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Reminds me on some levels about the rise and rule of Chavez.

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All of it but the harem part. Most striking is the fiddling with democratic institutions common to autocratic regimes.
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OK. Let's start at the top.

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Something like that?
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You can skip ahead to the punchline. Use a sock if you need to.
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Old 02-19-2019, 11:47 AM
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You can skip ahead to the punchline. Use a sock if you need to.
It's very simple. I think your comparison of Chavez to Gaddafi is bullshit.

Let's strike book burning and murdering dissidents abroad off the list.

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Not sure about that, but I doubt it.

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With a population of only six million and annual oil revenues of US $32bn in 2010, Libya's potential is huge. Most Libyans do not feel this wealth and living conditions can be reminiscent of far poorer countries.
Translation, they have a shitload of oil that the US want to get their grubby hands on. There's a slight similarity.

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Alex Trebek has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, but a remarkably positive attitude.
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So, I was reading an article on the [latest] college admissions scandal when my newsfeed put up a story claiming that Roseanne Barr is planning to leave the U.S. and move to Israel.

Okay. A related story popped up in the feed, noting that she gave a speech in Tel Aviv claiming that her show was canceled because of her support for Israel. Apparently, her long and well-documented history of making racist comments had nothing to do with it.


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And speaking of college admission scandals, speaking as someone who has spent pretty-much his entire adult life working in academia, I'm shocked -- shocked I tell you -- to learn that rich people have come up with yet another way to game the system in order to get their undeserving kids into college.



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One soldier to face charges over Bloody Sunday killings | UK news | The Guardian

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This can only be good news for peace in Northern Ireland, coming while there is an increasing possibility of a tougher border threatening the Good Friday Agreement. The Northern Ireland Assembly (Stormont) hasn't even been functioning for a couple of years.
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An MP (member of parliament) in the UK has shown just how intelligent some MPs are, by suggesting that all knives should be fitted with GPS trackers.

Cornwall MP ridiculed over knife GPS tweet - BBC News

Presumably it would be a crime if you failed to keep all your knives charged up so as to power the trackers.
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Dead whale washed up in Philippines had 40kg of plastic bags in its stomach | Environment | The Guardian

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This is pretty bad.

Cyclone Idai 'might be southern hemisphere's worst such disaster' | World news | The Guardian

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Miscellaneous human interest (not in "mysteriously newsworthy" because its sheer weirdness means there's nothing mysterious about its newsworthiness):

Bangladesh mother discovers twins in second uterus days after giving birth | World news | The Guardian

Not gonna front: I had no idea any woman even had more than one uterus, much less that it was possible to get pregnant in both of them at once. This is a truly bizarre news story.
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I feel as though we ought to have a specific smilie for this situation.
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And now for a different type of ridiculous orange trash fucking up the environment.
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Bangladesh mother discovers twins in second uterus days after giving birth | World news | The Guardian

Not gonna front: I had no idea any woman even had more than one uterus, much less that it was possible to get pregnant in both of them at once. This is a truly bizarre news story.
Truly, they have been blessed by Allah.

You can tell it's a blessing because you know everyone who reads this story will be praying it happens to them too.
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Swedish police officer apprehends fugitive while visiting sauna | World news | The Guardian

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stripped-back ... sounds about right
bare-bones ... wow, Swedish saunas are more savage than Finnish ones
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I thanked the headline. Please consider this post a +1 :thanked: for the article itself.

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Julian Assange is in the news. Under arrest and may be extradited. Either Ecuador have violated his rights as a citizen and champion of free speech, or he's a lying scumbag who's now going to get what he deserves, I can't quite make it out.

Israel is close to announcing that Netanhayoo will continue as PM. Such fun.

Al-Bashir has been bashed out of office in Sudan.

The UK has an extension of EU membership until Halloween. Such fun.

But the biggest news is the 900 million people now starting to vote in India. There are so many polling stations the vote is being spread over 6 weeks to allow security to be provided properly. Will Modi (another moderate, undivisive and caring figure) stay in power?

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Julian Assange is in the news. Under arrest and may be extradited. Either Ecuador have violated his rights as a citizen and champion of free speech, or he's a lying scumbag who's now going to get what he deserves, I can't quite make it out.
Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. Particularly the part about him being a lying scumbag, which it seems to me pretty clear that he is.

It's pretty clear he's a racist, an anti-Semite and a misogynist and often supports far-right parties and defends Putin from the type of transparency he supposedly values above all, for example. And he lied repeatedly in 2016, both about the contents of the emails he was publishing and about not being on Trump's side, when Twitter DMs that were leaked showed that he was explicitly trying to help Trump.

IMO Assange deserves quite a bit of what's coming to him as a result of his 2016 activities, but it also seems quite possible that the US charges against him are BS and/or would set a dangerous precedent. Particularly given that it's likely that the charges will relate to the Manning leaks regarding the Iraq War. I would rather see him extradited to Sweden first, at any rate.

I'd say that it also could perhaps be an instructive example of the type of loyalty that will be given to ratfuckers who help Trump in criminal or at least criminally questionable/adjacent* ways. You will be thrown under the bus, so maybe, you know, don't help him? Or at least get paid up front, whatever type of payment you're looking for. Don't help Trump hoping for a pardon and/or an ambassadorship - get a pardon THEN help Trump.

*Assange knew the DNC/Podesta emails he was given were the products of criminal hacking. It may not have been criminal for him to publish them if that was the extent of his activities, but "criminally adjacent" seems appropriate.

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I suspected as much.
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*Assange knew the emails he was given were the products of criminal hacking. It may not have been criminal for him to publish them if that was the extent of his activities, but "criminally adjacent" seems appropriate.

So every journalist who publishes classified information is now "criminally adjacent", whatever the fuck that means. No problem with that. No way. Hey corporate media clowns, if you cheer this shit on enough, there is hope that it will be applied very selectively.
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