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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 24, 2024 6:27:20 GMT
The end game is him staying in power so he doesn't go to jail.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 24, 2024 6:28:05 GMT
Ooooh, that's a tantalising new page.
WHICH GLOBAL LEADER AM I TALKING ABOUT, EH
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 24, 2024 6:51:24 GMT
Naturally it's the late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 24, 2024 10:57:03 GMT
Ooooh, that's a tantalising new page. WHICH GLOBAL LEADER AM I TALKING ABOUT, EH I did have to check! Amazing how there's so much choice. |
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Post by Chopsen on Sept 24, 2024 11:03:48 GMT
I actually do think he's banking on perpetual war.
He has been a long term right wing militant ethno-nationaist. That's always been his USP to the Israelis after Rabin's peace deal fell apart.
As with all such people, they reject the idea of compromise and accomodation, but they stop short of spelling out what the alternative would actually entail.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 24, 2024 11:46:19 GMT
To this country rube it seems like the end game is the logical conclusion to ‘every Palestinian is a potential member of Hamas so…’ but nobody wants to say it out loud.
It’s just really weird. They know it, we know it and everyone is just letting them get on with it.
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Post by Chopsen on Sept 24, 2024 11:55:07 GMT
Well, that's the thing, innit? Saying it out loud makes it explicit and nobody wants to be seen to say that, as it would make it very difficult to to claim the moral high-ground.
It's the same with the anti-immigration and anti asylum-seeker talk. If they don't come here, where are they going to go? And no, "sending them back to France" is not an option. If only because, guess what, France is a country just like us too. So why should they take it all?
I suspect at a fundamental, un-articulated level the real answer is they wished these people would just not exist. Which is obviously stupid, so it all gets coded in double speak and dog whistles.
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Post by grey_matters on Sept 24, 2024 12:53:30 GMT
... France is a country just like us... Jesus, don't let the Mail see that. |
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Post by JuniorFE on Sept 24, 2024 13:25:09 GMT
Ooooh, that's a tantalising new page. WHICH GLOBAL LEADER AM I TALKING ABOUT, EH It is a sad timeline we live in, that "which global leader is clinging to power so they don't go to fucking jail" is a legitimate question with multiple answers... |
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Post by cubby on Sept 24, 2024 19:02:28 GMT
Yeah starmer!
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Post by apollo on Sept 27, 2024 18:53:04 GMT
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1fqrnuy/the_crap_zelenskyy_has_to_put_himself_through/
zelenskyy had the chance to shank a putin asset and didn't (he looks pissed off walking with the orange turd)
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Post by X201 on Sept 29, 2024 15:18:21 GMT
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 29, 2024 15:33:06 GMT
It's to be expected. People are voting on emotion and for parties that offer easy solutions for complex issues especially when they talk about being against the establishment when they are ironically by people from the establishment. Obviously voters don't look at the small print which calls for lower corporation tax and less wage protection or their solidarity with Putin and against Ukraine.
As always follow the money to answer how these initially small parties are suddenly punching above weight campaigning wise.
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Post by technoish on Sept 29, 2024 15:50:43 GMT
100 years is getting near enough to forget what happened, or to actively try to paper over the two big wars in Europe last century.
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Post by minimatt on Sept 29, 2024 16:13:48 GMT
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Post by skalpadda on Sept 30, 2024 4:57:36 GMT
100 years is getting near enough to forget what happened, or to actively try to paper over the two big wars in Europe last century. Not sure if Austria ever remembered. FPÖ is almost as old and it was a big party in the 90s as well. |
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Post by apollo on Sept 30, 2024 9:32:08 GMT
the russian Jimmy krankie needs a special operation out of the window (which would be Fan-dabi-dozi)
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 30, 2024 9:45:46 GMT
It seems very British to me that most of the comments are brits requesting that Russia be sure to take out their shitty area as well.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Sept 30, 2024 10:24:26 GMT
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Post by technoish on Sept 30, 2024 10:49:52 GMT
It seems very British to me that most of the comments are brits requesting that Russia be sure to take out their shitty area as well. The "nuclear winter Olympics" comment made me giggle. |
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Post by apollo on Sept 30, 2024 10:51:58 GMT
Living in Croydon almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
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Post by Lizard on Oct 1, 2024 4:07:23 GMT
I like that the cover of the US Miltary-produced welcome pack looks like a ten-year-old's holiday snap PowerPoint. |
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Post by apollo on Oct 1, 2024 8:35:33 GMT
'Hamas leader' in Lebanon killed by Israel was UN employee, UNWRA confirms
can't say I'm surprised
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 1, 2024 8:49:06 GMT
That article is a bit circular. Israel killed a UNWRA employee* they claim is a Hamas leader, so Israel will seize on the confirmation that the UNWRA employee was an UNWRA employee as evidence of links between UNWRA and Hamas.
*and his wife and kids, but at this point I guess we're all immune to that.
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Post by apollo on Oct 1, 2024 10:45:46 GMT
its time to let Ukraine to take the gloves off with the limits UK, USA has placed on the weapons they give to them
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Post by zephro on Oct 1, 2024 11:13:59 GMT
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Post by lukasz on Oct 1, 2024 12:37:46 GMT
its time to let Ukraine to take the gloves off with the limits UK, USA has placed on the weapons they give to them
I fully agree. Ukraine needs to be free to strike deep into the country |
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Post by Mr Wonderstuff on Oct 1, 2024 12:53:46 GMT
Yea I hope so too. Not sure of Putin's reaction but the West really needs to grow a pair.
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 1, 2024 13:21:05 GMT
The Putin regime is very obviously helping out extremist political parties across the globe while actively sabotaging factories and other facilities to hinder military production for Ukraine. The time for clutching pearls and fretting about what Russia may do is long over, let Ukraine fight back in full.
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Post by apollo on Oct 1, 2024 13:26:09 GMT
saw a great video of Ukraine forces, blow up 2 buildings to drop them on russian tanks and soldiers. It was amazing how quick they did it
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