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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 4h
Maybe reputational damage, but in unstable times they have a massive military, food security, their own sources of fuel (less reliant on oil if invested more in renewables), relatively well protected borders that would not experience a land war, extreme wealth, and a hostile approach to immigrants.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 7h
There is no diplomacy any more, only deals and contracts done in the shadows. The contract with Europe got binned years ago. But he was elected for this - America first, the rest of the world can burn. Makes sense in an age of narcissism where people aren't just people, but brands to commodify.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To be fair, his party just called for the destruction of Israel as a country so they're hardly going to be rolling out the welcome mat.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But that isn't what Hamas wants. It has explicitly called for the death of all Jews for decades. It may have changed some of the charter language in the late 10s to make it more palatable from Jews to Zionists, but it means the same thing. So how is that going to work?
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You pointed to the UN resolution which was put forward by Russia when the UN was under the leadership of an actual Nazi. The motion was delegitimised and it was rescinded. Quite why a literal Nazi was put in charge of the UN after participating in WWII atrocities is a different question.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I agree, because this is now a party not just capable of, but has in reality ratified, racist policies and is calling for the destruction of another country and marginalisation of British citizens . No matter which end of the telescope we're looking through on this, it's bad.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Your actual solution here is?
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What has this got to do with stealing the land from Jews and genociding them - this can go on forever. If anything, the Roman Empire is to blame for all this shit.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But surely if you stay, you're campaigning on behalf of clearly racist policies. I now can't vote for them anymore in any good conscience because of this prioritising of racist politics over the environment. Tbh I'm gutted and now politically homeless.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But Jews have also lived on their land for millenia and were invaded, displaced, ethnically cleansed and genocides. So now what.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not really that interesting considering the Secretary General of the time was an actual Nazi.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've never been more disappointed in the Greens who I've supported so many times in the past, but I guess at least we know now they've been consumed from within by racists. A very ugly moment for British politics.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have gone the way of the Aussie greens - they've been showing their hand for a while.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dude, you're embarrassing yourself. Archeological, anthropological, written history, Roman history, Biblical history and the Quran all confirm it as the homeland of the Jewish people. Good lord.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reminds me of this.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Polanski will be binned as soon as he's outlived his usefulness.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It mustn't bc I know someone who moved there & she doesn't speak Hebrew.She is studying it now.It's tricky for sure just like not speaking the local language in any other country.You know you have to pass an English literacy test to become a citizen here right? Btw her landlord & friends are Muslim.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Obviously both are vital. Both should be possible. Both are what we should all work toward. But what was voted for wasn't that.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also I don't get what happens with the call to subsume Israel that they're supposed to 'move on' from. What is the strategy for its 9m inhabitants. This is important stuff, not policy for people to 'move on' from.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Green voter here. Zionism is Jewish people's right to self determination in their homeland yes? The party just voted against that, for the abolition of Israel & for telling Jewish members where they're allowed to worship. And you're on here telling Jewish Greens to move on. Crass at best.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If Zionism is Jewish people's right to self determination in the land from which they come & were themselves cleansed & displaced, ratifying Zionism is racism & Israel should not exist surely logically means Greens are pro ethnic cleansing of a minority and/or genocide? I don't get the disconnect.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's a poor reflection on our country that we have a party codifying the annihilation of an existing country & displacement or otherwise of its people (the one Palestine motion) & presuming to tell only their Jewish members where they are permitted to worship. Suppression of minorities is so 1933.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The evidence would seem to suggest that's not true. They just ratified the annihilation of an existing country (the one Palestinian state motion) and have told only their Jewish members where and where they cannot worship. I was a Green voter in the past but seriously this is just balls out racism.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Planet hate
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 04/10/2026
Me, hearing about a new faction in 1649:
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The new Eurostar fare is going to be a killer.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Are any of the panels streamed for student access?
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It was brilliantly curated. Our kid's portrait has pride of place.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As I haven't been on this site for months, seems weird you're digging around looking for something to criticise. Maybe take the call for global democracy to be held equally accountable for all atrocities at face value.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What? The post was about usurping global democracy, which is happening all over the place.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hope all other countries held to same standards. Who will be pressing charges for Sudan and the illegal war on Ukraine?
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He was only giving you a backhanded compliment - you were on the court after all.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In any respect, the law should apply equally to all committed relationships, not just those who have chosen a traditional route. This would be a welcome change in the UK. Many people choose not to marry but live and raise families together. They should have the same protections.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If a partner disputes the de facto relationship, you would have to supply supportint evidence of living together. But legal rights within the relationship are largely the same as if you were married. From memory I think it's from 1 or 2 years of living together.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
From recollection for Australia, there is no need of a separate piece of paper required upfront - the rights being equivalent to a de facto marriage exist in law and if needed to be confirmed such as for division of assets following a split , you simply provide evidence of joint bills, mortgage etc.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Equal rights for cohabiting partners as for marriages and civil partnerships.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
People shouldn't be required to have a civil partnership or a marriage for legal protection - the law should be there for all choices including cohabitation.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
20+ years of cohabiting here, and welcome the change; the UK is very behind on common law partner rights. We are also way behind countries such as US & Oz in limiting couples to be married in licensed venues only which then frequently locks them into expensive, exclusively contracted catering.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Between Only Connect and University Challenge, there's been a lot of shouting at the tele this evening.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ooh, standby for today's Wordle uproar like the great Caulk and Pshaw uprisings.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Arsenal lads standing on business.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It's a joy of a game. If only this mix was played against Argentina.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Me too!
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Grateful my dog has never partaken. His sister (owned by a friend) however...
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"all that anyone needs to imitate me is two soft boiled eggs and a bedroom voice." ♥️
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
That looks amazing!!
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Gosh, that and National Geographic were the only two mags my father subscribed to when we were kids. That's shocking news.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I can't stand seeing Partey on the pitch. He's been charged with 7 counts of rape; this is not a man who should be representing any team.
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Mind The Gap @shesellsseashells.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A reincarnated consumptive Victorian child locked in an attic by a wicked great aunt.
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