He does say genocide a few times here in reference to Gaza: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/israel-and-the-sad-colonizer

It’s all Israel though, never Biden, never the US.

Looks like he has posted about Biden, but only 2 months ago and not when Biden was actually in power as far as i can find: https://bsky.app/profile/nberlat.bsky.social/post/3mdhlpxcjes2j

Technically, nothing has happened, the deadline came and went, a new deadline has yet to be set but it’s functionally a deadline extension.

That phone call was so funny I can absolultely picture Trump staring at the phone vibrating on his desk like this and intentionally not answering

p a t h e t i c

Invade the Vatican? Yeah me too it would be devastating for the US internationally. Quite possibly the worst thing for the american image I can think of. The USian state would be a pariah to 1.4 billion catholics for the next 70 years at least while they die off. More if you count sympathetic christians from other branches. And even more when you count agnostic people who like listening to the pope a couple times a year.

Yeah idk. This dude is despised by the right and the allegations all feel like they’re wrapped around the usual “groomer” stuff.Based on a kneejerk vibes-based analysis I suspect he’s ok but I’m not running on enough sleep to really dig into it.

The only thing I could find that wasn’t some right wing blog accusing him of being a groomer, which I ignored because the “groomer” term from the right seems always disingenuous:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11545205/

Walker’s interview was conducted by Prostasia’s then-Director of Communications, Noah Berlatsky, who has drawn criticism for describing child trafficking as a “moral panic,” referring to sexually exploited children as “young people trading sex” and insisting that police, not child sex offenders, are the main threats faced by sexually exploited children (Emmons, 2021; Wright, 2018). Despite its origins and association with pro-pedophile activism, “minor attracted persons” is a term that continues to surface in scholarly and policy discourse, resulting in media and public backlash (Dearden, 2023). It is therefore timely to consider how this terminology is being deployed in scholarly work.

Seems to have been a director of this org at some point? https://prostasia.org/

I don’t really know, can’t find a smoking gun but those are some extremely hot takes if accurate.

This feels like art.

Threatening the head of the most powerful religious organisation in the world seems like a very bad plan for maintaining global influence.

Yeah she’s consistently used for this, would be nice if they spread some of the flaws out across other characters instead of lumping Falke with it entirely but perhaps eventually she’ll do something sincerely awful and it’ll be completely unsurprising.

If Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire deal then Iran is free to direct all of its attacks against Israel by saying that Israel is not part of the deal then.

Yeah, trot stuff

Yeah I agree.

Owen Jones was ALSO one of the “Corbyn is an antisemite” guys iirc

Also not true. Prior to Oct 7th he was one of the “we have to soften on israel” kinds of guys though, but he did call it an occupation even back then.

No? He holds Corbyn’s positions more or less. His phrasing around Israel has been annoyingly soft for decades but so has everyone’s. He’s a very typical euro demsoc trot

He’s gay so that’s sort of to be expected.

His parents were pretty well known trots, Rob Jones was active in Militant, the trot wing of Labour that took over Liverpool back in the day.

It’s true in the sense that competing locations where there is less regulation are more competitive. So less investment in various industries occurs.

It’s not true in the sense of living standards.

If your measure is how well people are living then european regulation is improving lives, if your measure is financebro shit then it’s going to look like choking. They aren’t interested in human beings.

If this all holds (I’m not convinced it will) they’ve increased their national GDP by 40%. It’s a ridiculously enormous win for the Iranian state. With sanctions removed it’ll be like 80%, maybe more.

I’ll believe the war is ending when we see movement of military away from Iran.

God I don’t like Owen but I’m sort of insulted on his behalf that he gets placed on the same level as her in that “2 libs” insult.

Man’s an opportunist weird trot electoralist but fucking hell he’s sooooooo much better than that piece of shit is. Anyway he should recognise this behaviour very well, she’s further right than the Labour party right.

Also she’s just mad that her good friend Hilary didn’t get to do what Trump is doing:

It’s pretty ethereal when you see one do that and the way they fly is literally silent. I have woods behind my place that has at least one owl in it so I see them from time to time.