There was undeniably consternation over the creation of Israel within some of the British, in particular by the pretty open antisemites, back in the day.
The UK over the last 40 years has been increasingly all in on the Zionist project. Zionist influence in our very incestuous media/political establishment is absurdly prevalent and we absolutely use our unconditional support of Israel not to launder our WW2 history, but to claim anti-racist/anti-fascist credentials (*only applies to Israel though) despite the fact that we're getting worse, not better, when it comes to our systemic racism and imperialism. And we absolutely use it as a suckup/bargaining chip to remind the US of our pathetic importance in the so called 'special relationship'.
Moreso than just that though, far from the British establishment (public or deep state/old money types) being iffy about the Israeli state, the establishment here has gone from using Gaza as a lab for our arms companies and civil repression techniques, to embracing Israel as a new model for Britain as a state going forward. Not only do they love Israel, they see the future of the Britain as a version of the Israeli state.
Oestensibly yes, but their online audience was always overwhelming older white dudes. It's the same for the UK offshoot here, they're mostly just a shell to funnel American money and contacts to violent old racists attacking drag story time hours and refugee hotels.
This particular tweet has resurfaced and blasted out across Twitter -- along with a bunch of other insane stuff basically advocating for the state to treat 'leftism' as terrorism before their was even a suspect -- not by some harmless crank pundit, but by the co-founder of Palintir, Joe Lonsdale.
% agree with the one small, even more depressing exception of...
You identify with him because you see yourselves as equals on opposite sides of a fair fight.
It's actually worse than that. It's wishcasting that they might also be in danger from this perceived rising tide of violence against political figures, because they know they're not Kirk's opposite number. It probably soothes the ego to think you might be murdered for your fierce righteous and correct speech.
Especially compared to the acknowledgement that the likes of Ben are comparing themselves to a billionaire-bankrolled fascist shill, yes, but one that attracted thousands to events, millions of views, and was part of a movement that successfully took over one of the two parties and got their guy in to the white house, twice. When the reality is that even at post DSA meeting drinks most people there wouldn't know or care who the fuck Ben is.
Not only does it trivialise what fascist piece of shit who did active harm Kirk was, it also completely trivialises Ben's own mealymouthed liberal arguement when it's all about ego, clout, and fantasy over inadequacy.
Yeah, he's just restating it now to try and slap a bandaid on the cracks in the dam of his persona/campaign he's spent the last week or two making with a pickaxe.
Pretty much from minute one and I doubled down in that thread where we saw the video of him jumping off the roof, because it was clear it wasn't a pro but a kid.
I'm an old man from across the pond who only knows what a 'groyper' is from online cultural osmosis, but to care about Kirk alone it had to be someone on the right either as infighting or provocation/false flag, and edgelord nazi school shooter types fucking hate billionaire-media posers on the right more than anyone.
I'm old enough to remember Euro Nazis knocking each other off all through the 90s and early 2000s for their white power not being white enough and all manner of petty interpersonal shit.
It was my first instinct anyway, but I'm calling it: was a groyper or a Q guy. No pro is dropping off a roof that high unassisted, obviously nervous about the height, with that technique. That's some twenty-something who has only jumped off shit for fun in the past.
This is what, the third mea culpa and climb down in a week over an objectively true and popular position to try and appease people who hate him?
As someone who watched this strategy destroy a left political movement, he's cooked. Even if he eeks out a win, he'll be part of the blob before he gets there, with a staff riddled with wreckers and party containment stooges.
Averaging more than one every six months. That's quite impressive really, even if the quality arguably hasn't always been there. Assassinations still doing better than Marvel movies though on the quantity-quality scale.
Even just looking at what's available in the commercial sector, the dystopian tracking tech is wild. 3D reconstruction modelling of precise movement, number of people in a room, and pathtracing precise to the foot (way better than GPS) just based on disruption to WiFi signals in a room or area alone. No phone or connected device actually on you needed.
The limitation is computational cost and the amount of time and effort needed to focus on it. But you better believe that the NSA for example can do this sort of thing with a specific target and a starting point with good conditions for it to work.
There was undeniably consternation over the creation of Israel within some of the British, in particular by the pretty open antisemites, back in the day.
The UK over the last 40 years has been increasingly all in on the Zionist project. Zionist influence in our very incestuous media/political establishment is absurdly prevalent and we absolutely use our unconditional support of Israel not to launder our WW2 history, but to claim anti-racist/anti-fascist credentials (*only applies to Israel though) despite the fact that we're getting worse, not better, when it comes to our systemic racism and imperialism. And we absolutely use it as a suckup/bargaining chip to remind the US of our pathetic importance in the so called 'special relationship'.
Moreso than just that though, far from the British establishment (public or deep state/old money types) being iffy about the Israeli state, the establishment here has gone from using Gaza as a lab for our arms companies and civil repression techniques, to embracing Israel as a new model for Britain as a state going forward. Not only do they love Israel, they see the future of the Britain as a version of the Israeli state.