benjii

To be fair, it is fucking retarded to dispose of a business but keep the disposed and legacy business under the same brand.

Wasn't there a lap dancing club near the Civic Centre called ISIS?

I think Noel Gallagher owns that estate agent?

You've created a monster.

Guns N Roses, Civil War.

Elliot Smith, Between the Bars. Also +1 for Batman's Kate Bush.

What probably compounds this is that the "big guy" in this metaphor has a vast army of people who insist that it is, in fact, him who is the victim of terrible oppression and hate, not just in his own back yard but in various other countries where he does very well and not based on his actions but on some accident of birth.

It's all the same mate.

Wrong Arabs.

Indeed, he's quite the bumbaklaaaat.

Yes, fair points. I think parts of it are accurate for some of the protestors. I think, as you say, there are different motivations for others, although I think those motivations for all are very rarely motivated by a general dislike / enmity towards Jews. I think another factor is how intimately the UK state is associated with this whole situation. We controlled Palestine, we signed the Balfour declaration, we washed our hands of it administratively in the face of Zionist terrorism, but politically , in the decades since, we have always been perceived as being at the right hand side of the US when it comes to support, military supplies etc. This is part of the reason why this issue attracts a lot more UK attention than, for example, Sudan or Myanmar.

Social media and big data have completely fucked democracy.

I edited my post.

I can't take the credit!

You could, if you wanted. But it would be sensible to consider if the person saying that is being literal or not.