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wow you're literally doing a holodomor splitting hairs argument. they're killing everyone, so it cant be genocide!!!!!!!!
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Yeah, I get a bit prickly when what happened to the American Indians is described as a genocide. I get a bit prickly when people talk about na genocide as something that happened in the past and is not ongoing to this very day
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Jan 10, 2019 17:40
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HootTheOwl posted:I guess sterilizing a people would be killing them off without actually killing them so technically correct, I guess. The Canadian practice of forcibly removing native children from their families? Genocide is the attempted destruction of an identity, murder might be the most straightforward way to accomplish that but there are plenty of other ways to do it.
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Mar 8, 2019 00:22
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Brown Moses posted:Seeing my opinion matters so much to some of you, here's my opinion on the incident in the New York Times: Actually I am interested if you have a response to this particularly "pointed" comment on your article quote:Actually, I haven't seen anything that convinces me the Iranians are there at all. In particular the bolded portion.
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Jun 15, 2019 03:34
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Brown Moses posted:The vessel visible in the video has multiple features that matches a specific vessel used by the IRGC and is known to operate in the area. Maybe I should have put "alleged" in front of it, but I was relying on the reader to take it in the context of being a US claim, despite the strong match to the known IRGC craft. I think one valid critique of your article is that your present the assertion that the IRGC was removing UXO rather than possibly a magnetic mooring device.
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Jun 16, 2019 09:58
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MiddleOne posted:what I....think he's being ironic? Also tons of human adjacent sciences are hella political too.
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Jun 16, 2019 20:26
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:If Brown Moses had presented such evidence this post would be correct. He didn't. ..uh, how else would you characterize the video released by the US Navy?
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Jun 16, 2019 23:14
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Tab8715 posted:Worse than ‘08? if they manage to actually close the strait of Hormuz the price shock alone from the world's shipping capacity being hosed would take months to recover from.
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Jun 19, 2019 08:26
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Squalid posted:Well whoever it was managed to avoid detection prior to the attacks, so that's a minimum level of competence met. Also the US has not changed its story regarding the nature of the attack, always saying it was a mine I think. Planting a mine would not be the hardest part for the Saudis, rather I have doubts they could keep it under wraps. It's high risk behavior, if they are caught it would poison relations and they'd get nothing. I mean, the US doing it actually makes the most sense by far because the government has outright descended into factions with completely different FP goals.
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Jun 19, 2019 20:41
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For the love of god Squalid, log off. you've picked a fight with like 3 people for the crime of being nuanced in the last couple pages. go outside ffs
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Jun 23, 2019 19:36
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Hajotus Maximus posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html um
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Jun 27, 2019 00:28
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Hajotus Maximus posted:Imagine surviving a stint in a torture dungeon only to find yourself hiding from your own relatives because they want to honor kill you. No, seriously, what the gently caress is wrong with you.
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Jun 27, 2019 02:34
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Oh, I thought he was editorializing.
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Jun 27, 2019 16:44
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Darth Walrus posted:This is why we read the articles, kiddies. i will never, ever, read an article
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Jun 27, 2019 18:35
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Aziz of Arabia posted:Thanks. yes i'm sure completely ignoring popular sentiment will work out this time
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first time seeing a stalin-did-nothing-wrong tankie. but semi related, are there significant intra-kurdish tensions?
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Aug 21, 2019 22:09
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Way to explain an era of American history to people that lived through it. That you think observing headlines or whatever from across the world gives you an insight into the prevailing American culture of the day (as if that is homogenous to any significant degree) really explains all the nice hot takes you produce. You're dead wrong about basically everything you've posted about this topic
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Sep 28, 2019 20:15
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Kawasaki Nun posted:care to draw this out for me like I'm an idiot? I didn't really fully understand your first iteration of this comment either. america went completely insane during from 02-07. what you call fringe jokes were the dominant cultural mores of the period.
