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I'm not sure there's really much need to bribe anyone to get out. It's an open border between Ukraine and Poland. I know if the military or the police catch serving age men leaving you'll be in trouble, but I think plenty of people just walked out. Not saying it's not true, as I guarantee there's people profiteering from the situation.

I was thinking something similar. I think we justify the killing of the enemy because we held the belief that they were on the "right" side of the moral argument. It's easier to defend killing people when they represent an aggressive, expansionist nation. One that has declared territory for themselves despite widespread opposition.

First Jimmy Corkhill, now this. And on the back of two very different people who died yesterday, Henry Kissinger and Sticky Vicky.

Turns twitter into a business that advertisers won't condone. Realises isolating his business from the people who will fund it could kill his company. Doubles down anyway. Hmm... Genius. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67574396 In a profanity-laced outburst, Elon Musk has slammed advertisers that have left X, warning they will kill the social media platform. "Go [expletive] yourself," the billionaire said in an interview. "I don't want them to advertise," Mr Musk said at the New York Times' DealBook Summit. "If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go [expletive] yourself"

If he'd killed 15,000 people, largely civilians, I'd call him a murderer.

Rapidly unplanned disassembles.

Ok. Nice posts about the pretty rockets from now on, by weight of popular opinion.

Right. So, the police shot a dog owner, and were given a suspended sentence for shooting a man? Good grammar from the Grauniad.

Is it? I mean, he openly said he wanted twitter to be a free speech zone, and his early actions were to reinstate far right accounts. You can't be a free speech absolutist without accepting the far right will post nazi rhetoric. He bought it to stop the limitations on the far right. I can't see how that's in any way libellous. I

It's already 6/4 favourite. No big winnings here.

I'm sure diving for pearls is something from urban dictionary, but how you'd know his specific kinks I'm not sure.

How did they know it was his? Was his passport in the pocket?

Carry on waging war over the woke flags, fantastic stuff.

Over 200 reactions. Amazing outpouring of affection for one of our own.

That's a load of Tottenham, that is. Yeah, a steaming pile of Hotspur.

I never met him, but I feel I knew him so well. Sad, desperately sad news. Condolences to all who knew and loved him.

There's a certain irony here, posting on a football forum - the iconic activity where thugs tagged along for the violence with no interest in anything else.

But not all sides deserve equal respect. Some sides are crazy. Some sides are biased, unverified and outright ludicrous. You can rule out speaking, listening to and understanding them if they're away with the fairies, or outright biased. The problem with Israel / Palestine is that both sides are biased, both sides use disinformation, and both sides have extremist fringes prepared to outright lie and cheat to garner sympathy with their cause. The two people shown on film not understanding anything about the conflict, I can emphasise in as much as it's impossible to trust any news (that said, they clearly were idiots), because there's so much disinformation it's not sensible to believe much. If mainstream news gets it wrong, I certainly don't want to turn to YouTube and TikTok for the real story. The fringes are definitely involved in those spaces. Unlikely they've infiltrated BBC news and Sky News. Dead tree press are so aligned to politicians it's about on the same level as TikTok for reliability.

What, me, accuse a fellow mod of trolling? No chance.

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Can anyone explain when Armistice Sunday became Armistice Weekend?

Going back to Palestine for a minute. I was thinking about the human shield, about who would kill an innocent civilian. On the one hand you've got people who believe there are no innocent people being killed. They're either terrorists, apologists for terrorists, guilty by association with terrorists or responsible for the terrorist leaders. Whatever justification they have, they've convinced themselves that they don't count as innocent. Guilt is unequivocal, and viewing them as "human animals" means they can be treated with impunity. They don't count as deserving life. On the other hand, there's a group who have weighed up the equation, which holds more value - the life of an unknown number of innocent palestinians, vs the death of a much smaller number of Hamas supporters - and have decided the deaths hold greater value than the lives. Now that speaks to me of their value of those innocent lives.