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Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
A refinery of theirs also burnt.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-...0I8-kxte_PV5jbM

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wisconsingreg
Jan 13, 2019
btw, it's not an accident. This as been a war since 2019.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://www.facebook.com/pararanmocknews/posts/2659967527641182

really interesting thread. this is a nigerian comedian who made a post mocking increasing atomization, similar to someone advocating for texan independence but going too far down the rabbit hole and calling for independence just for cowboys stadium. this post was largely made to spark comments from igbo people who would be politically dominant in a new biafra, and people from the "south south" of nigeria and biafra, the niger delta, a mix of ethnic groups but prominently the ijaw. virtually absent is any pro-nigerian voice, it's really astounding. a few people saying "wow things sure are deteriorating fast, huh" and similar bleak stuff

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

UAE trying to profit off controlling Socotra now
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1400833382767026180?s=20

Charles Lister still trying to rehabilitate al-Qaeda.
https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1399879527782879234?s=20
https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1399882049390063619?s=20

New banger dropped from Yemen too
https://twitter.com/univrslsoldier/status/1400468214035910660?s=20

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Nigeria banned twitter
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1400884633647173636?s=20

quote:

Abuja, Nigeria (CNN)
The Nigerian government says it has "indefinitely suspended" Twitter's operations in the country, the Ministry of Information and Culture announced in a statement on Friday.

"The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria," it read.
The statement, which was posted on the ministry's official Twitter handle on Friday evening, accused the American social media company of allowing its platform to be used "for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence."
The suspension comes two days after Twitter deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari that was widely perceived as offensive.
In that tweet on Tuesday, the Nigerian leader threatened to deal with people in the country's southeast, who he blames for the recurring attacks on public infrastructure in the region.
"Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand," Buhari wrote in the now-deleted tweet, referring to the brutal two-year Nigeria-Biafra war, which killed an estimated one to three million people, mostly from the Igbo tribe in the eastern part of the country between 1967-1970.
The tweet was deleted Wednesday after many Nigerians flagged it to Twitter.
Information Minister Lai Mohammed criticized Twitter's action and accused the social media giant of "double standards."

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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My arabic is super rusty and was garbage to begin with but are they singing about hadramawt?

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019


Bandits in the north, ethnic cleansing in the middle-belt, wide spread poverty, a near worthless currency, ethnic tensions in the south and banning Twitter is their main priority.

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

nigerian twitter was always fun this is a great loss to the world

tgacon
Mar 22, 2009

PawParole posted:

Bandits in the north, ethnic cleansing in the middle-belt, wide spread poverty, a near worthless currency, ethnic tensions in the south and banning Twitter is their main priority.

When you have 10 intractable problems and 1 tractable one you take the W where you can

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

i say swears online posted:

https://www.facebook.com/pararanmocknews/posts/2659967527641182

really interesting thread. this is a nigerian comedian who made a post mocking increasing atomization, similar to someone advocating for texan independence but going too far down the rabbit hole and calling for independence just for cowboys stadium. this post was largely made to spark comments from igbo people who would be politically dominant in a new biafra, and people from the "south south" of nigeria and biafra, the niger delta, a mix of ethnic groups but prominently the ijaw. virtually absent is any pro-nigerian voice, it's really astounding. a few people saying "wow things sure are deteriorating fast, huh" and similar bleak stuff

things fall apart

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


Trump should have done this

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Hey the sanctions got rid of saddam didn't they?


I'm hearing they actually tightened his grip on the country and killed half a million children? Hmm. Omellete.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

holyt gently caress


https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1401721842428170241

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Seeing Max Blumenthal posting screencaps of Brown Moses' D&D posts ftw

coathat
May 21, 2007

someone send him the ones from when the Ames article came out

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ethiopia-conflict-expulsions/?utm_source=reddit.com

They’ve increased the estimate for the Mai Kadra massacre to 1400 from previous estimate, and confirmed that there were two massacres. TPLF massacred Amhara civilians first, then FANO militias massacred Tigray next.

Western Tigray all the way to the Tekezi river has been annexed by the Amhara region.

Total civilian deaths stand at 20,000-50,000

“ “If we really had the intention to target the Amharas it would not be necessary for us to arm our youths with machetes, because we had sophisticated machine guns to do the job.”
Getachew Reda, TPLF spokesman”

PawParole has issued a correction as of 06:50 on Jun 8, 2021

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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I've heard Turks make that same argument. In good company when you start saying insane poo poo like that.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Zedhe Khoja posted:

I've heard Turks make that same argument. In good company when you start saying insane poo poo like that.

it’s similar with Holocaust deniers — “we didn’t do a genocide.... but we hate you and what If [We] Did It?”

