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- 2024-03-28 03:41pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 113753
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
TIL that the Dominican Republic and Haiti are not on separate Caribbean islands but share the island of Hispaniola.
- 2024-03-28 03:33pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Haiti collapse
- Replies: 9
- Views: 404
Re: Haiti collapse
The DR won't have any choice in the matter of getting involved if the violence spills over on to their side of the island, though I don't know how well-defended the border is. They do have a military though.
- 2024-03-27 08:31pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 113753
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
TIL that shade balls are a thing.
- 2024-03-27 07:24pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
France will soon deliver 78 howitzers to Ukraine to meet Kyiv’s urgent needs, defense minister says PARIS (AP) — France will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine and will boost its supply of shells to meet Kyiv’s urgent needs for ammunition to fight Russia’s full-scale invasion, t...
- 2024-03-26 06:15pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Baltimore MD Bridge Struck By Ship and Collapses!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 308
Re: Baltimore MD Bridge Struck By Ship and Collapses!
Port worker says cargo ship had 'serious power outages' days before hitting Francis Scott Key Bridge A port worker has said the cargo ship that rammed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was experiencing technical issues for two days before the crash. Julie Mitchell, Co-Administrator of Conta...
- 2024-03-26 12:38am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
- Replies: 458
- Views: 32311
Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Their solution, which is being carried out in the most ham-fisted way imaginable, is to reduce the population of Gaza to zero. What exactly does 'ham-fisted' mean here? To me that implies that they're being sloppy or inefficient about doing it and that doesn't really seem to be problem. How they th...
- 2024-03-25 03:25pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
- Replies: 458
- Views: 32311
Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
In the last 6 months Israel has rapidly burned through the good will they had gained in the wake of October 7th. There is a cruel logic in their tactics- Gaza has been a thorn in their side for decades so they want to remove that thorn permanently. Their solution, which is being carried out in the m...
- 2024-03-22 11:12pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Yeah, about that... Ukraine denies US requested to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries Ukraine did not receive calls from the United States to cease attacks on Russian oil refineries, according to the advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Mykhailo Podolyak. Earlier, the m...
- 2024-03-22 03:11pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
I was going to stay out of this thread but this news is too important not to share: Dozens dead and wounded in mass shooting at Moscow concert hall Dozens of people have reportedly been killed and wounded in mass shooting at a concert hall in Moscow after several gunmen stormed the building. There w...
- 2024-03-22 02:24pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1132
'Incredibly tough couple of months': Princess of Wales undergoing cancer treatment
'Incredibly tough couple of months': Princess of Wales undergoing cancer treatment The Princess of Wales has revealed she is undergoing treatment for cancer. In a video message released on Friday, Kate said that following successful abdominal surgery in January her condition was thought to be non-c...
- 2024-03-22 12:56pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1901
- 2024-03-21 06:05pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US justice department sues Apple for 'having illegal monopoly on smartphones'
- Replies: 1
- Views: 166
US justice department sues Apple for 'having illegal monopoly on smartphones'
US justice department sues Apple for 'having illegal monopoly on smartphones' The US Department of Justice has brought a landmark case against Apple, accusing the tech giant of allegedly monopolising the smartphone market by blocking competition and inadvertently impacting consumers, developers and...
- 2024-03-15 11:53pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
You can keep repeating that claim all you want, it means nothing because that's not what's happening here . You can waffle on about anti-communist bullshit as much as you like as if it's somehow relevant but it changes nothing. By all means though, keep stuffing that strawman with those red herring...
- 2024-03-15 11:42pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Bullshit. The only one guilty of minimising is you, by trying to sweep under rug the millions of deaths that Stalin and the USSR are directly responsible for. Its very funny how you have nothing substantive to say - its just rote automatic "nuh uh!" gainsaying all the way down, which is w...
- 2024-03-15 11:12pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
What is a strawman is claiming that pointing out the existence of the Gulags is (somehow) holocaust denialism. Apparently. That's not what you did, and everyone can see that's not what you did, which is why you've been called out. You attempted to draw an equivalence between the gulags and Nazi ext...
- 2024-03-15 09:00pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Not a straw man. You engaged in soft core Holocaust denialism, as per the very Wikipedia page you cited. Then you got touchy because it was apparently too complicated for you, and didn't want to look past the headline thought. What is a strawman is claiming that pointing out the existence of the Gu...
- 2024-03-15 08:33pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Another Mysterious Death Hits Russian Oil Giant Lukoil In a series of unexplained events that have rattled the Russian oil industry, Lukoil, one of the country's oil behemoths, has reported the sudden death of another top executive, marking the fourth such incident in a brief span. The latest to jo...
- 2024-03-15 07:18pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
You can keep repeating that claim all you want, it means nothing because that's not what's happening here . You can waffle on about anti-communist bullshit as much as you like as if it's somehow relevant but it changes nothing. By all means though, keep stuffing that strawman with those red herring...
- 2024-03-15 06:35pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Can't believe some of the shit I've read in this thread. So much so I had to fish out my old log in password from the dusty recesses of my brain and get through this dumb website's obtuse captcha requirement to log in for the first time in over a decade to tell you cunts to take a wash. Just out an...
- 2024-03-15 03:25pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Missile strike on Odesa: Number of injured rises to 73, police face losses The number of casualties has risen again in Odesa over a Russian terrorist attack. Currently, 73 wounded are reported, according to Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. As of now, there are 16 confirmed deaths, includi...
- 2024-03-15 02:58pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 113753
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
TIL that going to bed thinking about how it might be nice to have a simple 9-5 office job results in nightmares about office jobs. Amusingly, two of my best friends were in the nightmares, and they were the ones who were helping me sort out the nightmare problem, which immediately ended the nightma...
- 2024-03-15 02:02pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
But even that is needlessly complicated, the very first line in the article states that "Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a fabrication or exaggeration". And since I made no such assertions, the id...
- 2024-03-14 10:28pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Here , because although it's common knowledge what the Nazis did I couldn't express it any better myself. If you're going to cite glorious Wikipedia on the subject, scroll down to the part where the page mentions "soft core" denial by likening it to other historical atrocities. I wouldn't...
- 2024-03-14 09:47pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
To qualify as "holocaust denial" it has to contain one or more of the following: Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" was aimed only at deporting Jews from the territory of the Third Reich and did not include their extermination. Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and g...
- 2024-03-14 09:01pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 221
- Views: 8950
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
I mean there must've been lots of Nazi style death camps and gas chambers and millions of dead, right? Yes . ~30,000 and ~1.6 million, respectively. A fucking labor camp isn't a the same thing as a fucking extermination camp, and pretending they're the same is actually a form of Holocaust denial. I...