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https://twitter.com/borzou/status/979264146620518400?s=19 https://twitter.com/momosalah222/status/978694599110746112?s=19 Mo Salah got second lol
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Why is the write-in in English instead of in Arabic like the rest of the ballot?
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Mar 29, 2018 10:50
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Cat Mattress posted:Why is the write-in in English instead of in Arabic like the rest of the ballot? Latin script
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Conspiratiorist posted:Latin script Yeah. Why isn't it محمد صلاح غالى instead?
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Cat Mattress posted:Why is the write-in in English instead of in Arabic like the rest of the ballot? It's a spoiled ballot anyway, so it's not like it matters? It's not an official write-in that they're going to tally up.
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Cat Mattress posted:Why is the write-in in English instead of in Arabic like the rest of the ballot? I saw it in Arabic as well. This guy probably had his eye on English Twitter.
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Mar 29, 2018 11:39
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Volkerball posted:Lmao
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Cable Guy posted:Does he think she's going to run in 2020...? Bro hes meeting with everyone from Ja Rule and Jay Z to Barack Obama. He's here to hang out with monied folks.
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Mar 29, 2018 15:33
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Volkerball posted:https://twitter.com/borzou/status/979264146620518400?s=19 what do the blue airplane and green star mean?
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Mar 29, 2018 17:02
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HorrificExistence posted:what do the blue airplane and green star mean? I guess it's which part of the armed forces the candidate comes from, I hope I'm wrong though.
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OctaMurk posted:Bro hes meeting with everyone from Ja Rule and Jay Z to Barack Obama. He's here to hang out with monied folks. He's working on his exit plan of becoming a regular member of the western elite. He's already invested, he just needs to get fully accepted here. Its so as oil becomes less valuable, the climate heats up, and things inevitably head south in SA, he can just cuts his losses, drop the King gig, and hop on a plan to New York. The inevitable end of SA is probably going to involve people getting religious and crazy, as people do in a societal collapse, and he'll get to be the Noble Failure Progressive Reformer that gets welcomed at all the right dinner parties (instead of just being some rich despot that fled a revolution).
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^^^^^ I think you give him credit for being smarter and more of a 4D chess player than he really is. He just wants to shake hands with rich and famous people and get some photo ops in. HorrificExistence posted:what do the blue airplane and green star mean? They’re just representative symbols, all the ads have those symbols next to their pictures. A shockingly high number of Egyptians are illiterate (30-40%?). I mean I’m sure there’s some symvolism for something, but the main reason is they’re distinct memorable symbols for people who can’t read.
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Saladman posted:I mean I’m sure there’s some symvolism for something, but the main reason is they’re distinct memorable symbols for people who can’t read. Are they also face-blind? 
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MiddleOne posted:Are they also face-blind? That would be fine if that didn’t it look like the same guy, the first photo from 1997 and the second from a few years later after losing some hair.
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Mar 29, 2018 18:47
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Count Roland posted:That doesn't sound likely. No, it doesn't. I believe it's his preference, but he keeps surrounding himself with people who'd want a permanent presence, and doesn't seem engaged enough to actually force the issue. Schizophrenia at the top isn't great either way though.
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HorrificExistence posted:what do the blue airplane and green star mean? In India all parties have logos so illiterate people can still vote
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What the http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2018/03/29/01003-20180329ARTFIG00386-la-france-envoie-des-renforts-au-kurdistan-syrien.php Is Figaro a reliable source? I know France has forces in Syria already but for the paper to be framing this as explicitly blocking a Turkish invasion is surprising
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Flavahbeast posted:What the Yeah, Le Figaro is probably the most respectable right-wing newspaper in France. Extremely partisan (mostly in the form of self-censorship, conspicuously not talking about scandals involving their corporate owners or prominent right-wing politicians), but outside of internal political issues, they're credible. Pretty interesting. For those who don't read French, it basically says that France will deploy troops in Manbij to deter Turkey from pushing eastward. There's also that: https://www.boursorama.com/actualite-economique/actualites/les-kurdes-disent-avoir-ete-recus-a-l-elysee-ee307f002e98af3c17c7c557e721eda7 A Kurdish delegation declared having been received at the Elysée palace where they talked to Macron, and said that "an important announcement from France shall be forthcoming". That might be it. Tweets: https://twitter.com/HenriVERNET/status/979426390289321987 https://twitter.com/HenriVERNET/status/979428447176019970 https://twitter.com/HenriVERNET/status/979437619837841408 That guy is editor-in-chief at another famous newspaper, Le Parisien. Also pretty interesting timing: https://mobile.francetvinfo.fr/mond...ie_2677286.html At the same time this was happening, French TV was broadcasting a documentary about how Turkey sent trucks full of ammo to jihadist-controled areas of Syria. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/979644481296306176?s=19 I think these are the first US soliders lost to an IED in Syria.
