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Please, come back to Ireland, so you can be greeted properly this time.
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..Of those who died, 44% were children. Most often, those children were five- to nine-year-olds; 80% of them killed in their own homes.. in maximum pain lack of anaesthetic meant that some succumbed to injury without relief. Others perished after having their limbs amputated without painkiller.
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In Gaza they are literally being torn apart, not figuratively.
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I did look them up which is why I say it's opaque. Most of these foundations are cut-outs.
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Not much of a 'convo' Nina...
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Yeah the CIA don't exist and if they did, they surely wouldn't get involved in media, like Valerie Plame...
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Seems like a bit of an ad hominem, mister fallacies. We're discussing the pros and cons of different systems of fact checking. But it seems like it's your way or the highway.
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When it comes to socials media, I prefer the "wisdom of crowds" concept over self appointed media guardians Arguing from Authority. Works for Wikipedia. Power corrupts. I've seen many questionable "facts" (actually opinions) being promulgated by 'fact check' orgs. The power went to their heads.
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Social media gave the general public a voice. There's your problem.
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If you get 'facts' from social media you deserve to be lied to.
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Also DEI in practice is all about exclusion not inclusion.
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"McDonald’s said it has achieved one of the goals it announced in 2021: gender pay equity at all levels of the company"
Equity?
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People should be allowed to use slurs.
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Alternative opinion: hang the fuckers for treason.
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And who verified the "international Fact checking network" (Poynter)? And who verifies if they aren't swarming with CIA and or other agencies tasked with establishing and maintaining certain narratives? Their funding page is pretty opaque.
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What makes you think these fact checkers are any better? Staffed by exclusively by Phd's are they?
From what I can see some of these "fact checks" are in fact "opinion corrections". The exact origin of COVID is in fact unknown, but the 'fact checkers' seemed pretty certain about it.
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Anyone who gets their information from facebook is an idiot, regardless of fact checkers or no. Buy a newspaper.
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Now?
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Twitter was just as bad pre-Elon. It was always an engine for the dissemination of arrogant, patronising bullshit - from all quarters. The short post length encouraged misunderstanding and fostered argument. It is the worst thing the internet has ever spawned. Why did officialdom ever embrace it?
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The Munich agreement was prior to war. Not during a war. With millions dead and cities in ruins. And no prospect of it ever ending. If you had any grasp of history you'd know that. but you're American.
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Thanks for the copy and paste from the first result in google. Water. Water is what's causing it. Rising groundwater levels.
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As long as its someone else's boys getting slaughtered who cares right? And how long do you keep feeding the maw with lives? another 3 years, Another 20? It's immoral. Will you take up arms yourself? Will you send YOUR children to die?
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A plague on both your houses.
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That and the bigotry. Claiming to be inclusive while pointedly not including some. Opening the door to racist and sexist arguments by claiming you can't be racist against some people or sexist against men. As long as your outgroup really are the evil ones then it's okay to hate them as a group.
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So very, very roughly you would need to fit 80 moons across the diameter of the moon. If you could see the full moon in this pic I guess you could fit 80 of those tiny mars's across it.
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That's all your'e getting. It's easy to argue for continuing a war when you are in zero danger. Millions have probably died. Continuing this war is immoral. The same attitude about WW1? - they'd still be fighting it. It is a stalemate which will consume millions more lives. Compromise is necessary.
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I feel like it should be smaller too. Mars is roughly 40 million miles away. The moon a quarter of a million. And mars is only 2 times the diameter of the moon. But when I use my telescope it does appear that big in terms of it's relative size to the moon. So the pic is legit.
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Lebanon. Yours?
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Everyone knows if you want the plane to go faster you just add more pilots!
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What could possibly be causing it?
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And she's willing to fight until until the last man in Ukraine is dead!
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I wonder what her experience of fighting and dying on the front lines is.
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There's only Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, China and North Korea.
Canada is not a communist or socialist country. Canada is a 'social democracy' like the rest of the OECD countries not a communist or socialist state.
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Is food really an issue in the US? Are people starving?
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Yes of course - where else would the money come from?. Its still free at the point of use.
Did you know soldiers don't have to pay for their weapons or transports. They're paid for by general taxation!
Nobody pays 53% on their TOTAL income. And income tax covers more than just healthcare.
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Making a diplomatic journey is not "honouring" someone.
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Imagine if anyone ever gets to look under the rubble in Gaza. The world is full of monsters
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People in America seem to have an extremely hard time understanding the difference between a centrally planned totalitarian communist society and a European style social democracy with free healthcare for all. They're not the same. Also consider: the US military is a communist organisation.
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Funding. People prefer to spend money on cosmetics, professional sports, military adventures and the like, and begrudge every single dollar that goes on science and exploration in space.
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The worst thing about state communism isn't taking things from people. You could live with that. It's trying to centrally plan an entire nations' economy. Everywhere its been tried you get famine. Why? because political activists are not farmers. You can't live with famine.
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The "christians" in America are the exact opposite of actual Christians. They do not follow the teachings of Christ. I bet they don't even know what the teachings of Christ are. The only religious knowledge they seem to have is the 10 commandments - i.e. nothing to do with Jesus. They hate the poor!
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Bloody great photo all the same.
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How awful. Meanwhile Israel is murdering tens of thousands of people and starving millions intentionally with full US support. It has illegally seized territory in Syria. But sure worry about some ignorant kid doing a single graffiti. That's the real horror.
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I kinda get the feeling old JC would be smashing shit up in there if he came back.
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It isn't mostly men. Its roughly half and half. According to the official statistics.
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He wont. Why do you think that let's Genocide Joe off the hook for genocide? Ah right its okay when your guy does it. You don't have principles. And you're fine with 20K kids being butchered by good old Joe's 20 thousand pound bombs. And starved of course. Nothing like a little famine.
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Good luck with putting genocide Joe up in the Hague for crimes against humanity? Thanks. But Americans killed 3 million souls in South East Asia, 1 million in Iraq. There's no doubting they don't give 2 shits where the bombs fall or who they kill. Gotta keep dem 'defence' jobs.
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Aw whats a widdle genocide now and then when it's our guy in office right? I say let him off, It's Christmas!
And tell the kids in Gaza to watch out for more US bombs courtesy of Joe breaking US law coming down the chimney to rip their bodies to shreds this holiday season.