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Looks like Lithuania is maintaining a noble Baltic tradition - there’s a mass casualty event in Kaunas, with so far 17 left dead by moonshine of unknown origin.
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An Afghan boy is dying in Poland after eating poisonous mushrooms. He was forced to forage for food in the forests surrounding the refugee housing unit where his family was placed after their father secured a place on a flight from Kabul for working with the British. The daily food budget is just 2 euros per The state media’s and the ministry of health’s reaction was something special. After independent media reports surfaced of the boys death, a communique was published, saying no Afghan children are dead and responsible media should check their sources before publishing such unfounded claims. Also, the boy is actually braindead and in an agonal state, so NOT DEAD.
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Aug 30, 2021 19:00
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Looks like Lithuania is maintaining a noble Baltic tradition - there’s a mass casualty event in Kaunas, with so far 17 left dead by moonshine of unknown origin. is there a large excise tax people are avoiding, or is it just the joys of bespoke mystery moonshine? most of the methanol poisoning in these parts is the second variety with people making small batches of moonshine and sharing with friends, the same way they might experiment with sourdough, except instead of risking disappointing bread if you mess up, you risk going blind. i keep trying to get my sister to stop accepting moonshine from the random people she works with out in the sticks
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Aug 30, 2021 20:12
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:is there a large excise tax people are avoiding, or is it just the joys of bespoke mystery moonshine? most of the methanol poisoning in these parts is the second variety with people making small batches of moonshine and sharing with friends, the same way they might experiment with sourdough, except instead of risking disappointing bread if you mess up, you risk going blind. i keep trying to get my sister to stop accepting moonshine from the random people she works with out in the sticks It’s the latter, usually happens when mid-sized moonshiners try to optimise costs without opening a factory. 17 deaths from a moonshine batch is a rookie number compared to what we had in Latvia a decade ago.
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Aug 30, 2021 20:30
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Two euros should probably be enough to not require eating mystery mushrooms. That said that's horrible if this is what happened regardless. In some good Afghanistan news, Ukrainian special forces went into Kabul city to get some local fixers and interpreters that the US/Canada didn't get out: quote:Despite that restriction, as well as the growing risks to coalition forces ahead of the scheduled withdrawal of the last U.S. forces on Aug. 31, Ukrainian troops went out into the city of Kabul on foot to escort two minibuses – carrying the Canada-bound translators and their families, 19 people in all – onto the airfield. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-ukraine-leads-daring-rescue-of-canada-bound-afghans/
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Aug 30, 2021 23:31
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mobby_6kl posted:Two euros should probably be enough to not require eating mystery mushrooms. That said that's horrible if this is what happened regardless. You don't have kids do you. A hungry kid is an unstoppable force of trying to eat anything. This is utterly awful. 60 euros a month is barely survivable even having all utensils to prepare and store food, let alone in some forest. Are there any donations for them? How in hell does this even happen
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Aug 31, 2021 01:32
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Erulisse posted:You don't have kids do you. A hungry kid is an unstoppable force of trying to eat anything. This is utterly awful. I'm not sure about Lithuania, but I'd hazard a guess it's a similar approach as in Latvia. Support for asylum speakers is kept deliberately low in order to both deter new asylum applicants and to motivate them to get further into Europe to reach more hospitable countries. We already saw this backfiring with Belarus last year, where Belarusian asylum seekers complained about the level of support. In addition, if the 2015 refugee crisis is any indication, any attempts to increase this support would be a political nightmare for the parties/politicians. Add the alive and well "rapefugee" bogeyman to the evergreen "the state doesn't take care of it's own" narrative and you have just painted a permanent target for smears on your back. In an already unstable year due to antivax/antimask lunacy, the chances of anything being made better are worse than zero. Such is life.
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Aug 31, 2021 05:48
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Erulisse posted:Are there any donations for them? How in hell does this even happen Looked around, nothing up yet, unless you happen to have one or two compatible child livers (reports say all three children got sick). There was a bit of a shitstorm over this though, so I hope the food situation will get better for others. Mokotow fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Aug 31, 2021 07:05
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Nice Christian hospitality. Bunch of loving ghouls and hypocrites.
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Aug 31, 2021 07:15
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Poland is now close to introducing a state of emergency on territories bordering the Belarusian border, where some immigrant groups are stuck in limbo between border guards from both sides. Journalists have been pushed back so far they can’t see the camp anymore, and aid workers are blocked from communicating through loudspeakers with sirens and military vehicle engine noises. Activists have attempted to block the border guard and military convoys heading to the camp, while others attempted to dismantle the newly erected border fence. Journalists and activists are swarming the areas and every new immigrant group captured on the Polish side is followed closely after arrest, as there are suspicions the border guards are returning people back to Belarus without processing them correctly. Border guards have attempted to obfuscate their actions by utilizing multiple convoys and harassing activists with spot checks. The state of emergency will effectively close off large swathes of eastern Poland (don’t you forget about it) from anyone not living there. The irony here is that during COVID last year, the government made a stand over NOT introducing a state of emergency last May, as that would be losing to the virus, somehow. In fact, the reason they didn’t do it last hear is due to presidential elections they couldn’t afford to put off for autumn. The three siblings that ate mushrooms are not faring well - while the oldest teenager is out of hospital? The middle boy is waiting for a liver transplant, while reports seem to confirm the youngest is braindead and not long for this world.
