Continuation - Ukraine erupts in riots and general strikes

[dudalb]

http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/news/2013_12_25/British-MP-calls-Putin-man-of-the-year-9453/

George Galloway counts as hard left

Just about what you would expect from Gorgeous George.
The Political Left in the UK generally consider Galloway to be a nutcase and an embarrassment.

 

[LSSBB]

After several failed attempts in the past, yesterday Alexei Mozgovoi was assassinated. One of the few people in this circus who took the idea of a "people's republic" seriously and had the brain (his callsign) to make it happen. Before madness broke out, he was a poet and singer. RIP.

Some of his poetry, for posterity:

"Too many women go to restaurants. What kind of example do they show to their children? From now on, we will arrest all women we find in restaurants and cafes."

 

[magellan]

http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/news/2013_12_25/British-MP-calls-Putin-man-of-the-year-9453/

George Galloway counts as hard left

That was end of 2013. Assad was the new new hitler back then, brutally supressing ISIS freedom fighters. Putin and lavrov obama and kerry had brokered a deal with assad to destroy his chemical weapons.
A year earlier Mitt Romney was laughed at for suggesting russia might be a rival.

In the meantime AI has released a report accusing both sides of torturing prisoners, so I would take the "confessions" of the two russian captives with a grain of salt. Especially since they stressed that no russian troops where involved in combat action in east ukraine when questioned by the OSCE (A line in the report most western media somehow overlooked)

 

[caveman1917]

Just about what you would expect from Gorgeous George.

Not just Galloway, I remember several people arguing that preventing a crime against peace through diplomacy is an act that could be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize. As the Nuremberg judgment recalls, aggression is "the supreme international crime, differing only from other crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".

The Political Left in the UK generally consider Galloway to be a nutcase and an embarrassment.

And you know this how?

 

[funk de fino]

It's a given

 

[caveman1917]

It's a given

What's a given? The thing about the political left and Galloway?

 

[magellan]

Not just Galloway, I remember several people arguing that preventing a crime against peace through diplomacy is an act that could be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize.

You remember wrong.
Obama brokered the Syria deal.
Putin was always the new new hitler.
Assad never was.
Nobody laughed at Romney in 2012.

 

[Childlike Empress]

You remember wrong.
Obama brokered the Syria deal.
Putin was always the new new hitler.
Assad never was.
Nobody laughed at Romney in 2012.

Слава Україні! Героям слава!

 

[caveman1917]

Some of his poetry, for posterity:

He even commented on this particular piece of poetry:

Nobody is going to arrest anyone. A court case was held on rapists. But now there is an outcry due to the fact that women are not allowed to drink an extra glass of vodka. This is not the proposal nor were these orders. It was an attempt to push the idea that it is time to think a little bit about morality

 

[LSSBB]

He even commented on this particular piece of poetry:

Yes, quite the poet.



ETA: Wait, did you think that statement makes him look better??

 

[jimbob]

Just about what you would expect from Gorgeous George.
The Political Left in the UK generally consider Galloway to be a nutcase and an embarrassment.

Indeed, and there are plenty of reasons for this. But he does show that at least some of the hard left like Putin.

 

[jimbob]

It's a given

And I am sure that a quick search would find plenty of quotes suppoorting this.

 

[caveman1917]

ETA: Wait, did you think that statement makes him look better??

I understand the confusion. Consider for a moment the, admittedly crazy, notion that some person may be interested in whether a given claim is actually true rather than merely thinking along the lines of "who cares whether it's true, just as long as the mud sticks". Such a person could conceivably then have a motive for correcting the claim from "ordered the arrest of women in restaurants" to "is a victim-blaming conservative" that would actually not be predicated on how it makes him look, better or otherwise. The mind-boggling nature of such a line of thought is understandably cause for the requirement of iterated punctuation, luckily keeping it at only doubling, which you should be commended for.

 

[LSSBB]

I understand the confusion. Consider for a moment the, admittedly crazy, notion that some person may be interested in whether a given claim is actually true rather than merely thinking along the lines of "who cares whether it's true, just as long as the mud sticks". Such a person could conceivably then have a motive for correcting the claim from "ordered the arrest of women in restaurants" to "is a victim-blaming conservative" that would actually not be predicated on how it makes him look, better or otherwise. The mind-boggling nature of such a line of thought is understandably cause for the requirement of iterated punctuation, luckily keeping it at only doubling, which you should be commended for.

Are you saying it's not a matter of his attitude toward women, it's only a matter if he actually put a Neanderthal law in place or not?

 

[caveman1917]

Are you saying it's not a matter of his attitude toward women, it's only a matter if he actually put a Neanderthal law in place or not?

It's a matter of getting your facts right, nothing more and nothing less, how hard can this be to understand?

 

[LSSBB]

It's a matter of getting your facts right, nothing more and nothing less, how hard can this be to understand?

What fact did I not get right? I posted a statement by him and called it in jest an example of his poetry.Are you saying he did not make the statement?

 

[caveman1917]

What fact did I not get right? I posted a statement by him and called it in jest an example of his poetry.Are you saying he did not make the statement?

Rather, you pulled a statement by him out of context to make it appear as if he ordered arrests.

 

[LSSBB]

Rather, you pulled a statement by him out of context to make it appear as if he ordered arrests.

Where did I say that, oh Carnac the Magnificent? Or did you feel like accusing me of something on top of defending a misogynistic Putin point man? Is it the ends not the means, and the ends means ends of the hated West's influence?

 

[caveman1917]

Where did I say that, oh Carnac the Magnificent? Or did you feel like accusing me of something on top of defending a misogynistic Putin point man? Is it the ends not the means, and the ends means ends of the hated West's influence?

 

[LSSBB]

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