(Parker, 2023)

From what I’ve seen so far, it’s a mix of ”Hamas- I mean the IRGC- did it and framed the innocent Israeli and US militaries” and “they were probably all going to grow up to be pro-regime, so it’s justified”

They just murdered a bunch of kids. Not sure the safety of the child-murderers ought to be the main priority

Famously, Muslims in particular really need to be manipulated by Woke in order for them to think that Pogroms Against Muslims are bad

He famously has experience with transatlanticism

The United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Anguilla, Gibraltar, Pitcairn… famously united by a single cultural identity

(He has also spent a long time complaining that NATO should have banned the Baltics from joining, and condemned the building of bomb shelters in Estonia as “escalation”)

He described Hezbollah as friends, and got a lot of flack for it

He was never pro-Brexit, he just considered it irrelevant

He has condemned the invasion of Ukraine and criticised Putin, but has also blamed it on Ukrainians, and endorsed an embargo to force Ukraine to surrender to annexation

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

The most common “date rape drugs” are not illegal in the UK to begin with- insomnia medications, pain medications, and alcohol.

It’s like saying “they’re selling Grievous Bodily Harm implements!” about a shop selling hammers.

Ok buddy. Feel free to keep living in your fantasy world where the Woke Silent Majority of Russians are perpetually only a matter of weeks away from leading a glorious antifascist revolution and dissolving the Empire. I wish I could live in that world.

Yes, there’s room for sympathy for forced conscripts. But pretending that the Russian Military are just innocent hapless victims (even as they massacre, rape, and torture civilians and send them to concentration camps) is pure whitewashing of colonial atrocities.

Do you extend the same assumption of being Secretly Leftist And Anti-War But Lying To Fit In to the 80% of Israelis who support the genocide of Gaza, or to the 30% of Americans who support Trump?

Polls are anonymous. The idea that every single person who responds to every single poll on the issue is just lying and secretly agrees with you is, frankly, not rooted in reality.

He’s still in power because over 80% of Russian citizens support his policies- cultural Russification of Indigenous minorities, homophobia, decriminalisation of domestic violence, and above all the expansion of Lebensraum for ethnic Russians.

He holds his grip on power because over 80% of Russian citizens agree with him- on the imperialist expansionism, on the homophobia, on the decriminalisation of domestic violence, on the Russification of Indigenous minorities, on the criminalisation of left-wing political organisation.

Do you have the same sympathy for the Ukrainian civilians, or only the invading war criminals trying to eradicate them?

It was Estonian Independence Day, so they were mostly back in Estonia

I think it’s only Australia and Aotearoa

That's exactly the argument the Prosecution had for Davidson after he was beaten nearly to death for a different uncontrollable tic.

His lawyers asked the very pertinent question- "why would anyone pretend to have a disorder which results in being feared, hated and physically assaulted?"

Do you think that everyone with any sort of disability should be sequestered away from society, or just people with involuntary tics?
And how would you do so? Lock them all up? Straightjackets, muzzles, shock collars?

Fuentes openly says that he thinks Epstein was ”cool as fuck”, and that all ”patriots” should aspire to be like him

The thing he thinks is a “disaster” about the Epstein files is that some of them have been released, rather than being destroyed to cover up the crimes

I’ve been reading a bunch of rahvaluulet on the subject of sauna taboos.
This specific behaviour doesn’t come up, but it feels like the sort of thing that gets you killed by a toonehunt

I’ve been recently researching sauna taboos in folklore. This specific behaviour doesn’t come up, but it feels like the sort of thing that gets someone killed by a wolf spirit

Unfortunately the wuthering lowlands have been devastated by groundwater subsidence

They’re catholic, but sedevacantist since Vatican 2

“uhhhh 300 soldiers against an empire!!!!!“ (plus 7,000 soldiers from other polities, and around a thousand slaves forced to stand in front of the Spartans as human shields)

“That commie Martin Luther King- he didn’t do a thing to help civil rights! You know who really did? The White Moderates like JFK!”

Hi, this is my main area of study-

In some places, there was very little syncretisation. In others, there was a lot. Sometimes, this was a “mostly Christian with a few pre-Christian elements”. Sometimes, it was “mostly pre-Christian with a few Christian elements”.

There’s no one-size-fits-all

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Current stats are that around 32% of Ukrainians speak Russian