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“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of anything he was never reasoned into” Jonathan Swift
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25th February 1991 with the dissolution of the Warsaw pact.
Not with a bang but with a whimper, slowly and then all at once.
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They don’t need an ID number to trace you. You are carrying a tracing device in your pocket, you are surveilled by CCTV with face recognition at a rate that would make Xi salivate.
What is it you think is protected today?
My point was that the authoritarianism is the problem, not the number.
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Yes because all those places with a National population registry like Sweden, Norway, Denmark are hellholes whereas those without like the UK and US have no surveillance society at all.
The population register isn’t the problem, the authoritarian tendencies are.
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“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in”
Seems Trump might finally understand the true meaning of that poem.
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Going to be hard for the Ukrainians to repeat the same kind of attack though.
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First satellite images are coming in. Seems like they have left some of the assets in place - maybe the mode of attack makes a relocation pointless.
www.bbc.com/news/live/cx...
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Young man…
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Well according to MAGA these guys are totally straight…
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Throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks is a “creative policy process” now?
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Scots Irish?
Ulster says No!
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Who charges them? Does the senate have enforcement power over perjury?
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The senators can’t charge anyone with perjury, that’s the job of the DoJ.
Demanding someone does their job when you don’t understand their job is delightful.
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What is it they can do?
The rules give the majority party enormous leeway in behaving like this, the minority can complain but have few tools to make any change happen.
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If you call everything you object to a Nazi it loses its meaning.
But as nuanced conversation isn’t what you’re after shall we just leave it there?
Go and play with the angry voices in your head, it’s where you win all the time after all.
I won’t get any reply you give…
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Saddam was tried under Iraqi law.
So your point is?
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AFD was founded in 2013, the “coup” you’re referring to was 2022 - care to explain how the survivors of said coup managed to then go on and found AFD 9 years earlier, when none of the founders was involved in said coup.
Now about this education you are so keen on…
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Saddam was put on trial numbnuts.
How do you manage to breath with an intellect like that?
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Self identifying - thanks for tne heads up.
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It was the various trials that brought this to the attention of the world you ignorant twunt.
How do you think education works?
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Wow you are arguing with the voices in your head aren’t you?
I’m literally arguing for a world where knowledge of all those actions was made public and those guilty of it tried as the criminals they were.
You seem to be arguing that we shouldn’t have had such a process yet rely upon its evidence.
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I assume you mean the AFD and I’m wondering if it is Lucke, Gauland or Adam who you believe were the survivors of some imagined coup.
I’m fascinated by this alternative reality you’re presenting- please do share.
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Look at you trying false equivalency.
The difference is that executive order 9066 is still considered legal under the US constitution - so are you taking the position that you’ll be fine with Hispanics being rounded up into camps today?
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No, I’m wondering how we ended up where cheerleading murder was considered to be the good side.
Should the U.K. government have kicked Gerry Adams door in and served him some 5.56 in the 1980’s? What would have been the difference?
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Given the number of folks who seem to believe 9/11 was an inside job vs the number who deny the Holocaust I’d suggest there is a common basis for ensuring the evidence is in the public domain.
If you don’t want to be a nation of laws then don’t pretend you do. Own your shit.
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The comparison is claiming that something that was legal is still moral.
Were there any circumstances where Seal Team 6 would have taken Bin Laden alive? He was unarmed when he was killed - was he given the opportunity to surrender?
Assassination isn’t permissible.
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You seem to forget that I started by correcting a falsehood around how skewed the public vote towards Israel was. You jumped in with an unfounded conspiracy theory and claims of impossible outcomes.
You weren’t looking for the nuanced arguments on Israel’s inclusion or otherwise.
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“It is just as legal and justified as executive order 9066, the order that created the internment camps for Japanese Americans during world war 2”.
When Trump starts using that argument which side will you be standing on?
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Spend some time understanding why undermining the Israeli public broadcaster KAN which hosts Eurovision might be a bad thing given Israel’s media landscape. The EBU was set up to promote and encourage what? You want to destroy an independent voice in Israel because?
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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If you’re going to rely on a callback then maybe you would like to show how any vote was illegitimate.
I apologise if I failed to keep up with every whataboutism you have attempted to avoid showing your working that made it impossible for Israel to receive Spain’s 12 points.
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Were the Nuremberg trials a waste of time then?
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Stalin suggested rounding up the top 50,000 Nazi’s and executing them at the end of the Second World War. Roosevelt stood firmly that trials were needed to document the crimes, Churchill needed persuading as he was for summary execution.
Would we be in a better place if Stalin had his way?
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When?
Maybe lay off the bong, it appears your short term memory isn’t up to scratch.
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Do you often argue with the voices in your head?
Because you’ve clearly no idea what my position is.
You’re just as bad as those who call people who decry Israel’s actions “Hamas sympathisers”. Nice neighbour you live in.
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You implied it was impossible that Spain had given it’s 12 points to Israel.
I agree, all those folks who turned up for Bush’s wars have a lot to answer for.
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I’m asking on what planet you think the public vote in Eurovision has never been political.
Seriously, there are PolSci papers on the voting patterns from Eurovision - this is not a new observation.
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If you think political voting on the public vote isn’t in the spirit of Eurovision I have a bridge you might be interested in.
Why do you think the jury vote was brought back in 2009?
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You insinuated that it was impossible that Spain awarded them 12 points. I asked to see your workings on that and now we come full circle to your acceptance that others have politics you disagree with.
Just as other will have different musical taste.
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You need a long list of advertising campaigns that failed? Products that despite enormous advertising budgets sank without a trace?
You were so easily persuaded you voted how many times for Israel? Why do you assume others are if you are not?
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So you're gullible and easily persuaded are you? Did all that advertising have you voting for Israel? If not why do you assume it worked on others? If ad spend was the measure Trump would never have been President.
I'll rely on observable outcomes, you keep believing the myths.
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So the votes were legitimate then.
Countries run campaigns to promote their songs - the British group were on TV here in Norway and still got null points - campaigns don’t always work.
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An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence - you’re making the claim that it’s illegitimate care to provide any evidence above the level of your feelings?
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Care to show your workings on that?
Why is it incredible that after the Spanish broadcaster went out their way to make Israel’s presence political that there would be a backlash? You can’t vote against Israel in the same way so the rest of the vote gets diluted…
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There are 37 other countries voting plus Israel themselves (you can’t vote for yourself) so the maximum public vote is 37 x 12 = 394 points.
Still fishy but easier to mobilise for one country to win than to mobilise to defeat them.
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Yet adults should never be without a glass in their hand it would appear.
www.instagram.com/p/CgKlqqAte0...
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And soon you’ll have “locally” synthesised fentanyl under Trump’s plan. If the demand doesn’t go away then someone will fill the gap in the market - as they did in Canada.
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Struck me as great platoon/company commander material, not so much battalion. 🤷🏻♂️
VC’s almost always come from f*ck ups that should never have happened in the first place.
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Brigade Intelligence staff correctly identified that there were 3 companies, helicopters and artillery support.
Jones “preferred” the SAS assessment as they were on the ground.
Don’t underestimate the political pressure for a positive headline at that time with the sinkings in San Carlos.
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Trump clearly doesn’t keep in touch with his alma mater and realise that reducing deaths requires a multi pronged approach.
Also the recognition that despair and poor medical provision often drives drug use in the US is completely absent.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-p....
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What has Trump ever done about the demand side within his own borders?
Maybe having a former heroin addict as the HHS secretary whose proposal doesn’t include a medical approach isn’t a sign of commitment to the US end of the problem?