Random Chat Thread VIII (Aka the world politics shitfight thread)

[The Dark]

In less than a week, both the USA and Ukraine will be governed by deeply corrupt administrations led by men who's main "qualification" is they used be to be TV stars back in the day.

 

[Val Keating]

Easily.

Israel's actions are atrocious and indefensible.

But Israel's actions haven't brought us closer to nuclear armageddon like Russia's have. Israel isn't threatening Hamas with nuclear weapons.

Allow me to quote Zidane98 from the SRP Ukraine Conflict thread with the full list of times Putin and the Russian government have threatened Nuclear war;

I prefer to look at what a country actually does rather than what they say they’re going to do, like I don’t really care about the incoming American president saying they’re going to take Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal.

And Iran above Israel because?

 

[The Dark]

I'm never going to recover from the claim that SAUDI ARABIA - the birthplace of Wahhabism and main funder of Al Qaeda and ISIS - is a better influence on the world than Russia.

I mean sure, Saudi types and their adherents have attacked the US, France, the UK, Australia, Belgium and Germany among western countries alone.

Who cares about 9/11, the Bali bombings, the Bataclan, 7/7, the Madrid bombings hey.

Saudi is one of, if not the only, country in the world that the average normal person would say is worse than Russia lolololol.

 

[The Dark]

Its going to be fascinating to see how quickly the US goes down this path under President Trump.

It took Putin years and years before he went FULL authoritarian, the US seems to be accelerating its speedrun into the same dark place though.

 

[DesertRoo]

I'm never going to recover from the claim that SAUDI ARABIA - the birthplace of Wahhabism and main funder of Al Qaeda and ISIS - is a better influence on the world than Russia.

I mean sure, Saudi types and their adherents have attacked the US, France, the UK, Australia, Belgium and Germany among western countries alone.

Who cares about 9/11, the Bali bombings, the Bataclan, 7/7, the Madrid bombings hey.

Saudi is one of, if not the only, country in the world that the average normal person would say is worse than Russia lolololol.

Did you expect a different response from Capt crazy pills?
he is so he’ll bent on winning the internet can’t see the forest through the trees, the guy wouldn’t be able to walk down the street in his favourite get up, because of religious police, general public etc.

 

[Chadwiko]

Its going to be fascinating to see how quickly the US goes down this path under President Trump.

It took Putin years and years before he went FULL authoritarian, the US seems to be accelerating its speedrun into the same dark place though.

Only you could look at a tweet about horrible oppression in Russia and turn it into a narrative about how America is bad.

 

[Chadwiko]

The guy wouldn’t be able to walk down the street in his favourite get up, because of religious police, general public etc.

Considering my "favourite get up" you're referring to is LGBTIQ+ pride shorts, I also wouldn't be able to walk down the street in Russia either.

Not sure that's the winning point you think it is.

And again, for the umpteenth time; at no point have I been defending Saudi Arabia or any of the other countries mentioned.

 

[Val Keating]

I saw this so you have to see it too.

 

[The Dark]

Did you expect a different response from Capt crazy pills?
he is so he’ll bent on winning the internet can’t see the forest through the trees, the guy wouldn’t be able to walk down the street in his favourite get up, because of religious police, general public etc.

Saudi Arabia literally bans the practice of Judaism and its very unclear if Jewish people are even allowed into the country.

They were formally banned forever, albeit MBS the Killer appears to be pretending he's changed that.

 

[The Dark]

Only you could look at a tweet about horrible oppression in Russia and turn it into a narrative about how America is bad.

You don't think President-elect Trump is a bad thing?

That he's not going to crack down on domestic "opponents" like this?

Your entire worldview collapses in on itself in a few days, you do know that right?

I had thought of better of the US - I didn't think they'd elect Trump given EVERTHING we know.

But they did, with great enthusiasm.

America IS bad.

 

[Val Keating]

Curfew is being imposed in South Sudan because of revenge attacks. Comes after recent footage of Sudanese soldiers shooting South Sudanese civilians. Many people are fleeing Sudan to South Sudan to escape the war.

