Yeah that’s not going to happen. If we haven’t been able to make any significant inroads on mitigating climate change in the last 20 years, we sure as hell aren’t going to with the rise of strident climate change denier politicians to power all over the world. We are fucked.

I wonder how long it will be before the Supreme Court awards these sock puppet accounts with personhood, just like they did corporations.

“Oh shit, someone revealed the plan that everyone already knew about! Quick, distance ourselves from it!”

“Does that mean we’re no longer doing the plan?”

“Don’t be stupid! Of course we are still doing it! We just don’t admit it!”

I expect Russian media is framing this as part of a grand alliance consisting of the ‘good’ half of the world. Lots of countries. The best countries. Sooo many! You know… Russia, North Korea, Belarus, China (they are soooo close to sending troops guys, we promise!), ‘Chechnyans’… Some Moldovan sycophantic trolls… Umm… Yeah.

• One medal for bootlicking Kim Jong Il
• One medal for bootlicking Kim Jong Un
• One medal for kicking 100 starving peasants
• One medal for siking Trump when Donald tried to shake his hand
• One medal for sending a trash balloon over the border to the South
• One medal for brushing his teeth
• One medal for eating caviar
• One medal for dissing Blackpink
• One medal for being in the choir for this rendition
• One medal for losing the dialup modem passwords
• One medal for finding them
• One medal to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them

Yeah, speaking as someone who grew up in the UK and had South Asian friends, the 80s (and 90s) were bad for racial intolerance and discrimination against minorities. I saw it a lot, along with the same shit directed towards black people. It was definitely a tangible part of the post-colonial culture. It’s still a problem, but it’s nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

Oh, my bad. I must have replied to the wrong comment.

Edit: I misread a word. I read your original comment as “how far right are you”

I know your asking a figurative question not a literal one. But the fact that they are using the Express as a new source tells you all you need to know about their position on the political spectrum.

Also, if the Express is the source of news then that raises some critical thinking concerns.

Oh weird. The deleted comment just made counter assumption that I was referencing a recent incident where IDF forces got dangerously close to a battalion of Irish forces working under the UN to protect the Southern Lebanon border.

My reply to the deleted comment was me confirming that was the incident I was referring to originally.

You are correct. That’s the reference I meant.

ETA: the fact there are multiple incidents of the IDF going after Irish soldiers is kinda crazy.

This man spitting facts. Good man.

When you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail.

If they can’t bomb Irish defense soldiers they’ll get the next best thing.

“FECK! ARSE! GIRLS!”

Well, I didn’t have Israel vs Ireland on my WWIII escalation bingo card.

Article doesn’t say, but I’m assuming they captured him in Ukraine. In which case Russia took someone from a foreign territory they were at war with (they’ve done this so much already that we know it happens) as a prisoner of war. And then sentenced him in one of their internal kangaroo courts.

I’m not a lawyer, but it sounds like they broke a plethora of Geneva Convention provisions. (Again, something we know Russia does a lot.)

I get where they are coming from to a degree - that the Israeli government has not fulfilled it’s obligation to get the hostage home, and that the country on general is becoming increasingly run on religious fervor. But it’s disappointing that the ongoing genocide seems to have little to no part to play in their concerns. There’s millennia of bad blood there and they have been victims of atrocities too, I understand that. But if the murder of innocent people in their name isn’t causing pause for thought, then there’s something seriously wrong. (Same thing goes for every nation or cultural group.)

To expand on what others here have said: no they can’t, and there was a recent article here on Lenny taking about how AI (which I know is different from average bots) has figured out most of the visual captcha types.

But what about the third option??? You know, the circus carnie who pops up every four years, who says she is against both the surgeon and the clown, and who tries to lure people into voting for her because she’s got sass and moxie.

Oh, fair point.