apollo
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Post by apollo on May 20, 2024 7:31:56 GMT
Rest in piss you utter piece of shit
as mentioned, plenty of more cunts like him in Iran.
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Post by Fake_Blood on May 20, 2024 10:16:23 GMT
It's a drone, probably not armed unless the Turks want to make sure!
edit: and it wouldn't be 2024 without a live stream
Not saying this was planned, but there’s a surprising openness around this, as if they really want to show the world he’s dead. We’ve gone from the minimising “hard landing” to state media basically standing on the wreckage. It’s also not very common to leave you drone’s transponder on so the world can track it. But then they had a live video feed, it’s all a bit weird. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 20, 2024 12:49:44 GMT
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 20, 2024 12:57:42 GMT
The ICC isn't going to do shit about any of this. The only hope imo is leadership change, both in Israel and Palestine. The sociopaths are in charge (sometimes with popular support, unfortunately), and they need to not be in charge.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 20, 2024 13:00:27 GMT
It's not guaranteed the court will even issue the arrest warrants.
But if they do, it'll out a bit of a cramp on their ability to visit a lot of countries, other than the US.
I doubt it'll have any big effect, but it does at least send a symbolic message.
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Post by Whizzo on May 20, 2024 17:10:02 GMT
Oh no Biden has disagreed with the ICC saying they aren't equivalent in their war criming, well as the US isn't a signatory to the ICC I don't think anyone really gives a shit.
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Post by zephro on May 20, 2024 17:41:27 GMT
I mean the charge sheet of which War Crimes they're being accused of makes it pretty clear that it's not an "equivalence". Sigh, everyone is a moron these days.
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Post by Ulythium on May 22, 2024 13:21:08 GMT
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Post by reddevil93 on May 22, 2024 22:23:28 GMT
Lovely to see Ireland and others recognizing the Palestinian state. I think the whole world except UK and USA is sick of Netanyahu’s campaign by now.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 23, 2024 1:51:28 GMT
I get that there are domestic politics at play, with even Nikki Haley saying shit like "Biden threw Israel to the wolves", but the US government going after the ICC is *not* a good look for the supposed leaders of the free world.
It's about up there with the UK Government's public desire to leave the court of Human Rights.
I know they aren't signatories, but they've supported its verdicts when it was against people they didn't like, like Putin, and now they're treating it like some kind of terrorist organization because it might investigate their mates.
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Post by skalpadda on May 23, 2024 14:52:38 GMT
She's been distancing herself/Rassemblement National from them for a while, at least since the last big scandal (where it came out that they were planning to deport German citizens). She's trying to copy the image of Meloni in Italy, and AfD is just a little too openly fascist. |
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Post by X201 on May 29, 2024 17:53:17 GMT
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 30, 2024 2:00:17 GMT
Maybe they'll send some to Ukraine?
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Post by Frog on May 30, 2024 6:52:28 GMT
I'm not sure weaponised pandas is the solution, they are quite lazy.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 30, 2024 7:29:16 GMT
I think they'd work quite well as air defence systems. Ukraine could station them at various locations and Russia would be too shit scared of China to bomb any of them for fear of injuring a panda. The ultimate deterrent. Or failing that  |
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Post by Lizard on May 30, 2024 7:38:22 GMT
Teach them Russian and get them to recruit Russian bears.
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Post by hicksy on May 30, 2024 14:12:54 GMT
Pandas of Duty... gamepass exclusive
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Post by lukasz on May 31, 2024 4:37:58 GMT
Unconfirmed yet but usa is giving ukraine to use their weapons to strike targets in russia.
With other countries officially saying its fine i think it can be assumed ukraine can properly bring war to russia now.
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Post by zephro on May 31, 2024 13:15:25 GMT
Other countries already allowed it. But yeah they'll stop getting outflanked due to an imaginary line on a map. Or you'd hope so.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 1, 2024 13:49:26 GMT
Long read, but an infuriating one for the people involved.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jun 3, 2024 10:41:42 GMT
Interesting to see Mexico somehow operating in an alternate reality to everyone else with their new left-wing climate scientist president.
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Post by hicksy on Jun 3, 2024 10:46:19 GMT
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, take the floor...
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Post by skalpadda on Jun 4, 2024 10:44:09 GMT
I know most people here aren't in EU countries, but if you are here's a reminder to go vote in the election. Don't know if the dates are the same everywhere, but elections.europa.eu/ should have information for each country. |
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Post by apollo on Jun 4, 2024 16:32:49 GMT
'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library
worth a read
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Post by zephro on Jun 4, 2024 17:58:20 GMT
Full circle as 1984 is partly based on Russia.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Jun 4, 2024 19:03:42 GMT
In other news though it looks like democracy is alive and well in India despite strong rumours of its demise.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 4, 2024 23:42:13 GMT
Unless you're a Muslim, of course.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Jun 5, 2024 6:29:55 GMT
Unless you're a Muslim, of course. Especially if you're Muslim cause the Muslim hating cunts didn't win an outright majority this time. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 5, 2024 6:35:30 GMT
It's better for sure. But Modi is still in charge, and his commitment to democratic institutions is... fraught.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 5, 2024 9:37:28 GMT
John oliver did another spot on this. See; oppositesnakes.com and www.howtoeatmangoes.com/ to view from Thursday (he's trying to get around India banning the episode) |
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