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Ha ha ha! So the fact that the "group" that he doesn't represent are currently being fired from their jobs for cheering this assassination.

Here you are saying "one individual does not, and cannot, be representative of a group" and then in the same post finish with saying that the FBI chief is a dsigrace because he's representing opinions from Trump. How does that work then according to your logic?

So when your mate Bob sings about "Death to the IDF" and you don't condemn it how do you explain that against your logic about groups? Sure one IDF pilot dropping a Mk82 on a bunch of Gazans doesn't represent the IDF.
Do you not see the irony of the right trying to get people “cancelled”, or fired, for holding opinions they don’t like? They are the ones who have got so wound up about “cancel culture” and the alleged erosion of free speech!

Anyone who makes remarks intended to incite division or cause actual harm deserve to lose their job. However many are being targeted just for holding another opinion. Like this is!

Jimmy Kimmel has lost his show after pressure from the authorities. He sent condolences to Charlie Kirk’s family and has spoken about the evil of division in society. He also mocks Trump and lays a lot of the blame at his door. Trump doesn’t tolerate criticism, has called for his sacking and posted celebratory comments last night. Whilst here! That’s sick!

I didn’t say that Patel represents the views of the FBI as a group. I said, and maintain, that he is allowing his partisanship to interfere in his job, thus making the FBI approach politically compromised.

I don’t have a mate called Bob. Nor do I have the slightest interest in the political views of any pop singer, especially the current ones who I know little to nothing about other than some headlines.

Of course any individual IDF pilot following orders and doing their duty doesn’t represent the IDF. Nor do the commanders, some of whom are critical. It’s their political masters who hold the responsibility.
 
You don't have to answer tbh.

I get that....what I think isn't important.

Just a short answer.

It comes down to what I think is coming down the pipe and who will be on your side and who won't. I don't make enemies with people I disagree with when I know which side of the trench they would ultimately be in.

The reasons I'm not for the war in Ukraine aren't out of affection for Putin....a figure I view largely dispassionately. But I do side with Musk even though I disagree with him somewhat on transhumanism and here and there on things. I recognize a warrior when I see one and when they also happen to be a billionaire willing to side with you due to their own personal wars, I don't get sniffy.
 
Jimmy Kimmel taken off air for MAGA comment,whilst the Americans chastise the U.K. on free speech! Clearly a don't do as I do ,do as i tell you moment.
 
I have long thought that the growth of social media lies at the root of the deepening of the political divide that’s been so cruelly exposed by Charlie Kirk’s murder.

This article explores that and how, and why, Trump is making it worse, when he has, as President, the opportunity to make it better.

I urge everyone to please forget who is publishing it. It contains some thought provoking ideas and explanations which, I hope, will be considered at face value and not just dismissed because it comes from an unpopular source.

The idea that there is no political motivation in the US system to improve things makes sense to me. If you make yourself stronger through ever greater division where is the incentive to heal? What is the future for a middle road? Where is the opportunity for compromise?

I have said many times that the US system is no longer fit for purpose. This article seems to confirm it:-

 
Jimmy Kimmel taken off air for MAGA comment,whilst the Americans chastise the U.K. on free speech! Clearly a don't do as I do ,do as i tell you moment.
I think it's great that Kimmel has been sacked - sack all the Left nutjobs and reinstate those that the Left have had sacked in the past. (I look forward to the Truro Bowls Club purges.)
 
Jimmy Kimmel taken off air for MAGA comment,whilst the Americans chastise the U.K. on free speech! Clearly a don't do as I do ,do as i tell you moment.
He was taken off air for making jokes about Charlie kirks assassination. He also said the assassin was MAGA.

The mask is really dropping for a lot of people.
 
The part of free speech the right wing doesn't campaign for.

If I walked into my office tomorrow and said I am a fan of homicide and murder. What do you think would happen? I would not have a job the next morning.

There's a big difference between the left firing people over decades old silly tweets and the the right firing people over celebrating murder and assassination.
 
If I walked into my office tomorrow and said I am a fan of homicide and murder. What do you think would happen? I would not have a job the next morning.

There's a big difference between the left firing people over decades old silly tweets and the the right firing people over celebrating murder and assassination.
It depends on wether you are a successful author of crime novels, i expect Mark Billingham, Janice Hallett and Richard Osman would say so very heartily.
 

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