South Sudan curfew after revenge attacks on Sudanese people and businesses

Horrific videos seeming to show Sudanese soldiers attacking South Sudan nationals spark retaliation attacks.

www.bbc.com

 

[The Dark]

Curfew is being imposed in South Sudan because of revenge attacks. Comes after recent footage of Sudanese soldiers shooting South Sudanese civilians. Many people are fleeing Sudan to South Sudan to escape the war.

South Sudan curfew after revenge attacks on Sudanese people and businesses

Horrific videos seeming to show Sudanese soldiers attacking South Sudan nationals spark retaliation attacks.

www.bbc.com

War in Sudan is getting really full on.

A mini/proxy world war like in Ukraine, with many of the same participants.

 

[Val Keating]

War in Sudan is getting really full on.

A mini/proxy world war like in Ukraine, with many of the same participants.

Yeah it’s as bad as it’s ever been according to a mate of mine who still has family in Sudan. They are not just worried about being killed, they’re worried that they’ll start slave raiding again.

 

[Chadwiko]

You don't think President-elect Trump is a bad thing?

Of course I do. But when I see a tweet about Putin sending political opponents to penal camps, my mind doesn't immediately go to "America under Trump".

... Yet.

 

[Val Keating]

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it really is an all time great line.

 

[the big lebowski]

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/pets/incredible-moment-hero-mother-dog-carries-her-wounded-pup-into-vet/news-story/68cfce10acf6233655a94d981999bb47?amp

Change of pace

 

[Val Keating]

Call the cops, there’s been a murder.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Max is a paid apparatchik.


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[Chadwiko]

Max is a paid apparatchik.

This is very true, and Blumenthal isn't particularly subtle about it either.

For someone who purports to cover the world's major events, I do find it interesting that Blumenthal hasn't tweeted about Putin since October last year... and that was to frame Russia's kidnap and trafficking of Ukranian children into Russian foster homes as "evacuating ethnically Russian kids from a war zone".




(As a reminder of what Karim Khan and the ICC indicted Putin and Belova for);




The fact that Blumenthal

a) Refers to these Ukranian children as "ethnically Russian"
and
b) frames it as Putin "evacuating" them (from a war HE started)

says it all. Blumenthal is straight up Russian propaganda, plain and simple.

 

[The Dark]

Of course I do. But when I see a tweet about Putin sending political opponents to penal camps, my mind doesn't immediately go to "America under Trump".

... Yet.

It's so funny how in Russia a prison in a distant and isolated part of the country is a "penal camp".

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

It's so funny how in Russia a prison in a distant and isolated part of the country is a "penal camp".

Putin’s a piece of shit, yeah?


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[Chadwiko]

It's so funny how in Russia a prison in a distant and isolated part of the country is a "penal camp".

Is that funny?

I mean, they aren't "prisons" in the traditional sense. They are Arctic sites where people like Navalny are sent to disappear without access to medical care or basic civil liberties.

They have long been referred to as penal camps or penal colonies, as seen in this BBC report or this ABC Australia report or this little old website called The Conversation.

 

[The Dark]

Putin’s a piece of shit, yeah?


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Totally.

Murderous siloviki.

Just a very smart and ruthless siloviki who is actually far more cautious and considered than made out ... in his murder.

President-elect Trump is a piece of shit yeah?

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

President-elect Trump is a piece of shit yeah?

Not really. Pieces of shit have some nutrients in them.




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[The Dark]

Is that funny?

I mean, they aren't "prisons" in the traditional sense. They are Arctic sites where people like Navalny are sent to disappear without access to medical care or basic civil liberties.

They have long been referred to as penal camps or penal colonies, as seen in this BBC report or this ABC Australia report or this little old website called The Conversation.

I'm sure the people being held in US facilities huge distances from their family where the gang and rape culture is as bad as in Russia take comfort from the fact they're not in a PENAL CAMP lol.

(Lol at mentioning TC, you really can't help yourself can you mate.)