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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #12903 on: November 02, 2022, 02:08:35 PM »
Bolsonaro isn't challenging the election but people just aren't happy the left put the corrupt communist in office again considering how things went last time.

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1587859827417665548
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« Reply #12905 on: November 02, 2022, 03:09:33 PM »
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Revealed: Migrant centre petrol bomber was Joker-obsessed, far-Right-supporting cannabis smoker, 66, who had battled bouts of mental illness 'since his son died after Covid jab and he lost his penis to cancer'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11379761/Migrant-centre-petrol-bomber-Joker-obsessed-far-Right-supporting-cannabis-smoker.html

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« Reply #12907 on: November 02, 2022, 04:28:53 PM »
https://twitter.com/JamWaterhouse/status/1587762066823303172

Crazy to see that diplomacy has been outsourced to Erdogan of all people.
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« Reply #12908 on: November 02, 2022, 04:31:07 PM »
I'm sorry I cannot read Erdogan without picturing a little cartoon character named Ergo Dan
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« Reply #12912 on: November 03, 2022, 02:10:57 AM »
It's Brazil...they're probably second generation Nazis
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« Reply #12913 on: November 03, 2022, 11:04:09 AM »
Still laughing at Bolsonaro pretending to be a strong man for years and then folding like a little snowflake

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Years of sucking up to the military and when we calls in the coup they say "nah we good with the 76 year old commie"
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« Reply #12914 on: November 03, 2022, 11:14:15 AM »
Ukraine thanks Germany for Gepard and Iris

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1587738320477503489

and asks for Leopard tanks.
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« Reply #12915 on: November 04, 2022, 02:28:35 AM »
Brazil went commie
CIA you know what to do

Lula was responsible for the flourishing of a middle class when he was last in office. Yes, corruption, I suspect any government will expose roaches and pillbugs when the carpet is pulled up.

Very glad Brazil got rid of Bolsonaro.
"[Da Silva] won 50.83 percent of the votes, versus Mr. Bolsonaro’s 49.17 percent"
(NYT)

Amazing that despite everything so many people still voted for Bolsonaro, aka one of the biggest morons ever to be elected president of anything.
Wanna bet he's going to pull a Former Guy next and claim he was cheated?
Bolsonaro has already ceded victory, according to the News. Trump was still claiming victory even as the eviction squad showed up to fumigate the White House.

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« Reply #12916 on: November 04, 2022, 02:48:01 AM »
Yes, surprising. After claiming for months there'd be fraud he decided not to go that way after all. Maybe Bolsonaro saw that there was no benefit in it; after all Trump did not get reinstated, he just further damaged US democracy. Bolsonaro probably thinks he has a better chance of making a comeback later on by not acting like a sore loser now.
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« Reply #12917 on: November 04, 2022, 03:34:11 AM »
Or maybe the whole idea was a figment of the lefties' imagination?
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« Reply #12918 on: November 04, 2022, 04:22:51 AM »
Come on now.

"Since his 2018 election victory, Bolsonaro has made baseless allegations of voter fraud in Brazil, which critics say could lay the groundwork to challenge upcoming elections in the same vein as his political idol, former U.S. President Donald Trump."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-says-he-wont-hand-over-presidency-if-there-is-vote-fraud-2021-07-01/

"Meanwhile, Bolsonaro has been pushing baseless lies about the integrity of the election for months, wrongly stating that voting machines in the country cannot be trusted to deliver a true outcome. On Sunday, after polling lower than da Silva in the election’s first round, Bolsonaro claimed without evidence that election administrators had rigged the outcome.

“They took sides. They have a candidate for president,” Bolsonaro said. “Or at least there’s one they don’t want, which is me.”
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https://truthout.org/articles/bolsonaro-pushes-brazenly-false-claims-of-election-fraud-after-first-round-loss/

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #12919 on: November 04, 2022, 05:34:20 AM »
Yet his actions say otherwise. Until he disputes the result, the accusation is baseless.
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« Reply #12920 on: November 04, 2022, 08:20:35 AM »
Are you kidding me?
I quoted his own words above. He has been spreading baseless lies about election fraud supposedly targeting him for several years, and did so again after the first round of the cuerrent presidential election, disputing its legitimacy. Those were his actions. The distribution of lies. He just decided to back down now, for whatever reason.
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« Reply #12921 on: November 04, 2022, 08:21:39 AM »
Making a prediction based on evidence of past history doesn't make it baseless or a figment of one's imagination just because the prediction turned out wrong. 

