Totally - our class system is so complex and bizarre and has so much more to it than money. I was brought up very middle class, though as I got older it became increasingly apparent that it was very much "keeping up with the Jones's" and compared to the other people in my school & universities I was looked down on for…

I had this with my ex even from FAMILY members and it infuriated me. Not least because it presumes that superficial appearence should make or break a relationship. Then when I broke up with him, people tried to cheer me up by saying that he was ugly. It was horrible.

"But that's not what she meaaaaaaaaaaant!"

Why why why why why do we look to actors and actresses to also be champions of political causes? Can we not idolise activists even if they don't look beautiful?

Look, nobody cares about your credentials. I haven't listed my qualifications on here because it's the internet and it means jack shit. I was never trying to argue with you about the role of the bombing, you launched into that all on your own. I don't care that you went to Russia and saw a weird film. Your patronizing…

Ok, firstly, fuck you. You don't know my academic background. War is brutal, horrific, and violent, I know that. But various historians such as Hoyt and Wainstock along with military leaders such as General Douglas MacArthur and General Curtis Lemay have challenged the view that it was necessary. Personally, I DO…

Like I said, it's great that you haven't heard that, but I have. Whether they were yahoos or not is irrelevant - the average person joining up to ISIS is young, impressionable and troubled. They certainly don't have military history knowledge - they are civilians.

That's great that you don't, but I have come across it having grown up near an army base. Those people definitely exist. Plus, the various people under any internet comment section about the Middle East who's solution to the complex problems there is to "just nuke it."

Omfg, just stop. https://www.gov.uk/browse/citizen…

Right? I don't even understand where they were going with that, I wasn't sure if I was missing some pop reference.

Some definitely do, or at least see it as something that was necessary. When I was at school, I lived near an army base, and a significant amount of the teenagers there, who then joined up straight out of school, were proud of some pretty nasty acts of violence. Plus, there was a scandal at the time when various…

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Because that's not what they think they're going to. ISIS propaganda is very effective and it offers young people the chance to feel like they're part of some glorious moment in history, fighting against evil and corruption. Just like Westerners idolize things like the French revolution and the bombing of Hiroshima…

Well I imagine my white skin had a lot to do with it.

Deradicalization works regularly, far more than gay therapy, and the therapy methods used are often very similar to the ones used to reform child soldiers in Central Africa.

I would say most British teenagers have their own passports - school trips to France begin in primary school for as little as £10.

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It's not really that hard, I flew from the UK to Greece with a boyfriend when we were both underage and nobody batted an eyelid.

You're forgetting that many of these people genuinely feel like this is heroic freedom fighting which is necessary against the West. In the same way Westerners idolize or conveniently ignore acts of violence we feel were against evil or corruption - the French Revolution, the bombing of Dresden, hell, even Hiroshima…

I once came downstairs to see a terrified looking babysitter watching my four year old sister furiously humping an oversized teddy bear. Turns out she was showing the sitter what the dog likes to do.