Man, that is one trippy historical turn of events.

And as always always always happens in cases like this, there’s no indication that the officers involved were disciplined in any way.

Astonishingly, the attacks of 9/11 had little effect on the Saudi approach to religious extremism, as diplomats and intelligence officials have attested. What finally changed royal minds was the experience of suffering an attack on Saudi soil. In May 2003, gunmen and suicide bombers struck three residential compounds in Riyadh, killing 39 people. The authorities attributed the attacks to al-Qaeda, and cooperation with the U.S. improved quickly and dramatically.

Suspicion: The attack was actually planned and/or executed by the CIA or some US agency you’ve never heard of. RIP, 39 people, but America got the policy cooperation it wanted.

Exactly the truth. Let’s abandon empty labels like ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ Palestine and Israel, and tell the truth. One side is pro-genocide, one side is anti-genocide, and an embarrassingly huge number of people are undecided.

‘Counterprotestors’ seems absolutely and obviously the wrong word.

Cracked me up. Memed and posted. :)

Mississippi, god damn

The AP’s shitty coverage doesn’t even mention that the undercover cop who got severely beaten is black.

Cops beat a black undercover cop at a protest, because he was (a) black and (b) at a protest. Of course, cops routinely beat protesters, especially black protesters, but everyone who’s beaten doesn’t get a fat payout like this. Only cops, and only if they sue.

Nothing Al Gore says is of any importance. Vote.

C’mon, it’s in the Bible.

This ‘attack’ is like the joker in home room ‘attacking’ the teacher with a spitball. It’s nothing much, and certainly nothing “world leaders” need to worriedly respond to.

This is barely news; the headline might as well be ‘Hate group hates’. But jeez, I giggled at the start of the fourth paragraph with, “In its most eagerly anticipated section…” Even among Christians, even among very-very-Christians, is there anyone who “eagerly anticipates” the Vatican’s declarations of doctrine?

You will have no further chance to tell me of your lord and savior’s love.

If the school does nothing, it’s very much in the public interest to prosecute.

Interesting, thanks. The book was also turned into a movie… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4HRihcVYLo

150 years from now, there will not be scientists.

Trumped.

So far as I know, there ain’t squat you can do about abusive mods, but I’ll say this for what little it’s worth:

I’ve been following 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙 for months, one of about twenty Lemmy contributors I seriously appreciate. Always smart, sometimes funny, sometimes pissed off but in a good way. Said WTF out loud when I saw you’d been banned, and I’m glad you’re back, 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙.

It’s a job.

Gaza is like what, 4 square miles?

About 141 square miles.