John G
@lavalamps.bsky.social
Socialist, in the sense that people cooperating always works better.
So much for the "well-regulated militia" as a bulwark against government tyranny.
December 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So much for the "well-regulated militia" as a bulwark against government tyranny.
I've seen him very recently doing exactly that 🤷 he was questioning lawmakers about why billionaires were to get tax cuts at the very same time these same lawmakers were cutting access to medical care. His exact question, from memory was
"explain that to us".
"explain that to us".
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I've seen him very recently doing exactly that 🤷 he was questioning lawmakers about why billionaires were to get tax cuts at the very same time these same lawmakers were cutting access to medical care. His exact question, from memory was
"explain that to us".
"explain that to us".
Worra brilliant orator you are .
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Worra brilliant orator you are .
That's the same distraction as before. Don't shoot her, the messenger.
The central allegation is that labour cabinet ministers are obliged to private healthcare interests, having accepted ( in Keir Starmer's case, during his leadership campaign ) funding from them.
The central allegation is that labour cabinet ministers are obliged to private healthcare interests, having accepted ( in Keir Starmer's case, during his leadership campaign ) funding from them.
May 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
That's the same distraction as before. Don't shoot her, the messenger.
The central allegation is that labour cabinet ministers are obliged to private healthcare interests, having accepted ( in Keir Starmer's case, during his leadership campaign ) funding from them.
The central allegation is that labour cabinet ministers are obliged to private healthcare interests, having accepted ( in Keir Starmer's case, during his leadership campaign ) funding from them.
As I just said, that's a distraction from the crux of the argument. She's quite correctly drawing attention to the extent of private, for-profit, theft of our rights to NHS healthcare. We paid for it upfront, for decades, and you appear to be happy with that. Raise the bar FFS.
May 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
As I just said, that's a distraction from the crux of the argument. She's quite correctly drawing attention to the extent of private, for-profit, theft of our rights to NHS healthcare. We paid for it upfront, for decades, and you appear to be happy with that. Raise the bar FFS.
If she's correct in what she says, then the rest is a distraction .
May 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
If she's correct in what she says, then the rest is a distraction .
If private healthcare interests are an asset to our NHS, why do labour cabinet ministers require thousands of pounds to make that case? The merits should stand on their own intrinsic worth, and they don't. The labour party are undermining our access to healthcare every bit as much as the Tories did.
May 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
If private healthcare interests are an asset to our NHS, why do labour cabinet ministers require thousands of pounds to make that case? The merits should stand on their own intrinsic worth, and they don't. The labour party are undermining our access to healthcare every bit as much as the Tories did.
She's correct to point out the donations that labour cabinet ministers have taken from private healthcare interests. So are private eye. And you're wrong to defend THEIR grifting.
May 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
She's correct to point out the donations that labour cabinet ministers have taken from private healthcare interests. So are private eye. And you're wrong to defend THEIR grifting.
It's been covered thoroughly by private eye and Dr. Patterson. It's well known. They're in the pockets of private health interests and every bit as guilty of betraying the founding principles of our NHS by parasitizing it for their own benefit.
May 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
It's been covered thoroughly by private eye and Dr. Patterson. It's well known. They're in the pockets of private health interests and every bit as guilty of betraying the founding principles of our NHS by parasitizing it for their own benefit.
I've read and listened to what she's said for a while now, and every single word is valid criticism of a Labour government who are up to their tits in bribes from private healthcare interests.
May 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I've read and listened to what she's said for a while now, and every single word is valid criticism of a Labour government who are up to their tits in bribes from private healthcare interests.
Take that up with the ICJ, but they say "several months, to decide. That's a distraction. So is way back when.
The priority is a ceasefire, yet again, til it breaks.
Best FOR THE KIDS to be safe, out of the crossfire. Hamas v Netanyahu?
Both are terrorists in their own way.
Neither deserve support.
The priority is a ceasefire, yet again, til it breaks.
Best FOR THE KIDS to be safe, out of the crossfire. Hamas v Netanyahu?
Both are terrorists in their own way.
Neither deserve support.
May 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Take that up with the ICJ, but they say "several months, to decide. That's a distraction. So is way back when.
The priority is a ceasefire, yet again, til it breaks.
Best FOR THE KIDS to be safe, out of the crossfire. Hamas v Netanyahu?
Both are terrorists in their own way.
Neither deserve support.
The priority is a ceasefire, yet again, til it breaks.
Best FOR THE KIDS to be safe, out of the crossfire. Hamas v Netanyahu?
Both are terrorists in their own way.
Neither deserve support.
Of course not, and every rational adult in the world would agree, including me.
How does this momentary alignment on stating the bleeding obvious help to protect children in mortal danger, right now?
How does this momentary alignment on stating the bleeding obvious help to protect children in mortal danger, right now?
May 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Of course not, and every rational adult in the world would agree, including me.
How does this momentary alignment on stating the bleeding obvious help to protect children in mortal danger, right now?
How does this momentary alignment on stating the bleeding obvious help to protect children in mortal danger, right now?
It's great that you're so knowledgeable about what's going on. Perhaps you could use that to suggest the quickest way to a ceasfire?
May 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's great that you're so knowledgeable about what's going on. Perhaps you could use that to suggest the quickest way to a ceasfire?
They're responding to a hatred of Jews and in particular to what Hamas did, both of them recklessly.
