God if that’s enough to “have drug issues” then all the kids I went to high school with should have been shipped off to rehab. Perhaps the US is different but in the UK passing out drunk at a festival/in the park on a Friday night is a rite of passage

Honestly the constant demonisation of Israel by the Left and Muslim world makes things worse. Many Israelis are genuinely frightened of annihilation, and that makes it very easy for shitgibbons like Bibi to prey on people’s fears and promise to make them strong and safe. If the disestablishment of the state was firmly…

Get off my lawn!

Why is this a story?

It’s an East-Coast Jewish accent which is what makes this post kind of fucked up

#FreeJuliansCat

Thing is that it couldn’t ever happen legally, so he’s being disingenuous by saying it. He can say it knowing it will be popular but there’s no risk of it happening. You’d literally need a new act of parliament, and the chances of it passing in peacetime are zero.

The idea of requisitioning houses is ridiculous though, it’s completely illegal and he knows it. Saying it is just grandstanding and it made me respect him less tbh.

The government has actively resisted updates to public safety regulations for years because they’re so deep in the pockets of the private sector housing companies (the ones they’ve flogged off all the council houses to). So at a national level there are shockingly few fire regulations, and a lot of the existing ones…

I hear that, but also bear in mind that Prince William lives in a palace in the same borough as Grenfell - angry comparisons were being drawn very quickly and presumably needed to be headed off.

Also, the issue seems partly to have been that the gas main was located in the fucking stairwell, turning the only escape route into a fiery death trap.

Sinn Féin never take up their seats, so never vote. Therefore they don’t count in terms of coalitions/voting majorities. This has been their policy for like a hundred years and it’s not going to change, it’s sort of the core of what they stand for.

Chi Onwurah’s majority was almost 15,000 (very comfortable), not 1,500 (which would be considered narrow here)

You will notice that nobody was shot, so gun control laws seem to be working quite well.

So murdering civilians is ok provided they’re Israeli ones? Did my friend’s little sister, who was murdered in her bed, deserve to die because she was born in Israel? FFS, I’m the first to say that Israel needs to sort its shit out and come to a two-state solution but in no universe is terrorism targeting civilians…

Sadly these kind of vehicular attacks/stabbings have become the norm in Israel and I suspect will become the norm in other Western countries. They’re almost impossible to prevent and the psychological effect is still huge even when the death toll is low.

Though, there have been plenty of female Palestinian terrorists, so I think it’s more complex than men = bad. Though yeah, male violence is a huge part of it.

right, especially as it feels like if anything, society is going the other way

Oh wow I did not know that. I thought they had racist bullshit ‘Children of Ham’ ideas

Glad I’m not just going crazy. I read the article as implying that Atwood just didn’t think about POC but in my memory I was sure she had