NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
He wants the petrol stations to reduce their profits? Haha, good luck. He'll need it.
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He wants the petrol stations to reduce their profits? Haha, good luck. He'll need it.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
The letter is OK until the last section you quote.
I'm starting to find this kind of attitude common in Green groups. Not just Insulate Britain. I'm finding it in my area. It shows a contempt for ordinary people. The either 100per cent for them or your against them is common view from those who hold Green ideas.
So someone like me who is sympthatic it puts me off. I've found this kind of attitude personally aggravating.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Anti-fascists tend to block fascist marches, which is directly achieving the literal aim of their protest. IB want the government to insulate homes, blocking roads has nothing whatsoever to do with this. If anti-fascists started blcoking randoms on the M25 everyone would think WTF are they doing?
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Pretty sure that anti-fascists stick to kicking fascists' heads in, as far as I know they don't go out of their way to inconvenience non-fascists.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
At least they made their boilers run on a timer…
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think any Anti fascist groups hector the public to join up or they are complicit in genocide if they don't.
I personally don't have a problem with Insulate Britain blocking roads.
I do have a problem with their letter to the British public as I've already posted.
I personally don't have a problem with Insulate Britain blocking roads.
I do have a problem with their letter to the British public as I've already posted.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
lots of non-fascists were inconvenienced the day of waterloo as the station was shut. as was charing cross. on the poll tax riot i encountered an auld posh couple done up to the nines (man with crest on blazer etc) who asked what was going on. i said 'it's a riot' to which the woman replied 'they can't do that, they'll make us late for the opera'.
sadly people will be inconvenienced by lots of things.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
You should have said “I’ll just pop over and ask them if they can tone it down for a bit..”
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's always the way, you think of the perfect riposte 31 years 8 months after the eventYou should have said “I’ll just pop over and ask them if they can tone it down for a bit..”
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
At least the poll tax rioters didn't base their protest solely on stopping people getting into opera houses. That would have been about as meaningful as IB blocking roundabouts.
ska invita
back on the other side
is this true? I thought their demands went well beyond any Tory manifesto pledges?
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I don’t expect much sense from them. I had a post pop up on Fb earlier where they were described as ‘political prisoners’.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Poor comparison, unless the anti-fascists told the old couple to join them or be complicit in genocide.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the anti-fascists famously at waterloo on 12.9.92, the poll tax riot 31.3.90
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Well I was barely older than 5 years when any of that happened, so forgive me for mixing up the dates during a period in which I was mostly dribbling. But my point still stands, I don't believe that those involved threw out carelessly-written open letters accusing the general public of complicity in genocide. Having to take a small detour around a fashie getting their skull boxed in is going to be received much differently than encountering someone whose actual short-term goal involves stopping you from wherever you're going.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the post i addressed said nothing about letters, so i wasn't dealing with that at all. if you want your point about this letter to stand take it up with someone who has taken issue with it.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
I see they're invoking AIDS victims now. Also doubling down on the genocide enabling, and the government is engaging in "a crime against humanity" by failing to summarily stuff everyone's home with sheets of Kingspan.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
So you are walking back your defence of the silly "anti-fascists also inconvenienced people so therefore IB are justified" nonsense I take it?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i said nothing of the sort. disappointing to see you invent quotes.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
It's called a paraphrase, I use quote boxes for actual quotes. But you know this, of course.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's an invented paraphrase in that it doesn't reflect anything i have said. it is a confection of your devising rather than a reflection of my writing. to be plain, it is a lie.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
It's not anything I've attributed to you, in fact. If you read more carefully you'll see that I'm criticising you for defending it, not for saying it. Since you're not stupid, I have to wonder whether you are now lying.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Just looked about and I assume this is what you mean Insulate Britain response to the solidarity rally | Insulate Britain and for those that can't be arsed to look, its this bit at the end, "We don’t know if we will win, but we can no longer afford to lose. As the great Larry Kramer, founder of ACT UP, screamed, as gay men died in their thousands from Aids: “get in the streets or you’re gonna fucking die."
Their social media accounts (and XR's) are a proper torrent of abuse and dickhead comments aimed at them, predictable, but quite depressing tbh.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
if you're paraphrasing - summarising - what people say why not summarise what people have said instead of inventing bits? just a thought like. i'm not defending the paraphrase in 682 because i didn't express those sentiments
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Another 9 have been summoned to appear at the High Court on 14th Dec.
17 still waiting on being summoned.
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17 still waiting on being summoned.
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