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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Losses include casualties, where a combatant is just injured. That might be losing a limb, but in many cases its much less severe and they recover and return to fighting. 3 years is plenty of recovery time, enough for the same person to have been multiple casualties.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Two bears high fiving

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

He's an excellent and prolific author of comedic fantasy novels. Its worth at least picking up one of his books to see if its your cup of tea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What was the opinion that got you banned?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

When is Trump going to pay back the $500bn the rest of NATO spent supporting the US in Afghanistan and Iraq?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can be held for up to 28 days without charge if you're suspected of terrorism offences.

I'm not aware of anti terror laws being used against protestors, but the last govt introduced extremely strict anti protest laws under which non violent protestors have been given up to 2 year prison sentences.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Vance was only doing what he and Trump planned. Trump wanted to be seen as the friendly one so he had Vance and far right reporters start the attacks.

There was never going to be a Ukraine deal, the whole thing was a performance to make it look like zelenskys fault and create drama and ratings - Trump: "this is going to be great television"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It also feels like it was all planned. From his time on TV Trump knows a lot about creating drama. First we have "he's a dictator", everyone expects Trump to be against Ukraine. Then in episode 2 there's a twist - France and Britain show up and Trump is very amenable to give people hope again, and finally it all blows up in a dramatic clash. Trump even tells us "that's why I let it go on so long... its going to make great television".

The whole thing was about telling the story that Trump is the strong peace seeking negotiator and it all fell through because zelensky won't be reasonable and is trying to take advantage of the US who he doesn't respect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wow, Mussolini was even shorter than Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sorry but what the fuck are you talking about. You're inventing connections between conflicts that aren't there. Russia and the US don't particularly care about Palestine. Believing that there's some kind of exchange where the US is 'taking' Palestine because of the conflict in Ukraine is some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard. It's like you think all of geopolitics is the US and Russia sitting around a map of the world and both of them are ten year olds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It does though because it floods the medium with content from people just looking to make money. And it happens everywhere. When ebay started it was an online garage sale, now it's mostly businesses. Etsy used to be a place where creative types sold their crafts, now its flooded with dropshipped tat from Ali Baba. YouTube used to be random people uploading stuff for fun and expression, now it's mostly about sponsorship money. Twitter used to be a novel way for people to briefly express their thoughts, now its a fascist propaganda machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They were also one of the first companies to put ads in video games with CS1.6.

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