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Everything about this Saudi torture murder is making me sick to my stomach.


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What am I missing here? It's pretty fucking far from being the worst thing they'll get away with in return for their lovely money.


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It's awful, but how is it any different to what America has been doing in the middle east for 30 years?

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It's awful, but how is it any different to what America has been doing in the middle east for 30 years?


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Lonewolves wrote:
It's awful, but how is it any different to what America has been doing in the middle east for 30 years?


Hello, Mr Milne!

It just fascinates me as to what people will take notice of and what they don't.

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You are too woke for most people. I’ve seen the light, this isn’t a story at all. You go explain it to his bereved fiance and family, you insufferable prick.


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You are too woke for most people. I’ve seen the light, this isn’t a story at all. You go explain it to his bereved fiance and family, you insufferable prick.

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It's awful


Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion.

It's not that this isn't a story, it certainly is. I just don't understand why it's more of a story than millions starving in Yemen in part thanks to Great Britain.

But nice personal insults from someone who I consider a friend!

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Except I wasn't trying to deflect attention away from it, it's horrible and awful and deserves media attention. I genuinely am fascinated with what gets traction in the media and what doesn't.

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The Yemen stuff is being covered in some media, I've seen it on C4 news and in the Guardian etc

I think what makes this bigger in people's minds is that he was a journalist who had written for Western Press and been on the BBC and so on. It's the whole Monkeysphere thing.

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Even with a regime as evil as Saudi Arabia, there's something uniquely horrific about someone going to their country's embassy and inside being murdered by the regime.


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I've just seen this posted on Twitter and it's a day old. I promise I've only just seen it! :o

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... -not-yemen

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Close one. Walked past a woman in a red dress so I punched the next guy in a suit and booked it. Operator!

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I mopped the wooden kitchen floor with a dilute bleach solution. That was an error, wasn't it?


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I mopped the wooden kitchen floor with a dilute bleach solution. That was an error, wasn't it?


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That’ll be fine, unless it’s gone rancid, in which case it’ll be very unpleasant but still harmless I think. Not much can grow in salted butter.


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Wow. I’m really impressed with POTUS’s action to sanction the suspects of the Khashoggi murder, by revoking their visas. That’ll teach ‘em.

And now it’s bsck to flogging the Saudi’s more weapons. Murder is only murder, but business is business.


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I see we are gearing up to "argue about the poppy symbol" season. I feel that the poppy has been hijacked as a form of nationalism*, now, and I'm not at all comfortable with that.Which is why I won't wear one.

*I also find the "Help For Heroes" thing unsettling as elevating anyone who has been in the army to hero status doesn't seem right. A step too far in the direction of the US I fear.

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Even organisations who you would expect to respect what it's all meant to be about seem to have lost the fucking plot. It's all "a river of a million poppies" or, as I half heard on the news this morning, "a giant six metre poppy!", trying to outdo last year like it's Christmas decorations or something. I guess it's because the events are passing from living memory and soon it'll probably be just another yearly festival, detached from any real meaning at all.

But then again those who did fight in the wars would probably think that struggling to get people to solemnly remember what it was like when there were regular all out wars between large countries is rather an unexpectedly nice problem for their grandchildren to have.


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I see we are gearing up to "argue about the poppy symbol" season. I feel that the poppy has been hijacked as a form of nationalism*, now, and I'm not at all comfortable with that.Which is why I won't wear one.


Yes, I'm increasingly uncomfortable with gaudy displays and anything other than a quiet token of respect and the formal civic religion event at the Cenotaph. But as those with a direct connection to the world wars pass away, we're going to lose that connection. Memorial Day in the US is now just a big party.


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... like it's Christmas decorations or something.


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I usually wear a white poppy but even these are controversial now for some reason.

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Lonewolves wrote:
I usually wear a white poppy but even these are controversial now for some reason.


They were somewhat designed to be controversial, to be fair.

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https://twitter.com/BBCWiltshire/status/1054665029788721153


That's awful. Aboslutely nothing about it makes me pause and reflect. The Windsor Castle display a few years back, with the thousands of poppies pouring out over the walls, looked genuniely moving (I only saw pictures) and, as all art should, caused an emotional response in the viewer.


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That Poppy tree is vile. Has dignity died with the veterans?


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https://twitter.com/BBCWiltshire/status/1054665029788721153


That's awful. Aboslutely nothing about it makes me pause and reflect. The Windsor Castle display a few years back, with the thousands of poppies pouring out over the walls, looked genuniely moving (I only saw pictures) and, as all art should, caused an emotional response in the viewer.


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I don't wear a poppy. Cos I hate having stuff pinned to me. I don't do badges or anything like that. I always put a quid in if I see a poppy box though.


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I have a small enamel poppy pin, that normally I forget to wear. Think I've always donated though, if not me directly, then through giving my kids money to put in at school.

Those huge displays are awful. I know they've been trying to create something bigger due to the 100th anniversary this year, but the tone is wrong.

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