I wonder what will happen between the SDF and the regime when ISIS is done.
i don't think they'll fight.
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I wonder what will happen between the SDF and the regime when ISIS is done.
i don't think they'll fight.Very interesting question.
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With the current US admin there's a possibility that Assad will stay in power with an autonomous kurdish region.
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In Italy, the former leader of their far-righty party has been sentenced to 27months of prison. Because stealing the tax payers is bad.
Hope the FrontNational (and eventually Sarkozy and his goons) gets purged one day… so many cases and no one in prison :sad:
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Vatican guy busted in doing homosexual orgies, with drugs and all.
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[Father of bride experiences a shocking wedding
I](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/11/father-of-the-bride-struck-by-lightning-canada-wedding) wish I could've seen their faces. They'll tell that story for years.
On a side note, I'm glad he's alright.
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Well racism has lost it meaning. But then again I'm a white male which automatically make me racist.
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Well racism has lost it meaning. But then again I'm a white male which automatically make me racist.
Any original thought here, or just parroting internet cliches.
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Well racism has lost it meaning. But then again I'm a white male which automatically make me racist.
"I am not a minority therefore plight of the minorities is irrelevant and nonexistent from my point of view"
Do I read you correct?
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Coming back from the lurking life to notify that the judge Sérgio Moro (head of the Lava-Jato investigation) just sentenced former president of Brazil Luis Inácio "Lula" da Silva to 9 years and 6 months of prison.
The crimes were corruption and money laundering, this sentence is for one of his crimes, he is under investigation for 4 more crimes.
People are joking that he got 9 years of prison because he has 9 fingers in his hands.
Meh, even if I don't believe that this will happen, at least his chances to run for president next year is almost null.
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Coming back from the lurking life to notify that the judge Sérgio Moro (head of the Lava-Jato investigation) just sentenced former president of Brazil Luis Inácio "Lula" da Silva to 9 years and 6 months of prison.
The crimes were corruption and money laundering, this sentence is for one of his crimes, he is under investigation for 4 more crimes.
People are joking that he got 9 years of prison because he has 9 fingers in his hands.
Meh, even if I don't believe that this will happen, at least his chances to run for president next year is almost null.
Is the six months because he only has half his tenth finger?
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@Monkey:
Any original thought here, or just parroting internet cliches.
It's not cliches when minorites give me shit just because I'm white. Or my 5 year old niece comes home from school crying because she's being told that her being white makes her a bad person.
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I will pray for you.
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"I am not a minority therefore plight of the minorities is irrelevant and nonexistent from my point of view"
Do I read you correct?
No I'm all for equally long as it's true equally.
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It's not cliches when minorites give me shit just because I'm white. Or my 5 year old niece comes home from school crying because she's being told that her being white makes her a bad person.
Gosh, that must be real tough. Getting some shade from random people just because of your ethnicity? You poor, persecuted soul. However will you overcome those heinous indignities?
I might feel bad for your young niece, but I'm more concerned about the things that were likely said to reassure her. 5 year olds can't be expected to understand the nuances of race relations; that goes for both your niece and her bullies. Kids are just mean sometimes- rotten ones will find a target first and a reason second.
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I once made a little girl cry explaining the concept of erosion, she then thought that any water would dissolve her. Little kids are experts at logic jumps.
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I once made a little girl cry explaining the concept of erosion, she then thought that any water would dissolve her. Little kids are experts at logic jumps.
But that wasn't said with any malicious intent.
Attacking a child for their race, gender, language etc. is always wrong. Adults need to step in and teach them it's not alright. Otherwise they may continue that behavior in the future.
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No I'm all for equally long as it's true equally.
So… racism is only relevant if you are the receiving end of the stick?
Because since you're clearly complaining about receiving racism, then racism has not lost its meaning.Individual racism was never defined as one sided thing. Unlike, say, institutionalized racism.
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I once made a little girl cry explaining the concept of erosion, she then thought that any water would dissolve her. Little kids are experts at logic jumps.
You fucking moron she's being told she a bad person because of her race! That shit is child abuse!
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This thing has a name actually, this is called communitarianism. And its highest level has been reached in the US (also probably comes from there).
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You fucking moron she's being told she a bad person because of her race! That shit is child abuse!
This is the good way to get thread-banned. And children being mean to each other isn't child abuse lol.
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And what I'm saying is that you didn't tell us what she was told, but what she understood.
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This is the good way to get thread-banned. And children being mean to each other isn't child abuse lol.
I don't give a shit. Well except it was her teacher that was saying it not other children.
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@Zar:
[Father of bride experiences a shocking wedding
I](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/11/father-of-the-bride-struck-by-lightning-canada-wedding) wish I could've seen their faces. They'll tell that story for years.
On a side note, I'm glad he's alright.
"My knee is working better" makes me worry that he may have suffered some nerve damage.
You fucking moron she's being told she a bad person because of her race! That shit is child abuse!
I'm sorry to hear that someone said something horrible to your niece. However, it's against the rules to call people fucking morons, so please don't.
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@Underworld1991:Well racism has lost it meaning. But then again I'm a white male which automatically make me racist.
