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Cugel the Clever posted:What the gently caress is it with dictators and ludicrously long, rambling press conferences? Have any leaders from liberal democracies been known to do such a thing? In a democracy, your opponents are always on the lookout for your mistakes, gaffes, or things they can twist. The longer you talk, the better the odds of that happening, so don't give them the chance. In a dictatorship, they're dead. Knock yourself out. Also, in democracies, typically the opposition will want to speak, too. No-one is sitting through twelve hours of speeches, so you all have to restrict your word count a bit.
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Mokotow posted:There’s a lot going on right now. The TVN vote passed, but after the plenary session was ended by another vote. PiS used a legality that doesn’t apply - if a vote was “obviously flawed”, 30 parliamentarians can motion a resumption. This vote wasn’t “obviously flawed”, so somewhere down the line the Sejm marshall Ms. Witek will be seriously legally hosed. The senate managed to stop silly laws in the past, hopefully this time won't be different, I'm counting on Tomasz Grodzki. I'm just wondering what Kaczynski used to buy Kukiz, was it blackmail or some top sinecure?
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This went under the radar with all the other stuff going on but one of those unambiguously good things https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1424832311326126082
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slava rossii fascist homopindosi owned once againquote:According to a recent Morning Consult poll, Russia now has one of the highest levels of vaccine skepticism in the world, with 35 percent saying they are unwilling to get vaccinated. Even the United States, where vaccine skepticism is rampant, has only 19 percent committed anti-vaxxers. Article: The Shocking Enormity of Russia’s Botched Pandemic Response
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Somaen posted:This went under the radar with all the other stuff going on but one of those unambiguously good things  Good news in EE thread? I guess kremlinbots will still talk about Azov's fascists years from now
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Ukraine will never not be a nazi-fascist-US-lapdog state until the large legitimate Necronormiecon posted:slava rossii fascist homopindosi owned once again What's strategically bizarre about this is that it disproportionately affects the Russian speaking (and Russian state TV watching) population worldwide, so in a way the Kremlin torched its sympathetic base abroad to make some bucks from selling Sputnik, which was also a failure due to production/delivery gently caress ups
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Dwesa posted:
I overheard on some Russian talk show that their new complaint is Phlipp Kirkorov being banned from entry so maybe that would be the talking point for a while
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Cugel the Clever posted:What the gently caress is it with dictators and ludicrously long, rambling press conferences? Have any leaders from liberal democracies been known to do such a thing? When you're a dictator, no one has the guts to tell you it's a bad look. The same when you're a multi-millionaire. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1425140025700847620 e: Fidel Castro is probably the champion of all times. Seven hour speeches were a routine for him and he holds the record for a speech at the UN General Assembly, 4 hours 29 minutes. I pity the UN interpreters. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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There's also this guy: According to Guinness World Records, the longest statement made at the UN was given by V.K. Krishna Menon of India. His statement to the Security Council was given during three meetings on 23 and 24 January 1957 (S/PV.762, S/PV.763 and S/PV.764). According to the times listed on the meeting records, the meetings lasted more than 8 hours. Although that was split into several meetings as I understand
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Our border guard boss said in an interview today that Iraqis trying to cross Latvian border have essentially been taken there by deceit, and then forced by Belarus security to attempt to cross - looking to actually return to Iraq more than to do anything else.
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I know there are more pressing issues in global politics and this such a petty issue, but goddamn. Remember the Lex TVN voting thing and how marshall Witek said she asked "five lawyers" for opinion about reassumption? It was bullshit. https://twitter.com/patryk_1234567/status/1427341068366983175 Today, live on TV she showed those opinion. Just two [EDIT: she showed later another three]. Oh and dates are from 2018, and the content is of course, about completely unrelated votings. This is so brazen, I can't loving stomach it Okay, since I'm editing this post, just today we've heard three versions about Polish contractors in Afghanistan: "they have scattered" - Morawiecki "they've been already moved in June" - Blaszczak (Ministry of Defence) "we're sending the plane" - Morawiecki in the meantime also was mentioned, but can't found who said it, that the evacuation is impossible because... 10 years ago, Sikorski closed the Polish embassy in Afghanistan, and there is no one point of evacuation. Blame Tusk, always! It doesn;t matter, Polish gov is now playing another match in the crowd-pleasing sport of pissing contest with Israel over reparations, and who should pay who laserghost fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Aug 16, 2021 |
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The best thing about the Lex TVN debacle is that the station's already got a Dutch license. All that poo poo was for literally nothing
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We're not the only country in this situation but leaving allies behind to be butchered is absolutely disgusting and makes me furious. What is even that plane supposed to do now? Grab people with a rope like in Dark Knight?
