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Posted in: Okinawa marks 77th anniversary of significant WWII ground battle See in context

Okinawa was Japan’s only home battleground in WWII.

You forgot Iwo Jima.

There are 365 days in a year, and this is ONE day that I believe "politics" should be left out of any discussion and be dedicated to the memory of EVERYONE who was a victim of the war here in Okinawa.

Von Clausewitz said it himself that War is just a continuation of politics by other means. They are inseparable. Politics started the war. Politics ended the war. Politics decided the peace. To act as if the tragedy and death on Okinawa are somehow isolated from politics is to fundamentally misunderstand how the battle and the war came about. The people of Okinawa were just as much victims of politics as of war. You can’t depoliticize the battle of Okinawa and its victims any more than you can depoliticize America’s epidemic of gun violence and its victims - pretending politics have nothing to do with either is denying reality and is frankly an insult

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Posted in: Australian state outlaws public displays of Nazi swastikas See in context

I don't think symbols should be banned, but if they're going to do it, why stop at the Nazi swastika? They should ban the hammer and sickle of communism as well.

It probably has something to do with the fact that Australia is seeing a rise in far-right radicalization and that such groups are active threats.

What about Hindu and Buddhist swastikas? Are they still okay?

Tell me you didn’t read the article without actually telling me you didn’t read the article

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Posted in: Biggest rail strike in 30 years brings UK to standstill See in context

I thought Maggie Thatcher put a stop to all that union nonsense.

Guess there unions are more resilient than some dead broad, huh?

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Posted in: Australian PM refuses to publicly intervene on Assange See in context

“It looks like one rule for Americans, another for citizens of its ally,” Carr wrote.

Not really. Chelsea’s sentence was commuted after she had been tried and convicted. And not her sentence was commuted, not overturned. She is still considered to be guilty in the eyes of the law; they basically just decided to let her out early. Julian hasn’t quite ticked those boxes on the “are these two things equivalent” checklist yet. Let him be tried, convicted, and THEN argue that his sentence should be commuted like Chelsea’s was.

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Posted in: North Korea says hundreds of families ill with intestinal disease See in context

*ingested not injected.

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Posted in: North Korea says hundreds of families ill with intestinal disease See in context

Does anyone wanna tell Bjorn that the reason the Korean Peninsula is divided and its neighbors treat it with suspicion is because the last time they had the opportunity, they invaded their southern neighbor?

I’m also willing to bet money this “enteric disease” is Covid as well. While primarily a respiratory disease, Covid can actually lodge in the GI tract if it is injected rather than inhaled. Once there, it can cause severe diarrhea and vomiting, which can lead to dehydration and malnutrition. It can also cause incredible stomach pain. Gastrointestinal symptoms can lay for over a week before the virus eventually makes its way into the lungs.

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Posted in: UK Rwanda deportation ruling appealed as prince sparks row See in context

Rwanda is already home to tens of thousands of refugees. Competition for land and resources contributed to ethnic and political tensions that culminated in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and the moderate Hutu who tried to protect them were killed.

Yeah, because sending them there will DEFINITELY stop them from trying to make their way back to Britain.

Many are fundamentalists, radicalized or terriorist escaping justice.

Citation needed.

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Posted in: NATO's eastern nations want better protection from alliance See in context

“The result we are pursuing is a consolidated NATO presence on the Eastern Flank, united and coherent, robust, credible and sustainable, especially on the Black Sea — the most exposed to Russia’s threats,”

If his goal was to increase NATO’s presence on his border, he’s doing a magnificent job

Russia will likely deal with these newcomers

Because the last time he tried to “deal with a country” that was getting close to NATO has been going swimmingly so far. Just the other day I saw footage of a Russian IFV bravely ramming a Ukrainian anti-tank missile head-on. The Russian Army should be proud of themselves. After all, their tank turrets have more flight hours than the Russian Air Force.

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Posted in: UK to introduce bill next week to breach Brexit deal with EU See in context

Time for Scotxit. Just have a referendum and if you don’t get the outcome you want., unilaterally alter the deal and just do it anyway. I mean, it works for the English, right?

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Posted in: U.S. excludes leftists from Americas summit; Mexican leader sits out See in context

If the US cared about associating with countries that support democracy, we probably shouldn’t be palling around with Saudis Arabia, whose Number 2 export seems to be Islamic Fundamentalism. But their Number 1 export is oil, so I guess that explains that.