Don't make false generalizations. Nobody here believes that the color of your skin and your gender make you automatically racist.
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"My knee is working better" makes me worry that he may have suffered some nerve damage.
I'm sorry to hear that someone said something horrible to your niece. However, it's against the rules to call people fucking morons, so please don't.
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Don't make false generalizations. Nobody here believes that the color of your skin and your gender make you automatically racist.
Well I wasn't talking about this place was I? I'm talking about real life.
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And what I'm saying is that you didn't tell us what she was told, but what she understood.
That she was a bad person because of her race. She felt bad for being white all because of this racist teacher. Good job I don't give a fuck about being political correct and pulled this racist on her bullshit. If it weren't for me she would still working there sprouting that BS.
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Oh, I get it, it is only racist if it's applied to you and yours.
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Do we have proof that she wasn't being racist? I mean, you're a biased source so we can't really trust your word.
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This became a huge news in iran
https://onehallyu.com/topic/546622-shocking-a-7-year-old-girl-atena-aslani-was-assassinated-after-being-raped/
Huge crowd of people were in front of the killers store
A video in Farsi(persian) from BBC Persian
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I don't give a shit. Well except it was her teacher that was saying it not other children.
Maybe you shoiuld have stated that from the start. It's very different if a grown adult is harping on a kid. Especially one they are supposed to be in charge of. What was the teacher saying? Have you spoken to the principal about it? I know how chilren of minorities typically handle facing racism from adults and what their parents say to them. I rememeber I got a lot of history on the why's and how to cope. What did you tell your kid? I'm not asking in a blamey way I'm just curious what a white parent would say in this case to imform, comdort and not fan flames..
But yeah if the teacher is belittling your kid you should speak to the teacher and or principal.
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That she was a bad person because of her race. She felt bad for being white all because of this racist teacher. Good job I don't give a fuck about being political correct and pulled this racist on her bullshit. If it weren't for me she would still working there sprouting that BS.
Getting a teacher in trouble for a racist comment is in keeping with political correctness, and is not a bad thing.
Like Aohige said in his post…your posts seem to actually really care quite a lot about racism. But seem really super focused on your literal own perspective.
I unno, sounds like your experience is something you could easily extend to other demographics in understanding the whole issue?
Like I've been sexually harassed, but I'm like still able to understand that it is simultaneously not ok to happened to me, while also as an issue being far more severe and pervasive for women and girls. There's no conflict between these understandings at all.
Like I feel almost lucky to get that first hand perspective, its a chance at deeper understanding of an issue, and empathy with people from other demographics. But you don't seem to see this in your own case? Sorry mate, you should look deeper than some tribalistic instinct here.And yeah I was about to say, that's grounds for getting in deep shit in any public school system.
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This became a huge news in iran
https://onehallyu.com/topic/546622-shocking-a-7-year-old-girl-atena-aslani-was-assassinated-after-being-raped/
Huge crowd of people were in front of the killers store
A video in Farsi(persian) from BBC Persian
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/335127061045706752/335127161147097088/4_5992556852070580678.mp4Can you explain exactly what happened to the girl? The translation there is kind of confusing.
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The 7 year old girl went missing so people started searching for her soon the missing poster got shared across the internet in Iran so people started searching all around the city in the end the killers brother found the body in his brothers garage
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Former President of Peru from 2011-2016 Ollanta Humala and his spouse Nadine Heredia are looking at 18 months of detention. They are charged with money-laundering. This is part of a greater anti-corruption probe called Operation Car Wash, one of the most extensive national corruption scandals in recent memory, where dozens of politicians current and former are being investigated for bribery.
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Spain's left is parroting the same Maduro story of how he is the victim of an all powerful right wing conspiracy.
You would think that the violent repression, the 100 days of protest, the 50+ deaths, by either the national guard or the pro government militia, medicine and food shortages, censorship of international media, total disregard of the independence of power, and miscellaneous crimes against the Venezuelan people would turn them away from a dictatorship.
I guess only the right wing can be a dictatorship. It is gross how much truth is loss from words like left and right wing.
The right traditionally just hides its crimes, the left usually makes baseless accusations of the same crimes to their opponents.
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I know there is a left leaning block, but the right is only moved by money.
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BTW, this is a rant fuelled by my hatred of the people who claim that the suffering of my country is a conspiracy.
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BTW, this is a rant fuelled by my hatred of the people who claim that the suffering of my country is a conspiracy.
If it's any consolation, the United Nations are not treating this dire situation as a conspiracy.
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Any Left wing person still defending Maduro is either balls out ignorant as hell, or a tankie.
And what is a tankie? A "Tankie" is a term for that particular branch of the far-left that is a-ok with horrific violence, authoritarianism, genocide, and personality cults, as long as the perpetrators have a hammer and sickle branded on them in some fashion. Or more modernly, if the perpetrators claim to be anti-imperialist and against the West.
Also the sorts that tend to really embody the whole "Marxism as a secular religion" thing.
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Don't Corbyn and Melenchon still jerk it to Venezuela.
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The American far-left has pretty much never advanced from the Cold War when it comes to Latin America.