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Sep 28, 2019 21:37
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Freedom fries were literally the definition of fringe. Mainstream chains did not go for it and even amongst chuds it was a little embarrassing. freedom fries were completely mainstream. christ there weren't even "chuds" back then, it was all mainstream republican support in full throated defense of american supremacy
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Sep 28, 2019 21:56
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https://twitter.com/OKnox/status/1213219771178770432 they literally thought this was no big deal. luv two start a war on accident
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Jan 3, 2020 23:43
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Unimpressed posted:What choice will they have? I guess they could try to make their own peace with Iran if they object. from where, precisely, will we be staging the launches of this wanton destruction? if you haven't noticed we've pretty much pissed literally every single ally we had in the region
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Jan 3, 2020 23:51
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Unimpressed posted:Anyway I feel like I should take a break for a while. There's a lot of hysterical catastrophising here right now. these grover edits are getting obtuse
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Jan 4, 2020 00:44
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Is there anything I can read on the background of Suleimani being in Baghdad with Iraqi officials that were also killed in the attack? All I got here is that he just kind of happened to be there and these Iraqi officials just happened to also be in the convoy or something. I can't imagine that it was something really clear-cut like they were all just twirling their mustaches, cackling about how they're going to destroy America or something. I'm wondering if there was some diplomatic function or something else going on that the US also managed to poo poo all over. my understanding was that suleimani was on an official state visit to iran's allies in iraq
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Jan 4, 2020 00:49
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like, it's a literal fact of the matter that anti-ship weapons are decades ahead of anti-anti ship weapons if someone well positioned wants to sink the aircraft carrier, it's going to happen
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Vasukhani posted:https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-afghanistan-surrender-withdrawal-ashraf-ghani-kabul-saigon-jihadist-9-11-11629054041?mod=e2tw yep, this video is gonna be plastered all over the place in the coming weeks, this is straightup george lucas "its like poetry, it rhymes" in terms of imagery
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Aug 16, 2021 10:31
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https://twitter.com/ccpcciea/status/1427199664751788035 according to translation, the french embassy has reopened in kabul with the ambassador planning to resume duties after the takeover. same for russia, pakistan, and turkey's embassies. that was loving quick
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Aug 16, 2021 11:33
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honestly i broadly agree with nix's take about the cia and drug trafficking and think he's mostly on point, but I disagree that the cia pushed for invasion of afghanistan for the explicit purpose of perpetuating the opium trade. like hell, we didnt need any additional info to invade afghanistan after 9/11, we were out for blood. that said, once we got there? you drat well better believe the cia did all it could to get itself a piece of those narco-profits
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Aug 20, 2021 00:44
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Grip it and rip it posted:Why were they so eager to get narco profits right after having a massive budget increase? ...because they've shown on numerous occasions in the past to have zero compunctions about utilizing the drug trade for funding and the military industrial complex is just as much of a reflection of the idiocy of Number Go Up as the rest of our godforsaken political economy?
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Aug 20, 2021 01:55
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Rent-A-Cop posted:It's the "An rear end in a top hat fighting an rear end in a top hat is depressing no matter who wins" conundrum. fixed 
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Oct 17, 2021 22:06
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drat, Caro gofundme when?
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Dec 9, 2021 05:21
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:He was and is hosed up, but don't forget the dude filmed himself playing soldier and shooting at people, and lied about being a trained medic. In a warzone where actual people were hurt and needed help from actual trained medics. If anyone deserved what he got, he did, and it's a loving shame that so many died there where he survived and gets to be a celebrity. Man what the gently caress, the guy got tortured in prison for months and is currently homeless
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Dec 10, 2021 01:09
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Dude filmed himself cackling while he shot wildly into residential areas. Dude actively hosed with treatment of wounded people. I'm glad he's not dead, but the only reason he gets a modicum of sympathy is that he's a white american goon. A rando libyan with the same trajectory would just be "well, that's that." you do not properly comprehend the presence of mind that people with unmedicated schizophrenia possess
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Dec 10, 2021 07:19
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Sinteres posted:Even with the understanding that it's money we gave Afghanistan in the first place, and aside from the humanitarian issue (which is real), it's a massive abuse of our financial power. Between this and the ever-increasing sanctions regimes the US is setting up, we're practically begging the rest of the world to look for alternatives. Nobody likes the Taliban, but if we can do it to them, we can do it to other countries too. Even when we froze Iran's money, we didn't just go ahead and start distributing it to Americans. dont worry man im sure there will be no consequences from causing a complete social collapse in afghanistan, people are physically incapable of leaving the geographic borders of the country they belong to, right?
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Feb 11, 2022 18:46
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Grip it and rip it posted:Oh wow SA and the UAE tried? Guess that's a wrap on the entire strategy. What part of the US's sterling record in asymmetrical conflicts makes you so confident about its chances of success?
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Dec 22, 2023 04:04
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Nameless_Steve posted:IDF has wrapped up the above-ground operation in Gaza and is going on to destroy them in the tunnels. This allows them to turn their attention to the other groups who have been launching rockets and missiles at Israel's civilians, as the 1M internally displaced Israelis evacuated from the north grow louder. I'm sorry what? The only thing Israel has been doing in Gaza is indiscriminately slaughtering civilians. Hamas, ironically, is the group best situated to survive this sort of genocide campaign.
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Ok, but moral outrage aside, he is factually incorrect about the effectiveness of Israel's campaign against Hamas
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Deteriorata posted:That's not a demand, that's extortion. extortion is good if its done to stop a genocide
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Jan 12, 2024 01:55
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mobby_6kl posted:I'm sorry but this is doesn't make any sense for a number of reasons. Houthis have been engaging in piracy and attacks on shipping for years, their statements mean jack poo poo, they aren't meaningfully affecting change, and they're attacking civilians that have nothing to do with Israel. Their actions are directly causing economic pain for Israel. You are certainly free to assert their true motivations are self-serving, but their actions have had a measurable impact
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Jan 16, 2024 21:31
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Kalit posted:This is because of the global pressure that prevents Israel from carpet bombing the living poo poo out of everything [to an even higher degree]. It has nothing to do with the Gazan militant force. Unless you count them being smart enough to hide within the civilian population to prevent said carpet bombing, I guess. buddy do you legit think israel is restraining itself when it comes to attacking gaza? they are simply running into the hard limits of air power; to actually complete a destruction of hamas, or a total genocide of palestine, they need to send in warm bodies
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FlamingLiberal posted:Pretty much yeah. Questionable timing of this post since the icj just rolled overwhelmingly in favor of SA's case for Palestine! https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1750851378417696921
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