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Originally Posted by microbet
I'm not geeing anyone for giggles. 57 is awful and I hope I'm making him inclined to stay away.
Terrorism is a political term. The US has had lots of violence called terrorism or crime or expressions of impotent rage depending on your perspective and some of it is the result of a long and continuing history of sins.
And imo 57s hatred of Corbyn (coming in here with him being a Stalinist is lol) is all about English Nationalism and Corbyn being soft, not on Stalin, but on the IRA.
The overlap in the modern world between English nationalism and educated North London Labour die-hards is zero. Yes, even those with a military background. If you read any of 57's posts regarding immigration you'll see how wildly wrong you are.
It's hard for an American to understand these things because you don't have any Leftist parties (your Democrats are in a similar spot on the Left/Right axis to our Cameronite Tories lol), but for a time in the 80's the Labour Party was certainly in danger of being taken over by the hard Left, some of whom equally certainly had a soft spot for Stalin or Trotsky. I don't personally agree that Corbyn's one of them, but he mixes with some who probably were and may still be, and this is why people are wary.
IMO this has become silly and you should end the long-running vendetta you have re. a post he made years ago. Life moves on, thankfully, and with Trump in the WH there are more topical and pressing things to debate.
Last edited by jalfrezi; 07-23-2017 at 04:12 PM.