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Is Zizek running?
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Sep 8, 2017 08:10
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quote:9. Empower the police and military, so they can effectively protect our women and children against Jihadi terrorists. It's a rhethorical question. I think I know the answer.
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Sep 8, 2017 08:24
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Seems like a pretty standard conservative. Am I missing something particularly egregious?
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Sep 8, 2017 08:34
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Why doesn't she have a last name?
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Sep 8, 2017 08:43
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Tevery Best posted:Why doesn't she have a last name? So she is relatable aunt type.
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Sep 8, 2017 08:59
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All the cool people only go by one name, such as Seal.
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Sep 8, 2017 09:18
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Truga posted:
Not so subtle eye-gouging UKIP color scheme
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Sep 8, 2017 09:57
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fatherboxx posted:Not so subtle eye-gouging UKIP color scheme not subtle the same way the great pyramid of giza is not subtle
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Sep 8, 2017 10:26
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Tip no. 1: Don't pick a photo where you are overshadowed by somebody who is twice your height, consequently being pushed mostly off the frame of the picture.
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Truga posted:5. Will return a boy to their grandpa and grandma (this is a long story, but the gist is, the boy didn't like being with their grandpa/grandma so social services took him away). 
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Sep 8, 2017 22:40
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Truga posted:
Nice to know rubbish populist conservative talking points are pretty universal around the world. Also,  at "returning what was stolen by Communist elites". That poo poo was like almost 30 years ago. If it wasn't returned with the fall of the Soviet Union and the breakup of Yugoslavia, then you never had it in the first place.
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Sep 9, 2017 02:46
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it's ridiculously stupid and specific and owns af. there was a hullabaloo about it a few years ago, and the ~family values~ people were downright enraged over it and I can't believe it's still a thing. Young Freud posted:Also, You have no loving idea, the nutcases around here are 200% certain ~are country~ was stolen from us by the communist conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. When the communist regime collapsed, they expected to suddenly get voted into office and be in control because finally! we live in a free country. When this simply doesn't want to come to pass, election after election, instead of figuring out "hey, maybe nobody likes us because we're shitheads stuck in the 16th century", they decided that no, it's still the communists preventing them from achieving their true potential. Communists, obviously, also control all the media. Never mind the loving Roman Catholic Church owning some of the bigger stations for a brief time until they quietly bailed as they were quickly falling into insolvency.  We did have a centre-right coalition once, and it turned out real well. They spent more money in the glorious booming economy of 2004-7 than even that economy could possibly support, figuring (as everyone did then I guess) they can just pay off any debt easily at current rates of incline, but when the reality of 2007-8 finally came crashing down on them, they froze in panic and did basically nothing until the election except blame everything on everyone else and hope it'd all go away. At least we got a couple nice high profile rich people in jail over that fiasco, so at least there's that. oh and, if anything, denationalization went too far. half the country's forests are now owned by the church or other shady moguls that are in bed with them and the wood is being cut and shipped off to austria and then gently caress knows where for probably massive profits the country will never see a tax penny of because for some arcane loving reason religious organizations aren't taxed
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The commies really had the right idea with suppressing religion in the Balkans, it's just a shame they didn't manage to finish the job and so we have this whiplash where people are not only returning to previously existing practices but are literally inventing "rites" out of whole cloth to one up each other in displays of religiosity. This poo poo should've been stamped out.
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SaltyJesus posted:literally inventing "rites" out of whole cloth to one up each other in displays of religiosity. 
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SaltyJesus posted:The commies really had the right idea with suppressing religion in the Balkans, it's just a shame they didn't manage to finish the job and so we have this whiplash where people are not only returning to previously existing practices but are literally inventing "rites" out of whole cloth to one up each other in displays of religiosity. This poo poo should've been stamped out.
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Sep 9, 2017 13:56
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Elukka posted:No, attempting to stamp it out inevitably results in just that. You cannot make people stop believing in their religion any more than you can beat faith into an atheist. This. As a former citizen of the USSR, seeing the resurgence of largely-corrupt nationalist Orthodox Christianity in Russia has been painful but predictable. As the only semi-official opposition to Soviet power, the Orthodox church gained a ton of cultural cache and oppositional legitimacy that it was later able to parley into sleazy political power. The blowback of this type of repression is considerably worse than the alternative. You're far better off moderating religious power and making sure that religious forces simply can't influence the public discourse by accumulating too much cash and power (see Evangelicals in the US).
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Sep 9, 2017 18:31
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The gently caress are you people even saying.
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Paladinus posted:Poklonskaya is legitimately insane, unfortunately. Her weird facial expression is due to some head trauma she's suffered when arresting a local mobster, and it it probably affected not only her face. For the past several months she's been leading a campaign to ban the film Matilda that tells a story of then prince Nicholas dating a ballet dancer (an absolute historical fact). Because Nicholas II and his family are martyrs, it's somehow disrespectful to show what Nichols had been up to before his marriage, and the film should be banned according to the law protecting religious feelings. Thankfully, the court decided not to ban the movie (probably more due to the fact that it was filmed with state money), but the original claim included gems like 'the Czar is portrayed negatively in the film, because he dates a ballet dancer who wasn't very beautiful in real life'. Hah! It's not possible to portray Nicholas II negatively, that sad sack did only one thing right: Getting shot by the Communists.
