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Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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Do you ever go back and reread your own posts and find yourself wondering how the hell you managed to say the words that you said? ( kbin.social )

Like sometimes I'll make a post and I go back and I reread it and I'm like somebody way smarter than me wrote this, and sometimes I'll go back and reread it and wonder how the fuck was I so stupid as to write this?...

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Sometimes I'm surprised by how eloquent I can sound.

I'm rarely surprised by how stilted and incoherent I can sound. I'm used to that.

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But let’s not blow air up [Russia's] asshole.

That seems to be the favorite pastime of a concerning number of people on here, though.

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Pegging is anal penetration via strap-on

"Sliding into your DMs (direct messages)" is a term meaning "to message someone" usually with the implication of flirtatiousness or the like.

A Dungeon Master, one who runs a game of Dungeons and Dragons, is often called a DM.

Thus 'sliding into your DMs' also fits pegging a dungeon master.

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Nothing happened, but anyone involved with nothing happening is a security threat.

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The pyramids were built by well paid craftsmen.

Designed, certainly. But constructed by peasant corvée.

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If not slaves, then who were these workers? Lehner's friend Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, who has been excavating a "workers' cemetery" just above Lehner's city on the plateau, sees forensic evidence in the remains of those buried there that pyramid building was hazardous business. Why would anyone choose to perform such hard labor? The answer, says Lehner, lies in understanding obligatory labor in the premodern world. "People were not atomized, separate, individuals with the political and economic freedom that we take for granted. Obligatory labor ranges from slavery all the way to, say, the Amish, where you have elders and a strong sense of community obligations, and a barn raising is a religious event and a feasting event. If you are a young man in a traditional setting like that, you may not have a choice." Plug that into the pyramid context, says Lehner, "and you have to say, 'This is a hell of a barn!'"

Lehner currently thinks Egyptian society was organized somewhat like a feudal system, in which almost everyone owed service to a lord. The Egyptians called this "bak." Everybody owed bak of some kind to people above them in the social hierarchy.

That's literally corvée.

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Okay, great, I see our argument is "Words don't matter, corvee isn't corvee, unskilled labor isn't unskilled labor; because they lived in a barracks and were fed well".

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How does that describe pyramid workers?

unpaid

forced labour

intermittent

imposed by a state

for the purposes of public works

I'm not seeing the unskilled Egyptian workers we're talking about here miss any of these criteria.

What do you think 'obligatory labor' in the context of a 'feudal'-like system for the Pharaoh by commoners on a massive construction project is exactly?

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They were unpaid because Egypt didn’t have the concept of currency.

You don't need currency to be paid.

They weren’t forced, they volunteered their services.

That's not what 'obligatory labor' means.

All work in Egypt was intermittent due to Nile floods.

Okay? All work for peasantry is intermittent due to the changing of the seasons. That doesn't mean you can't impose corvee on a peasant - in fact, peasant farmers are USUALLY the ones who ARE getting corvee'd precise BECAUSE their own ordinary labor is intermittent. The point of distinguishing corvee as intermittent is to differentiate it from slavery and ad hoc forced labor, not because picking up drifters who do small jobs instead of full-time factory workers changes the nature of a corvee.

It wasn’t for the purpose of public works, it was for the purpose of religion.

It was a public monument by the government. Your own link says, and I quote:

From the Egyptian Old Kingdom (c. 2613 BC, the 4th Dynasty) onward, corvée contributed to government projects.[6] During the times of the Nile River floods, it was used for construction projects such as pyramids, temples, quarries, canals, roads, and other works.

Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack ( www.nytimes.com )

President Biden paused an arms shipment to Israel last week to prevent the U.S.-made weapons from being used in a long-threatened assault on the city Rafah, administration officials said on Tuesday night, a sign of the growing rift between Washington and Jerusalem over the conduct of the war....

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US: "We'll sign off on your retaliation against Iran if you put the Rafah invasion on pause."

Israel: "Deal." [invades anyway]

Turns out there IS a limit to how far Israel can backstab the US before having SOME kind of response.

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Don't worry - those being sent to die in Ukraine are overwhelmingly ethnic minorities of Russia. All the ethnic cleansing you could want, only a small percentage of the bad press!

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Since October 1st 2023, 20 trans people in the US are known to have died from violence. Almost half of them died in the south (as defined by the US census). Are trans people in the south any safer for it happening under cover of night?

