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Artificer posted:loving FINALLY. Now to stop them from getting little kids to do the dirty work for them. Or to pressure them into suicide. Pakistan also passed new anti-rape laws, including death penalty for raping minors and the disabled, and also pressing forward on the use of DNA in rape cases. Previously a lot of clergy had been against DNA evidence for rape since Islamic law requires multiple eyewitnesses instead. Do note that a lot of the really reactionary Pakistani laws (like ones that went easy on honor killings) are relatively recent, as Pakistan went hardcore right and religious in the 1980s-1990s when the government made a lot of concessions to win the support of the religious. It's easy to mistake some of this stuff for long-standing backwardness, but a lot of countries with currently really religious-influenced laws used to be a lot more secular. Yet another reason the "West vs East" arguments a lot of bigots buy into are so damaging, they push people into interpreting progressive values as a foreign attack and empower reactionaries. Not endorsing conservative reactions as justified, just noting that treating those values as inevitable/inherent just strengthens folks with bad values and pushes fence-sitters to the right.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Pakistan also passed new anti-rape laws, including death penalty for raping minors and the disabled, and also pressing forward on the use of DNA in rape cases. Previously a lot of clergy had been against DNA evidence for rape since Islamic law requires multiple eyewitnesses instead. Oh yeah absolutely. Religious conservatist backlash has cropped in in places like Bangladesh and Lebanon as well iirc so. 
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Yeah, Putin is a real loving monster and directly responsible for most of this. We put up the canvas with our fuckery in Iraq and Russia has been happily painting it in blood. It really seems that Russia has just decided to try and go balls out to do as much killing as they possibly can before the next president comes into office.
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Oct 7, 2016 03:20
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comingafteryouall posted:The little girl from Aleppo's twitter in one of the NY Times opinion pieces posted earlier is brutal This is heartbreaking not because it's a little girl on twitter in the middle of a warzone, but it's that there were thousands of other little girls out there they're all dead. I don't even know what in the gently caress we could do to fix that. I remember reading a few pages ago about how foreign policy decisions are so complex that most of us couldn't handle making them, but Syria is something else entirely.
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Oct 7, 2016 03:25
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withak posted:At first glance I thought the title started "Corn Cob..." To be fair, this is a woman I can picture who'd scream "I'M NOT OWNED! I'M NOT OWNED!" in increasingly desperate tones.
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On Terra Firma posted:This is heartbreaking not because it's a little girl on twitter in the middle of a warzone, but it's that there were thousands of other little girls out there they're all dead. There's a lot of innocent people loving dead, and somehow global violence on the whole is decreasing, last I heard. Somehow.
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Oct 7, 2016 03:31
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Oct 7, 2016 03:46
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Oh gently caress are they trying to "the nazi was inside you all along" their way to the presidency?
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Oct 7, 2016 03:49
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Unfortunately, as hosed as it is, I do agree we should not get involved in Syria As it is it's a moot point. Whether we want to or not we can't get involved in Syria without coming into direct armed conflict with a nuclear power, something which is absolutely not an option.
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Oct 7, 2016 03:51
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Maybe if Trump believes it enough, he will become president.
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Oct 7, 2016 03:52
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Eugene V. Dabs posted:Both, to some extent. It's an assumption to think that it's possible we'll get back to August numbers at any point in this race or that Trump is incapable of putting in a passable performance - which to his supporters and media would be a "win". Trump will not put in a "passable" performance in a town hall debate against Hillary Clinton. You can take that to the bank.
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Oct 7, 2016 03:53
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It's gonna be great when NC goes blue, I can't wait to see what this dork says.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump will not put in a "passable" performance in a town hall debate against Hillary Clinton. You can take that to the bank. That Anderson Cooper is moderating
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Oct 7, 2016 03:54
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Oct 7, 2016 03:55
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Truly the nominee trying to make anime real. Trump's campaign is going to realize the power was within them all along, and their friendship will overcome Clinton's overwhelming force and experience.
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Oct 7, 2016 03:56
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lol sounds like you have a medical emergency on your hands then
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Oct 7, 2016 03:57
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comingafteryouall posted:Truly the nominee trying to make anime real. Trump's campaign is going to realize the power was within them all along, and their friendship will overcome Clinton's overwhelming force and experience. Wait, this isn't an Amazon original series at all.
