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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 1d

I’m checking out of this site for the next 6 months while travelling. Maybe the world will look different when we get back.

Different in a good way, that is.

Laters 👋

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 2d

They aren’t the only players tearing at the ‘global order’.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 2d

History rewritten. Terrorist state predicted.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 2d

My uninformed guess would be a highly competent espionage capability, a very well embedded lobby armed with the a-word and kompromat. Lots of that.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 2d

Pot calling kettle black.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

I’m very clear on the differences between Zionism, Judaism and Israel. It’s not me offering conflation between any of the 3 independent variables I can hold in my head. I’m sick of conflation, people shouting ‘bigot’ & dropping cleverly worded a-bombs. Without Zionism Israel wouldn’t exist.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

Ah. But ChatGPT is an LLM, not a sentient thinking mind. It simply regurgitates what it ‘learned’ by scanning text. It’s ‘deduction’ is a set of weighted values in a large network of nodes. LLMs don’t do nuance or comprehension, they do bad photocopying.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

The Israeli government gave themselves permission to to occupy territory and settle it. That is what ‘approved’ means. It doesn’t legitimise the act in international law, it ‘legalises’ it in Israeli law.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

It is not my intent to offend & I will continue to oppose Zionism. Whatever learned discourse and tearoom chatter informs your pluralist Zionism, it’s hard to ignore its uglier manifestation as a colonial and supremacist political project surrounded by spilt blood.

GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

They’re all just bidding on an existing trend line. 440,000 non-UK citizens left in 2024, trending up. It’s too easy to claim some fake policy did the heavy lifting when it’ll turn out to be the hostile environment which did the damage.

GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

‘Government approved’

🤦🏻‍♂️

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

The next election won’t be fought from the centre ground. It’ll be fought from the wings, over the heads of centrists (inc Blue Labour). The challenge is not letting that fight be based on grievance while centrist parties smugly tut and hope voters get a dose of recalcitrance on polling day.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

Settlers? They are violent, state-enabled terrorists who happen to be members of the same cult.

If Zionism were pluralistic there would be widespread consensus for a single state and peaceful co-existence based on equal rights, not apartheid & 750,000 squatters in a militarised West Bank.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

To the people saying ‘by all means protest, but do it lawfully’:

Stop gaslighting us. Have you not noticed the walls closing in on peaceful protest?

That’s what the protests are about, *because* the gov is trying to restrict our rights.

Police to get more anti-protest powers as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’

Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of repeated demonstrations to restrict protests

www.theguardian.com

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

Seems you haven’t.

‘Deliberative’

Select committees are ‘hold to account’ meetings, not policy development meetings.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

‘Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system’

Pointing the blunderbuss in entirely the wrong direction.

If you want to unlock building, you have to end land banking and force through or repossess land with existing permissions.

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system

Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government

www.theguardian.com

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

🤷‍♂️

GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 4d

Farage <licks window>

Badenough <copies window lick>

Starmer <tongue out, heads to window>

Polanski “let them lick windows. We want to tackle inequality”

GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

He did. But few will buy it while his Cabinet insist on doing stuff which looks like a lite version of what he rails against. Plus, how long have the stable doors flapped while supporters waited for this speech?

GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

‘Eventually’ doing *all* the heavy lifting…

‘My approach will pay off eventually, says Kemi Badenough’

My approach will pay off eventually, says Kemi Badenoch

The Conservative leader defends her leadership as the party's conference begins in Manchester

www.bbc.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

The collective fear of being first to arrive at weird Uncle’s annual jamboree. Waiting for cover of darkness.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

In the case of cults, we will agree to disagree and leave it there.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

Quite.

The only tiny nuance I can see is violence against people vs (by good fortune) violence against property.

But even then… not all violence vs people is ‘terrorism’ & not all violence vs property isn’t.

We live in a muddled world of propaganda and prejudices.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear; zionism isn’t a nation or a religion. Equivalencing Zionist to Pakistani is a problem. So I get your sentiment, but only bc I’m feeling generous.

ps - the dangers of conflating Zionists with Israelis is the entire problem the thread is about.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 3d

It’s irrelevant because she won’t need to deport anyone to hit the number. 440k non-UK citizens left last year & it’s trending up. She plans to claim the natural increase from hostile environment as a ‘win’.

Clickbait politics from an idiot politician.

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