Time for:
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Lol eat shit dollar store knockoff Witcher.
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Who’s ready for more war in the middle east?
If there’s ever a case where the word “terrorism” should be used, this fits.
I’m hoping to translate my years of video games into getting to fly drones if selective service comes back.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not volunteering unless it comes down to that or get drafted and not get my choice of where to be.
Emotional rollercoaster:
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There’s no way this ends without war.
Tonight was the first time I voluntarily turned on fox news. I needed to know what the advisors are telling the president.
Things seem ok for now?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1214739853025394693
https://twitter.com/ShehabAgencyEn/status/1214726538463207424?s=20
Has anyone been following what’s been going on with Carlos Ghosn, the former head of Nissan?
At first, I just thought it was a case of a rich asshole doing rich asshole things and getting arrested for them. Reading a bit more about the whole situation, while he still may be a rich asshole, there seems to be a lot more going on here than I initially thought:
"After his arrest in November 2018, Ghosn says he was kept in a tiny cell in solitary confinement, with lights kept on during the day and night, and faced hours of interrogation without his lawyer being present, a system he called “anachronistic and inhumane” that “violates the most basic principles of humanity.”
Japan’s legal system rests on the right of prosecutors to detain people without charge and subject them to relentless interrogation without the presence of defense counsel until they confess or incriminate themselves, a system criticized as amounting to “hostage justice.”
Suspects must be indicted or charged after 23 days, but Ghosn was simply rearrested on slightly different charges to prolong his detention for more 100 days. He was then released on bail, only to be rearrested when he threatened to hold a news conference inside Japan.
The whole case, he said, was cooked up between Nissan, the Japanese government and prosecutors to prevent closer relations between the Japanese automotive giant and its French partner Renault…
Defense lawyers in Japan complain that prosecutors routinely delay or deny them access to evidence, or even destroy evidence, while leaking damning details to the press, but the country’s Justice Ministry says it sees no need to change the system."
I’m in no way saying he’s innocent of what he’s been accused of, but holding him in solitary confinement for 23 days, releasing him, and then arresting him again on slightly different charges so they could put him back in solitary confinement for another 23 days, rinse repeat for 100 days total, sounds pretty barbaric and unjust to me.
Yes, I’ve been following it because Jake Adelstein is doing a ton of great reporting on it.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/reader-center/editorial-board-explainer.html
the board … has developed a statement of its guiding values, which include:
- Supporting a world order in which “freedom and progress advance through democracy and capitalism”
How much more troll can this get…