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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 18h
Because of the racism in posts like the one you show?
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bloody hell, if even they won’t have it …
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a UN Resolution which recommended partition.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mandate Palestine was European imperialism. The imperial power did its best to stop Jewish refugees adding to the number of Jews always living in their homeland. Israel was established in spite of European imperialism.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whatever Zionism is, Arab ethno-nationalism played an equal part in a land dispute made more grim by nationalism, like others before it Israel/Palestine is of a kind with eg Greece vs Turkey. Check out how many Greeks and Turks were expelled 1918-23. But somehow Israel is seen as uniquely bad hm?
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I heard about his exciting social media game…then found it was 75% shameless retweets (at least on the day I looked).
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Many countries see themselves as ethnic homelands, eg the neighbouring Arab countries that drove out hundreds of thousands of Jews in the 1950s and 60s. Arab ethno-nationalism has contributed to the evil state of Israel/Palestine today, but is ignored. Funnily enough it’s only the Jews to blame!
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Palestinians wanted the whole of the land ‘at the expense of another people’, Jewish people who already lived there. They could have accepted a Jewish state and an Arab state. It‘s a C20th land dispute worsened by ethnic and religious rivalry, like others in the area (Greece/Turkey/Armenia).
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is it a glaring contradiction that Nicola wants to leave the multi-national union that Scotland is currently in, so Scotland can be free to make all its own laws...but also wants to join the EU where Scottish law would have to follow EU law?
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They could avoid arrest and save wasting their time and police time, by just demonstrating against Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the settler extremists in the West Bank.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No, it's not unprecendeted. There is a long history of left wing anti-semitism, there's been plenty of stuff like this before.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not sure about that last bit
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Might have a certain gruesome appeal as a way to feel better about oneself.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
yeah, and vice versa
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is this a satire designed to put people off your cause?
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That was 11 years ago. Is that still his attitude now?
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Vote UKIP - get mass deportations'. None of your mealy-mouthed 'remigration'.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oli Dugmore didn't advocate the same kindly 'baseline' for the elderly unwell when he wrote lately in the New Statesman: "Assisted dying would appear to mitigate some of those problems, curbing the pensions bill, the NHS bill and the care bill." Maybe he was just being provocative but even so...
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The origins of Israel were very different from it's current crimes. It was founded during a civil war with both sides attacking each other. UN Resolution 181 recommended partition into a Jewish state and a Palestinian one. This recognised the historic existence of Jewish people in Palestine.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(Not necessarily individual DWP staff. If you got a scouser on the phone you knew you were on a winner.)
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having fried my brains for fifteen years as a welfare rights adviser trying to get people money they were entitled to, I would say we have a system that asks claimants, 'why are you asking about this, are you trying to fiddle something?'
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I got a tracker mortgage 0.6% above base rate in 2007. I got an annuity in 2025 when returns were the highest for years. I can only apologise.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I twice heard Starmer, when LOTO, say unprompted in interviews, ‘I know who I am’. With the implication it was no-one else’s business. Said it in a defiant ‘you’ll never get me to talk, copper’ tone. Quite odd.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s nuts that this is labelled ‘intolerance’. In petty revenge I have clicked ‘show more like this’. Somewhere Jay Graber shivers slightly as he feels a tiny disturbance in the force.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Had our morning assemblies in Norwich Cathedral. The headmaster used the high pulpit, from which he once spotted the cathedral choir being led quietly down a side aisle, then leapt down to have a blazing row with the choirmaster. His academic gown flapping wildly as he went added a nice touch.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am stealing this for my next pub chat
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
0-40 young, 40-80 middle, 80-120 old. Says 68 year old optimist.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They believe in "the replacement of NATO with a collective security system including Russia as a member country". And the tooth fairy, presumably.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please make similar helpful observations about poor Norwich, at the Etihad tonight in the League Cup.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ie there were extremists and atrocities on both sides. The Arab countries didn't attack the infant Israel to 'ensure justice'. They wanted to destroy Israel, whose legitimacy they had never accepted,
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Jewish people were pre-emptively fighting for survival 'The civil war in Palestine became a war between states with the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948. The following morning, the regular armies of neighbouring Arab states – Egypt, Transjordan and Syria – invaded the region'
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What happens between student age biddability and boomers fighting in the cinema over phones I don’t know.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes, tho things seem better if you start young. My local students can be quite timid and look shocked if I make a request. But I try to give them an easy out (carry on the fun but less noisy). Also giving them left over food & beer (nachos etc, no cooking needed) from my having people round helps!
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My street gets lots of new students in September. They naturally want some fun, often with loud music outdoors. When I go at 10pm to ask if they could turn it down a bit they usually rush to turn it off completely and go indoors. I have to persuade them it’s ok to carry on, just a bit quieter pls.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hopefully next time those proposing change will listen to the medical colleges and disability organisations they were deaf to this time. I know proponents of medically assisted death really believe it will end some suffering - but they need to be honest about its limitations and downsides too.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And possibly all undone in ten or fifteen years? North Yorkshire Council (from a previous round) is now c100 miles E-W, and 70 miles N-S, by road. You can already see the briefing paper for New Local Councils 2035: "The needs of the High Dales population differ markedly from those of Filey'.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Arrested because the sign said support Palestine Action. Not arrested for opposing genocide. The cause is just: no need to make stuff up.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No, read what I said. Not that racists are justified. That millions of people are concerned about irregular immigration for non-racist reasons. They see that all societies have a contract where citizenship and it’s benefits depend on obeying laws. Calling them all racists just feeds Reform etc
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I agree. I have mentioned both these points myself in this thread.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes, legal immigration is controlled already (and coming down massively but Labour don‘t tell people that) And obvs the blackshirts are racist thugs, not caring about rules and process. And also millions of ppl, inc immigrant heritage, see the boats breaking the rigorous rules they have to obey.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Godwin's Law strikes again.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No, don't patronise people. People can think for themselves. They care about small boats because they think that immigration should be regulated and controlled by their government. 80%+ share this view and don't hate immigrants.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Like it or no, millions do care about small boats. I argue with friends that the boats are the same number who previously came via the channel tunnel. And that the world is so unequal that some people will always break the rules in hope of a better life. The friends agree…but it still bugs them.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Voluntarily, I should add, as he seemed to be proposing. Carry on, mate.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If Danny did go ‘under the water’ would that be …so bad?
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It‘s always the ethicists
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gives you that sense of freedom to really feel how much you hate these smug bastards. Like, you always knew intellectually what they were, but it seemed pointless to expend emotional energy on them.
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markwindmill.bsky.social @markwindmill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Say more?
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