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Totally normal things. 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Totally normal things. The logical consequence of "anywhere but here" migration policy. Annoying neighbouring countries qualify as being not "here", so just move the migrants there (using eg bribes, threats of violence, or trebuchets) and pretend they're not your responsibility.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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suck my woke dick posted:The logical consequence of "anywhere but here" migration policy. Annoying neighbouring countries qualify as being not "here", so just move the migrants there (using eg bribes, threats of violence, or trebuchets) and pretend they're not your responsibility. it's a bit different when you're intentionally flying the migrants in specifically to herd them to the border
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:it's a bit different when you're intentionally flying the migrants in specifically to herd them to the border Based on what small investigative journalism the remnants of independent media in Belarus could still do by talking to hotel receptionists, taxi drivers, and locals who live close to the border, only a small chunk of migrants get transported to the border in groups by guides. Those guides either work for the state owned tourist firm that also helps Iraqi 'tourists' with visas, or are straight up border guards. The majority of migrants, however, seem to just get a taxi from the hotel and then walk through the border, while Belarusian border guards look the other way. Then, and that's based on videos from Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, and Belarusian border guards, they try to claim refugee status at the EU border, but are not allowed to cross and pushed back to Belarus, where they are also not welcome, unless they have some visible wounds that can be filmed on video to support the propaganda narrative of EU fascists torturing refugees. Note that despite hours of videos from all sides, I haven't seen a single one so far where EU border guards are seen beating up, shooting directly at, or releasing the dogs at the migrants, etc. There are only videos of the alleged aftermath of said actions captured by Belarusian guards. Nevertheless, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Polish border guards are, indeed, allowed to use physical force to persuade migrants to return to Belarus. There are videos where they at the very least drag people back to the Belarusian border against their will. Even that, from what I've read, might be breaking a bunch of conventions, as countries are expected to allow entrance to anyone who wants to make a refugee claim, but I'm not an international lawyer. What's also not very clear is where do people turned back at the border go afterward. Lithuania alone is said to have blocked entrance to over a thousand migrants at this point, and then they basically disappeared. Some of them managed to return to Iraq via the special flight a couple of weeks ago, but there still should be hundreds unaccounted for who are still in Belarus.
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suck my woke dick posted:The logical consequence of "anywhere but here" migration policy. Annoying neighbouring countries qualify as being not "here", so just move the migrants there (using eg bribes, threats of violence, or trebuchets) and pretend they're not your responsibility. The logical consequence of Belarus riot police invading Lithuania?
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:meanwhile https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1427609590208864264 
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Pryanik is not inferior to a cookie!  That said the mascot is horrific
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:meanwhile https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1427609590208864264 Hell version of Bernd das Brot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_das_Brot
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 : Mama, I can't sleep. I'm afraid the Russian pryanik fire prevention monster will come and eat me : Don't worry, dear. NATO troops are watching the border closely tonight
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:meanwhile https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1427609590208864264 If I may say, it looks quite, heh, baked.
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Tul'skiy Pryanik is 300g of good jam crammed inside a tasty glazed dough. It's more on the cake side of things, even. But that mascot is a terrible take. Like many other things that are state-made, tbh. Much like the new sculpture in Moscow  I don't know why it's silver and not brown either.
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My first thought upon seeing it went to Chernobyl's elephant's foot, and I started wondering what nuclear catastrophe Russia was commemorating with this.
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Antigravitas posted:Looks like shrapnel It looks like a pile of dog poop painted silver. Slashrat posted:My first thought upon seeing it went to Chernobyl's elephant's foot, and I started wondering what nuclear catastrophe Russia was commemorating with this. Maybe that Nuclear Cruise Missile that killed a bunch of scientists a few years back?
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:meanwhile https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1427609590208864264 it doesn't loving look anything like any pryanik i've ever seen, that's for sure also lmao at this guy calling pryaniks "inferior cookies". just wow
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Erulisse posted:the new sculpture in Moscow Still better than most of the Tsereteli crap!
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:Still better than most of the Tsereteli crap!  I concur.
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Meanwhile in Estonia. Some folks have thrown around an idea of building a nuclear station. After our stockpiles of various not easily replaceable vaccines spoiled because of UTTER INCOMPETENCE I'm not so sure about that. Let's see.... Essential vaccines delivered from abroad, ones to administer to children after birth, some covid ones as well. Worth millions of euros, stored in a cold storage warehouse. Then came a heat wave. The commission set to investigate the case found that: some IT department shut down an old DNS server that was used by monitoring tasks to send temperature reports and alerts. But those were sent only on Saturdays and Sundays. To people who no longer worked there. The data was supposed to come from one uncalibrated sensor placed near a freezing unit. Daily measurements were supposed to be taken, which nobody did. Said cold storage also has heated floors (which came as a surprise) and shares the ventilation system with other rooms in the building, used to circulate warm air. There are no appropriate doors either, just fireproof doors. Walls were not insulated. Humidity was regularly at 75%. Cooling units were of dubious origin, without proper documentation. There were reports ever since the building was built (2017) of cooling units working at near-maximum load. Who was guilty? Everyone was slightly guilty, so no-one. I guess we get what we pay for: not much. A government tender is like a genie: one must word all three wishes really carefully or one ends up getting screwed over. Oh btw, our rescue workers have to work two jobs to make ends meet. This country sometimes. Just your regular eastern European fare.
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Erulisse posted:
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Erulisse posted:
Is he supposed to be wearing Prometheus space suit or adidas track suit?
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Erulisse posted:Tul'skiy Pryanik is 300g of good jam crammed inside a tasty glazed dough. a great addition 
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