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  • The motion called for the deletion of a previous commitment that:

    The five largest energy supply companies will be nationalised.
    

    Instead, it called for the insertion of:

    As natural monopolies with, at present, high profit margins, electricity national transmission and regional distribution will be brought into public ownership.
    

    And it wanted to insert a position that “electricity generation and storage” are not natural monopolies and should therefore:

    have diversity of ownership including private, public, municipal and community schemes
    


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    18 days ago

    People have become so angry at the state of things that they cling onto people who at least seem to get angry on their behalf. The snideness and argumentativeness and fuck you attitude towards ones political enemies is just too juicy a thing to not enjoy, that accuracy and truth become a sideshow at best. It’s an essential ingredient of political discourse being debased into theatre and obfuscation.

















  • I remember seeing a TED talk about this which very much pointed to FGM being a central african problem, yes the majority of people doing it Muslim nations, but there are christian nations doing it too like Etheopia and in places like nigeria that have diverse religious backgrounds, christians practice it too. for example, google tells me 25% of nigerian catholic women have been circumcised.

    When you go outside africa, yuou find the majority of cases are eithert from a country right next door in the middle east. or from somewhere further away, but by people who have emigrated from said central african or middle eastern country.

    There is Indonesia, with its high fgm rates exclusively among muslims there, efforts have been made to regulate/ban/mitigate (making the act symbolic, rather than actually physical) over there and some other nations would do well to nose over their efforts.

    Thing is, fgm predates both islam and christianity. And its a mistake for anyone to attatch a specific culture to a specific religion. Thats as accurate as attaching a specific proffession to a religion. Oh my car mechanic is Jewish, therefore all Jews are car mechanics, crikey, Israeli cars must run forever. No it means the manufactures get lazy because they assume everyone can fix even complex faults, ah but they won’t be able to get away with that, they are all trained mechanics so they could spot lazy design a mile off and vote with their wallet.

    What a ridiculous discussion eh? well its no less ridiculous than when somebody invokes ‘muslim culture’ as a thing in their argument. Anyway, FGM is a cultural thing, not a religious thing.