Yes, trans people in the US are safer than in Palestine. Jesus Christ.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/415610_WEST-BANK-AND-GAZA-2022-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf

spoiler

Violence against LGBTQI+ Persons: There were reported cases of violence,
criminalization, or abuse based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the
West Bank. OHCHR and NGOs reported Hamas security forces in Gaza harassed
and detained persons due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. Both noted,
however, that such cases were rarely reported, especially in Gaza, because of
concerns about protecting the safety those involved.
OHCHR observers reported PA security officers harassedand sometimes arrested
individuals due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. LGBTQI+
individuals were also victims of targeted hate crimes and violent acts. Media
reported that Ahmed Abu Markhiya, a gay Palestinian, was killed by decapitation
in Hebron on October 5. Abu Markhiya had been residing in Israel for several
years under a humanitarian permit reportedly because of death threats he received
while living in the West Bankand was awaiting approval of an asylum application
to Canada, according to media reports. Palestinian police made an arrest and
continued an investigation intothe killing.
Media reported that lesbians in the West Bank and Gaza concealed their sexual
orientation due to fear they would be killed by their families.
The PA failed to protect members of the LGBTQI+ community. After an attack on
members of the community at the Al Mustawde restaurant earlier in the year, the
PA did not make any attempts to hold the culprits accountable for their action.
Discrimination: The PA does not provide protection for or prohibit
discrimination against the LGBTQI+ community. Homosexuality is widely
considered to be taboo in areas under PA control and in Gaza.
Activities associated with the LGBTQI+ community were met with strong
opposition, and the Palestinian police often acted to prevent these activities. As a
result of this and other discriminatory conduct, the LGBTQI+ community in the
West Bank was driven underground and had no vocal representatives or NGOs
willing to speak in the West Bank, according to observers. Similarly, in Gaza,
according to observers, there was no visible LGBTQI+ community. Observers
reported that human rights organizations in Gaza did not monitor and refused to
address LGBTQ+ issues.
Availability of Legal Gender Recognition: There is no legal method for
correcting gender markers on identity documents.
Involuntary or Coercive Medical or Psychological Practices Specifically
Targeting LGBTQI+ Individuals: According to media reports, family members
of LGBTQI+ individuals subjected them to involuntary or coercive medical,
psychological, and religious practices throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Media
reported that a Palestinian man confronted his son, age 18, after finding messages
on the son’s mobile phone between him and another young man suggesting a
same-sex relationship. The son claimed his father attacked him, beat him, and
renounced him. The father forced him to meet with a cleric weekly until he
attempted unsuccessfully to kill himself, according to the report.
Restrictions of Freedom of Expression, Association, or Peaceful Assembly:
The PA in cases limited freedom of expression, association, and peaceful
assembly, although not explicitly based on sexual orientation or identity, and it
tolerated such actions by vigilantes and armed militias. During the year, in the
West Bank, peaceful assemblies and gatherings attended by LGBTQI+ individuals
were disrupted. For example, the Warehouse (event space) in Ramallah was
closed after a campaign of incitement, hate speech, and assault, which followed a
June 17 attack on the venue and cancellation of a musical performance because the
artist was “gay.” According to media reports, the attackers circulated a video on
social media and, following the violent attack, targeted the performance space with
an incitement campaign based on a false account of the events and the place.
According to media, approximately 200,000 social media users participated,
leaving thousands of hate-filled comments and incitement to murder (see 2.a.,
Academic Freedom and Cultural Events).

As famine looms in Sudan, the hungry eat soil and leaves ( www.reuters.com )

Hassan said soldiers sometimes shared their food with the children in her family, but the relief was limited. She and the other adults began skipping meals, sometimes for two days straight, so the children could eat. Tree leaves boiled in water and sprinkled with spices became a part of their diet....

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but last year when I was looking at things in depth, they also have NATO weapons, but I couldn’t find how they got it.

Way #1: Cold War-era supply to dictators who weren't aligned with the Soviets hasn't run out yet.

Way #2: Cold War-era surplus sold off en masse in the 90s.

Way #3: Western supplies for 'anti-terrorist' states and the proliferation that results from corruption within those countries.

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Just Asking Questions, huh?

Russia uses GLONASS, not GPS.

PugJesus , (edited )
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I'm familiar with Linkerbaan. Pattern recognition is not an offense.

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All from our dear friend - took me only a few minutes of searching. Not faulting you for not searching, that would be ridiculous to expect of someone who didn't know the poster, but this isn't just "SOMEONE ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT RUSSIA!" it's "Someone with a long history of playing 'bothsides' and putting forth bullshit assertions and feigning ignorance is doing it on one of the subjects they constantly do it on".

Israel has already killed more civilians in 45 days than Putin during his entirely Ukraine war.

The west is commiting actual genocide right now. Don’t mis use the word for Putin.

Ukraine is doing plenty of terrorism against their occupier. Your double standards are showing.

Reminder that israel had already killed more civilians than Putin did since the start of the Ukraine war. Biden is literally worse than Putin.

You fuck off genocide apologist. When it came to Ukraine you were all calling for the Russians to assasinate Putin.

