Streamwave
@Streamwave@feddit.uk
Communitarian social democrat. Roman Catholic. Interests in literature, history, philosophy and collecting vinyl records.
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 3 weeks ago:
Yes, in the same sense that I deny the existence of unicorns. I’m also a unicorn-denier.
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 3 weeks ago:
He’s said a lot since October 7th and before it.
A selection of more recent ones by running a search for his tweets using the word ‘Hamas’
x.com/richimedhurst/status/1802965814053670956
Hamas’ Qassam Brigades are guerilla fighters engaged in armed struggle against an occupying power, which is their right under international law.
x.com/richimedhurst/status/1795133769172623378
The only men on this planet willing to do something about children being murdered in Gaza are to be found in Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Resistance Axis. So obviously the Western Zionist media have no answer but to frame these Resistance fighters as “terrorists”
x.com/richimedhurst/status/1794489366276194554
Hamas have just captured a group of Israeli soldiers
LOL
x.com/richimedhurst/status/1792472920029012293
Iran’s president and foreign minister have died.
If it is an act of God, there is naught we can say. If it was an act of treachery, this will not deter or hinder the Resistance.
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah have always become stronger after losses like this.
The struggle continues.
x.com/richimedhurst/status/1785809457194188820
Why do you denounce Hamas and Hezbollah?
Do you also denounce the French resistance when you condemn the Nazis?
I’m so bored of Westerners comparing the only armed front that Palestinians/Arabs have to their oppressors, and acting like this is some kind of nuanced comment
x.com/richimedhurst/status/1781613656238620939
They hate Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. because they fight back. Because they refuse to roll over when the Israelis and Americans snap their fingers.
That is the only reason, and nothing else.
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 3 weeks ago:
He also regularly writes for and appears on Al Mayadeen (Hezbollah affiliates), the Iranian Regime’s Press TV, and Russia Today
And yes, you would be correct if you guessed his views on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad based on this information.
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 3 weeks ago:
Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group
No, it’s when you commit terrorist acts that you become a terrorist group. Like the PLO did, repeatedly, over many many years, and bragged about.
Terrorists are by definition non-state actors.
And yes I’ve seen the Pallywood stuff coming out of Gaza just like everyone else has. It’s the same bullshit they pull every time they cross a line and find their shit getting pushed in by Israel like in Lebanon in 1982.
receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK
In 2023 total UK arms exports to Israel totalled £18.2 million. We do not provide them with foreign financial assistance.
So you were only off by a little bit.
In 2023 Israel received approx. £3.3 bn in foreign assistance from the USA, the large majority loaned to purchase US supplies of both defensive and offensive munitions. That same year, Egypt also received about £1.5 bn in foreign assistance from the USA, Jordan £1.7 bn, etc.
As I said it is a form of political repression.
Yes, that’s why it’s good
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 4 weeks ago:
The PLO was a terror group.
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 4 weeks ago:
Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these are the same countries that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Those are also more or less the only countries I’d trust to be able to correctly identify a terrorist group.
This is a “leopards ate my face” law. It’s fine until you get caught up in it however unlikely that appears now.
I simply don’t support terrorist organisations. It isn’t difficult.
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 4 weeks ago:
I don’t have a problem with any element of that law.
I’m profoundly comfortable with people being arrested and imprisoned for substantial sentences for expressing support for Hamas and similar Jihadi terror groups.
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 4 weeks ago:
Good, for months now he’s openly expressed his support and encouragement for a proscribed terrorist organisation, i.e. Hamas. He’s not ambiguous about this: he thinks October 7th was great and that Hamas should do it again. He literally travelled to Iran and posted photos next to IRGC rockets and missiles with the caption “Long live the resistance”.
He’s not a journalist. He’s a vicious antisemite and a promoter and supporter of terrorism.
Throw away the key.
- Comment on Civil servants cannot wear ‘fetish gear’ to work, minister confirms 5 weeks ago:
There really is no plausible ‘fetish outfit’ that could possibly under any circumstances be appropriate for work at the Civil Service.
- Comment on Civil servants cannot wear ‘fetish gear’ to work, minister confirms 5 weeks ago:
I cannot believe this even needed to be clarified in the first place
- Comment on Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments 5 weeks ago:
Yeah probably. Most ‘big’ accounts aren’t on Mastodon anyway though, they’re on Threads.