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Posted in: U.S. naval officer in Japan faces prison over deadly crash See in context

If you cannot prove that his altitude sickness kicked slow enough to let him pull over, then he is innocent.

Innocent until proven guilty

Isn't that the main rule of law?

> He won't be indicted in any modern country.

The neurologist made it clear that it was an accident.

Prosecutor must find a prove of guild beyond any doubt.

And judge must take in the neurological evidence.

Well yeah. He was innocent and apparently the judge found the prosecution’s arguments in favor of negligence more compelling than the defense’s attempts to rebut those arguments. And I’m willing to bet the prosecution had their own neurologist who testified that altitude sickness does not cause sudden, catastrophic loss of consciousness.

It’s not at if the prosecution went up and said “He’s guilty” and then rested their case without evidence.

You can argue the merits of both sides’ evidence for sure, and I’m certain both sides did. You can also make plenty of compelling arguments against the conviction. But just because he was convicted and you or I or anyone else might have come to a different conclusion doesn’t mean he was presumed guilty from the start.

The article is pretty scant on what evidence or witnesses the prosecution presented and it may very well be that if we saw their evidence, we’d have a different opinion on his guilt.

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Posted in: Man gets 18-year prison term for 2017 expressway road rage deaths See in context

His defense had said there was no causal link between his driving and the accident.

Judge: “You stand accused of shooting a man to death in broad daylight in front of a hundred eyewitnesses. How do you plead?”

Defendant: “Not guilty, your honor.”

Judge: “How can you possibly think you’re not guilt?”

Lawyer: “My client didn’t kill the victim, your honor, a bullet did. There is no causal link between the two.”

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Posted in: U.S. naval officer in Japan faces prison over deadly crash See in context

This is a bit of an odd case, to be sure. While altitude sickness can certainly cause dizziness and increased fatigue, I’m not finding much on complete loss of consciousness. At the judge said, it seems out of the ordinary for someone to go from fully conscious to blacking out in an instant strictly from changes in elevation. It’s quite possible there were more medical factors at play here.

From what the article says, it seems that the case hinges on the timeframe, rather than strictly the cause. The prosecution is arguing negligence by saying he should have pulled over the moment he started feeling drowsy or lightheaded. That would imply the onset of symptoms was slow enough to be noticed and reacted to (which seems to align more closely with the effects of altitude sickness alone). The defense is arguing that the transition from awake and alert to fully unconscious was near instantaneous, and thus he would have had no time to pull over, even if he had wanted to (which seems unlikely from changes in elevation alone). That begs the question; was there some other medical factor that was exacerbated by the change in pressure? The seeming lack of medical examination of the accused is troubling, since whatever happened could very well have been a highly transient affair, making proof of what happened progressively more difficult to ascertain as time passes.

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Posted in: Depp-Heard trial: Advocates fear chilling effect on domestic violence victims See in context

The difference is that Heard is a liar. If you're really being abused, then go press charges.

Then don't lie.

She did and she didn’t. Because shock of all shocks, you can do both.

Did she lie about not hitting Johnny? Yes

Did she lie about Johnny hitting her? No

Remember, this wasn’t the only case. There was also the case in the UK where Johnny sued over the Sun article calling him a “wife beater”, and the judge found that it’s not libel because yes, Johnny was a wife beater.

“Judge Mr. Justice Nicol said the Sun had proved what was in the article to be "substantially true".

He found 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence had occurred.”

This is a case of two abusers abusing each other, then lying about abusing each other, then getting convicted of defamation for lying about abusing each other. There quite literally were no innocent parties. They honestly should be paying me millions of dollars for having to listen to the “Amber Heard Did Nothing Wrong” and “#Justice4Johnny” crowds whinging at each other nonstop for a month.

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Posted in: Depp-Heard trial: Advocates fear chilling effect on domestic violence victims See in context

*LGBTQ hate crimes victims

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Posted in: Depp-Heard trial: Advocates fear chilling effect on domestic violence victims See in context

If there is one thing to take away from this lawsuit, it’s that BOTH Amber and Johnny were abusive pricks. Johnny was not some blameless angel. Remember, the jury for them BOTH guilty of defamation.