Vaguely leftist takeover of a country? GLORIOUS WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Vaguely rightist takeover of a country. FILTHY CIA DOGS MEDDLING IN REGION THAT STOPPED BEING AT THE TOP OF AMERICA'S REGIONS OF INTEREST WHEN THE SOVIET UNION DROPPED DEAD.
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Oh, thanks for expanding my vocabulary doctor MK. I'm glad I can finally put a name on those people.
Haven't tankies pretty much disappeared from western countries though ?
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Don't Corbyn and Melenchon still jerk it to Venezuela.
Mélenchon says there are things to learn from Chavez but yeah, he kinda doesn't answer when asked if he endorses Maduro or not. He goes "what do you mean? Am I endorsing Maduro, the man, or the Constitution ? "
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@Cyan:
The American far-left has pretty much never advanced from the Cold War when it comes to Latin America.
Vaguely leftist takeover of a country? GLORIOUS WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Vaguely rightist takeover of a country. FILTHY CIA DOGS MEDDLING IN REGION THAT STOPPED BEING AT THE TOP OF AMERICA'S REGIONS OF INTEREST WHEN THE SOVIET UNION DROPPED DEAD.
American? Puh, this is more of a scourge in Europe for some reason. See Kaiolino's post. There are idiots here and Canada of course, but its very not mainstream. Like pretty sure Sanders hasn't expressed that kind of crap.
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Haven't tankies pretty much disappeared from western countries though ?
Mélenchon says there are things to learn from Chavez but yeah
Alas you answer your own question.
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I saw a quote from Corbyn about how he came from a time and place where the left supported lots of unsavory people by his own description…..and then he didn't end the comment with anything like "I've moved on and am less naive etc".
He just sort of left it at that lol.He seems domestically awesome for the UK, but goddamn are many of his FP views are colored by some dumb shit.
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Spain's left is parroting the same Maduro story of how he is the victim of an all powerful right wing conspiracy.
You would think that the violent repression, the 100 days of protest, the 50+ deaths, by either the national guard or the pro government militia, medicine and food shortages, censorship of international media, total disregard of the independence of power, and miscellaneous crimes against the Venezuelan people would turn them away from a dictatorship.
I guess only the right wing can be a dictatorship. It is gross how much truth is loss from words like left and right wing.
The right traditionally just hides its crimes, the left usually makes baseless accusations of the same crimes to their opponents.
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I know there is a left leaning block, but the right is only moved by money.
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BTW, this is a rant fuelled by my hatred of the people who claim that the suffering of my country is a conspiracy.
Not just the Spanish. To be expected from people don't condemn North Korea's actions due to "lack of information".
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And not just the Portuguese.
Sees Lula with Hugo Chavez/Lula with Fidel Castro. SHAME.
I forgot to add this in my last post, besides the 9 years of prison, if Lula gets arrested he will be ineligible for 19 years.Of course, he will use this condemnation to boost his image as political victim so he can be elected next year, like he did in his wife's funeral in the beginning of this year.
Man, sometimes it feels like the fight against corruption is not worth fighting for.BTW, Temer managed to stay as president, which is a good and bad thing.
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The fight against corruption is like bathing. Even if you are perfectly clean, you'll have to do it tomorrow as well.
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Barcelona city hall tries and fails canceling the extraordinary protest vote of over 20k Venezuelans on the city.
We voted outside the civic center.
The cause seemed to be some arbitrary "security concerns" that were just realized this morning.
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7.5 million venezuelans voted against the new constitution, in a "protest vote" without the support of the electoral council, after being censured by the media.
The goverment responds as usual, minimize and ignore.
The aggresive part of the opposition then goes into full "Unicorn generation mode: Right Wing edition" and claims that that number is too low, even if it was made with one third of the polling tables than the last election we had, and got around the same ammount of votes.
It's up to the national assembly to see if we can stop the end of the republic.
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Just to follow up on maxterdexter's updates. The government opposition are calling for all businesses in Venezuela to go on a 24-hour strike Thursday. They also want alternative judges in the Supreme Court.
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Is not alternatives, the assembly before this one illegally rushed a few judges through the pipeline. I honestly think that this should have been done the first week, they focused on clearing the executive branch, without realizing how toxic and destructive the judicial branch could be.
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Chinese American sentenced to ten years jail in Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/16/iran-american-10-years-jail-xiyue-wang-princeton
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Maybe the man was truly a spy though.
I mean, I don't know if spies usually get caught in real life but looking at all the "dude sentenced to 10 years or more of prison in Iran/North-Korea etc" cases, at least some have to be spies, right?
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No Iran like North Korea has paranoia problems while also trying to make themselves look good.
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Maybe the man was truly a spy though.
I mean, I don't know if spies usually get caught in real life but looking at all the "dude sentenced to 10 years or more of prison in Iran/North-Korea etc" cases, at least some have to be spies, right?
A Chinese/American dual national college student is HIGHLY unlikely to be uh, government spy. Or a candidate for one such.
Considering Iran's history for BS reasoning to detain Americans, my money would not be on him being an actual spy.