Reports this morning he’s already approached them through Italian mediators for a ceasefire
I don’t know who he is but I have heard of this happening from a number of other sources. I understand you’re trying to clear up one source, but I am more concerned with the actual happening.
I’m not beholden to any source.
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Yeah, I am just saying that he is a big fan of starving people to death and eliminating rebels by gassing their neighbourhoods, killing thousands of civilians in the process.
Point is, I want people, including you, to know what kind of man he is (i.e. a hardcore Assadist).
Not for a moment did I think you were “beholden” to him in any sort of way. But I followed the Syrian civil war since 2011 and Richard Medhurst is rather infamous in that context. I don’t really care that much about his pro Russia stance and his support of the Russian invasion. His glorification as well as denial of the worst war crimes of the Syrian Civil War takes priority when it comes to that.
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His base doesn’t care. The cowards in his party won’t care. The media his fellow billionaires bought will gloss over it.
Edit: Reply moved to US Politics thread.
Didn’t it get posted somewhere that they’re planning to seize control of the elections from certain states under false pretences? Pretty sure that means they don’t care already. People are not paying attention. The whole ICE thing is a rehearsal for a complete seizure of power. When it comes down to judiciary vs military, only one is going to win.
I wasn’t sure where to put this, but I thought it was relevant to this thread:
The Rest Is Entertainment is a podcast from Gary Lineker’s podcast firm and discusses behind the scenes of the entertainment industry.
The first half of this podcast is about the whole industry of Dubai based Influencers. It’s not something that I have ever really been interested in, but it is a bit of an eye opener to see how state sponsored the whole enterprise is. It also makes me think even less of those who choose to take a fistful of UAE funded dollars and slag off London, the UK, and other nations that they have left.
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I wanted to watch it. I do enjoy Marina’s columns in the Grauniad, but sorry say just can’t get past Osman. He’s everywhere these days and I find him really annoying.
Yeah, why is he doing podcasts now??? He should get back to writing, the lazy sod.
Been to a Dubai a number of times.
It’s basically a Disneyland-type concept, done over an entire city. If you avert your eyes you can keep enjoying it.
But if you look at how the “help” live you’d be put off by it. The whole apparatus relies on poorly treated and poorly remunerated labour from south and southeast Asian countries.
Remember the Qatar World Cup construction deaths? Think in similar vein.
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Dubai is pretty okay if you are an Indian IT worker.
But if you are from the labour class. Then yeah. Not good
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