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U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why. (foreignpolicy.com)

In the past several weeks, I have watched dozens of sleek U.S. military planes descend over Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I live. They were the first flights to land since gangs blockaded and halted commercial air traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that the aircraft contained...

gmtom,

Idk why but I’m getting big deja vu from this story.

gmtom,

What makes the jets effective but stone henge not?

Seriously what effects have the jetshave vs stone henge? Did it rally a bunch of people to the cause? Did it make the fossil field companies rethink their ways? Convince the MPs to stop oil investment? Make the owners of those jets not want to fly them?

gmtom,

No, but I, nor anyone else claimed they were going to.

The other commentor said the jet protests were effective whereas stonehenge was not. So I’m just asking what effect it had? Because at least the Stonehenge protest was big news, which was the whole point of the protest.

gmtom,

I think when you get to the point where you’re comparing mass murdering puppies to spraying corn starch on a rock then you’re not really arguing in good faith anymore

gmtom,

This is literally supervillain stuff.

Tad dramatic mate. It was literally people praying corn starch on a rock. Calm your tits.

gmtom,

Are they attempting that? Because if thousands upon thousands of scientific papers and our best and brightest describing what climate chabge is going to do, hundreds of peaceful protests, hundreds of protests at oil rigs and depots and FF company HQs and politicians houses and banks financing FF companies, and experiencing first hand the actual effects of climate change don’t stir people to action, what will?

These protests are to keep climate change permanently is the public consciousness, so people and the media can’t just bury their heads in the sand and pretend it’s not happening while they get us to chase whatever culture war bullshit is going on.

The people who actually give a damn about this and take action aren’t going to be put off because someone sprayed starch on a rock, or put paint on a piece of glass in front of an art work. And the people getting their knickers in a twist over that are the people that were never, ever going to do literally anything to help the problem.

gmtom,

Ok

gmtom,

You didn’t even mention the other infestation that are far dirtier and more disgusting than the bedbugs… the French.

gmtom,

Isn’t that the famous serial killer that put a dude in a meat grinder?

gmtom,

My god, read the bloody article.

They gave ukraine a 50bn loan which is being paid off by the interest on the frozen Russian assets at approx 3bn a year.

Ukrainians will not have to pay back a si gle penny of this “loan”

gmtom,

Does “don’t destroy artwork” apply to people whi tear down statues of like Saddam or Mussolini? Or what about confederates or slave owner statues?

No right wing wave in Finland as Left Alliance take record result in EU elections (yle.fi)

Finland’s results in the European election bucked a continent-wide trend of rising support for parties on the outer fringe of right-wing politics, with the Left Alliance and the National Coalition winning big at the expense of the nationalist Finns Party....

gmtom,

My god I want to emigrate over there so bad.

gmtom,

I like to think Hat man/Hatman is the full name and the “Hatman” part is pronounced like it’s someone’s surname.

gmtom,

.ml detected, opinion rejected.

Go back to your shithole tankie.

gmtom,

Not really. Being open minded doesn’t mean you give equal credence to nut jobs, conspiracy theorists, racists, etc.

I wouldn’t listen to a Nazis opinions on Jews.

I wouldn’t listen to a zionists opinion on Palestine.

And I don’t listen to a tankies opinion on Ukraine.

gmtom,

If you don’t want people to lump you in with the tankies, you can simply not associate yourself with said tankies.

Just like I’m going to assume anyone on truth social is a right wing chritsofascist. There might be a dide on there that’s sane and alright, but I don’t care.

gmtom,

There are only 2 numbers

  • 0/1
  • all the other numbers
gmtom,

All numbers can be written with |

gmtom,

Define "all the other numbers

If its a number and it isn’t exactly 0 or 1.

gmtom,

More like he wants average middle aged swing state voters to vote for him, since those are the only people that really matter and they are typically pro Israel.

gmtom,

It seems like the country is totally polarised because the most extreme people shout the loudest.