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Sep 1, 2021 14:44
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5-year-old Ali has passed, his older brother will be declared brain dead today. Congrats to all involved, I guess.
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Sep 2, 2021 10:15
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I hate the EU so much.
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Sep 2, 2021 21:21
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Cool country, very catholic and pro-life
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Sep 2, 2021 21:28
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Catholicism is based around making sure women remain machines pumping out children for them to abuse and murder.
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Sep 2, 2021 21:36
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Hey, the Catholic Church said the refugees should be allowed in and treated humanely! In, you know, one letter that wasn't even strongly worded or read aloud during mass, but they really do care and it's totally not lip service so the Pope fucks off. Of course, if they applied one tenth of the pressure they did in the abortion matter, if a single archbishop went there and actually said "this is monstrous and un-Christian, let them in or we'll tell people not to vote for you" the government would probably do a 180, but, you know, the bishops are very busy people. All those altar boys aren't going to gently caress themselves. Jesus Christ I have spent the past couple of weeks in a state of just constant seething bloodthirsty rage. The people in power are just complete loving monsters, they're intentionally starving innocent people to death at gunpoint, and according to a new poll their support just went up. gently caress Poland forever.
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Sep 3, 2021 16:51
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Guildencrantz posted:Hey, the Catholic Church said the refugees should be allowed in and treated humanely! In, you know, one letter that wasn't even strongly worded or read aloud during mass, but they really do care and it's totally not lip service so the Pope fucks off. I'm not plugged in into Polish ecclesiastical matters, but I've seen in the news that archbishop of Gniezno spoke on the issue during Mass in Jasna Góra. He wasn't as categorical in his speech, of course, but he does call back to the abortion ruling by affirming that every life is sacred. https://www.polishnews.co.uk/primate-wojciech-polak-it-is-love-not-hate-that-is-the-basis-of-every-open-and-healthy-social-life/
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Sep 3, 2021 17:12
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Guildencrantz posted:Church In the 21st century, everyone is an Augustine. Religion is chosen to reinforce politics, not politics to reinforce religion. I suspect the Catholic Church, cognizant of a millennia of political primacy lost, is terrified of losing its last few ideological strongholds.
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Sep 4, 2021 00:06
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Our news are reporting a journalistic investigation in Lithuania uncovering a caste system, including tiered access to toilets and sexual slavery, being allowed to self-establish in one of the border crosser detention centres.
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Sep 4, 2021 00:18
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If you want to hate someone, hate Lukashenko. He is the cause of all that misery. Government owned "tourist" agencies bring them here for 5 to 15K$, bring them to the border and if a fuckup happens such as Poland or Latvia tells them to go away our fuckers force them over again with shields and batons. It is very even visibly obvious how many more tourists we've got lately.
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Sep 4, 2021 04:36
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There can be more than one shithead in this situation.
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Sep 4, 2021 06:23
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Paladinus posted:I'm not plugged in into Polish ecclesiastical matters, but I've seen in the news that archbishop of Gniezno spoke on the issue during Mass in Jasna Góra. He wasn't as categorical in his speech, of course, but he does call back to the abortion ruling by affirming that every life is sacred. Polak is considered a pretty progressive bishop, and even this is largely mealy-mouthed, equivocating priest-speak. I know how they can choose their words when condemning abortion and LGBT people. Again, with the degree of hold these fuckers have over this government, if they truly wanted to force this issue, they could. But in the end, this one issue where the Church's stance is actually moral and good is the one they will not stake a single ounce of political capital on. It's not really surprising, I suppose. The social groups of loyal Catholics and frothing xenophobes largely overlap, and if anything could drive the currently most faithful away from the Church, it would be a serious commitment to pro-refugee policy. Tbh the latter is probably political suicide for anyone except the left. Sekenr posted:If you want to hate someone, hate Lukashenko. He is the cause of all that misery. Government owned "tourist" agencies bring them here for 5 to 15K$, bring them to the border and if a fuckup happens such as Poland or Latvia tells them to go away our fuckers force them over again with shields and batons. It is very even visibly obvious how many more tourists we've got lately. Obviously gently caress Lukashenko also, I'm well aware he's instigating the whole thing and ruthlessly exploiting these people as pawns just to stir poo poo. But he's a vile despot doing vile despot poo poo. I'm angrier at the leaders my countrymen happily democratically voted into power, at least partially on their overwhelmingly popular "refugees no, racism yes" stance. (and also at said countrymen)
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Sep 4, 2021 13:26
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Guildencrantz posted:Polak is considered a pretty progressive bishop, and even this is largely mealy-mouthed, equivocating priest-speak. I know how they can choose their words when condemning abortion and LGBT people. Again, with the degree of hold these fuckers have over this government, if they truly wanted to force this issue, they could. But in the end, this one issue where the Church's stance is actually moral and good is the one they will not stake a single ounce of political capital on. The supposed hold they have is only illusory, and they know it. It can only appear to exist as long as the government (and not just in Poland) and the church are perfectly aligned, so there is no friction. As soon as they try to leverage their supposed influence, they are gonna get savaged and disowned as traitors, losing their support