And now Hamas should surrender because they fucked-up spectacularly as has been seen on AlJazeera for 19 months.
Since about a week in, every rational adult on the planet has wanted a ceasfire.
And now Hamas should surrender because they fucked-up spectacularly as has been seen on AlJazeera for 19 months.
Since about a week in, every rational adult on the planet has wanted a ceasfire.
May 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
They're responding to a hatred of Jews and in particular to what Hamas did, both of them recklessly.
And now Hamas should surrender because they fucked-up spectacularly as has been seen on AlJazeera for 19 months.
Since about a week in, every rational adult on the planet has wanted a ceasfire.
And now Hamas should surrender because they fucked-up spectacularly as has been seen on AlJazeera for 19 months.
Since about a week in, every rational adult on the planet has wanted a ceasfire.
The first casualty of war is the truth. I wish I had your confidence that you've worked it out.
In any case, you're missing my point. No-one has the right, god-given or otherwise to sacrifice children on the altar of their ideology and hatred, by hiding amongst them.
The Israelis are no better.
In any case, you're missing my point. No-one has the right, god-given or otherwise to sacrifice children on the altar of their ideology and hatred, by hiding amongst them.
The Israelis are no better.
May 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The first casualty of war is the truth. I wish I had your confidence that you've worked it out.
In any case, you're missing my point. No-one has the right, god-given or otherwise to sacrifice children on the altar of their ideology and hatred, by hiding amongst them.
The Israelis are no better.
In any case, you're missing my point. No-one has the right, god-given or otherwise to sacrifice children on the altar of their ideology and hatred, by hiding amongst them.
The Israelis are no better.
They say they're defending their safe haven to avoid a repeat of the gas chambers in WW2. And so, based on that understandable fear, they've repelled and defeated many attacks from their enemies.
Hamas, emerging from an open prison, have understandably rebelled.
But like the others they failed.
Hamas, emerging from an open prison, have understandably rebelled.
But like the others they failed.
May 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
They say they're defending their safe haven to avoid a repeat of the gas chambers in WW2. And so, based on that understandable fear, they've repelled and defeated many attacks from their enemies.
Hamas, emerging from an open prison, have understandably rebelled.
But like the others they failed.
Hamas, emerging from an open prison, have understandably rebelled.
But like the others they failed.
In terms of the havoc being wreaked, no-one there emerges with credit. My point is that whatever they hoped they'd achieve, well, boo-hoo, suck it up, it's really not any more about fanatics of any type and their failed policies. It's about protecting innocent children. Taking sides is now old news.
May 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
In terms of the havoc being wreaked, no-one there emerges with credit. My point is that whatever they hoped they'd achieve, well, boo-hoo, suck it up, it's really not any more about fanatics of any type and their failed policies. It's about protecting innocent children. Taking sides is now old news.
You may be right, maybe they're willing to sacrifice their children on the altar of their idealogical purity.
But so also are the Israeli government willing to, effectively, ignore the plight of innocent children, in their pursuit of a safe haven/ never again/ it's ours from the bible.
But so also are the Israeli government willing to, effectively, ignore the plight of innocent children, in their pursuit of a safe haven/ never again/ it's ours from the bible.
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
You may be right, maybe they're willing to sacrifice their children on the altar of their idealogical purity.
But so also are the Israeli government willing to, effectively, ignore the plight of innocent children, in their pursuit of a safe haven/ never again/ it's ours from the bible.
But so also are the Israeli government willing to, effectively, ignore the plight of innocent children, in their pursuit of a safe haven/ never again/ it's ours from the bible.
On purely pragmatic terms, to save children's lives, Hamas should face reality and surrender .
We've all of us had 19 months to rescue children from harm and terror, and we've failed.
In the name of sanity listen when the Israeli government say "never again".
You don't have a monopoly on outrage.
We've all of us had 19 months to rescue children from harm and terror, and we've failed.
In the name of sanity listen when the Israeli government say "never again".
You don't have a monopoly on outrage.
May 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
On purely pragmatic terms, to save children's lives, Hamas should face reality and surrender .
We've all of us had 19 months to rescue children from harm and terror, and we've failed.
In the name of sanity listen when the Israeli government say "never again".
You don't have a monopoly on outrage.
We've all of us had 19 months to rescue children from harm and terror, and we've failed.
In the name of sanity listen when the Israeli government say "never again".
You don't have a monopoly on outrage.
The situation in Gaza is disgraceful.
Everyone knows a ceasefire is best.
The focus should be on saving innocent children.
The Israeli government will never allow itself to be voluntarily disarmed, see Nazi Germany.
We must be pragmatic
Hamas should surrender.
They tried and failed, at great cost.
Everyone knows a ceasefire is best.
The focus should be on saving innocent children.
The Israeli government will never allow itself to be voluntarily disarmed, see Nazi Germany.
We must be pragmatic
Hamas should surrender.
They tried and failed, at great cost.
May 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The situation in Gaza is disgraceful.
Everyone knows a ceasefire is best.
The focus should be on saving innocent children.
The Israeli government will never allow itself to be voluntarily disarmed, see Nazi Germany.
We must be pragmatic
Hamas should surrender.
They tried and failed, at great cost.
Everyone knows a ceasefire is best.
The focus should be on saving innocent children.
The Israeli government will never allow itself to be voluntarily disarmed, see Nazi Germany.
We must be pragmatic
Hamas should surrender.
They tried and failed, at great cost.