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« Reply #12922 on: November 04, 2022, 01:29:09 PM »
Bolsonaro was never going to challenge the election outcome. He spend most of his presidency in a hospital bed.  :lol

His presidency had the intended outcome because after decades of one-party rule Bolsonaro turned a one-man show into a viable opposition party.
Lula has won the presidency but only has the support of a single region. He's boxed in and will have to make deals with others unlike during his previous terms.
The commie grandpa act while taking bribes from oil and construction companies isn't going to work this time.
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« Reply #12923 on: November 04, 2022, 01:31:11 PM »
In more heartwarming news, Netanyahu is back (soon) baby :fbm
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« Reply #12924 on: November 04, 2022, 01:35:14 PM »
His presidency had the intended outcome because after decades of one-party rule

Nintex, your account is more amusing when you dont lie.


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Calling Brazil one party rule when theres like 100 parties flipping and flopping constantly is peek idiocy


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« Reply #12925 on: November 04, 2022, 01:50:22 PM »
This is a great documentary on the subject



Lula simply struck a deal with the people already in control and that would come back to haunt him when the anime betrayal happened.
After Bolso was elected he did not 'join' the existing parties as a puppet of the existing elite like everyone (including this documentary maker) expected but instead started his own party.

In more heartwarming news, Netanyahu is back (soon) baby :fbm

https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1588342772876316672
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« Reply #12926 on: November 05, 2022, 01:50:53 PM »
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« Reply #12927 on: November 05, 2022, 05:00:50 PM »
Here's an interesting article on why right wing election fraud lies did not succed in Brazil:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/world/americas/brazil-election-us-democracy.html

A Brazilian supreme court judge led an aggressive campaign against misinformation, and it worked.
Unless modern clown-show "conservatives" are allowed to lie with impunity, they can not win elections.
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« Reply #12928 on: November 06, 2022, 08:15:03 AM »
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« Reply #12929 on: November 06, 2022, 01:23:29 PM »
If it was the Russians, you know they would probably just send them to the front.
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« Reply #12931 on: November 07, 2022, 01:25:53 PM »
Sunak rushed out of a climate conference

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« Reply #12932 on: November 07, 2022, 03:51:45 PM »
Sunak rushed out of a climate conference



Related to another Suella Braverman gaffe no doubt.

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« Reply #12933 on: November 08, 2022, 08:14:01 PM »
https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japanese-gov%27t-seeking-power-to-turn-down-private-home-air-conditioners-remotely-report-says

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For a large part of the year, the weather in Japan is far from comfortable. Winters are cold, and summers are hot and humid.

Those seasons could become even less comfortable, though, if a new plan from the Japanese government goes through. As reported by Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun, in a meeting on Nov 2, the Energy Conservation Subcommittee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry resolved to begin working group discussions with the aim of gaining the ability to remotely turn down privately owned air conditioner/heater units. The goal would be to decrease energy usage during expected power shortages, which the committee feels are a growing concern as Japan attempts to shift towards renewable energy sources such as solar power, where the amount generated can be affected by day-to-day climate, making it difficult to stabilize the amount of total power available. The ministry says that AC unit usage accounts for roughly 30 percent of household electricity consumption in Japan.

From a technical standpoint, the plan wouldn’t be particularly difficult to implement. Japanese air conditioner units have long had remote controls, so external inputs aren’t a problem, and many models now allow the owner to turn the system on and off or adjust temperature settings through the internet. By asking manufacturers to extend such access to government regulatory organizations, and granting those organizations override functions over other inputs, the plan could easily be put into practice for internet-connected AC units, and water heaters are another home appliance the committee is looking to gain the ability to throttle back.

Winning over the minds of the public, though, isn’t likely to be as easy, as Twitter reactions to the news attest to.

“Creepy.”

“Are they crazy?”

“Playing God.”

“That’s the sort of idea you’d only come up with if you aren’t right in the head.”

“I’m glad the AC unit I just bought isn’t internet-connected.”

“Another great government idea.”

“Hey, government, isn’t it your job to make sure the power grid can support us?”

“So they’ll stop doing this when people start dying, right?”

The last comment might sound like hyperbole, but heatstroke deaths aren’t uncommon in Japan, with a heat wave a while back killing 79 people in Tokyo alone. According to Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the committee is currently working under the concept that the government would only be able to turn down AC units if their individual owners have agreed, in advance, to grant that authority.

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« Reply #12934 on: November 08, 2022, 09:08:12 PM »
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According to Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the committee is currently working under the concept that the government would only be able to turn down AC units if their individual owners have agreed, in advance, to grant that authority.
:jeanluc Those are the citizens we can trust, it's the others who we clearly need the power over.