Ultimately, regardless of the fact that the abuse was mutual, Amber has done untold damage to the fight against domestic violence. Not because she wasn’t abused, but because from now on, every time a woman comes forward to say she’s been abused, that same group of MRA yahoos are gonna show up and use this as a cudgel; they’ll say “well Amber Heard abused Johnny, so we can’t trust anything a woman says anymore.” Amber Heard has done to domestic violence victims what the Duke lacrosse case did to rape victims and what Jussie Smollett has done to LGBTQ the crimes victims: given internet numbskulls an excuse to assume every accusation is a lie.

Personally, if I never saw either of them on screen again, I’d be fine. Johnny has a long history of being an abusive a*shole to set crews anyway.

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Posted in: Russians, Ukrainians fight block by block in eastern city See in context

“Col. Richard Black: U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War"

If this is the same former Colonel Dick Black from Virginia who was a cheerleader for Bashar al Assad while he was gassing civilians and who has made frequent appearances on Russia Today taking about imagined “NATO provocations”, whatever that means, I think we can all take anything he says with a Everest-esque mountain of salt.

Oh!! And I almost forgot. Regarding those gas attacks by his buddy Assad, Dick Black appeared on a Hezbollah-run ‘news’ channel claiming the chemical attacks were a false-flag operation carried out by MI6.

So forget what I said about taking his words with salt. You can safely consider anything he says to be axiomatically untrue and move on.

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Posted in: Japanese Red Army founder Shigenobu freed after 20 years in prison See in context

It might be me, but I'm a bit confused by the wording of this sentence. Does it mean the Japanese Red Army (which she founded) or PFLP? Or is "leftist movement" here used as an umbrella term for all things broadly anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist?

The last option worries me a bit as it would, justly, be considered disingenuous to classify a white supremacist mass shooter with any pro-capitalist political party as one and the same "rightist movement".

It's referring to both, in a general sense. The JRA was a communist organization and the PLFP is a member party of the PLO which is based on secularism and Marxism-Leninism. So both would be classified as generally 'leftist'. As for a white supremacist mass shooter, white supremacy as a movement is a classified as a right-wing movement from the get-go. Pro-imperialism is also right-wing. Pro-capitalism can also be viewed as mildly right-leaning.

So, if a white supremacist mass shooter kills people and, say, cites conspiracy theories promulgated by right-wing pundits, then I see nothing disingenuous in classifying him as part of a 'rightist movement'

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Posted in: Nurse stabbed by patient’s husband in Mie hospital See in context

Before you all dive in, there are endless scandals in UK care homes relating to the abuse of those there by their carers, and a nurse has just been arrested here after a child in her care died of poisoning.

So reserve judgement until we find out why he stabbed him.

I'm gonna say this slowly.

You wife being neglected by a carer does not give you a carte blanche for murder, even if the nurse did something bad first.

And that's just hypotheticals. Based on this article, I could say the old man had gone senile and thought the nurse was the devil and I'd have exactly the same amount of evidence to support that assertion as you do yours. Which is to say, both of us would have NONE

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Posted in: Official: Girl told 911 'send the police now' as cops waited at Texas school See in context

Cops: I was sacred for my life, so I had to shoot.

Also cops: I was scared for my life, so I couldn’t shoot.

Every day, dimwits tell every cop he’s a hero because he put on a badge, but when the moment comes for them to actually BE heroes, well, suddenly courage is in short supply.

If nothing else, this massacre puts paid to the myth that a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun. Dozens of “good guys” with guns stood around while the bad guy put bullets in schoolchildren.

Turns out, a good guy with a gun isn’t what we need. It’s a good guy with a SPINE.

And I have to wonder; how many of those cops, cowering in fear of that kid’s AR-15 voted for the party that made sure there was no way to stop that kid from getting said AR-15, no questions asked.

“I never thought the leopard would eat my face,” says community that voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party

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Posted in: Google urged to stop location tracking to protect privacy of abortion seekers See in context

means little to people who believe that when a sperm fertilizes an egg, it is now a life to be protected with the full protection that a 1 yr old baby certainly deserves.

Considering how little the Republicans seem to care about grade-schoolers getting killed in their classrooms, I think it’s safe to say they only consider it a life to be protected UNTIL it is born.

After that, you’re on your own. Better stock up on toddler-sized ballistic plates.

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Posted in: Google urged to stop location tracking to protect privacy of abortion seekers See in context

We have a way to change it, if that is the will of the people.

Considering between 61-70% of all Americans (depending on the pollsters) support Roe v Wade and believe a woman should be able to get an abortion "in all or most cases", I think it's safe to say overturning Roe v Wade would fly in the face of the will of the people.

