[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh, I got an idea. Let's bomb the shit out of them, including a bunch of weddings, reinvade, and install another heroin kingpin as President.

Look, the Taliban is shit and these stories are truly horrific, but where was the coverage of Afghanistan the last 10 years?

Whenever I read these stories, all I see, aside from the obvious human misery and evil, is a media class that is continually trying to rewrite history to somehow justify the failure that was the 20 year occupation, and discredit the withdrawal.

I hope this woman gets justice and I hope things improve for women in Afghanistan. But I also want the Western audiences not to be the blinded by the sinister intent that is behind a lot of the Western Afghanistan media coverage.

Not because they should dismiss this women's story, or those like hers, but so they don't forget what a failure the NATO adventure in Afghanistan was. So they don't believe that the next war, should go on forever, or that expeditionary military force and occupation can be used to improve women's rights.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 118 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Intentionally misleading headline, but not technically incorrect.

These are designed to carry troops through an irradiated battle space and keep them safe from the fallout. At least while they're inside and the filtration systems are functioning properly.

That doesn't mean they were magically enhanced to be impervious to antimaterial weapons, or other types of kinetic damage that happen in combat.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You should really read up on how they operate.

Here's just one hypothetical based off available reporting, court cases, and leaked documents:

Artist A has a history of performing at independent Portland venues but also tours the country and therefore has to use LN venues and TM services.

When LN opens their Portland location, Artist A will have to either start using the LN venue, or find that the rest of their tour has suddenly run into financial issues with LN pricing and rebate schemes.

So Artist A switches to Portland LN venue, and magically those issues start to go away.

And that's just the artist side, LN pulls variations of this monopoly abuse with local venues who refuse to Ticket Master, or sign with LN.

I'm not even doing their criminal behavior justice and the real examples are significantly worse then what I quickly typed out. This will only harm artists, local venues, and Portland, if allowed.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 55 points 5 months ago

Well...those were mugshots taken after their arrests on murder charges... wouldn't it be even more disturbing if they were smiling and cheerful?

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is a genuinely heart wrenching read. I look forward to more reporting, but this is type of story where digging too deep may result in a hit and run "accident", or straight up car bombing.

They don't go into too many details, but it sounds like hospital staff were paid to abduct the infants and tell parents their newborns died.

Given how widespread it was, I assume it was a system of brokers who paid off the staff, took the infants, and then acted as go-betweens for the agencies selling the babies for adoption.

That's entirely speculation on my part. I hope they can dig deeper into this and bring some level accountability for the sake of those families.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago

What do you think a blockade does...? What do you think siege warfare does...?

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 85 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He's unironically a cuck. After all of Trump's personal attacks and humiliation, Ron went full TED CRUZZZZZZ and immediately got on his knees and started slobbing on Trump's golden knob.

What a big dumb baby.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 67 points 6 months ago

They did, that's why they hid.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You don't get hopped up on Ketamine, that's for the comedown.

You get stimmed up on amphetamines, and then take the edge off with downers.

The way he's slurring his words, I'd guess benzodiazapines (Xanax, Valium, etc.)

But I'm sure he's taking Ketamine as well, and probably mixing up quite a few daily cocktails with who knows what else.

His dumbass is probably doing a bunch of RC's to top it all off.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There was a lot of poor choices working in concert to allow this accident to even happen, but based off the article there was nothing maliciously stupid, or grossly negligent in the context of rural southern AZ.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 51 points 7 months ago

Well, how else should we punish children for...peeing in public? Should we beat them? No, that's inhumane. Clearly the right answer is...checks notes... separate them from their families and stick them in a cage.

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 56 points 8 months ago

You'll be hot as fuck in your home, and then a woman will just turn the AC off and complain about how cold she is

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