Totts
"I don't have the answer to peace and stability in the region, but I do know there's no example in history where you bomb people to democracy," said #Polanski on #BBCLauraK
Mar 1 at 10:24amWeb
Show threadAlx 🐈Mar 1
@Geri the only sane voice amidst a mass gaslighting. I hope so much the Greens won't be another disappointment.
Show threadJust Tom... 🐁Mar 1
@alx @Geri - Oh me too on that one. So much promise and clearly right-minded here. If our Scottish Greens are anything to go by then, barring the occasional stumble, they will deliver much that they promise in a principled way.
Show threadPeter BlokMar 1
@alx @Geri Depends on how high you get your hopes up. Best to choose the best alternative, in my view.
Show threadAndy DeardenMar 1
@alx @Geri Hi alx - we probably will be disappointing sometimes - but we will always be better together. Best way to make sure we are as good as possible - join.greenparty.org.uk
Show threadJustSayingMar 1
@Geri and a President who is trying to remove democracy from their own country isn't the person to ensure democracy in another
Show threadDeborah Rose ❌👑Mar 1
@ArrestJK @Geri
Trump doesn't want democracy. We saw that in Venezuela. They want a strongman, authoritarian government they can cut deals with.
Show threadJustSayingMar 1
@DebErupts @Geri 100%
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEMar 1
@Geri Kosovo? Sure there were troops on the ground by the time the elections were held, but they didn't have to do any fighting to get in there.
Show thread🥑 Yours Truly! Unruly 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻Mar 1

@Geri

Bombing is antithetical to democracy. Coercion is not consent.

Show threadlucaMar 1
@Geri I'm old enough to remember many other cases of "export of democracy". No surprise that they all came from the same country.
Now, given the last result from democracy, in the proposing country, a good question would go like "then we should change our imposed autocracy with a system that let's us all vote to choose a people elected autocracy?"
Show threadTottsMar 1
@luc0x61 yea, you are not wrong xx
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Mar 1
@Geri tangential: took a quote-post by Charlie Stross to reckon ―from all over here across the pond― that the Polanski you were referring to was not Roman 😔
Show threadTottsMar 1
@blogdiva No, I think he was born in Salford, which is not even in Italy 😁
Show threadIain McLarenMar 2
@Geri Japan?
Show threadTottsMar 2
@imclaren no, It was Russia declaring war that made Japan surrender xx
Show threadIain McLarenMar 2
@Geri eh, I don’t want to start an argument, but it was a bit more complex than that? Also, the question wasn’t what made the country surrender, it was what turned it into a democracy. Either way I recognise that my bow is long.
Show threadTottsMar 2

@imclaren yeah let's park this for this for now. ..

There's more stuff going on !!! Xx