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MiddleOne posted:Are they also face-blind? You could ask the same thing about the literate voters, why do THEY need labels when there's a photo?
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Erdogan is bitching our Macron for negotiating with Kurdish groups. quote:"Who are you to mediate between Turkey and a terror group?" Erdogan said at a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party in the capital, Ankara. "Well you see, it started in 1095AD..."
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https://twitter.com/cher/status/979776399866191872 what a time to be alive
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Radio Prune posted:https://twitter.com/cher/status/979776399866191872 Had to google him - "young prince" at the age of 47?
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OctaMurk posted:Bro hes meeting with everyone from Ja Rule and Jay Z to Barack Obama. He's here to hang out with monied folks. No, he's there to market KSA, and shore up support amongst America's elite. Going after politicians, lobbyists, media and celebrities. Basically every group with a voice in the US. So when KSA keeps doing horrible things, his new pals will stand up for him and the average American won't cry foul. Its hosed, and probably an effective strategy. Well, that's if MBS is better at schmoozing than at foreign policy.
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GaussianCopula posted:Had to google him - "young prince" at the age of 47? e: On the other hand, MbS could be her grandson. A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Mar 31, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/Hassanvand/status/979999419264372736?s=19 Telegram is where the large protests recently were organized.
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Volkerball posted:https://twitter.com/Hassanvand/status/979999419264372736?s=19 An authoritarian regime blocks a popular encrypted messaging app? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
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Randarkman posted:So I take it those protests just sort of fizzled out? The big organized mass rally that made news everywhere is done, but there's still protests all over the country from the same groups of people. White Wednesday's and the compulsory hijab protests are still going on, with one of the key figures from the large protest just getting sentenced to some absurd sentence for taking off her hijab and waving it around. There's been some big strikes in recent weeks as well, coming from these same demographics that were at the center of the big protest a while back, so it's a largely overlapping group. A lot of government employees who haven't been getting paid and blame corruption for it. The same dynamics are all still there, but things are relatively calm for the moment.
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Volkerball posted:https://twitter.com/Hassanvand/status/979999419264372736?s=19 Wow Telegram is by far the most widely used social media app in Iran
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Laurenz posted:Wow Telegram is by far the most widely used social media app in Iran Yeah, it's a really aggressive move. AP is reporting it now. https://twitter.com/AP/status/980045310562131968?s=19 Boroujerdi indicated the aim is for people to move to a national messaging system run from Iran. Not much left to the imagination here.
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So everyone in Washington will drag their feet and try to prevent/delay this, but Trump doesn't seem to have just been speaking off the cuff about withdrawing from Syria. https://twitter.com/leloveluck/status/980030239416946688
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Sinteres posted:So everyone in Washington will drag their feet and try to prevent/delay this, but Trump doesn't seem to have just been speaking off the cuff about withdrawing from Syria. I think everyone of influence in the Pentagon just collectively poo poo themselves.
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MiddleOne posted:I think everyone of influence in the Pentagon just collectively poo poo themselves. The newest US army doctrine has "consolidating gains," as in not pissing away all your progress, as a major cornerstone they're hammering into the leadership. I don't know that the admin is helping with this.
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I wonder if the Kurds are still naming their kids after Trump.
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mlmp08 posted:The newest US army doctrine has "consolidating gains," as in not pissing away all your progress, as a major cornerstone they're hammering into the leadership. Lol trumps brains worms continue to make poo poo worse
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I do think Trump has reason to be annoyed that without his oversight people in his administration, some of whom he's since fired, tried to turn the war on ISIS into a permanent occupation to deny resources to the Syrian government. That said, it's his own fault for not taking an interest before now, and dramatic shifts in policy are bad even if the original policy was also a bigger commitment than he wanted. If we do draw down from our current presence in Syria, doing so in an orderly manner that involves coordination with the relevant stakeholders is a hell of a lot better than just suddenly announcing that we're out and creating the worst possible environment for future status negotiations, particularly with regard to any guarantees we might secure for the future safety of the groups that fought for us. Now they're left wondering if they need to scramble and see what they can get from the highest bidder without our assistance (though the YPG in particular doesn't really have a lot of options to choose from since Turkey is so clearly not an option).
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Turkey is loving pissed. https://twitter.com/Brasco_Aad/status/979824089174102022 I love that "operating illegally" bit. Yeah, that's a stone you want to throw from your glasshouse, "Olive Branch".
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