People who are undecided don’t make memes or aggressive twitter posts about how undecided they are etc.

And while the GOP establishment are fully on Trumps side there is a sizeable contingent of people who are usually republicans that are put off by trumps bullshit, but still don’t really want to vote for a “lib” like Biden either. And if he “supported hamas terorrists” that very well could be more than enough to put them off.

gmtom,

I really like my p30 but had to Ditch it when they banned hauwei from Google services

gmtom,

International politics is complicated. Would you actually rather them just let civilians starve to death as well?

UN denies Gaza death toll of women and children has been revised down (www.theguardian.com)

The UN has denied that the estimated death toll of women and children in the war in Gaza has been revised downward, pointing towards a confusion between the total numbers of dead bodies recorded, and the number of those who have so far been fully identified....

gmtom,

Appropriate or moral? Because I don’t think you people consider thos things the same.

gmtom,

I considered making the other side of the bracket, but figrured the posts would get annoying fast.

Also wolves and bears are cuddly??

gmtom,

wolf, considering they don’t fucking exist anymore (in the US at least

As apposed to the famous North American Gorilla?

gmtom,
gmtom,

Also the UK would never let it pass either. But were basically just the US’ second vote on the council at this point

Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account

I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I’ve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It’s unreal how strict the requirements are now....

gmtom,

How did you get in contact with them? They locked my account 2 months ago for unknown reasons.

gmtom,

From the pictures on twitter damage seems pretty minimal.

‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms (www.theguardian.com)

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....

gmtom,

Go back to truth social you obvious troll.

gmtom,

If it walks like a duck quacks like a duck and spends it’s time denying the ongoing genocide in Palestine like a duck, then I’ll call it a duck

gmtom,

The fact you had to argue a completely different point instead of the one I’m actually making shows that you KNOW your position is morally indefensible.

We both know that Israel invading palesting and killing thousands of children isn’t “self defence”.

We both know Israel restricting humanitarian aid from entering palestine, thus causing a man made famine, is not them defending themselves.

Everyone here knows you are not arguing in good faith. Including yourself, so why are you wasting your time? Are you doing a “le epic troll”? Are you just an edgy contrarian? Or something else? Please, tell me.

gmtom,

Honestly I’m betting they’re doing this because the uni had little to no investments in Israeli companies in the first place.

gmtom,

Turmoil in Argentina?

I hope HMS Forth is on standby

gmtom,

That’s unfortunately just everywhere I gaming and tech as a whole at the moment.

gmtom,

No, honestly it’s actually pretty hard to actually gaslight someone. I know you think you see it in abusive relationships, but I really think your just misremembering honest mistakes as gaslighting. I mean you’ve made mistakes like that before in the past remember? So yeah, no big deal, just chalk it up to stress. And you trust me right? You know I would never lie to you.

gmtom,

Mostly attention issues. She had her big hit, was very famous then that started to fade so tried a dozen different things to stay in the lienlight from bad sequels to bad prequels to publishing bad stories under a fake name, but none if it got her enough attention. So she did what basically every other washed up celebrity does and just be controversial to get attention.

And also I think part of it is that rich, steisght white women, are very privileged but being a woman gives them 1 point in the oppression Olympics so they think their opinions on these issues matters more. Which is why almost all the most outspoken term are middle class strisght white women.

‘Huge win’: Brown University protesters reach an agreement to dismantle encampment (forward.com)

This article describes the little-reported on success that Brown University had in disbanding student protest… by conceding to let activists present a case for divestment at an upcoming hearing before the university’s investment board....

gmtom,

Idiots. You gave up literally all you’re leverage for the chance to just speak to the board that merely advises the president on investments in 6 months time, when most people will have forgotten this and you won’t have the nation-wide momentum? And you didn’t even get charges dropped?

Absolutely fucking braindead. Like you just wasted ALL the effort of every student involved in this to do Absolutely nothing.

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