Running low? Didn’t we all see them fail at an unprecedented rate? I’d bet it’s more likely they’re looking to replace some vulnerable units without announcing they’ve been compromised

If the headline used Netanyahu’s quote about preventing the “Second Holocaust” all the readers would get a little cognitive dissonance

Also, doesn’t this direct attack give Russia the ability to go “scorched earth”? I do not want them to but, international law-wise, does this not count for anything?

In this situation it’s going to be more about diplomacy and international views than international law. Like, notice this was apparently happening around the prison swap and before that much-vaunted Russian escalation via drones? Meaning the last few days of news about how Russia attacked even while negotiating towards peace are bupkis; the effect is going to be to minimize the level of acceptable retaliation by tricking people into thinking there’s nothing to retaliate against.

What problems would be solved by making it so that you are unlikely to ever know more than a couple hundred people?

So, they were “surprised” not to find a slowdown toward the end of observation period, for obvious reasons of the ongoing pandemic linked to dementia presentation and progression. They have some explanation for this about the long onset, but just demographically, isn’t it also likely that killing off many of the people most likely to get a dementia diagnosis made a difference? I feel like they missed that thread.

We need to reform the mass-deportation machine, not abolish it! Better training and more funding for those responsible will solve this. What we need is an error-free torment nexus to keep a permanent underclass and manage their population, and the Republicans are just too incompetent to deliver that.

really curious what type of person will fall for the bargain “what if we give you extra rights tied to your job, then take away your normal rights when you get sacked!” I imagine the most strident defenders won’t be the ones covered under this; anyone concerned about the working class as a whole won’t be impressed compared to the cuts from this government. I was gonna say maybe a few craven trade-unionists would get on board, but the only one quoted is a Labour peer and even he’s not impressed.

so I’m wondering who really digs hearing about it, the target audience. in the US, part of the pipeline to the right for young people has been a hollowed-out appreciation for the aesthetics of organizing, post-Bernie 2016. would play great with them. but I don’t know any analogous target audiences in the UK?

I mean, it’s not like he’s gonna say “Actually, I’ve been really stupid and we locked in permanently shorter lifespans and a total collapse of empire, you’re all going to die in the fascist project we absorbed, coddled, furthered, and deliberately handed power. Check out my new song about the Berlin wall”

I can’t understand how you’d need a citation for all of those. It seems some parts of your position rely on them happening, maybe on interpreting them differently, but are you really calling every single point there into question? I guess here’s a handful of sources slopped out about it.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/07/21/you-dont-exist/arbitrary-detentions-enforced-disappearances-and-torture-eastern https://www.crisisgroup.org/content/conflict-ukraines-donbas-visual-explainer https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-ukraine

I’m not surprised by the effort, but I am surprised that this is technically allowed. You’d think the Dems would have just made the CIA director Speaker or Senate VP instead of doing it through Nancy and Schumer. Must be an optics thing.

“We just want a clear answer, yes or no,”

So… DID you participate in genocide?

I mean, if Putin actually ended up being exactly as evil as he is now, but with more following what North America and Europe say (as was originally expected when backing his power-grabs) I’m pretty sure Canada would still have done this. Post-Cold War, there was a long while there where they were all happy to help the anti-communist Yeltsin protege take over and consolidate power, there would have been no reason to hide from a Russian foreign policy perspective. I’d guess it probably has more to do with connections across defense and industry developed by the Nazis taken in, like how it was with the US, plus Canada’s special relationship with Ukrainian cultural groups in the country.

this is Trump’s fault

Americans are not at fault for our reactionary positions and viewpoints. It’s because of Foreigners, especially those from the mysterious orient. They brought the scourge of racism to our door even after we fixed racism for all time in 2008

Beware of the miasma that spills forth from litter. Makes ya ill, see? Clogs up the social body or something

Wrong way around. It’s the national security types in the White House that are claiming to believe in aliens. The Trumpers think it’s all demons beaming woke ideas into the brains of the youth

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the most complex and sensitive particle physics experiment ever constructed. If it hasn’t found evidence for “dark matter” or “cosmic strings”, some billion-dollar camera you stick in space is not gonna do it either.

As always, things will focus more on vibes and credentialism than critical thinking, because conspiracy theories are a mainstay of all the ‘serious’ papers and conspiracy itself is just how power has functioned for the last few centuries