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Myanmar’s military needs to reach out to the GOP and Rhupert Murdoch. They’re not doing a good job of “both sidesing” this situation by getting just under half their populace to support the coup.
Of course, the GOP coup failed, so maybe the advice should be going the other way....
So I assume we're dropping nukes from orbit at any moment now
So I assume we're dropping nukes from orbit at any moment now
It's the only way to be sure.
does the ship have a step-brother?
Apparently there was a sudden sandstorm that blew the bow sideways, and that caught and the stern went to the other side and burrowed in. The hypothesis is that visibility was so low that it was difficult to react properly, and the container stack acted as a giant sail.
In which case, might not be pilot error...
Prederick wrote:
Partially, the back is unstuck, now they’re working on the front.
Booty shakin’, stable up front. #twerking
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China has passed sweeping changes to Hong Kong's electoral rules which will tighten its control over the city.The number of directly elected seats in parliament has been cut almost by half, and prospective MPs will first be vetted by a pro-Beijing committee to ensure their loyalty to the mainland.
The aim is to ensure only "patriotic" figures can run for positions of power.
The progressive destruction of HK's democracy has been like the inevitability of a large boulder slowly rolling down a hill. Honestly, I'm a little surprised that China hasn't just said "screw it, democracy in HK is done". The main lesson China and many other political parties/entities have learned over the last 10 years is that just doing something outrageous while obviously and shamelessly lying about it is a winning move, since it achieves the objective of power in the certain knowledge that opponents will stop screaming about it eventually, one way or another.
It terrifies me that we're starting to get to a point where I think that armed resistance may be the only tenable option in some regions of the world. All the peaceful protesting at some point becomes futile when the enemy is powerful, heavily armed, utterly without restraint, and is willing to distort reality without hesitation to maintain power.
It terrifies me that we're starting to get to a point where I think that armed resistance may be the only tenable option in some regions of the world. All the peaceful protesting at some point becomes futile when the enemy is powerful, heavily armed, utterly without restraint, and is willing to distort reality without hesitation to maintain power.
Agreed. So it’d be great if y’all down south there could just settle down a bit...
Agreed. So it’d be great if y’all down south there could just settle down a bit...
You'd best be quiet unless you'd like to become the 51st state.
"Crazy people with guns" is pretty much the USA's motto
Coldstream wrote:It terrifies me that we're starting to get to a point where I think that armed resistance may be the only tenable option in some regions of the world. All the peaceful protesting at some point becomes futile when the enemy is powerful, heavily armed, utterly without restraint, and is willing to distort reality without hesitation to maintain power.
Agreed. So it’d be great if y’all down south there could just settle down a bit...
not sure if Blue State or Canadian province...
Watched the first two days of trials for the murderer Derek Chauvin. I wasn't going to at first seeing as each day is like over 7 hours. I found it all interesting. I was wondering where they were going with some to the questions but it was later made clear. Most of the defense case seems to be broken like they try to suggest the crowd was in a frenzy or very scary but none of the witnesses has said that. The video doesn't support that. The officers weren't acting like the crowd worried them much besides one cop telling people to get back. Of coarse I believe the defense hasn't called their witnesses yet.
Today someone attacked the capitol by ramming his car into a barricade. He killed one officer and injured another that is still in the hospital. No motive or reason has been given for the attack yet. The attacker is also dead.
Today someone attacked the capitol by ramming his car into a barricade. He killed one officer and injured another that is still in the hospital. No motive or reason has been given for the attack yet. The attacker is also dead.
Today someone attacked the capitol by ramming his car into a barricade. He killed one officer and injured another that is still in the hospital. No motive or reason has been given for the attack yet. The attacker is also dead.
I just saw this on CNN. Their headline was "Suspect identified in attack at US Capitol" and I was like, wait a minute, haven't we already identified dozens of suspects?
Then I read a bit further and realized this was a new attack.
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