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Yet Masons, including priests and bishops happily celebrate mass.

The RCC also 'bans' contraception yet most Catholics use it.


It does not promote anything.


Neither the very simple ceremonies nor the very simple oaths (not btw the bloodcurdling ones that antimasons pretend) are secret. You can literally by the ritual books in bookshops.


Emphasises.

It takes no position on either. ChatGPT (not as far as I know a Mason in good standing like Adam Mickiewicz was) has misinformed you.


Only a minority of lodges in France which stand outside mainstream Freemasonry take any sort of position on any religion and none oppose any religion.


Since it is neither a belief system nor a political current, it is not incompatible with anything.

You didn't answer the question, were Adam Mickiewicz, Janusz Korczak and Cardinal Potocki 'Satanic'?

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It's a grey area. The Vatican has an official chaplain to Freemasons in Italy (a bishop) and many of the brothers and sisters in Poland are of course RC and observant.

It's possible that JPII was briefly a member in the early 60s; several of his closest friends certainly were however the only known lodge in Poland at the time did not keep written records due to PRL persecution and there are no members alive now from that time to confirm or deny (not that they would discuss it).


What reason is that, according to you?

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This is puzzling since they aren't a political organisation and in fact discussion of religion and politics is banned. BTW, there are far more lodges in Poland than r*SSia and have been for centuries.


That just sounds like ravings. Was Adam Mickiewicz 'Satanic'?

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Now Ryszard thinks he's a judge at a tribunal in a country he's never been to and whose legal system he knows jack shìt about.

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The what???????


The guy with 7 kids? He says some interesting things however he's hardly objective.


Does that happen in Poland or anywhere else in Europe? Playschool is for 3 year olds so it's hard to know how such a lesson would work if they don't know about clitoral stimulation etc.

At least Poland will never forge a strategic alliance with r*SSia, land of overt prostitution and sexual violence.

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Because some people they encounter in life are that.

And because they will be, as soon as they go online, assailed by rightwing propaganda full of deliberate hatred. It is the duty of the ecducation system to teach future citizens about the things around them in a non-judgemental way.

Being taught that something exists is not 'propaganda'

We were taught about disabled people, pirates and the then Iranian Revolution. Was that propaganda?


Ethiopians are not generally so stupid.

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The only propaganda I see there is right wing anti stuff. No one is 'made' to pose for photos and yes, sex work should be destignatises.

Twitter is a cancer on the world.

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I'd love to actually see some of this, never having done so.

Do the rightwingnuts think we have some sort of governing body with a huge PR budget?


He's gone from a place people want to live in to a place that people want to escape from. The daft twat.


I hope he's got a grenade in his pocket to blow his withered knob off with.

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Ask the tribunals and courts whose job it is to apply the law.


Often by force. I refer you to the earlier post which quotes the exact number removed since the election and how that number is increasing.

More will be removed, however so many came and the fůcking Tories hate spending on the public sector that the number of border force staff is too small (they're recruiting now if you fancy the job). It's the same with the wait for the courts and tribunals; the Tories didn't want to spend money on it, and in any case, their rightwing voters generally need something to moan constantly about.

However things are beginning to move faster now the adults are back in the room.

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True, though she did pose in jazz mags opening up her clacker like a bag of Walker's crisps.

To be fair, she's gone up in my estimation lately.

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That Daily Heil headline is misleading, as usual. The £40m figure is campaigners' estimate, not an official NHS budget line, and it assumes every single equality or HR-related role is a 'diversity officer', which simply isn't true. Many of these roles are legally required Under English law and have been for decades.

The '1,200 nurses' comparison is nonsense economics; you can't just reassign money from admin and HR budgets directly to clinical posts. The NHS budget has ring-fenced streams, and recruitment isn't limited only by cash; it's limited by training capacity and available qualified staff. Even if you scrapped every DEI role tomorrow, you wouldn't suddenly conjure up 1,200 fully trained nurses overnight.

All you managed to find online is just tabloid spin designed to rile people up

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I'm not, since my stats are accurate and up to date whereas yours are tripe from a far-right tabloid.

