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Blinken calls out other countries for not demanding Hamas surrender and ‘stop hiding behind civilians’
  • Well, a lot of liberals in the west aren’t committed diehard supporters. They just grow and develop in the context of the society around them, and take a lot of the norms uncritically. But with the right pushes, things can change. As they slowly see the contradictions of the liberal society around them, sometimes people realize the lies.

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    "If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?
  • Poland was only when the Nazis invaded. Honestly, being under Soviet occupation would be soooo much more preferable than Nazi occupation.

    Also I wouldn’t really call the conflict in Georgia invading Europe lol.

    So basically you’ve got Ukraine and an example from the 40s. Which was also related to the coming war with the Nazis. That’s not a giant pattern.

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    Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor
  • I think a degree of shut up and calculate is needed, at least in the beginning. Without a solid math based understanding of the fundamentals, trying to prognosticate on the ‘meaning’ of it is inevitably going to fall into pop-sci style stuff. You’ve gotta know what you’re dealing with a little.

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  • I mean they'd film it to terrorize conscripts into not deserting I'd imagine. Regarding the cut-out, not sure. Perhaps to keep it from being removed from social media.

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  • Some nuclear disasters are a bit overstated honestly. Like Three Mile Island was a tiny amount of radiation. Coal ash releases more radiation regularly. It’s just part of our normal “accepted” energy production and doesn’t get the media focus.

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    Great deal ngl
  • You have sources on that first bit lol? I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

    Unless you’re meaning jokes about fascist voters falling down a manhole or something?

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  • >In the queue of about 130 people, only 20 are male. Men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave Ukraine unless they qualify for an exemption. Four of those waiting are young lads who look close to turning 18. To avoid the risk of mobilisation, they must leave before then. Of course, some men find ways to get out anyway, legally or illegally. On August 11th President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he was sacking the heads of the country’s regional military recruitment centres, where officials were alleged to be selling travel permits for up to $10,000. “Bribery during war is treason,” Mr Zelensky railed.

    >In the initial period after the invasion most men trying to get across were driven by fear, says Colonel Trachuk. Now she reckons half are looking for work. But those trying to escape military service must live at risk of being apprehended by recruitment officers and press-ganged. At the beginning of the invasion Ivan, a 42-year-old musician in Uzhhorod, contemplated enlisting, but changed his mind when he saw coffins arriving. Now, he says, he is in constant fear of being called up: “I feel like I am hanging in the air.”

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    www.timesofisrael.com Hundreds at protest call to free settler suspected of killing Palestinian; 2 arrests

    In missive to Israel Prison Service, Ben Gvir asks if Yehiel Indore's rights as detainee are being preserved; protesters mount bus, block entrance to capital

    Yehiel Indore, the man in question, was released to house arrest two days ago.

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