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Shaun Lawson Profile picture
@shaunjlawson
Sep 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Congratulations once again to all those who either sat out the 2016 election or voted Green or Libertarian (thereby helping Trump) because MUH HILLARY AND TRUMP ARE JUST THE SAME MUH WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE MUH 🙄🙄🙄

Wonder if they're still thinking that?
And oh yes, my ire goes in both directions. Congratulations, too, to all those who didn't vote Labour in 2019, 2017 and/or 2015, then whine about the ongoing destruction of Britain.

Folks: IT'S ON YOU.
Bottom line? In ANY two-party system, when it's a choice of the Tories/Republicans v the other side, YOU VOTE FOR THE OTHER SIDE.

It's not difficult. It's not rocket science. And doing anything else enables the hard right and even further right to wreck millions of lives.
All those women now terrified of losing their reproductive rights.

All those people who'll lose healthcare altogether.

All those families terrified for their kids every day - who now have no chance of seeing gun control ever brought in.

All those voters disenfranchised.
Muh it doesn't make a difference they're just the same

YES IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE YOU MORONS. It makes a MASSIVE difference.

And you know who understood that better than anyone?Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A truly great American, and bulwark against tyranny. Rest in Power Justice🙏

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Shaun Lawson Profile picture
May 5
OK, let's deal with this. It's too easy and trite to dismiss it as antisemitism - it certainly comes up a lot.

Labour Friends of Israel was founded in 1957. Less than a decade after Israel's creation: which a Labour government had a HUGE amount to do with.
I think the number 1 reason Israel-Palestine is such a constantly huge issue on the British left and in British politics generally is just that: our large historic role.

Yet back in 1957, Israel barely enjoyed any real US support. That didn't follow for another decade.
It, along with Britain and France, had just shamed itself in front of the world during the Suez crisis: when an apoplectic Eisenhower said sanctions would be imposed unless there was an immediate withdrawal.

Which promptly followed, with Britain especially humiliated.
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May 3
Yes, that claim was completely false. But:

1. No, it wasn't the primary claim or any kind of claim given it was completely debunked before the war

2. You don't seem aware of the history of Iraq annexing Kuwait, them being driven back out, or of the whole of the 1990s!
The reason we know Iraq had WMD (including chemical weapons) is:

1. Saddam used those chemical weapons against the Kurds at Halabja and against the Iranians in the 1980-88 war

2. Ourselves, the US, France, West Germany and the Netherlands had sold them to him!
The WMD were destroyed in the mid-90s. However, Saddam pretended he hadn't - and executed his son-in-law when he told the world they had been.

Why did he do that? Because with Iraq completely crumbling, Saddam's only hope of survival lay in playing the regional 'strongman'.
Read 23 tweets
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Apr 28
The thing that shocks me about @simon_schama, a fellow alumni of the same school incidentally, is he's not just a brilliant historian with a majestic ability to explain complex events in rivetingly engaging ways people can identify with.

He's always - until now - been so HUMANE.
That was what echoed throughout so much of his work. His warmth, his humour, his empathy, his sheer humanity.

Now, it's completely gone missing. I would say I find it incomprehensible - but not quite. Here's why.
I fully understand the emotional connection so many Jews all around the world feel to Israel.

After what she went through in the Holocaust, my gran stopped believing in God - how in the world could she after what she'd experienced? - but became a fierce supporter of Israel.
Read 35 tweets
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Apr 12
Another man without the first damn clue what he's talking about.

When an icon as great and heroic as @Martina speaks, I listen.

She knows that women's spaces and women's sports are under grave threat. She also knows how unbelievably homophobic the entire discourse has become.
Martina = mensch. And all time legend.

Rothenberg = who?
And if I see one more inadequate, entitled, clueless male on this website come out with pathetic, condescending beyond belief, passive aggressive bullshit like:

"It's such a bummer"

"I'm so disappointed"

"It's so heartbreaking"

I am going to scream.
Read 19 tweets
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Jan 6
You pathetic, odious, vile little plankton.

Gary Neville won 8 Premier League titles, 2 Champions Leagues and 85 England caps.

You got relegated with Newcastle, relegated twice with QPR, handed Man City the title by assaulting three of their players, and won 1 England cap.
That one lousy England cap was as part of our worst team since 1993. The ONLY one not to qualify - and you weren't even good enough to be picked for it more than once.

In fact, you have MORE CONVICTIONS FOR VIOLENT CRIME than England caps, you absolute waste of skin.
Gary Neville can tell his grandkids about the absolutely magnificent career he had in the game.

You can tell yours about the time you stubbed a lit cigar out in a youth player's eye.

Or when you violently assaulted a teammate, leaving him unconscious with a detached retina.
Read 8 tweets
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Dec 30, 2023
Today, in the world of sensible centrist liberal media 🙄🙄🙄

1. Thomas L. Friedman is worried for the world and tries to explain what's happening to it. He explains what's happening to it by... saying THIS. Image
Yes folks. The difference between Dubai and Gaza isn't that one is staggeringly rich in natural resources and the other is a rock. And it isn't that one is independent and the other has been illegally occupied and blockaded for so long.

It's 'visionary leadership'.
I'll tell you one of the very many things wrong with this awful world, Tom. It's that racist Orientalists like you - utterly incapable of EVER treating Arab people as equals - get given such a high profile platform to pump out such constant ignorant beyond imagination drivel.
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