As you were told, 279 (Tory appointed) managers are on the salary you claimed, and none of them are "diversity officers«. Those people are usually on Bands 4/5 earning between £25,000 and £28,400 per year, before tax. Though yes, they should earn more.

And it's worth mentioning that the £40 million that the Daily Heil claim is actually less than its tax exile owner dodges in tax every year.

Don't like the facts, do you...

What have you got against DEI? I bet you'd never even heard of it or knew what the acronym stood for before the trumpists and that tìt Musk started on about it.

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Plenty of the usual orc lies and copium in that post. The Soviet Union used to pretend that everything was tickety boo, despite massive queues for bread.

Nobody believes you.

A bit of interesting news. For all I've ever written here (mostly jokingly) about Melania, it seems she's one of the good people. She has gone up in my estimation.

President Zelensky has an unlikely ally in the White House: Melania Trump.
The first lady has been reminding her husband of the deadly toll of Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian cities and is thought to have played a role in convincing the president to sign off the delivery of Patriot air defence missiles to Kyiv this week

Despite the legions of national security advisers and foreign policy analysts at Trump's disposal, it appears his wife may be the most important voice of all. "Trump listens to certain people on certain things," says Jordan. "He particularly listens to people who are really close to him. And especially if their last name is Trump."
thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-melania-the-reason-for-trumps-turn-against-putin-93jjg09ls

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He wouldn't and couldn't do anything now since he was booted out of office, never to return. He is currently on holiday and was photographed together with Carrie Johnson at a drag nightclub, singing karaoke.


Interim ruling, to be confirmed or rejected (the case is already ongoing) by the ECHR.

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I think you mean "we" and they were doing this at the behest of the U.K. Incidentally, the reason so many boats started coming during the years of rightwing governmants and why this continued is twofold. Partly Micron's revenge for brexshìt and partly because Rishi wouldn't and Sir Keir won't bail him out over the Hinckley B scandal. It's costing France billions.


It really does, and you've swallowed Farage's lies.

Although the NHS has 279 managers (thanks to Thatcher)on over £200,000. None, not one at all, are 'DEI Officers". Those folk earn around £25,000, a wage I wouldn't get out of bed for. There are however around 12 managers in the whole country whose jobs relate to inclusion who earn around £50 to £70 k which I wouldn't get out of bed for either. Incidentally, they were all appointed under right wing governments.


NI is too low, and as for people "losing their jobs every week", unemployment has risen (this started before the NI changes) by 0.2%. So hardly "lots" and that rate is easing off.


This is fact not propaganda. The figures do not relate to 'appointments', (since that would still be waiting lists); they relate to actual medical procedures.


Why?


You're probably the only person who has ever described the Daily Telegraph and The Times as either 'left' or 'online news rags'.

Don't believe the online propaganda pushed at you by the far right,


Well, I'm there every month (if there's a period I'm not posting, then I'm there) and will be there on Thursday.

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That's sort of the opposite. Even during the Corbyn fiasco, plenty stayed.


That's what they're doing. And in a fairly clever way.


If you look at his demographics, many of his voters will be pushing up daisies by the next election, and there are a couple of very interesting scandals in the pipeline.

One very weird and intriguing thing last week (not necessarily a Farage or a Labour thing). There were reports, quite long ones, in each of the quality newspapers about a magistrate's court committal hearing in a sexual assault (not rape) case. Committal hearings are in the very lowest of the courts and are just when an accused person confirms their name and the magistrate refers the case to the Crown Court.

Normally something like that wouldn't even appear in a local newspaper. Even a Crown Court conviction for sexual assault would only make a few lines in a local newspaper, A Committal hearing normally wouldn't be mentioned since there's very little to say about them. Yet this one made a few hundred words in three national newspapers. All of them said that the alleged victim couldn't be named. This is so normal that it wouldn't usually be mentioned since everyone knows this already.

So why did they mention that and why did these stories appear?

And most interestingly of all, the story also appeared on the r*SSia Today website.

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It's more the nature of articulate and frustrated old women. They have ever been thus.

