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@ Syldon @feddit.uk

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  • Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

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  • A minute to decide if there is a bike in the picture really ?

  • Hamas had not planned to attack music festival, Israeli report says

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  • Doesn't change the fact they murdered people deliberately.

  • Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza?

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  • So, in WW2, the vast vast vast majority of the fight against “evil” was done by the USSR, because the Third Reich had, as one of its pillars, the destruction of the workers’ movement and the enslavement of the Slavs. The USSR lost far more than any other party to the war because the Third Reich made the war of choice, dehumanized the Slavs, and engaged in genocidal mass murder as a choice. The USSR defeated 80% of the Third Reich’s forces.

    Ignores the fact Stalin sided with Hitler and invaded Poland. The Allies also had a substantial supply train back and forth between the UK and Russia to help fight the Germany army there.

    On the flip side, the American and British government and business communities were pro-fascist. They funded the rise of the Third Reich, they funded domestic and international eugenics programs, they were deeply invested in apartheid states and women’s oppression. (By way of contrast, the Brits and Americans used women as prostitutes to support the war effort while the USSR had women all over their military as snipers, tank operators, pilots, machine gunners, etc.)

    Governments were shits back then across the world. As for the Eugenics, that was how the world worked. You are using the current standards to demonise the past. We know the past was broken, that is why we have change. Eugenics is still a thing today. There will always be those who think they are better than everyone else. As for using women for prostitutes, just read on how the Russians treated the German women. Or more so what is happening in Ukraine right now.

    Countries have been funding partisan groups and wars for time immemorial. The enemy of your enemy is my enemy etc. The west is funding Ukraine right now. Ukraine is funding partisan groups in Russia. Russia in turn has mercenaries from all over the world. The Wagner group is active in many areas.

    But then what of Japan. Before the USA nuked Japan, the USA and Japan were negotiating terms of surrender.

    No they were not. The emperor of Japan refused to surrender, the Allied forces did not see the need to offer good terms. There is a famous scene in the movie Oppenheimer, where Roosevelt gets the news of the successful test of the nuclear bomb at the Potsdam summit. Good terms are at the behest of the position you are in. Japan was not in a good place.

    The USA made an active deliberate choice to nuke civilians unnecessarily.

    Damned if they did and damned if they didn't. The counter argument is that it has prevented the use of Nukes since then. Or rather anyone who commits to using one know exactly what they are doing. What is a certainty is that fewer died as a result of the bomb. Not the most palatable end justifies the means, I agree.

    Why? Because communism was their real enemy. It was the reason they got involved in the war, it was the driving force behind their strategic decisions. They got involved against communism, they went to Germany against communism, they partitioned Germany against communism. And they nuked Japan as a show of force, or to demonstrate how bat shit they were, to create conditions of fear and restraint.

    Japan was nuked in the fight against communism>? Stalin was making imperial demands. The land grab by the Russians was the beginnings of soured relations. Remember Russia was directly responsible for the UK and France entering the war when it invaded Poland.

    As for the rest, no one could argue that governments have only just moved away from being shits. It is a recent thing, and not all governments are complying with the change in attitude. Judging the actions of the past by the standards of today is just a "better than thou ism". It is easy to be pompous and pious in the current environment. Not so much when the whole world is working to different values. I am 100% certain that they will be shits again should the need arise. Looking in the direction of Israel on that one.

    We need the whole world to agree to not invade each other. We do not need to justify the actions of today by the misdemeanours of those in the past.

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    Report: Rwanda Using Violence to Silence Critics Across the Globe

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    Trump confuses Obama and Biden in speech, warns Biden will lead U.S. into 'World War II'

    www.msnbc.com /morning-joe/watch/trump-confuses-obama-and-biden-in-speech-warns-biden-will-lead-u-s-into-world-war-ii-193178181948

  • If India ordered a murder in Canada, there must be consequences

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  • If I go to another country I follow the laws of that state. It is called respect.

  • If India ordered a murder in Canada, there must be consequences

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  • It is a vague reference that they are following the route of China and Russia by ignoring and abusing the laws of western states.

