The inscription was on the casing, not the bullets themselves The side of the casing wont get much “action”, so the sharpie might just stay.

You see, we have serious questions for the suspected war criminals, so we kindly ask them to investigate themselves if they did anything wrong. Well they said they didnt do anything wrong, the little Girl was Khamas. So we send them another delivery of bombs. No need to put them to trial and the ICC is antisemitic for suggesting Israels justice system would not properly investigate and prosecute Israeli war crimes. But which war crimes anyways? Israel said there is not war crimes.

I’ve deeditorilized the headline

Potential reasons to lie about it: Russia helps propping up all sorts of regimes around the world. So to reassure them having Russia as emergency destination is useful. Also the idea that ousted dictators can be killed by their people is not in Putins interest.

Potential reasons not to present him yet: Assad surely will not look presentable right now, having fled the country on a whim. See first point. Also Russia wants to negotiate with the following governmemt to keep its military bases. Having pictures of Assad waving into the camera as he steps out of his plane in Moscow would make the Syrian public more hostile towards that.

They used to be at 3-4% in 2019-2020. Holy hell, you are at almost 7% now. Let me reprhase then: the US is a scam. 7% on a 30 year mortgage means you pay about 40% interest in total on the loan amount.

7% is a scam. You wouldnt buy a house on 7% interest rates. And an education seems to be a safer investment. Especially for the government that should have an interest in education to drive the economy.

It is a turkish outlet, so probably aligned with Erdogan. Unfortunately i couldnt find any english article by more mainstream western media. Zionists terrorising Europe seems to be an unpopular topic, especially after the narrative branding violent thugs as victims in Amsterdam backfired.

American student loans are a scam anyways. The interest rates are outrageous and the federal government subsidizing them, but then they get handled by private businesses in a system know for failure and fraud.

Student loan forgiveness shouldnt be a thing. It shows that the system is trash to begin with and the “forgiveness” remains arbitrary and is just a carrot on a stick.

Make a system where the loans are granted directly by the government and dont incurr interest. No for profit skimming middleman, no permanent debt. Offer a regulated bonus for people who pay back X% before Y years pass, so people are incentivized to pay back quickly, rather than delaying payback.

More importantly remove the outrageous enrollment costs per semester.

Excludes rejected insurance claims for lost limbs already.

Minority groups in Aleppo welcomed them and said they feels safe. Whether this will last has yet to manifest, but probably the main dividing line would be Sunni-Shia.

Also protection of minorities is a fundamental islamic value. People like Daesh bastardize Islam.

In a report this week, the institute found that of the top 10 most-engaged posts on X about the shooting on Wednesday, six “either expressed explicit or implicit support for the killing or denigrated the victim.” The dynamic is similar to the discourse that often emerges after a mass shooting on websites like 4chan and 8chan, where perpetrators of extreme violence become memes themselves, Mr. Goldenberg said, “but what’s disturbing about this is it’s mainstream.”

Get fucked neo-liberal media. What an isane gaslighting comparision. This was a targeted assasination. Are you now afraid that people direct their anger at the sources of it, rather than the peasants killing each other?

US backed Sisi in Egypt isnt better. Western backed factions in Libya arent better. Saudi Arabia isnt better, Iran isnt better.

Who outside forces align with for their interests isnt a reflection of whether a leader is a tyrant or not. It is just bullshit peddled to pretend the tyrants supported by “our side” are somehow less tyrannical because they give us cheap ressources and allow their countries to be used as military staging areas.

Down with all the tyrants and power to the people!

I disagree.

The German narrative revolves heavily around creating some idea of a shared “Judeo-Christian” cultural history in opposition to the “Islamization” by evil Arabs. It goes as far as trying to shif the blame for the holocaust and German antisemitism onto Arabs, ignoring the millenia of christian antisemitism in Europe and the prosperity and safety of Jews under muslim rule during the same time.

One of the core narratives of Israel is the claim they are coming back to land supposedly theirs and stolen from them by the Palestinians. But the reality is that the people never left. They became Christian and later Muslim, some stayed Jews.

So who gets to decide what was “outside propaganda” grave enough to not recognise an election result? Will this be a general criteria or just a convienent selectively enforced one?

Because if this is a general criteria, next time Russia just needs to make propaganda for the strongest party and have the court annule the result and redo the election infinitely.

If it is only selectively enforced, it is just undemocratic and a measure by the current rulers to abolish democracy. Think about people like Orban just claiming there was too much foreign propaganda for the opposition.

Finally from a democratic theory point of view it doesnt work. Either every vote has the same value and you have a democracy. Or there is arbitrary decisions on whose vote is worthless because they were too dumb to fall for foreign propaganda, effectively removing the fairness and freedom of the vote.

Also these measures dont address the route cause. If the propaganda can get people to elect someone it can get them to do other things, like revolting, sabotage, violent crime… You need to address the propaganda channels and psychological attack angles.

I am not so sure about this.

The people who made their opinion based on tiktok will be pissed off. The article mentions no proof of rigging or other direct interference with the voting process itself. This is a huge problem for democracy, if the image is that only the candidates approved by the court are allowed to be elected and unfavorable election results get annulled. And Russia will play this angle heavily.

Unless there is specific evidence of the voting process itself being rigged, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. Then Russia could even get a civil war in an EU country out of it rather than just a pro-Russian candidate winning.

it is also a genius strategy for a country that relies heavily on trade, having two of the largest ports of Europe, to close itself off from the rest of Europe.

While Russia “helps” with destabilization, the failure of Neoliberal politics all across the world is the inevitable outcome of Neoliberal politics themselves. Problem is as they go out the Neoliberals make sure, that the can is kicked down the road to their fascist friends, rather than making space for progressive politics

They have been brainwashed to believe the entire world is antisemitic and out to get them. Evidence to the contrary, like the insane amount of support they received from the US, UK, Germany and others is conveniently ignored.

Noticed how immediately after October 7 they ramped up claims of antisemitism supposedly being a huge problem on college campuses? Evidence to the contrary is ignored. Jews partaking in protest against Israels genocide are ousted and declared to be traitors or “not really jewish” while being beaten up by the police and far right thugs. So actual attacks on Jews are ignored, while imagined attacks on Jews are peddled as narrative.

The goal is to tie all Jews in the world in with Israel and to make all Jews outside of Israel unsafe, so Israel can claim its right to existence as “only safe place for Jews in the world.” Jews outside Israel evidently being far more safe, both from non Jewish attacks and from Jewish fascists, is a danger to Israels core narrative.

350m is definetely going to make a strong impact.

The Tunguska Asteroid was expected to be 50-60m in width https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

And that released 3 - 50 Megatons of energy. For reference the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had about 20 kilotons. So about a one thousands of that. The greatest man made explosion, the sowjet Tsar bomb had about 50 Megatons of energy.

A 350m asteroid has about 7 times that length and probably at least three times the diameter. So we are looking at an impact with the mass of at least 50x that, so 150 - 2500 Megatons. If that hits central Europe the immediate blast would probably kill a few hundred million people.