@starslookdown.bsky.social
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Saying that the Tories’ immigration policy was “an experiment in open borders” makes you what, a real serious person I guess. Somebody with a good understanding of the situation, not prone to bullshitting and so forth.
Saying that a country needs rules, norms and shared values to be united rather than a collection of strangers really does not make you Enoch Powell.
May 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Saying that the Tories’ immigration policy was “an experiment in open borders” makes you what, a real serious person I guess. Somebody with a good understanding of the situation, not prone to bullshitting and so forth.
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My revulsion at this man is limitless & visceral
May 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
My revulsion at this man is limitless & visceral
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It is completely absurd and horrific and enraging that Starmer will mimic Enoch Powell in politics as well as heading and his weird little fan club are just like NO HE DID NOT
May 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It is completely absurd and horrific and enraging that Starmer will mimic Enoch Powell in politics as well as heading and his weird little fan club are just like NO HE DID NOT
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At some point you lot might even consider the possibility that we're people too
In the spirit of @stephenkb.bsky.social ‘s image of public opinion on immigration as “I want a pony in my flat with no costs attached” public opinion on social care seems to be “I want a magical care machine that costs nothing”
So idk, my take is either you change the funding model (ummm, raise taxes, I mean raise taxes), or you accept lower standards of care, or you accept immigration propping up a sector most people would not wish to work in in a million years. Your choice, really.
May 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
At some point you lot might even consider the possibility that we're people too
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Never mind the policies, the language Starmer uses - about human beings who want to do nothing worse than work, study, live with their families or seek refuge here - is simply appalling
NEW: Keir Starmer says he wants to close a “squalid chapter” in our country’s history as he sets out measures to reduce immigration.
Starmer says between 2019-2023 while Tories were “telling people with a straight face that they would get net migration down”, it quadrupled.
Starmer says between 2019-2023 while Tories were “telling people with a straight face that they would get net migration down”, it quadrupled.
May 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Never mind the policies, the language Starmer uses - about human beings who want to do nothing worse than work, study, live with their families or seek refuge here - is simply appalling
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Roughly 170,000 people are already on the existing ten-year-routes, so let's not pretend they don't exist. Coupled with visa fees 7-10 times the actual processing costs, they are already shown to drive many people into destitution, and lead to higher levels of people becoming undocumented. 4/
May 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Roughly 170,000 people are already on the existing ten-year-routes, so let's not pretend they don't exist. Coupled with visa fees 7-10 times the actual processing costs, they are already shown to drive many people into destitution, and lead to higher levels of people becoming undocumented. 4/
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Btw, the 10 year route to citizenship (which isn’t a 10 year route, it’s 10 years plus a year on ILR lol) has already existed and anyone on a student visa has been pushed onto that route more or less.
My decade is (mercifully) almost up but it’s been absolutely brutal.
My decade is (mercifully) almost up but it’s been absolutely brutal.
One of the sickest things about this is that it was already an uphill battle for most immigrants to “earn the right to live” here, made more difficult depending on certain factors.
May 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Btw, the 10 year route to citizenship (which isn’t a 10 year route, it’s 10 years plus a year on ILR lol) has already existed and anyone on a student visa has been pushed onto that route more or less.
My decade is (mercifully) almost up but it’s been absolutely brutal.
My decade is (mercifully) almost up but it’s been absolutely brutal.
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Some good points here 🔽
So, sorry, former int'l law attorney here, it's a basic rule of international law and the ICJ that you can command protection of the rights of individuals or states but you cannot define the remedy.
Because every state has a different court system/different govt system.
Because every state has a different court system/different govt system.
January 26, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Some good points here 🔽
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There are no universities left in Gaza, and we're still waiting for Western universities to even acknowledge this, much less call for a boycott.
January 18, 2024 at 10:39 AM
There are no universities left in Gaza, and we're still waiting for Western universities to even acknowledge this, much less call for a boycott.
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Less than three months after Israel pretended to be outraged that we would say it attacked a hospital, the IDF is attacking the last fully functional hospital in Gaza. Three month ago, there were 36.
January 17, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Less than three months after Israel pretended to be outraged that we would say it attacked a hospital, the IDF is attacking the last fully functional hospital in Gaza. Three month ago, there were 36.
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lmaoo the israeli embassy in seoul released a video about a fictional attack on seoul by hamas to try and garner sympathy and the foreign ministry got it taken down but the more important thing imo is the embassy getting absolutely curb stomped in the replies
![Source: Asia Economy via Naver [English source]
[English source]
[+1,649, -180] And why should we have to "imagine" if this were to happen to us? We are not like you guys who went and stole another's land.
[+546, -56] We have never gone into North Korea to establish settlements. We have never forced North Koreans out of their homes and killed their people with excavators.
[+311, -18] Israel crossing the line
[+323, -92] Rich video coming from murderers who stole another's land
[+105, -4] Israel, I hope you realize that the video you put out is exactly what you're doing to Palestine right now. Taking their land and killing them for opposing it.
Don't act so clean now.
[+65, -4] The war is unfortunate but we as a country have never gone into another's land and forced them to move... We have much history involving independence activism, but never did we go and kill civilians over it.
[+55, -6] There is something wrong with Israel if they made this video only in Korea and not for e](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c6k2ozisr2bbitsafwwyistf/bafkreibxzsezy64vjt3j7knq6vtkmx3qsiuvcl5aeio5knsfhqh6ctuvfq@jpeg)
![[+47, -2] Why is Israel always acting like the victim? It's not like they haven't been as gross as Hamas. They deny Palestine the rights to their land for decades now and are acting like the victims? Gross. Flabbergasting that they even thought to make this video when they're the ones bombarding Gaza right now... how are they any different from Hamas?