They'll all be dead or drooling within a decade or so and very few under 35s give a flying fúck.


Looks like it, since he keeps repeating himself.

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Bullsh1t. You're out by a huge margin, since the turnout was (as usual) 60%. U.K. turnouts never vary that much.


You can't seriously favour Farage's Mosleyite fascists?

Fortunately, our electoral system means they can't win,, a load of the small number of 'reform' councillors elected (646 out of 19,200) have resigned or been suspended and some are facing criminal trial, one council 'leader' is just turned 18 and two of their 6 MPs are suspended, one facing criminal charges for fraud and corruption.

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Or more like a hoard of 69 years old very left wing feminist post-menopausal TERFs who hate trans people.

And that ruling (funded by Rowling) is of course only an interim one.

Glad you appreciate that he's flexible in his views though. Interestingly the only trans woman we've had in parliament is a Tory who Johnson praised for her courage in transitioning.

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We all hate those.


If it's over the next month, hit me up.

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Maybe so, Micron is a bit better in that respect (thoug( among the wives there's a definite winner and loser - age tends to do that). It's the content of the heart that matters too though.


Good to hear that, however it's worth remembering that they've only been in office a few months after 14 years of deliberate Tory mess. You won't see immediate effects, politics doesn't work like that, however step by step the country is returning to how it should be.

You did mention a town here once, long before you mentioned you were on the islands, I only remember that due to having been there the week before. Has a big logistics warehouse.. If that's where you are, you're unlucky due to the politics of the council. Where I'm based, solid Labour, it really is different and there are a few small but noticeable changes already. Loads more buses with a max £2 fare, a new market, a new town museum and a a few other things. A nice new council estate too.


You only ask so often because when you were still young enough to have a wank you only thought of guys with rippling muscles and a hot smile.

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Have you seen his apartment in the Trup Tower?

Looks like a high class brothel in Minsk.

Then again, I suppose Melania feels at home.

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We all do, ultimately. All our ancestors do.

And all our ancestors before that were things that looked a bit like a beaver (like you still do) and before that a sort of amphibian.

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Palę pałkę lalko!

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A pardon for what, troll?

He's not been charged with or convicted of any crime.

It will be nice to see trumpet's dodgy 'pardons' annulled and all those rioters who stormed their own parliament building back in gaol.

And then the anti-vaxxers can be locked up die to all the lives lost among idiots who believed their nasty shìt.

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By winning an election with a massive supermajority that guarantees two 5 year terms of office.

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350% on HOOD? The only thing Jim's got 350% of is hot air. He sounds like an angry pensioner shouting at pigeons, convinced they care, still sat here arguing with strangers online. Must be lonely on top of all that imaginary money.

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Given that both the rapist trump and also bush2 used autopens on pardons, does that mean that Jim is pretending those pardons are invalid too?

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Hehe, he's a better bet. He has the smile of someone on the way up with a supermajority stood next to a man wearing makeup on his way down (who brought his granny with him).

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And - we've returned/deported 34,978 migrants over the past 9 months, a 30% increase on the Tories' last two years in office

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No we aren't.


You're confusing us with the useless Johnson, Truss and Sunak.


Why would we call one? The Tories didn't. And he has a mathematically undefeatable supermajority.

BTW:
- we're now starting to puncture the Channel dinghies and return unwanted migrants (which the Tories never did),
- we have signed trade deals with the US and India
- we have increased the minimum wage by 7%, benefitting 3 million British workers
- and made a £22.6 billion increase to NHS spending
- cut waiting lists for 5 months in a row
- started to renationalise the railways (rather than let foreign private companies rip us off)
- banned no-fault evictions and limited sky-high ground rents
- achieved the fastest‑growing G7 economy in Q1 2025: GDP rose 0.7%, outperforming all other G7 countries
- Saved 5,000 steelworkers jobs in Scunthorpe and Port Talbot
- started restoring fiscal stability, enabling the Bank of England to cut interest rates four times since the election

and....

The FTSE 100 has just reached 9000 today; a record high.

Whatever you're smoking, it must be pretty good.