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Sep 4, 2021 13:39
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Sekenr posted:If you want to hate someone, hate Lukashenko. He is the cause of all that misery. Government owned "tourist" agencies bring them here for 5 to 15K$, bring them to the border and if a fuckup happens such as Poland or Latvia tells them to go away our fuckers force them over again with shields and batons. It is very even visibly obvious how many more tourists we've got lately. Yes, but him toying with lives of some people, even with us on the receiving end, doesn’t mean that it’s cool for us to kick them further down. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Sep 4, 2021 |
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Sep 4, 2021 13:46
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steinrokkan posted:The supposed hold they have is only illusory, and they know it. It can only appear to exist as long as the government (and not just in Poland) and the church are perfectly aligned, so there is no friction. As soon as they try to leverage their supposed influence, they are gonna get savaged and disowned as traitors, losing their support There's definitely a lot of truth to that. In Belarus, the moment the leaders of Orthodox and Catholic Churches in Belarus mildly objected to violence against protesters, Metropolitan Paul lost his position, and Archbishop Kondrusiewicz got straight up exiled and could only return when it was decided he would retire. Not to mention other bishops, regular priests, and religious people who lost their positions, jobs, landed in prison, had to leave the country. Incidentally, both Churches are fairly quiet on the question of abortions in Belarus, where abortions are more widely available than in Poland, as it's just not something the government or Lukashenko's electorate are interested in. Lukashenko is very open that the only thing Churches are allowed to do is to preach 'religious stuff', and if they try to get into 'politics', there will be dire consequences.
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Sep 4, 2021 15:47
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Seemed funny (and unfunny at the same time) enough to post: https://twitter.com/parfitt_tom/status/1434792533217923074?s=19
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Sep 6, 2021 09:51
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Futhermore, some people in vkontakte tried and tested that the two wankers on the left (alexey and viktor initially) didn't even grow the beards, these are from FaceApp 'add me a beard' feature. God loving damnit
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Sep 6, 2021 12:32
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This is sad, but also lmao.
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Sep 6, 2021 12:35
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cinci zoo sniper posted:This is sad, but also lmao. New thread title please
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Sep 6, 2021 15:09
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Edit: nah
Mokotow fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Sep 6, 2021 |
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Sep 6, 2021 22:12
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Finally found the pic of the middle one from 2016 election board
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Sep 6, 2021 22:21
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Erulisse posted:Futhermore, some people in vkontakte tried and tested that the two wankers on the left (alexey and viktor initially) didn't even grow the beards, these are from FaceApp 'add me a beard' feature.
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Sep 6, 2021 22:22
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 That's what gets me, it's not even that you're stealing elections by setting out imitation candidates, it's that you're doing such a lazy job of it. Hiring the cheapest contractor to do your election fraud and them just going 
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Speaking of "lazy" and "election fraud"... In order to remove "smart voting" (Navalny's current strategy for influencing the election outcomes) from search results, Google and Yandex have been sued by a wool company "Woolintertrade", which, it turns out, has registered "smart voting" as their trademark. In an interview, Woolintertrade's owner Abdulla Umarov said it was on a whim that he decided to make "smart voting" the face of his brand. Added Umarov, "Do I not have the right? Is registering a trademark a crime now?"
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Sep 8, 2021 09:53
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On top of that imagine 'registering a trademark' and THEN trying to ban any appearance of it on the interwebs
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Sep 8, 2021 10:00
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Erulisse posted:On top of that Activision would be proud. And then they would sue Woolintertrade for trade secrets.
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Sep 8, 2021 10:03
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Human Rights - now found exclusively at Yuri's Scrapyard & Car Parts Emporium, Orenburg
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Sep 8, 2021 13:28
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https://www.bbc.com/news/58486791 Russian emergencies minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died after reportedly falling off a cliff in Norilsk, northern Siberia. According to RT he fell while trying to save film director Alexander Melnik who also fell to his death. They had been filming a training video during an arctic civil defense exercise. The sudden death of Zinichev who started his career in KGB and then FSB, becoming part of Putin's personal security team, naturally raises zero questions. Move on, nothing to see here. (The accidental death of an emergencies minister is very Russian, though.) Nenonen fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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Sep 8, 2021 14:56
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Died drunk while hunting, i bet a dollar on that. We will never know anyway.
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Sep 8, 2021 17:08
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Erulisse posted:Died drunk while hunting, i bet a dollar on that. Let's hope cameras were rolling. It's Russia, there is always video footage when people do stupid dangerous poo poo.
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