SpaceCowboy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Which country do you think the people masscred in Tiananmen square were from? Were the people massacred there people known for making silk?

Why would they be referencing silk at all? Yeah they referenced silk thinking "I'm sure people will get get the connection from silk to textiles to Palestinians."

The Ghorman massacre was referenced in Star Wars Rebels in 2017 and was referenced in the EU in the 1990s FFS. Do you really think the people making Star Wars are clairvoyant? Tianamen Square would've been fresh in the minds of people in the 90s I think it's more likely referencing that event than events that hadn't happened yet.

See, again, people like this are exactly why we need the protagonist to look directly at the camera and explain things to them.

Indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Thanks for the link!

I was aware of it being referenced in 2017 in Star Wars Rebels, but I wasn't aware it was in Legends in the 1990s.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah if I were on that jury, it would be jury nullification all the way. Can't have the government killing a guy for political reasons, and that's what this is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

Be honest have you ever watched Chuck Schumer on CSPAN or do you only see him in the clips Jon Stewart shows?

Not enough people voted for Democrats so Chuck Schumer currently has less power than Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart has a much larger audience on his show (and therefore more influence) than Chuck Schumer has on CSPAN yet he devotes a significant amount of time complaining about Chuck Schumer.

It's weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Sure... we'd all be better off if only the Ottoman empire continued to exist forever!

SMH

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Yes, Star Wars Rebels is so brilliant that they were referencing the Isreal-Hamas war in 2017.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Cargo

Y'all are sounding like qanons with your numerology now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (13 children)

So there's a planet famous for producing silk where peaceful protesters are massacred in a public square and you only think of Gaza? There is definitely no place on Earth like that other than Gaza!

I'm pretty sure the Israel Gaza war kicked off with terrorists masscring people in villages and taking hostages, but it wasn't the IDF doing that shit. Did Andor portray that at all?

I tried to find clips to see what it's referencing some more but holy shit that show is 90% pretentious speeches. But even then it's pretty obvious.

You are correct there are some people that need things spelled out for them or they don't understand it. Some even resort to Qanon style numerology to try to prove weird connections between things.

Anyway, which silk producing country massacred peaceful protesters in a public square? Come on.. .you can figure it out! Somewhere where vehicles were used to crush protesters? Maybe someone made a memorial and an authoritarian regime took it down... Hint

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Wait, I thought the Jews ran Hollywood and controlled all of the media? How is it possible a movie like this exists?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

PETA has killed more animals than I have LOL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

It's not about a sovereign EU, it's about government controlling the media. There is too much temptation for a politician to use that control to make the media say only good things about them and negative things about the opposition. See Russia for an example of how bad that can get.

Are all of the newspapers controlled by the EU? Do you think it would be better if they were.

Anyway, yeah I'm talking about social media. The primary problem of social media is that it's an oligopoly. Create regulation so people can have choice without being cut of from their friends that are on a shitty platform and people will leave to be on better platforms and companies will have to compete to provide a better product.

Very few people actually like Facebook and Twitter, they just can't leave because they wouldn't be able to communicate with their friends and family if they did. And their friends and family can't leave for the same reason. What if you could go to a Friendica site and still be able to chat with your friends that are still on Facebook and they could see your posts you make and vice versa? How many people would stay on Facebook if there was no longer a barrier to leaving? How many people would put up with Elon Musk's antics on twitter if they could leave and still communicate with the people they like that are still on Twitter?

If there was no major barrier to leaving these sites, they'd have to compete to provide quality moderation, make it easy to find the things you like, improve algorithms so they aren't shoving shit you don't care about into your face, etc. Having a single government entity doing this wouldn't provide this and the site would probably just be constant bickering about what the government should and should not allow on social media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I gonna intercept here for a bit. The Problem with “shutting down single farms” is, that this virtually has no effect at all. T

It would save the animals you claim are being boiled alive. Why don't you care about the suffering of these animals?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah I know about TV licenses, but aren't they incredibly unpopular? And a government could eliminate them and replace them with subsidies (which gives them influence) and many voters might agree with that given the unpopularity of TV licenses.

 

Protest swiftly condemned by all levels of government; organizing group denies hospital targeted

Toronto police say they are increasing their presence along hospital row after a pro-Palestinian protest downtown on Monday night, including outside Mount Sinai Hospital.

Toronto Police Service spokesperson Stephanie Sayer told CBC News the increased police presence is to ensure that essential hospital services and emergency routes remain accessible.

"Interfering with the operations of a hospital is not acceptable," Sayer wrote in an email.

Police have not said if the hospital's operations were impacted by the protest. The hospital has not responded to CBC News's request for comment.

"The Toronto Police Service is investigating several incidents that occurred in front of Mount Sinai Hospital and along the demonstration route. As we have said before, officers use their discretion during large crowd demonstrations and even if arrests are not deemed safe to make at the time, investigations will continue and charges can be laid at a later date," Sayer said.

 

GENEVA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas and that it had severed ties with those staff members. "The Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on October 7," said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General.

"To protect the agency's ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay."

Lazzarini did not disclose the number of employees allegedly involved in the attacks, nor the nature of their alleged involvement. He said, however, that "any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror" would be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution.

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