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Dude earlier was saying Trump should make it so that anchor babies are sent back with their parents and considered citizens abroad until they are 18 when we will let them come back
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Oct 7, 2016 04:01
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comingafteryouall posted:Truly the nominee trying to make anime real. Trump's campaign is going to realize the power was within them all along, and their friendship will overcome Clinton's overwhelming force and experience. Unfortunately for them they're the ones powered by hatred and you know how that tends to go in anime compared to people powered by love and friendship.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump will not put in a "passable" performance in a town hall debate against Hillary Clinton. You can take that to the bank. I've been surprised before
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Oct 7, 2016 04:03
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maybe the real 270 electoral votes were the friends we made along the way
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Oct 7, 2016 04:04
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This fucken election, man.
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Oct 7, 2016 04:08
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...and that's how the Trump learned to love Christmas.
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Oct 7, 2016 04:10
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Gurren Lagann is not a documentary, Mister Mitchell
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Oct 7, 2016 04:10
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A Trump supporter sleeps inside each one of us. We must kill him.
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Oct 7, 2016 04:11
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Night10194 posted:Unfortunately for them they're the ones powered by hatred and you know how that tends to go in anime compared to people powered by love and friendship. I was going to ask when was the last time the characters powered by love and friendship had overwhelming odds and numbers, then I realized we're already in the part of the story when you can tell the good guys will win. Trump is the villain who doesn't have friends, only lackeys. Trump is out there campaigning by himself while Clinton has like 6 friends that have all learned to work together.
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comingafteryouall posted:I was going to ask when was the last time the characters powered by love and friendship had overwhelming odds and numbers, then I realized we're already in the part of the story when you can tell the good guys will win. Trump is the villain who doesn't have friends, only lackeys. Trump is out there campaigning by himself while Clinton has like 6 friends that have all learned to work together. The most powerful of whom was even her enemy in a bitter fight where she lost before they learned to work together!
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Night10194 posted:The most powerful of whom was even her enemy in a bitter fight where she lost before they learned to work together!
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We're at the part right before Hillary pierces herself with the arrow. Soon Trump will be punched into an infinite death loop, but instead of dying it's just constant humiliation over and over, forever.
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Oct 7, 2016 04:18
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Night10194 posted:The most powerful of whom was even her enemy in a bitter fight where she lost before they learned to work together!
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Oct 7, 2016 04:19
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You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the GOTV back in a safe. The ground game's not here. Your game's in Joe's house...right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's house, and a hundred others!
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Oct 7, 2016 04:20
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someone tell this guy what "ground game" actually means. wait, never mind, don't.
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Oct 7, 2016 04:21
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BaDandy posted:We're at the part right before Hillary pierces herself with the arrow.
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Oct 7, 2016 04:22
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7c Nickel posted:A Trump supporter sleeps inside each one of us. We must kill him. Abort your future Trump supporter today. Support Planned Parenthood.
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Oct 7, 2016 04:25
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Nessus posted:Ted Cruz severs his hand to distract the Castro brothers as he makes good his escape We all thought that Bernie died in the primaries, but he lived on, in order to give Hilary the strength she needed to defeat The Don.
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Endorph posted:hey now, trump has one of those too Lol that's not a friend, that's a dark magical experiment created by harvesting human suffering and hatred.
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comingafteryouall posted:Lol that's not a friend, that's a dark magical experiment created by harvesting human suffering and hatred. if anime's taught me anything, it's that something like that is even more likely to become a friend
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Oct 7, 2016 04:38
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If not already posted(Can't read, gotta pack), video of Cruz cold calling for Trump: http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-ted-cruz-leaves-voicemails-asking-voters-to-support-man-who-insulted-wife-dad/
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I wonder if it went like this... Cruz fanfic incoming... 2012: (R) Establishment: Don't do this poo poo don't let our supporters get too hosed up and don't let them expect a moron to represent them else it will backfire. Cruz: I'm doing what I want, RINO!!! (R) Establishment: Its going to backfire, moron. Cruz: No it won't! ... 2016 ... around the time of the RNC... (R) Establishment: See? See what you tea partier shits have done? They want a moron. Cruz: Whatever I don't need you, they will support me. ... 2016 late September... (R) Establishment: Trump is hosed for the debates. When he loses, we are primarying you, everybody of any value will make you look like scum, every newspaper, every pundit. You're hosed. Cruz: No!!! (R) Establishment: You're going down with him... Cruz: No!!! (R) Establishment: ... and Pence is one of ours... and we're gonna kill your dog... Cruz: Auugghhhh... *runs to Trump, groveling*
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