MPs for being Jewish, and succeeded in murdering sailors in an attack on a naval dockyard.
And then much of the top echelons of the Suffragettes went on to be key members in British fascism, including one who became Mussolini’s pen-pal, another who became the registered owner of the bank account for the BUF, and another who was actually too anti-Semitic for Oswald Moseley, and denied the Holocaust happened because “there’s so many of them still around”.
The Suffragettes are always a bad example because they utterly failed in their stated aims (the height of their campaign of destruction ended up one of the years with the lowest insurance payouts in British history), went on to say and do horrific things, and there is a question as to how much of it was true commitment to a cause and how much it was people who got off on the violence.
- Comment on Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title? 3 days ago:
Only if you expect the pink power ranger to go mincing about throwing glitter grenades.
- Comment on BBC News - BBC senior staff told to 'step back' from duties following row 4 days ago:
If you’re very curious you could read the Hansard or watch the archived session.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 days ago:
It hasn’t really fallen, it’s just saying the quiet part out loud for once.
- Comment on Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury? 6 days ago:
Hamas and the IDF are joint worst people involved in this conflict. As usual it’s the regular people who suffer.
Hamas is a fundementalist Islamist group. Their charter states the role of women is to raise men, and rejects notions of sexual equality as being introduced by foreign “saboteurs”. It also runs through the boring old antisemitic tropes with claims that Jews were the instigators of the French Revolution, WWI and Russian Revolution, and that Jews control the UN. It also claims that the “Jewish plan” is contained within the hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Hamas enforces strict sharia law. As such, they torture and kill homosexuals, even if they’re their own decorated commanders. Some Hamas members raped male Israeli hostages before themselves being tortured and executed for the crime (not the rape)
It rejects secularism and intends for a Palestinian state to be governed by strict adherence to Islamist laws.
- Comment on Members of public to be selected for ‘honest conversation’ about MPs’ pay 1 week ago:
The Speaker’s constituency gets excellent representation.
- Comment on Members of public to be selected for ‘honest conversation’ about MPs’ pay 1 week ago:
Singapore recruit their government ministers globally and offer salaries into the millions of S$ - £600k-1.2m. Consequently they attract a high calibre.