'A Form of Tyranny.'
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smokingbootA moment's frailty: I am ill. This cold has destroyed my sinuses and filled my head with snotty cotton. Everything is disgusting.
Everything else? So 7 Labour MPs break away, and they are reviled as traitors and villains. Is it about anti-semitism? I don't understand the state of public opinion which says we must believe a woman who says she has been assaulted, but not if she is a Jewish woman complaining of being harassed in the Labour party. What made her suddenly less believable?
From the little I have seen, Jezzah's no anti-semite. I think he, like many people on the left and everywhere else, are not pleased with the Israeli government's policy re Palestine, and for sure feelings regarding Palestine do sometimes lead to a regretful vehemence. But the people who paint swastikas are not lefties. This sort of this stuff isn't Labour's way, but something has gone amiss, the lady feels bullied, and it hasn't been dealt with. This doesn't surprise me as Jezzah doesn't deal with anything.
I can't believe that I am seeing such anger among my friends, or rather, among friends who know each other and are close. I argued with some friends re Brexit, and though I lost a couple, they were not dear. Where those pre-conditions existed, we agreed to disagree. But this, among people who like each other and supposedly give each other credit for good will? And then just as we are hearing this stuff about Momentum purging out its moderates, Tories leave the Conservative party, and Anna Soubry details the harassment happening in the blue corner.
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1098230125131456513
It's just the same. Each side heading more towards the fringes, trying to remove/deselect/silence those who don't share the Glorious Vision. I am astonished to read bloggers such as Thomas G Clark (Another Angry Voice) rant like Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes). One's a red parrot, one's blue, one's furious, one's supercilious. They've learned different words. But they're both squawking.
Over to the Right. Over to the Left. Choose your cliff.
Today's old cliche, for this new form of tyranny.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I write this and suddenly the room seems very cold. Just a little virus giving me the shudders is all.
Everything else? So 7 Labour MPs break away, and they are reviled as traitors and villains. Is it about anti-semitism? I don't understand the state of public opinion which says we must believe a woman who says she has been assaulted, but not if she is a Jewish woman complaining of being harassed in the Labour party. What made her suddenly less believable?
From the little I have seen, Jezzah's no anti-semite. I think he, like many people on the left and everywhere else, are not pleased with the Israeli government's policy re Palestine, and for sure feelings regarding Palestine do sometimes lead to a regretful vehemence. But the people who paint swastikas are not lefties. This sort of this stuff isn't Labour's way, but something has gone amiss, the lady feels bullied, and it hasn't been dealt with. This doesn't surprise me as Jezzah doesn't deal with anything.
I can't believe that I am seeing such anger among my friends, or rather, among friends who know each other and are close. I argued with some friends re Brexit, and though I lost a couple, they were not dear. Where those pre-conditions existed, we agreed to disagree. But this, among people who like each other and supposedly give each other credit for good will? And then just as we are hearing this stuff about Momentum purging out its moderates, Tories leave the Conservative party, and Anna Soubry details the harassment happening in the blue corner.
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1098230125131456513
It's just the same. Each side heading more towards the fringes, trying to remove/deselect/silence those who don't share the Glorious Vision. I am astonished to read bloggers such as Thomas G Clark (Another Angry Voice) rant like Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes). One's a red parrot, one's blue, one's furious, one's supercilious. They've learned different words. But they're both squawking.
Over to the Right. Over to the Left. Choose your cliff.
Today's old cliche, for this new form of tyranny.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I write this and suddenly the room seems very cold. Just a little virus giving me the shudders is all.
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Date: 2019-02-21 02:28 pm (UTC)Facts would be great. I tend to check out AP sources and Reuters for those, and I still trust the Beeb. Beyond that, it's hard to say. You're right about every age and its spectre. It's a point worth remembering, especially on a pretty Spring day like this!