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ForeignLocal 🇺🇸's avatar

Thanks for reporting, Max K. I had to read a few times the message from that Rivkah Brown celebrating October 7th. “The struggle for freedom is rarely bloodless and we shouldn’t apologise for it”.

Sure, struggles for freedom often include armed conflict. We learnt that from the very beginning of time: from the Odyssey, the Bible, any History book… but if the notion of “struggle for freedom” in her book includes raping innocent women and children, burning babies and families alive and hating with such fanatical intensity, I can only wish her to suffer on her flesh what the October 7th innocents went through, because what she defends is no freedom at all, but gruesome barbarism beyond any human understanding. Any publication should be ashamed of carrying her words, and she certainly does not deserve to enjoy the Western rights and freedoms she so clearly despises. What a Marxist bloodthirsty monster.

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Alan Jurek's avatar

Great piece Max.

Owen Jones is a classic POM:- Polarising, Over-Simpifying and Manipulative.

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Max K's avatar

Yep!

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Graham L's avatar

Stunning. How Owen Jones and Jeremy Corbyn are so far beyond belief and beneath contempt, living spirits of Evil who feel self-righteous and understand so little.

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Berov Litelbrain's avatar

Absolutely correct. We're in the dark and ugly alright.

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Max K's avatar

👍

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Sophia Pascoe's avatar

It’s peak Islamo leftism, socialist workers party children. The fusion between the atheist Far Left and religious radicalism. It’s posited that because those Trotskyites perceive Islam's potential for fomenting societal unrest, they promote tactical, temporary alliances with reactionary Muslim parties. Leftist adherents of Third-Worldism hope to use Islamism as a battering-ram to bring about the downfall of free-market capitalism and see the sacrifice of individual rights, in particular of women's rights, as an acceptable trade-off in service of the greater goal of destroying capitalism. Islamists, for their part, pretend to join the left in its opposition to racism, neocolonialism and globalization as a tactical and temporary means to achieve their true goal of imposing the totalitarian theocracy of Islamist government. Communism innit

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Max K's avatar

Definitely agree with a lot of that. In some ways I think it’s a bit simpler though, basically leftists/progressives/‘liberals’ etc just view Muslims as ‘oppressed’ and anything western/white etc as oppressive. No hard facts can ever change their ideological commitment to that interpretation of the world and of society, unless another group suddenly gets deemed more ‘oppressed’ and therefore outflanks Muslims. But yes they definitely also like the fact that Islamist groups are rabidly anti-Western and ‘revolutionary’ seeming etc. Wrote about Islamo-leftism here recently https://open.substack.com/pub/maxthinks/p/a-guide-to-mamdanis-islamo-gauchisme?r=i107t&utm_medium=ios

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Sophia Pascoe's avatar

The very basics of oppressed and oppressor, it’s very two dimensional and childish somehow, derails any context or nuance. You’re right though, most are just a watered down hangover of what their forefathers were as Soviet Gulag moral police.

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Max K's avatar

Yep

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Brendan O'Connor's avatar

Brilliant article, thank you.

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Max K's avatar

No problem, thanks for reading!

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Steve's avatar

Owen Jones seems to be quite a troubled man, and ordinarily I'd say we should cut some slack to someone dealing with difficulties. But, by god, he's a poisonous c*nt.

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Craig's avatar

Very well said he is a poisoning influence on society.Hope he gets a fatal disease asap.Evil little maggot

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Matt C's avatar

Who is Owen Jones?

What does he actually do, what skills does he possess?

Has he started a business? Has he raised a family? Could he change a plug?

He’s just an overgrown schoolboy with no talent for anything apart from having bad opinions on things.

There’s a production line of these homosexual young men who seem to make a living moving their lips and tweeting.

Tom Harwood, Darren Grimes, Benjamin Butterworth, Owen Jones…….

What’s the point of them?

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Craig's avatar

How can you put Darren Grimes in the same diseased pychotic camp as Owen Jones.Jones is the same as Corbyn,both evil hate mongering fucking scum

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Bas Vossen's avatar

Someone i knew had been talking about the wickedness of 'the extreme right', i'm not too much into politics so i let him blow off his steam. Until October 7 2023. At that point it all came together, crystallizing, and the Holy Islamic Project all became clear. Muslims all over the planet are waiting for the coming of their Jesus, called Mahdi. This deity will only arrive after the last Jew has been killed. Iran masterminded a complete military doctrine for many years, via their proxies abroad, but inside Iran they've built a huge nuclear development factory. America bombed that location but the enriched uranium is thought to have been moved away before the bombing. So there still is a chance, especially now that Russia's economy is declining (like Iran's) that the ayatollah regime will be able to buy longrange Russian rockets and put their nukes inside. We've seen that Israel's air defence systems are good but not 100% watertight. The enemy will study the images of the first waves of rockets, and decide from there. Everything happening now is a direct result of massive, unregulated overpopulation.

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Double Mc's avatar

"Massive, unregulated overpopulation?" Of whom? And who gets to decide what constitutes overpopulation, and who is allowed to reproduce? That's a mighty dangerous idea. Sounds like eugenics to me.

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Bas Vossen's avatar

Nice try to throw me in that bucket, but: fail. Look up 'long term carrying capacity of Earth'. That's estimated at about 1 to 2 billion humans (ok, there are ppl that think we can have 40 billion if we all live like slum ppl). Have you heard about a lack of homes? Asked yourself about rising prices, inflation? Had economy at school? Malthus already predicted mass starvation in the early 19th century. Thanks to technological solutions (artificial fertilizer) this didn't happen, but these 'solutions' were short term and have depleted the soil.

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Radical Cartoons's avatar

Always ironic how a guy who wrote a book on "Chavs" turned into one!

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Dr EC's avatar

OJ must be soooo excited now that some Brits are starting to lean slightly right. A real enemy at last!

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Max K's avatar

Haha exactly. Finally, a sense of meaning!

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