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we have learned nothing as a species

Japan should consider hosting U.S. nuclear weapons, Abe says | The Japan Times
japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/

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if i lived in minsk right now i would be quite fearful

The btc address published by the twitter @ukraine account yesterday (357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P) has already received $3.5mm USD in donations.

blockchain.com/btc/address/357

Another $5mm USD has been sent to their published ethereum address:

etherscan.io/address/0x165CD37

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one of the characteristics of good propagandists: make sure that your broad-stroke claims have at least a tiny kernel of truth, so that people who are sucked in by charisma and want to believe have a small hook to hang the rest of your bogus ideology on:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_B

not one of the answers to "why is putin doing this?" that i have heard really make any sense. there is something else going on here. he's not stupid, nor a madman.

russia is one of the largest and best countries in the world, and full of some of the best, smartest, and brightest humans. if after hundreds of years these sorts of tragedies still play out, what more damning condemnation of state power and authority could there possibly be?

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weapons are needed; if you live within a thousand kilometers of other people they are never unnecessary. when politicians tell you otherwise, they are lying to you for their benefit and your detriment.

forgot to check the "pay uber an extra $2 for your food to not arrive cold" checkbox and of course my food arrived cold, despite spending three grand on uber in two months and having been a customer for 11 years. the support options tree does not have an option for this problem or for "other" so i guess that's the end of our run

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just paid uber fifty dollars to bring me a medium pizza and some ice cream, isnt this app wonderful ugh

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Shopify stores are so annoying with how they always have 50 external adtech domains that they try to load. Some of the worst websites out there.

“The propaganda is working very well,” said Anastasia Nikolskaya, a Moscow sociologist. “It’s not that anyone is welcoming the war, but it is being seen as a last-ditch measure that is necessary.”

americans get outraged when a military dictator manufactures consent for an invasion in other countries, yet still don't throw bush or obama in jail

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