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Zedhe Khoja posted:

I've heard Turks make that same argument. In good company when you start saying insane poo poo like that.


Zedhe Khoja posted:

I've heard Turks make that same argument. In good company when you start saying insane poo poo like that.

You’ve misunderstood the quote, he’s claiming that it wasn’t the official TPLF youth wing that did it , it was local ethnic militias on both sides who carried out the tit for tat reprisals. Sounds bad when you translate it though, I agree.

Also, aren’t you Turkish?

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Turkish can overlap with a pretty wide range of other ethnic identities, and certainly with political stances that oppose the national ideology in Turkey.

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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Immigrant I'm afraid. And what I meant is Turks will say "We can't have done a genocide there are still Armenians! If we'd wanted to kill them all we could have done it! It was just unfortunate random violence, so sad." Sometimes they'll pepper in indignation about Ataturk in there. Disrespecting him both because your accusing him of hating Armenians and organizing massacres against them, and not being capable of doing something, ie killing all the Armenians.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019


Cool. Are you Alevi? I had an alevi friend who had an image like that as an avatar on another forum.

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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Immigrant to not from Turkey. Fiancé is Ismaili so thats what I converted to (a pain in the rear end conversion too), but most of my social circle is Alevi, and thats kind of the community I'm assimilating into and my formal studies involved studying their ethnogenesis. Avatar is from a communist political cartoon from Tashkent in the early soviet period.



Zappin the mullahs with the light of Communism

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Zedhe Khoja posted:

Immigrant to not from Turkey. Fiancé is Ismaili so thats what I converted to (a pain in the rear end conversion too), but most of my social circle is Alevi, and thats kind of the community I'm assimilating into and my formal studies involved studying their ethnogenesis. Avatar is from a communist political cartoon from Tashkent in the early soviet period.



Zappin the mullahs with the light of Communism

an Ismaili in Turkey?

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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Fiancé is Hazara, but even among them Ismaili's are pretty fringe, and there's some sort of intermediary hereditary pseudo-imam between them and the Aga Khan they follow. I'm endlessly thankful there's no jamatkhana in Istanbul, so I don't really have to do anything but fast as part of converting.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 51 minutes!
https://mobile.twitter.com/RStatecraft/status/1402777532009693184

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004


lo

and i mean this with all seriousness

l

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Zedhe Khoja posted:

Immigrant I'm afraid. And what I meant is Turks will say "We can't have done a genocide there are still Armenians! If we'd wanted to kill them all we could have done it! It was just unfortunate random violence, so sad." Sometimes they'll pepper in indignation about Ataturk in there. Disrespecting him both because your accusing him of hating Armenians and organizing massacres against them, and not being capable of doing something, ie killing all the Armenians.

Wasn't it the pashas who did the Armenian genocide and Ataturk mostly did the whole Turkification thing?

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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Yossarian-22 posted:

Wasn't it the pashas who did the Armenian genocide and Ataturk mostly did the whole Turkification thing?

Some of the population transfers happened during Ataturk's rule but that's not really the issue. They'll just assume you're bringing it up to smear Ataturk because Turks are deranged and obsessed with Ataturk and will naturally assume any attack on Turkey during that era is an attack Ataturk.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Zedhe Khoja posted:

Some of the population transfers happened during Ataturk's rule but that's not really the issue. They'll just assume you're bringing it up to smear Ataturk because Turks are deranged and obsessed with Ataturk and will naturally assume any attack on Turkey during that era is an attack Ataturk.

sounding kinda like a gbs China poster mate

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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If you say so. The Cult of Ataturk has to be experienced because I don't think there's really any comparably successful cult of personality to compare it to

Huragok
Sep 14, 2011

Zedhe Khoja posted:

If you say so. The Cult of Ataturk has to be experienced because I don't think there's really any comparably successful cult of personality to compare it to

Ataturk: Turkish Trump

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/theweeknd/status/1402766797414092804?s=20

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!
https://twitter.com/LindseySnell/status/1402581904256274441

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Wasn't the US supposed to have ended this war months ago
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1403032889831444490?s=20

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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i do love how every single comment is someone complaining to him either to intervene and destroy their enemies or to stop supporting genocide in their country. Not a single american gives a poo poo about foreign policy lol.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Zedhe Khoja posted:

i do love how every single comment is someone complaining to him either to intervene and destroy their enemies or to stop supporting genocide in their country. Not a single american gives a poo poo about foreign policy lol.

The affairs of the empire are for the nobility, survival is the chief thing on the mind of the masses.

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019


just like in the 80’s, Addis will just embezzle the aid.

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