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« Reply #12935 on: November 08, 2022, 09:36:59 PM »
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Ukrainian and Western officials say Russia’s stocks of precision-guided missiles and drones have run low, prompting it to turn to Iran. A spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force said on Monday that Moscow and Tehran had finalized an agreement to deliver Iranian Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar ballistic missiles to Russia
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Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate, has said delivery of Iranian missiles could happen by the end of November. “It’s a serious threat because Iranian missiles, unlike Russian ones, are quite high-precision, very high-speed, and those features have been battle-proven,”
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Ukraine has been asking Western countries for systems that can shoot down ballistic missiles, which travel at several times the speed of sound, making them much harder to hit in flight than cruise missiles or slow-moving drones. General Budanov referred to the possibility of weapons that could strike missile launch sites, but the United States and others have been reluctant to give Ukraine the means to hit targets inside Russia, which the Kremlin has warned would be a dangerous escalation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/world/europe/ukraine-russia-iran-missiles.html

Good thing that Russia buying Iranian ballistic missiles is not a dangerous escalation.
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« Reply #12936 on: November 09, 2022, 11:22:34 AM »
Russia announced they are abandoning Kherson and retreating across the river today.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-orders-pullout-west-bank-dnipro-kherson-2022-11-09/

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« Reply #12937 on: November 09, 2022, 11:46:08 AM »
Russia announced they are abandoning Kherson and retreating across the river today.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-orders-pullout-west-bank-dnipro-kherson-2022-11-09/

The Democrat wave extended around the world

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« Reply #12939 on: November 09, 2022, 03:00:52 PM »


2022 the year of fucking around and finding out.

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1590333315034525697

He died in a car accident... when his car drove through a window on top of a 20-story building.

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« Reply #12940 on: November 09, 2022, 07:20:19 PM »
I've seen pictures of the car. If that was an accident he had a collision with a ballistic missile.  :doge

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1590386047070130176
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« Reply #12941 on: November 10, 2022, 07:02:08 PM »
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1590851151679074306
Russian TV presenter explains to his audience why both positions for supporting/opposing the withdrawal from Kherson can result in a prison sentence.

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1590818260504973313
The withdrawal is not going well.  Apparently Russia tried to reach some sort of agreement with the US about their troops leaving the area but Ukraine is like 'fuck that' and started moving in on the Russians and since most bridges and crossings are destroyed a significant number of Russian troops are stuck.
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« Reply #12942 on: November 11, 2022, 12:02:41 AM »
What does Darth Sidious have to say about it?

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« Reply #12943 on: November 11, 2022, 02:39:21 AM »
The last order given to paratroopers:
"Put on civilian clothing and fucking run in any direction you want."

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1590450308119158786
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« Reply #12944 on: November 12, 2022, 10:54:21 AM »




Dugin is livid that Putin has given up what he calls a "Russian city" he calls for Putin to be killed and a dictatorship to be instated.
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« Reply #12946 on: November 12, 2022, 07:28:18 PM »
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« Reply #12947 on: November 12, 2022, 07:52:48 PM »
Lol, "supreme leader"!!! Just call him Tsar Vladimir and be done with it you pussy.
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« Reply #12950 on: November 15, 2022, 02:02:05 PM »
EVERYONE IN YOUR BUNKER

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« Reply #12951 on: November 15, 2022, 02:12:11 PM »
ww3 cuz some drunk in the russian military fucked up the co-ordinates slightly :rash
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« Reply #12953 on: November 15, 2022, 02:37:43 PM »
Russia just shot themselves in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Polish culture (I'm an expert),
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« Reply #12954 on: November 15, 2022, 02:45:22 PM »
ELON MUSK SAVE US
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« Reply #12956 on: November 15, 2022, 03:02:09 PM »
There's not gonna be any Nato reaction. Russia will probably have to pay restitution for the damage, and that's it.
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« Reply #12957 on: November 15, 2022, 03:21:26 PM »


There's not gonna be any Nato reaction. Russia will probably have to pay restitution for the damage, and that's it.
Maybe not NATO but attacking Poland comes at your own risk.

Russia has ultra-nationalists, Poland is ultra-nationalist.
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« Reply #12958 on: November 15, 2022, 03:33:30 PM »
So what?
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« Reply #12959 on: November 15, 2022, 06:33:35 PM »
Poland has confirmed the missile attack and summoned the Russian ambassador, Russia media is talking about how this is another false flag from Ukraine or the US or Liz Truss or whatever else.

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1592654504859959296

Poland has also confirmed that their military is in a state of combat readiness.

The Polish position seems to be that Russia should admit it made a mistake and Putin should apologize and in that case some sort of agreement can be reached.
Denial and disinformation however is not going to be tolerated. In that case they will consider it a deliberate act that will require a military response.
It would not surprise me if this leads to a no-fly zone of sorts.

If no action is taken once again Russia has succesfully moved the boundaries and has shown that NATO will not defend its territory.
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