[+34, -4] If Hamas are terrorists, then Israel are slaughterers. It's amazing how they refuse to face the reality of what they've been doing to Palestine all these years.
[+37, -8] While this is indeed a mistake on Israel's part...
I do have to remind everyone that Israel was one of the only countries who took Korea's side when the rest of the world was acting wishy-washy during the Dokdo dispute. They put Dokdo on their own maps for us.
They also weren't afraid to criticize Japan on the issue of comfort women... so let's not hate them too much.
- [+19, -0] What does this have anything to do with anything?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c6k2ozisr2bbitsafwwyistf/bafkreiefjyumnz2yerlqhy5iwtz7nla3bya3goyl5q2jvmszlvfcxaw3km@jpeg)
December 29, 2023 at 6:23 PM
lmaoo the israeli embassy in seoul released a video about a fictional attack on seoul by hamas to try and garner sympathy and the foreign ministry got it taken down but the more important thing imo is the embassy getting absolutely curb stomped in the replies
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I’ve followed and interacted with Refaat for years. He was killed three days ago in Gaza with his brother, sister and her four kids. Here is a poem he wrote. I am heartbroken.
(Here is a link to a book series he edited of stories from young people in Gaza justworldbooks.com/books-by-tit... )
(Here is a link to a book series he edited of stories from young people in Gaza justworldbooks.com/books-by-tit... )
December 7, 2023 at 8:45 PM
I’ve followed and interacted with Refaat for years. He was killed three days ago in Gaza with his brother, sister and her four kids. Here is a poem he wrote. I am heartbroken.
(Here is a link to a book series he edited of stories from young people in Gaza justworldbooks.com/books-by-tit... )
(Here is a link to a book series he edited of stories from young people in Gaza justworldbooks.com/books-by-tit... )
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Friends, I am so happy to present you with my obituary of Henry Kissinger, monster in human form. Burn in Hell.
Kissinger is Dead, Finally Something Good Has Happened in 2023 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
One of the most vile individuals to ever befoul the United States, Henry Kissinger is dead. A man responsible for the deaths of millions of people around the world and yet the most respected man withi...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 30, 2023 at 2:13 AM
Friends, I am so happy to present you with my obituary of Henry Kissinger, monster in human form. Burn in Hell.
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"After holding Ms. Tamimi for nearly three weeks, Israel moved to incarcerate her under administrative detention. She now faces indefinite imprisonment, without charges or trial, based on evidence that neither she nor her lawyer are allowed to view." www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/w...
A Palestinian Author, Ahed Tamimi, Faces Indefinite Detention After Hearing
She is one of the highest-profile Palestinians arrested by Israel since Oct. 7 during a sweeping and contentious crackdown aimed at deterring attacks.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2023 at 2:54 AM
"After holding Ms. Tamimi for nearly three weeks, Israel moved to incarcerate her under administrative detention. She now faces indefinite imprisonment, without charges or trial, based on evidence that neither she nor her lawyer are allowed to view." www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/w...
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‘He was tortured because of a question; he asked the warden whether there was a truce. Then he got beaten to death.’
Freed Palestinian children say fellow prisoners were 'tortured to death'
At least five Palestinian prisoners reported dead from abuse in Israeli jails, according to testimony of freed teens
www.middleeasteye.net
November 27, 2023 at 3:18 PM
‘He was tortured because of a question; he asked the warden whether there was a truce. Then he got beaten to death.’
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“We will use smaller bombs” should be the Democratic Party motto
November 5, 2023 at 1:55 AM
“We will use smaller bombs” should be the Democratic Party motto
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More Palestinians have been killed and displaced in the current Gaza war than in the 1948 Nakba.
In the Nakba, around 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and 15,000 killed. Today, the death toll in Gaza and the West Bank already exceeds 15,000, with 1.7 million displaced - and the war is not over.
In the Nakba, around 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and 15,000 killed. Today, the death toll in Gaza and the West Bank already exceeds 15,000, with 1.7 million displaced - and the war is not over.
The Nakba did not start or end in 1948
Key facts and figures on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
www.aljazeera.com
November 26, 2023 at 4:16 PM
More Palestinians have been killed and displaced in the current Gaza war than in the 1948 Nakba.
In the Nakba, around 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and 15,000 killed. Today, the death toll in Gaza and the West Bank already exceeds 15,000, with 1.7 million displaced - and the war is not over.
In the Nakba, around 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and 15,000 killed. Today, the death toll in Gaza and the West Bank already exceeds 15,000, with 1.7 million displaced - and the war is not over.
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By the way: Seldowitz isn’t just some random New Yorker, he is the former Deputy Director in the US State Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2004! This guy made policy at the highest levels for years. That should be the focus of the story.
November 23, 2023 at 4:00 PM
By the way: Seldowitz isn’t just some random New Yorker, he is the former Deputy Director in the US State Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2004! This guy made policy at the highest levels for years. That should be the focus of the story.
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The World Health Organisation has described what it found in Al Shifa hospital, after it led a dangerous mission to reach it.
Among the patients still unable to evacuate are "32 babies in extremely critical condition"
I don't think history will forget this
www.emro.who.int/media/news/w...
Among the patients still unable to evacuate are "32 babies in extremely critical condition"
I don't think history will forget this
www.emro.who.int/media/news/w...
WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
www.emro.who.int
November 19, 2023 at 8:48 AM
The World Health Organisation has described what it found in Al Shifa hospital, after it led a dangerous mission to reach it.
Among the patients still unable to evacuate are "32 babies in extremely critical condition"
I don't think history will forget this
www.emro.who.int/media/news/w...
Among the patients still unable to evacuate are "32 babies in extremely critical condition"
I don't think history will forget this
www.emro.who.int/media/news/w...