- Comment on Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments 5 weeks ago:
Neither Mastodon or Bluesky ever really clicked with me, although I’ve tried and will continue to use both, but I enjoy using Threads because there’s so much cool non-political content there. My feed is archaeologists or astronomists, historians writers and photographers. It being able to connect up to the Fediverse is cool too.
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- Comment on The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales 5 weeks ago:
One obvious reason the author doesn’t explore is that neither Wales nor Scotland has never experienced mass immigration.
Scotland remains 92.87% white (2022), Wales 94.2%, compared to England at 81% (2021). It therefore doesn’t have the levels of intra- and inter-communal diversity which can provoke the kinds of tensions we’ve seen playing out in the streets of England over recent years, whether in Hindutva-Muslim ethnoreligious violence in Leicester or these anti-Islam and racist riots in recent weeks.
Scotland’s sense of its national identity has therefore not been challenged to the same extent as in England. Nor has a patriotic attitude towards Scottishness been derided as hateful, bigoted or xenophobic, as it has in England. (This sometimes leads to highly funny events, though, like when ScotNats try to claim they were victims of the British Empire.)
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 5 weeks ago:
Personally, Threads is the only social meedia platform where the content on it generally improves my mood by showing me lots of funny, cute or interesting content. It’s the only one where I don’t feel frustrated or angry or outraged by the content the algorithm surfaces or baited. It feels like the feed wants me to smile and cheer up or learn something new, rather than baiting me into getting angry and shouting at people. That counts for a lot, to me.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 5 weeks ago:
Interestingly, the European Union has been doing exactly this for about a year now on an experimental basis.
…europa.eu/…/social-media-connect-european-commis…
- Comment on A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’? 1 month ago:
I get reliably more accurate search results with Brave Search tbh. It has a neat little AI summariser tool you can disable, an option to pay $3 a month to go ad-free, it’s privacy-centric, clean design, browser-agnostic. Also, it uses its own indexer/web crawler, it doesn’t just piggyback on Bing like DuckDuckGo does.
The only time I end up using Google is if I’m looking into a very recent event, like a thing happening in the world that took place in the last 12-24 hours or so. Google seems to index news articles quicker than Brave.
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 1 month ago:
There are centrists and even conservatives out there in the world who have valid perspectives and values but who are not Trumpers.
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 1 month ago:
Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left
sigh…
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 1 month ago:
I miss some of the more casual subreddits, and somehow Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is, but otherwise yeah, Lemmy is fine. Especially with the Photon frontend.
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 1 month ago:
Thanks, I hate it
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- Comment on Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines for sewage spills 1 month ago:
Squeeze 'em til the pips squeak.
- Comment on Juror swears oath on a river in legal first - BBC News 1 month ago:
Our cities are literally on fire and literally anyone is pretending to give a shit about this virtue-signalling shite?
- UK riots LIVE: Clashes break out in Manchester, Liverpool and Hull - boys as young as 11 arrestedwww.mirror.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 1 month ago:
despite islamic terrorism literally, by definition, being right wing.
It’s neither right-wing nor left-wing. This sort of claim always strikes me as fairly cheap politics by people on the left. ‘When people do bad things it’s right-wing, when they do good things it’s left-wing.’ etc
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 1 month ago:
The law only applies to people I disagree with.
I am definitely a person who should be taken seriously
~/s~
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 1 month ago:
I think bundling the two together obscures more than it illuminates. I don’t think it’s any less serious (in fact in some regards it’s more dangerous), just that it doesn’t fit with normal far-right characteristics. To take one important difference, the far-right are ultra-nationalists, while Islamic fundamentalists are strictly anti-nationalist – they don’t recognise the legitimacy of nation-states to exist at all. They also tend to be pretty unconcerned with race or ethnicity in themselves, whereas that’s obviously a major thing for Neo-Nazis and other Fascists. And it makes it harder to identify and address the problem, because the sources and drivers of far-right extremism are separate and often unrelated to the sources of Islamic fundamentalism and radicalisation.
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 1 month ago:
Plenty of people are scared of the two assasinations of MPs by right wing lunatics.
One of them was a far-right lunatic, but the man who assassinated David Amess was a London-born radicalised Muslim affiliated with ISIL
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 1 month ago:
There’s a lot of simmering anger, resentment and frustration in many communities in this country. It’s been building for years. The stabbing of those poor girls at their dance class seems to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.
This isn’t just the EDL (an organisation which disbanded more than a decade ago), this is thousands of English people who are furious. We can try and understand the sources of that fury, and then begin the work to resolve it, or we’ll keep getting these sorts of horrid outbreaks of ugly violence.