  • Head of NATO says Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO expansionism

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  • In your opinion.

  • Head of NATO says Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO expansionism

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  • This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahadeen fighters of Afghanistan

    And the brave women trying to get an education there.

  • Head of NATO says Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO expansionism

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  • They dropped a bomb on a nation that was guilty of murdering up to 10m people. They were also not the initial aggressive beligerant. They do not have control with 80 nations, they have a non aggression pact. Yep, there are parts of the US media that is screwed up. That comes with free press. Does Russia have a free press? There is only one country that is looking to test out the mad doctrine, who also sent nuclear weapons to a vassal state: Russia.

  • Head of NATO says Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO expansionism

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  • There is only one country that is constantly threatening a nuclear attack. That country is not in NATO.

  • Head of NATO says Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO expansionism

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  • Some Presidents should stick to declaring only things they have control over.

  • Head of NATO says Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO expansionism

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  • There is nothing in this that reflects the title. It's nothing more than passive propaganda. They are relying on people to just read the title and not open the link.

    What is actually said is:

    And let me just end by saying that this reflects the political reality that nations are sovereign. Nations decide themselves, and Ukraine has of course the right to decide its own path. And it's up to Ukraine and NATO Allies to decide when Ukraine becomes a member. Russia cannot veto membership for any sovereign independent state in Europe.

  • Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

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  • And again how far do you go back? They elected to become a member state. You can always meander through history to justify any cause, at some point you have to accept the status quo or we will never end wars.

  • Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

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  • Hawaii is a state in its own right. Under that delusion you have 49 other instances. They elected to join the USA in 1959.

    Samoa was colonised in 1899, no one argues that things were done in the past. Samoa has been self governing since 1967. It has the capacity to hold a referendum to move away from being an "unincorporated territory".

    Northern Mariana Islands elected closer ties to the US because Guam did not want them through a referendum.

    Texas has been part of the US since the civil war ended. Half of the world has changed since then.

    I agree indigenous tribes should have rights, but how that is applied is always going to be contentious because of the generations that have past. It is not like you can tell the majority of a nation to go live somewhere else is it? As for the tribes concerned, they were kicking the crap out of each other before the Spanish arrived. How far do you go back to say who owns the rights to that land?

    You really should research before buying into the crap people spout online.

  • Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

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  • Except the west does not try to take over that country and hold onto it as a colony. They have grew out of that era. Every country that has been invaded, has been in response to another action, and in every occasion they have handed the country back to the people it belongs to. How they have handed it back leaves a lot to criticise. But you cannot say it was done with malice. Russia is guilty of extending its borders into other countries for no other reason than conquest.

  • Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

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  • The only way we will ever remove nuclear weapons will be when we remove the threat from invasive and terrorist actions of other countries. We need an international force that is set up just to protect the status quo of borders around the world. With that we also need an answer to terrorism from foreign states. As soon as you make it impossible for an invasion to take place then you can guarantee that some states will head straight to terrorist acts for intimidation. Until all countries sign up to this, we must keep the deterrent.

    Imagine how could be saved if we removed the need to spend on defence. Currently we spend $2.2t across the world on killing each other. It is a shocking waste.

  • You didn't bought it you rented it!

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  • It really does depend on the quantity you print and what you are printing. Some like my self only print a few pages a year. Ink also gives a much better finish when it comes to photo printing.

  • Alan Davies twitter account is being used to beg for bitcoin.

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  • Twitter is international. It will not have the same appeal with segregation by nationality.

    The Dutch Government has a much higher trust rating than ours has. Can you imagine the same uptake if the UK did likewise. I certainly would have zero trust with the current people in power.

  • Alan Davies twitter account is being used to beg for bitcoin.

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  • Sciences, sports, politics, news and many more all rely on twitter as a platform that works or used to. There really is a case for a internationally ran system for this. Twitter has such a high value that removing it will have a negative impact. Something that has become so fundamental to getting a message across needs to be ran in a not for profit fashion, rather than see it go to the wall because there is not enough return in it.