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Posted in: Google urged to stop location tracking to protect privacy of abortion seekers See in context

For starters, abortion used to be illegal in many states.

It was never illegal to be inoculated with the Covid vaccine.

See how far off base is your attempt to the link the two?

He's linking the two SARCASTICALLY. He doesn't actually believe they are equivalent issues. HOWEVER, he is using that sarcasm to point out the hypocrisy displayed by many on the Right, who demand full bodily autonomy when it comes to having to get a vaccine, but then in the same breath wish to remove a woman's bodily autonomy in relation to abortions.

For the record, the issues are NOT the same. The reason bodily autonomy can be legally curbed (This issue was decided by the Supreme Court over a century ago in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)) in the case of mandatory vaccination is because, unlike abortions, infectious diseases are contagious and can infect and harm other people without their consent. Abortion, as you might have guessed, is not at all contagious, therefore a woman's right to bodily autonomy is held to be superior. Mandatory vaccination, however, holds that the right to safety of the general public is superior to the bodily autonomy of the individual during a public health crisis.

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Posted in: Google urged to stop location tracking to protect privacy of abortion seekers See in context

I dunno why everyone thinks the abortion debate is so difficult. The solution to unwanted pregnancies is simple:

Mandatory universal vasectomies.

If you’re a boy, when you hit puberty, you have to go to your doctor to get snipped. It’s safe, easy, can be done in a day, and you’ll never have to worry about babies being aborted, cuz as we all know, 100% of unwanted pregnancies involve a man. So stop them at the source.

Then, when you’re a responsible adult and you want to have children, you can apply for an appointment at the one, government-approved vasectomy-reversal center in your state and in 6-18 months, you can get your vasectomy reversed and have kids. It’s a foolproof way to prevent abortions.

I just can’t understand how the pro-life crowd hasn’t proposed this yet. Any Pro-lifers in the comment section able to fill me in on how/why you could possibly miss the easiest possible solution? After all, it’s about saving babies and definitely not about controlling women’s bodies exclusively, right?

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Posted in: Russian sentenced to life in Ukraine's 1st war crimes trial See in context

Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, will be back home in Russia drinking tea

I dunno. He might wanna skip the tea. I heard there are some funky additives since the Putin era began.

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Posted in: Kill Japan's elderly? Cannes film probes chilling idea See in context

She said she interviewed older people as part of her research for the movie, and discovered that many found merit with the idea of buying financial security with their willingness to end their life.

"It would alleviate the stress of wondering how they can survive once they are alone. Choosing the moment and the method of their death could be very reassuring," she said.

She said the approach would find support among the younger generations, too.

"If such a plan was on the table today, I believe that many people would accept it, even welcome it as a viable solution," she said.

Man, the Japanese would literally kill themselves before they consider letting in immigrants, huh?

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Posted in: Gangs strangle Haiti's capital as deaths, kidnappings soar See in context

The history of Haiti is a history of outside interference. From the moment it gained independence, white Europeans and later Americans did everything in their power to exploit Haiti. It was hamstrung from day one. Whether it was America’s brutal, 19-year-long occupation of the country at the behest of American business interests or America’s support for Haiti’s sadistically cruel dictator François Duvalier, what is clear is that Haiti never had a chance. Never had a chance to develop into a functional country. Because every time they actually tried to assert their own sovereignty, Uncle Sam would come and knock it all down.

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Posted in: After 3 months of war, life in Russia has profoundly changed See in context

I’d play them a sad song in the world’s smallest violin, but good luck finding one in Russia these days.

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Posted in: Russia to cut Finland's natural gas in latest energy clash See in context

Natural gas accounted for just 6% of Finland's total energy consumption in 2020

LOOOOOL! Finland gets 9% of its energy from wind. Putin has hurt them less than if he’d set up a giant sheet to block the breeze like a Saturday morning cartoon villain.

These feeble attempts at energy extortion are probably the greatest gift anyone has every given green energy advocates

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Posted in: After Buffalo, civil rights leaders pitch anti-hate plans See in context

Treat white supremacists like Islamic terror groups. Shut down their meeting halls, monitor their places of worship, put them on no-fly lists, make membership in their groups a criminal act, and if they start posting violent videos online, drop a Hellfire on their house. What’s good for the Al Qaeda goose ought to be good for the Oathkeepers gander, no?

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