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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    A couple years ago, I made the point in a different thread that China was occupying Tibet. That it was once an independent country. And Tibetans considered themselves an occupied people. And you pooh poohed this. Anyhow welcome aboard.
    Communism kills.

    Your silence and complicity in its rise to oppose Trump is duly noted

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Communism kills.

    Your silence and complicity in its rise to oppose Trump is duly noted
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    I'm not sure we do.

    As you mock our concerns about the calls for marxism, it's hard to take your concerns about the effects of marxism seriously
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    I love the bravery that is perceived in saying “communism kills”

    Lol

    Yeah

    So does capitalism.

    Capitalism is better than communism

    Of course no one is arguing to implement communism or Marxism here but that doesn’t stop you from acting like that’s the case lol

    I think you should stop acting like you’re the judge on “people being broken”
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    Quote Originally Posted by goldfly View Post
    Of course no one is arguing to implement communism or Marxism here
    except for me
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    Quote Originally Posted by goldfly View Post
    I love the bravery that is perceived in saying “communism kills”

    Lol

    Yeah

    So does capitalism.

    Capitalism is better than communism

    Of course no one is arguing to implement communism or Marxism here but that doesn’t stop you from acting like that’s the case lol

    I think you should stop acting like you’re the judge on “people being broken”
    This is not true.

    BLM is clear.

    Seattle is clear.

    A few members in congress are clear.

    A few local state governments are clear.

    It is not the majority but it is rising.

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    lol, the democrats are communists. Never heard that one before. Its the same **** as Democrats saying Republicans are Nazis. Its like this is the first presidential election some of you have witnessed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    This is not true.

    BLM is clear.

    Seattle is clear.

    A few members in congress are clear.

    A few local state governments are clear.

    It is not the majority but it is rising.
    There will be a time soon where everyone will claim they never supported BLM
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunrevenge View Post
    lol, the democrats are communists. Never heard that one before. Its the same **** as Democrats saying Republicans are Nazis. Its like this is the first presidential election some of you have witnessed.
    Yep

    And before long people will begin claiming Trump is a racist

    Oh wait
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    Weird that the same people in this country that claim trump is a facist say nothing about China performing a cultural genocide.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tomahawking4life View Post
    Yep

    And before long people will begin claiming Trump is a racist

    Oh wait
    Is he not? He’s keeping kids in cages I was told. Obama would never do that. He’s not letting people from Muslim countries into the US. Would Obama ever pull racist acts like these? Trump hasn’t done anything to help the crime and poverty in the inner cities. Obama had thousands of programs to clean up the inner cities and get them thriving. Trump sits by and let’s protestors destroy cities and doesn’t do a thing about that. During Obama’s eight years of law and order, there were no riots or cities burning.

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    American Accused of Blasphemy Is Killed in Pakistan Courtroom

    The American, Tahir Ahmad Naseem, 57, was on trial in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on charges that he had claimed to be a prophet. Mr. Naseem was shot six times on Wednesday by a young man whom the authorities identified only as Faisal, 19, a local resident.

    The killing, in a courtroom at the Peshawar Judicial Complex, drew strong condemnation from the U.S. government.

    “We extend our condolences to the family of Tahir Naseem, the American citizen who was killed today inside a courtroom in Pakistan,” the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs said in a Twitter post on Thursday. “We urge Pakistan to take immediate action and pursue reforms that will prevent such a shameful tragedy from happening again.”

    Mr. Naseem was accused of blasphemy in 2018 on charges that carried penalties ranging from fines to death.

    He had been a member of the Ahmadi sect, which has been declared heretical under the Pakistani Constitution and whose members face repeated persecution. However, representatives said Mr. Naseem had left the sect and had claimed to be the messiah and a prophet.

    Blasphemy is a highly combustible and sensitive subject in Pakistan, with emotions flaring over mere rumors that Islam has been insulted. The government has never executed anyone under blasphemy laws, but people accused of it are often killed by mobs even before the police can take action, rights groups say.

    Soon after the killing of Mr. Naseem, a video of the gunman was widely shared on social media. It showed him sitting on a courtroom bench while being held by police officers, and he is heard saying the Prophet Muhammad told him in a dream to kill Mr. Naseem.

    “He is an enemy of Islam,” the gunman is heard saying of Mr. Naseem. “He is an enemy of Pakistan.”

    Police officials said they were investigating how the attacker managed to bring a gun inside the high-security court compound.

    Rights activists and rights groups have long campaigned against the blasphemy laws, saying they are used to oppress religious minorities and to settle personal feuds.

    But hard-line Islamic religious parties have bitterly opposed moves to amend the laws. Mainstream political leaders acknowledge the misuse of the blasphemy laws, but have mostly caved in to the pressures by religious parties not to change them and have dithered in taking a public stand against them.

    In 2011, Salmaan Taseer, a prominent politician who was then the governor of Punjab Province, had campaigned to change the blasphemy laws, but was fatally shot by his police guard.

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    Another victim of religion. We should really not support these mass cults. Leads to violence and death. Who will think of the chilrun.
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    Beirut go boom
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunrevenge View Post



    Beirut go boom
    proof that BLM is making things worse for people of color
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    China providing Saudi Arabia with technology to process uranium.
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    In his reporting, Urbina comes to realize that “moving freight by sea is much cheaper than by air partly because international waters are so uncluttered by national bureaucracies and unconstrained by rules. That fact has given rise to all manner of unregulated activity.” With overlapping jurisdictions, flags of convenience, and multinational crews, shipowners take full advantage of the legal ambiguities of international shipping. Crew members usually suffer the worst from this ambiguity, something that’s become very evident during the COVID-19 pandemic: According to the International Labor Organization, in June, there were between 150,000 and 200,000 sailors stuck aboard ships, forced to work months beyond the ends of their contracts due to lockdown measures onshore. But the rest of us can suffer from these abuses too in the form of maritime pollution, overfishing, smuggling, and human trafficking.

    The Beirut disaster appears to have been the result of an unusual situation: not only the ship and its crew, but also its cargo were abandoned, and that cargo was then ignited by a Rube Goldberg–like set of circumstances. But the lack of oversight all but guarantees that similar dangers are waiting in storage in other ports around the world.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunrevenge View Post



    Beirut go boom
    this is heart breaking

    great city, spent a bunch of time around that port.
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