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Melissa Louise last won the day on October 9 2023

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  1. You have denied and minimized the Holocaust on this site in your own words. Where I'm from, that's a hate crime.
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  3. Freedom fighters? No. Heartsick.
  4. Terrorists don't commit terror out of desperation though. They commit it to further political and/or religious aims, and to satisfy their backers.
  5. I just hate the way it's being used as propaganda - see how kind Hamas are! Not saying you were using it that way, of course.
  6. Meanwhile. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/earth-vital-signs-human-history-scientists-sustainable-future
  7. In the extended interview, the released woman also describes being beaten, dragged and confined to tunnels. And her husband is still a hostage. So, small mercies, I guess, that the beatings ceased while in stationary captivity, while being used as a political bargaining chip by terrorists.
  8. I've never thought this song had a happy ending. Power anthem? Woman now in slightly less poverty than earlier due to slightly better job than earlier check out role, although now with kids, kicks out dead beat husband...I mean, good, but not exactly rags to riches! It's a sad song, to me. To me it's about poverty, and how corrosive it is, and how the 'dream' is just hard work, and maybe loss too, if you need to leave behind others who understand what it's like to come from poverty.
  9. This happens here as well, with pressure particularly brought to bear on passing full fee paying international students. The people I know who teach in universities are in humanities, though, so perhaps the downstream consequences to this profit-first approach are less immediately troubling.
  10. This. Can we not with the babies?
  11. I'm not going to go looking for the exact number of murdered infants and delve into the world of nit picking over how said infants became murdered/ burned/potentially headless. Because honestly, I don't want to do that to myself.
  12. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/23/israel-shows-footage-of-hamas-killings-to-counter-denial-of-atrocities *One still image from a distance in the link, one video which does not play automatically and all other atrocities described in text only. I think this is another case, though, where those who deny the atrocities will not be convinced by evidence, and those who can be don't need video evidence to know that Hamas are terrorists. The kind of brainwashing that can make men do these things and think they are serving God is terrifying, and I'm sorry, it's more terrifying than vaccine deniers.
  13. This is not the thread I expected! Songs aren't 'girl' or 'boy' songs. People cover other people's songs all the time, they don't have to gender match. I have no idea how people got into the whole lesbians IVF thing. I like the original song, haven't heard the cover, not really interested - the guy is a country singer? Yeah, nah.
  14. Honestly, I think there are no sources at the moment which are not attempting to manipulate in one direction or another. Editorial bias is on very clear display everywhere you look. This 'error' from the NYT, the BBC and other media whose influence rests of a legacy of quality journalism has done irreparable harm, not only to themselves but to the trust readers/listeners/viewers can put in them, or in any media. These are bad times. Journalism has been sidelined for the main game of getting those clicks (media as profit making machine) for quite some time, and in periods of world crisis, we see just how lacking we are.
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