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Sep 9, 2017 19:47
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Libluini posted:Hah! It's not possible to portray Nicholas II negatively, that sad sack did only one thing right: Getting shot by the Communists. Yes but since Nicky was involved the process of the shooting was itself a gently caress up.
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Sep 9, 2017 19:53
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I don't know, the Czechs and the 2/3 of the Baltics managed to kick religion pretty well, I'm sure at least partly due to communism. Not that its made them particularly more liberal than other former Eastern Bloc countries
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A Pale Horse posted:I don't know, the Czechs and the 2/3 of the Baltics managed to kick religion pretty well, I'm sure at least partly due to communism. Not that its made them particularly more liberal than other former Eastern Bloc countries Well, I mean, yeah, when you take the churches and kill all of the clergy that tends to have a suppressive effect on religious expression.
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Grapplejack posted:Well, I mean, yeah, when you take the churches and kill all of the clergy that tends to have a suppressive effect on religious expression. Well yes, if you are going to do something then do it properly.
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Libluini posted:Hah! It's not possible to portray Nicholas II negatively, that sad sack did only one thing right: Getting shot by the Communists.
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RT will be forced to register as a foreign agent in the USA. http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/350226-russian-network-rt-must-register-as-foreign-agent-in RT is not pleased about it. quote:"The war the US establishment wages with our journalists is dedicated to all the starry-eyed idealists who still believe in freedom of speech. Those who invented it, have buried it,” Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief, said about the registration. RIP freedom of speech 
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Fabulous Knight posted:RT will be forced to register as a foreign agent in the USA. something something, Russia made Memorial ('the mothers of sons killed in wars'-organization) register as a foreign agent, something something, hypocrisy, something big speech, they started it.
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Sep 12, 2017 17:46
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wrong thread. But anyway, about time the US made RT register as a foreign agent.
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Sep 12, 2017 18:27
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Haha, WTF they didn't have to register as a foreign agent before??
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Lou Takki posted:Haha, WTF they didn't have to register as a foreign agent before?? Why would they?
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Well, it only took one Russia-elected US president for them to register RT as foreign agent. BTW, only Algeria and post-invasion Iraq were above Russia in comparison of countries in number of journalists killed.
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Dwesa posted:BTW, only Algeria and post-invasion Iraq were above Russia in comparison of countries in number of journalists killed. Anyway, RT is apparently such a might tool Poland wants one of their own.
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anilEhilated posted:That seems odd, what about Mexico? https://cpj.org/killed/ It is lower now (7th place) and Mexico is on a same-ish level. But it depends if you filter it by unsolved murders or missing journalists etc. From the site: quote:in nearly 90 percent of murders of journalists in Russia, no one is convicted Dwesa fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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anilEhilated posted:That seems odd, what about Mexico? From the policies the average polish voter supports and what polish leaders are all yelling about they'd all be living in their perfect social political paradise if they petitioned to join Russia. If they could put aside their hatred of Russia for a second they'd realize they want an identical ultra-conservative dictatorship aided by fantastically rich and corrupt priests. They just disagree on the flag and which hats their priests should wear.
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Sep 13, 2017 17:40
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Why is mexico so high? Cartels?
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Truga posted:Why is mexico so high? Cartels? Yeah it's super bad. You report on anything the cartels or a cartel owned politician or a cartel owned police department or a cartel owned military unit doesn't want you reporting on, and they finding you in a mass grave a few months later.
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Sep 13, 2017 18:10
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This war on drugs thing is going really well 
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Sep 13, 2017 19:45
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Truga posted:This war on drugs thing is going really well It's working exactly as intended, yes.
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Sep 13, 2017 19:46
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The Russians at least have the decency to shoot or poison or bomb you to death, the cartles will torture you for hours before hacking your limbs off and hanging your naked torso from a bridge. Dudes are seriously almost ISIS levels of depraved monsters. Also lmao at Poland Today. Our pathetic leadership has such apparent delusions of grandeur I'm beginning to think they actually buy into their own Poland strong bullshit. Lmao PiS no one outside of Poland, London and Chicago gives the slightest gently caress about this country unless we're actively annoying them (like currently the Germans). No one's interested in our opinion, get over it.
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A Pale Horse posted:I don't know, the Czechs and the 2/3 of the Baltics managed to kick religion pretty well, I'm sure at least partly due to communism. Not that its made them particularly more liberal than other former Eastern Bloc countries On the other hand, Estonia seems to have no shortage of people believing in magic rocks or aliens. One goes away, something else takes the place.
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There's a conspiracy theory that the east bloc governments were actively pushing ufos, psychic powers, etc. to drag people away from the church.
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