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Robert West
@robertjwest.bsky.social
Based at UCL. Researching tobacco use, human motivation and application of AI to behavioural science. Co-founder of Behaviour Change Wheel and COM-B model.
I think this conversation has been instructive and apologise to the anonymous person or bot for allowing them to illustrate important features of self-delusion. Today I will be demonstrating to plead with our government to show humanity to the hunger strikes. And this person or both will be blocked.
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The charge of assaulting a police officer relates to a different group of people. The person in that case is not on hunger strike. But again, this person illustrates another tactic - conflation with apparently hard evidence.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Notice, the continuing reliance on insults and deflection. The discussion was about people on hunger strike, whom this person (assuming it's not a bot) appeared to imply had been violent and were seeking special treatment. This is all standard fare but instructive to see it in action.
December 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
For anyone else who may be reading this, you may notice 1) the use of insult, and 2) deflection from the original facts in question. This happens when a party to a disagreement finds engaging with material facts too aversive to engage with.
December 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
No one can surely be in any doubt that these people are being made an example of to deter direct action against the UK's complicity in genocide. It is now a simple dichotomy: Are you for or against the UK government's support for Israel's ongoing slaughter and displacement of Palestinians?
December 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
To be clear. None of the hunger strikers are being accused of violence. The reported violence of PA obviously falls far short of anything that would normally be thought of as terrorism. It is reported and not confirmed. And the accused are being denied the usual rights of remand prisoners.
December 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM