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Not So Fast posted:The BBC and a bunch of foreign media got a bunch of escorted tours pre-Covid, when I think the CPC thought a PR blitz might just get them off their back lol the comments on that video are insane. insane libs clutching their pearls at the horrific sight of people dancing.
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Jan 26, 2022 10:21
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Asproigerosis posted:My great grandparents were from galicia, how much should I care about ukraine getting steamrolled? (Great grandfather was a tsarist cossack if that helps) not at all
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Jan 26, 2022 10:38
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Not So Fast posted:https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/08/512399/uyghurs-freely-join-re-education-camps quote:‘CURE’ FOR EXTREMIST BELIEFS e: not that I think he has been brainwashed, just if this story is remotely accurate this man would never leave a British prison also he would probably have been prompted to build the bomb by his mi5 handler XMNN has issued a correction as of 10:57 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Jan 26, 2022 10:49
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I'm over here lollin that china actually won the war on terror.
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Jan 26, 2022 10:56
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https://twitter.com/DeanoBeano1/status/1485970165426757634 https://twitter.com/DeanoBeano1/status/1485618538031288321 https://twitter.com/TimSingSkyNews/status/1485739464316047362 Dean O'Brien is a pro-follow for on-the-ground reporting in Ukraine in general
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Jan 26, 2022 11:08
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if drinking and dancing are what counts as genocide now then sign me up
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Jan 26, 2022 11:09
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thatfatkid posted:lol the comments on that video are insane. insane libs clutching their pearls at the horrific sight of people dancing. meanwhile in America https://twitter.com/adamfriedland/status/1196540871967199232?s=21
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Jan 26, 2022 11:32
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sum posted:Brother you need to deradicalize your stupid rear end out of thinking you're PR for World Socialism. These are exactly the arguments reactionaries make about residency schools in Canada. China did bad thing I'm sorry A few pages back, but I have to speak to this. The residential schools in Canada forcibly removed children hundreds of miles from their homes and families, denied them the right to speak their native tongues under the threat of corporal punishment, conducted medical experiments on them, and was rife with widespread abuse that the government knew about but ignored because those kids didn't matter (and the documented motivation for them was to deal with the "Indian problem" anyway so who cares?) The death rates in those schools were through the roof (1/4 on average according to the best report we have on the topic during the height of the residential school era; one school's death rate was 69 percent.) Though I keep seeing people trying to compare Xinjiang and Canada, the fact is they really aren't comparable.
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Jan 26, 2022 12:09
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thatfatkid posted:lol the comments on that video are insane. insane libs clutching their pearls at the horrific sight of people dancing. remembering this absolute braingenius in the beginning of the cspam auspol thread: Centusin posted:i know there's no point in saying this but typically people celebrate Eid al-Fitr by praying inside or outside of mosques not dancing outside of them so I would say that video shows no footage of anybody actually properly celebrating Eid. It's almost like they couldn't record footage of people performing Salat or reciting Takbir because it didn't happen
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Jan 26, 2022 12:12
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crepeface posted:remembering this absolute braingenius lol  in many parts of Turkey it’s customary to crack open a bottle of mint liqueur on that day after a month of Ramadan. I think some people watch too much TV and think Muslims either be praying or blowing stuff up.
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Jan 26, 2022 12:21
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XMNN posted:Assuming this guy hasn't been completely brainwashed into making this whole story up, in the UK he would be put in prison for like 10 years just for looking at and sharing those materials, and for life for buying materials to build a bomb. this has to be fake because the scene of him calling one of these centers and going "hello, the police told me terrorism is illegal so i would like to get rid of these thoughts, please" is hilarious
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Jan 26, 2022 12:21
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Jan 26, 2022 12:43
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Doctor Jeep posted:this has to be fake because the scene of him calling one of these centers and going "hello, the police told me terrorism is illegal so i would like to get rid of these thoughts, please" is hilarious I dunno. Guys who get into terrorism tend to be really dumb. Even the seemingly normal middle class dudes who gravitate to terrorism are deficient in some of their thinking. In the UK or USA he would've been entrapped and sent to gitmo.
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Jan 26, 2022 12:52
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crepeface posted:when i went back to find that post about international observers in xinjiang i found this old banger by a canadian uyghur activist Training child soldiers
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Jan 26, 2022 13:17
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Some Guy TT posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/JChengWSJ/status/1485817451531186177 I've been told that military movements such as these by the US are signs of imminent invasion
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Jan 26, 2022 13:35
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Spinning bowties ought to realize that dropping the genocide bar low enough to push the Uighur poo poo has some very damning implications about the actions of the US government
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Jan 26, 2022 13:38
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SorePotato posted:Spinning bowties ought to realize that dropping the genocide bar low enough to push the Uighur poo poo has some very damning implications about the actions of the US government Lol when has blatant hypocrisy ever stopped American imperialism?
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Jan 26, 2022 13:41
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paul_soccer12 posted:Someone should s that guy in the h with a g what if instead he's eating fish and dies because of a small fishbone?
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Jan 26, 2022 14:01
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Doctor Jeep posted:this has to be fake because the scene of him calling one of these centers and going "hello, the police told me terrorism is illegal so i would like to get rid of these thoughts, please" is hilarious It's probably a bit of a varnished narrative for how he turned away from extremism, the implication I've seen used by Daniel Dumbrill's commentary on this is that the voluntary programs are used as a safety net before they get anywhere near serious extremism. But XMMN is correct in that how he's getting treated is far better than the UK anti-extremism program would have treated him.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:03
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How NYT handles you when you don't support war: can't believe those pussies in germany are struggling so much and so muddled in their thinking
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Jan 26, 2022 14:04
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Lyndon LaRouche posted:Lol when has blatant hypocrisy ever stopped American imperialism? Never but the fools bumbling in here should feel stupid, the rancid Falun Goons
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Jan 26, 2022 14:05
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people usually don’t die from fishbones in the throat. they eventually dissolve or you swallow them or a doctor can take them out
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Jan 26, 2022 14:09
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Look the NYT wanting Germany to get involved in Eastern Europe is by now practically a tradition
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Jan 26, 2022 14:11
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crepeface posted:remembering this absolute braingenius Uighur muslims in Xinjiang have their own culture in which dancing figures heavily lol i'm not even bothering to link a source to dignify this idiot, but maybe try talking to some people from xinjiang lmfao
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Jan 26, 2022 14:13
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gradenko_2000 posted:Look the NYT wanting Germany to get involved in Eastern Europe is by now practically a tradition germans: is destroying germany and the rest of europe through a war with russia a good thing german atlanticists: yes
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Jan 26, 2022 14:18
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I’m darkly curious about the fate of those British mercenaries because with the exception of Gurkhas and the French Foreign Legion they’re explicitly excluded from protections by the Hague and Geneva Conventions. Western militaries are so used to these low intensity conflicts in the GWOT and using massive amounts of contractors, I don’t think anyone’s given it any thought. If they try to bring that model to Europe, or any conventional war really, they are exposing a huge number of their nationals to who-knows-what because they’ve decided not to use uniformed members of their militaries in these roles. If The Russian Federation declared war on the Ukraine, Russian soldiers could shoot these contractors out of hand as Francs-tireurs and mercenaries and still be completely within the laws of armed conflict. Someone should probably tell those Squaddies that.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:18
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Frosted Flake posted:I’m darkly curious about the fate of those British mercenaries because with the exception of Gurkhas and the French Foreign Legion they’re explicitly excluded from protections by the Hague and Geneva Conventions. schoolyard bullies are well known to not bully the weak while standing their ground against stronger opponents
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Jan 26, 2022 14:22
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i was trying to find some cool apps and a search led me to Reddit, where people love talking about their favorite apps. I wasn’t really expecting to find this: https://old.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/scx3nf/will_users_of_readdlespark_and_macpawsetapp_be posted:
well it really is the case that the mail app I started to use last week is located in Odessa. they’re probably gonna see a lot of subscriptions cancelled. that’s too bad. I’ll keep the accessibility and screen recording permissions on to support them in this time.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:32
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Thinking about that crashed f35 again and another reason why they probably wont give one to taiwan anytime soon is that they will undoubtly crash land one in the ocean right next to China's coast and China will get to it before taiwan can.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:44
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fart simpson posted:people usually don’t die from fishbones in the throat. they eventually dissolve or you swallow them or a doctor can take them out but what if?
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Jan 26, 2022 14:45
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Thinking about that crashed f35 again and another reason why they probably wont give one to taiwan anytime soon is that they will undoubtly crash land one in the ocean right next to China's coast and China will get to it before taiwan can. True story, that’s also how the PRC came to have IR Air-to-Air missiles. A ROC Sabre fired an early sidewinder, which was a dud and recovered. The USSR and PRC were able to copy the seeker, and IR missiles entered their inventories. They then went on to make much better IR sensors and seekers than the US, which is pretty funny.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:48
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Thinking about that crashed f35 again and another reason why they probably wont give one to taiwan anytime soon is that they will undoubtly crash land one in the ocean right next to China's coast and China will get to it before taiwan can. IMO when US carrier groups are moving away from china is the moment we should be actually worried of war
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Jan 26, 2022 14:49
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Frosted Flake posted:I’m darkly curious about the fate of those British mercenaries because with the exception of Gurkhas and the French Foreign Legion they’re explicitly excluded from protections by the Hague and Geneva Conventions. It's in a country's own self interest to get all of their mercenaries killed rather than letting them come home. The last thing you want is a bunch of unscrupulous, combat hungry thrill seekers walking the streets. The mercenaries themselves are enamored with the adventure too.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:59
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Frosted Flake posted:True story, that’s also how the PRC came to have IR Air-to-Air missiles. A ROC Sabre fired an early sidewinder, which was a dud and recovered. The USSR and PRC were able to copy the seeker, and IR missiles entered their inventories. They then went on to make much better IR sensors and seekers than the US, which is pretty funny. Also how China got access to the latest US torpedos. Historically, China’s carrier program started up after Australia sold them a carrier for scrap with most of the equipment on board. The Soviets were able to reserve engineer the B-29 (and there by giving them a strategic nuclear capable bomber) after an emergency landing during the war. It is just smart. (Also, to be clear, both China and the Soviets are developing their own domestic tech at the same time but that is how you compete). Yeah, I don’t know how useful a crashes F-35 is since China already has a combat operational stealth fighter of their own but the fear is enough for the US to keep them in their hangers most of the time. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 15:30 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Jan 26, 2022 15:24
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The crashed f-35 is a long con for the Chinese to recover it and reverse engineer a trillion dollar piece of garbage that will deplete their economy and pose zero threat in combat.
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Jan 26, 2022 15:25
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deathbysnusnu posted:The crashed f-35 is a long con for the Chinese to recover it and reverse engineer a trillion dollar piece of garbage that will deplete their economy and pose zero threat in combat. The thing that keeps military budget analysts awake at night is them getting the extremely expensive boondoggle and actually making it work and for cheaper than they ever could. Not an issue for the military industrial complex because now they can lobby some congressmen/senators to buy their new boondoggle thats better than the old one at twice the price.
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Jan 26, 2022 15:30
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Oh God I'm stupid about military equipment so I didn't realize that plane they crashed in the SCS was one of the big loving boondoggle planes that everyone always argues about Lmao
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Jan 26, 2022 15:30
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The thing that keeps military budget analysts awake at night is them getting the extremely expensive boondoggle and actually making it work and for cheaper than they ever could. Not an issue for the military industrial complex because now they can lobby some congressmen/senators to buy their new boondoggle thats better than the old one at twice the price. Granted, while I am sure there are secrets to glean, at the same time Chinese tech is always there in many ways. I would say the fear is stripping any possible advantages away from the US by merging any useful tech into existing Chinese systems.
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Jan 26, 2022 15:36
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The thing that keeps military budget analysts awake at night is them getting the extremely expensive boondoggle and actually making it work and for cheaper than they ever could. Not an issue for the military industrial complex because now they can lobby some congressmen/senators to buy their new boondoggle thats better than the old one at twice the price. Worried about stolen F-35 technology? Time to buy our brand new F-36! It has racing stripes!
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Jan 26, 2022 15:44
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's in a country's own self interest to get all of their mercenaries killed rather than letting them come home. The last thing you want is a bunch of unscrupulous, combat hungry thrill seekers walking the streets. During the 100 years war the English and French signed a truce, and so the French told their mercenaries that they didn't need them any more, could they please go away? Instead the mercenaries settled down and set themselves up as bandits and terrorized the countryside worse than the English. So the French, thinking quickly, invaded Asturias and Switzerland for the main purpose of sending the mercenaries off somewhere else to die. Both expeditions were soundly thrashed, so it was a success.
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