And therefore should not be allowed to discuss anything ever again? What a strange approach.
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Anyone who was actually part of the movement to systematically deceive the public in the lead-up to the war should've been drummed out of public life, yes, and it's to the great shame of both the US and the UK that this did not happen
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That said, it's not like Nicholson had any good ideas after the war either, she's a Tory piece of shit through and through, so there's no real moral dilemma here
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All the people talking up what a great defender of women's rights she is know that she proposed halving the legally allowed period for elective abortions in the UK, right Literally a "foetus protection" billhttps://lordsbusiness.parliament.uk/ItemOfBusiness?itemOfBusinessId=37006§ionId=40 …
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Lowering it to 3 months, *not* prohibiting it, I notice.
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Yes, as they say, politics is the art of the possible
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Why are you trying to defend every single shitty thing she does "Oh, she didn't propose a wholesale abortion ban because she couldn't defend that position in debate" "Oh, she didn't unilaterally commit UK troops to the invasion because she didn't have the authority"
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So the fuck what How does that make it not fucked up that she took the position on these things that she did
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Because people are entitled to have different views to you - radical, I know. Even though I didn't support the Iraq War (without a UN resolution), many people did because of Hussein's abuse of human rights. They're entitled to that view just as I am to mine.
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People are "entitled" to have views that are fucked up and I am entitled to say that they are fucked up God damn this kind of rhetoric is the last refuge of scoundrels
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"Whatever else you can say about my opinion, I am legally allowed to hold it and you mustn't put me in prison for expressing it" Yeah so you don't have any argument that your opinion is good or right
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You believe my pro-choice position is bad and wrong? My opinion that the Iraq War without a UN resolution was wrong is bad and wrong? It seems to me that you're lashing out without reading what I wrote. No surprise there then.
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I believe that the idea of someone being "entitled to their opinion" is fundamentally incoherent
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