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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · 29d

So much of what’s disturbing about politics currently - the nihilism, conspiratism, extreme (and delusional) confidence in state power, the weird racism, and most of all this mania for violence - leads back to the continual murder continually underwritten by our governments for nearly 2 years

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · 29d

I’ve lost track of the number of unselfconsciously extreme arguments for the use of deadly force against civilians I’ve seen over the last year, largely from the right of centre but also from the left. Usually they’re distorted versions of rhetoric first posed by the Israeli govt & its apologists

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · 29d

The US’s ongoing assassination wave obviously draws on longer trends, but it can’t, imo, be disentangled from the past two years of moral & legal norms about violence being publicly trashed.

You can’t have nonviolent dialogue at home & murderous nihilism overseas. This kind of war always comes home

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · 29d

recently found out archaeological evidence suggests Jerusalem, across much of the period covered in the Hebrew Bible, may have had as few as 400 inhabitants, therefore meaning many biblical events fall under the remit of the reknowned adage: "try that in a small town"

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Alternatively, if you take the UK at their word, the below images depict the single largest terrorist action in British history

madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Sep 6

One of the largest acts of civil disobedience in British history is currently underway in Parliament Square, with over 1000 protestors risking arrest & jail time as ‘terrorists’ for public display of seven words:

I OPPOSE GENOCIDE. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION.

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Mike Higgins, who is blind and wheelchair bound, has joined today’s protest against the Palestine Action ban after being arrested at the last.

He, and over 1000 others, risk arrest as a “terrorist” & up to 14 years in prison for displaying seven words:

I OPPOSE GENOCIDE. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Sep 6

One of the largest acts of civil disobedience in British history is currently underway in Parliament Square, with over 1000 protestors risking arrest & jail time as ‘terrorists’ for public display of seven words:

I OPPOSE GENOCIDE. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨BREAKING: Defend Our Juries leaders arrested in clear violation of international law

This is a terrifying example of UK authorities’ willingness to use authoritarian practices.

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Five members of group supporting Palestine Action ‘arrested in police raids’

Defend Our Juries said a number of its spokespeople were held ahead of plans to announce a fresh mass protest against the ban on Palestine Action.

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Aug 2

The number of children a single BBC investigation found to have been killed by IDF snipers (90+) is more than double the number of children killed on October 7 & falls within the lower estimates of the number of children killed by Hamas over the organisation's entire history

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Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · Jul 21

And we’ve been very much across this on press day. 👀👀👀

madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 19

The UK in 2025: it’s now a terrorist offence, carrying a sentence of up to fourteen years in prison, to hold this cartoon from Private Eye

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 19

The UK in 2025: it’s now a terrorist offence, carrying a sentence of up to fourteen years in prison, to hold this cartoon from Private Eye

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 18

Imagine if Charlie Brown had hoes…

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