General News Thread

[Mcjon01]

So if Trump's taxes ever came out it would tank his evangelical support? Weird

[Twelveseal]

Somehow, I doubt it.

Also, seems like the Philippines are about to lose the right to criticize their government without being labeled as terrorists in a country known for extrajudicial killings by police and the military...

Link here.

[Kamera]

the guy that came up with the term "terrorist" must be rotting in hell right now

[Twelveseal]

It is an overly-convenient label.

[aldeayeah]

Horror writers should appropriate it.

[Ratman]

Yeah, no idea what the issue is, Terror only kills non-black creatures. Can't destroy objects either.

[Twelveseal]

Looks like the UK is willing to start taking Hong Kong refugees from the new law, claiming it violates the treaty that handed the city back over to China. Wonder how much of a difference it'll make. And what, if anything, it suggests might happen between the two countries.

[aldeayeah]

it violates the treaty that handed the city back over to China

Well it does, China was supposed not to engage jackboot mode until nearly 2050 IIRC.

[rxrx]

Looks like the UK is willing to start taking Hong Kong refugees from the new law, claiming it violates the treaty that handed the city back over to China. Wonder how much of a difference it'll make. And what, if anything, it suggests might happen between the two countries.

Believe it or not, China is going to welcome this. Why keep these people if they are going to go against CCP anyway? Them leaving willingly is much better than the CCP disappearing them, and the lost population can be easily replaced by allowing mainland immigrants. Opposition loses their claim once they leave their region of influence, just like how the student leaders of Tiananmen did. In addition, what is going to happen to UK is also a problem. Part of the reason why they refuse to take in HK people as 97 arrives is due to the fear of votes. I guess there is no need for this fear now as they are all anti-Chinese.

[Mattias]

Sure enough, a leader of a world power being an occultist only serves to showcase they're not fit for their position, because they are not relying on firm concepts in their thought.

I'd normally agree but Canada's longest serving Prime Minister (21 years over three decades) was huge into the occult. Held seances to talk yo his dead mother, claimed to have communed with great thinkers of the past, the whole shebang. The guy lead the country for half the Depression and through WWII. And the public only found out after his death when his journals got made public. He's also regularly thought of as one of the greatest leaders our country has had.

[rxrx]

Ha, so they are now trying to blame Floyd George's death on COVID-19.

[Kamera]

the irony that most protesters chanting "i can't breath" likely would develop respiratory infection in the next few weeks

[rxrx]

the irony that most protesters chanting "i can't breath" likely would develop respiratory infection in the next few weeks

Bunker boy says it's just a flu.

[aldeayeah]

I'd normally agree but Canada's longest serving Prime Minister (21 years over three decades) was huge into the occult. Held seances to talk yo his dead mother, claimed to have communed with great thinkers of the past, the whole shebang. The guy lead the country for half the Depression and through WWII. And the public only found out after his death when his journals got made public. He's also regularly thought of as one of the greatest leaders our country has had.

Isaac Newton is the traditional poster boy for being a brilliant, enlightnened, rational thinker and a complete kook at the same time.

[AsGryffynn]

Granted, a lot of it also seems to be rooted in a Calvinistic belief that if you're rich, it's because God loves you, and if God loves you you must be spiritually pure, so...

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Basically, there are precious few things as pathetic as the middle class' worship of the type of money and power it will never have.

People worshipping money is as old as sin itself. Hell, Brazil (and Latam... and Iberia too) are living proof of it.

[asterism42]

[Twelveseal]

More and more we look like what was once our enemy. This is disgusting if accurate.

[Reign]

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New York continues to be handling this really really badly.

[Twelveseal]

I honestly don't understand why this was considered a good idea. This just gives the protesters one more thing to be pissed about. Not only does this give them more reason to be violent, it makes the judge in question a target for retaliation.

[Namelesss]

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New York continues to be handling this really really badly.

Ah, yes that will fix everything!

Totally not us fixing from the inside.