Now that it’s about non white people you’re literally saying you’re gonna vote for the genocide guy. Fucking racist hypocrites.

The war crimes Russia committed in Bucha pale in comparison to the complete genocide israel is committing right now.

America is already talking about dropping support for Ukraine.

Ukraine was just a proxy to exhaust Russian resources with.

Now that the entire country is in ruin America is going to pull support and leave them for dead like they’ve done with all their other proxies.

Even the Russians had far greater precision than this when attacking Ukraine.

You’re in for a treat when you start reading about the Azov brigade. They’ve got literal Nazi’s.

It’s so sad that all you have is whataboutism isn’t it? And the worst part is that Genocide Joe isn’t even the lesser of evils anymore. He is now the worse evil.

Genocide Joe is the person able to stop this. Instead he removes all war crime restrictions on the weapons and protects israel with all his power. He is actively committing mass genocide.

A reminder that Genocide Joe has killed more than twice as many civilians than Putin in Ukraine already.

Not to mention the amount of children murdered by this barbaric Zio Nazi

Not to forget Ukraine is slowly getting ditched too so the “world powers” are losing that one as well.

Israel is like 10000% more genocidal than Russia.

But anyone not supporting Ukraine with weapons against Russia obviously has to go because that’s very “unfreedom” of them.

The Kurds welcome Ukraine in joining the long list of groups abandoned and left in ruins by the US after being promised support to fight their enemy as long as needed.

Biden needs to focus on committing Genocide now. He has no time for Ukrainians beating an invasion. Surely Zeloonsky understands, he unconditionally supports israel’s genocide himself.

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Because Russian systems run almost exclusively off GLONASS, and GPS is owned by the USA. Russia has a history in the Ukrainian War of... get this... jamming GPS signals but not GLONASS.

You wanna explain to me your thought process over Ukraine jamming GPS signals, the same GPS system they use, over their European allies in order to combat Russian GLONASS?

You can stop JAQing off any time.

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The combined spectrum is called GNSS and you can get receivers that combine all three for get this…

20 bucks.

Russia would not using the other spectrums because… ?

Because that's not how integrated systems work in a massive institution like a government or military. Jesus fucking Christ.

Are you okay by the way? Someone asking a very reasonsonable question doesn’t mean they are pro Russia.

You really want me to trot out your long history of this bootlicking shite?

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Yeah nobody there would think to ever update anything. Ever. Especially not those suicide drones from Iran. Which must have been developed 50 years ago.

"Just update it!"

The number of reasons why military-grade equipment integrated with 40 years of GLONASS-compatible systems that rely on the information given by GLONASS in its syntax can't be replaced with a 20$ consumer receiver is massive even in a country whose military isn't famously corrupt and inept.

If all you can do is spam ad hominems then don’t bother responding.

Oh, alright, let's go down through, shall we?

Israel has already killed more civilians in 45 days than Putin during his entirely Ukraine war.

The west is commiting actual genocide right now. Don’t mis use the word for Putin.

Ukraine is doing plenty of terrorism against their occupier. Your double standards are showing.

Reminder that israel had already killed more civilians than Putin did since the start of the Ukraine war. Biden is literally worse than Putin.

You fuck off genocide apologist. When it came to Ukraine you were all calling for the Russians to assasinate Putin.

Now that it’s about non white people you’re literally saying you’re gonna vote for the genocide guy. Fucking racist hypocrites.

The war crimes Russia committed in Bucha pale in comparison to the complete genocide israel is committing right now.

America is already talking about dropping support for Ukraine.

Ukraine was just a proxy to exhaust Russian resources with.

Now that the entire country is in ruin America is going to pull support and leave them for dead like they’ve done with all their other proxies.

Even the Russians had far greater precision than this when attacking Ukraine.

You’re in for a treat when you start reading about the Azov brigade. They’ve got literal Nazi’s.

It’s so sad that all you have is whataboutism isn’t it? And the worst part is that Genocide Joe isn’t even the lesser of evils anymore. He is now the worse evil.

Genocide Joe is the person able to stop this. Instead he removes all war crime restrictions on the weapons and protects israel with all his power. He is actively committing mass genocide.

A reminder that Genocide Joe has killed more than twice as many civilians than Putin in Ukraine already.

Not to mention the amount of children murdered by this barbaric Zio Nazi

Not to forget Ukraine is slowly getting ditched too so the “world powers” are losing that one as well.

Israel is like 10000% more genocidal than Russia.

But anyone not supporting Ukraine with weapons against Russia obviously has to go because that’s very “unfreedom” of them.

The Kurds welcome Ukraine in joining the long list of groups abandoned and left in ruins by the US after being promised support to fight their enemy as long as needed.

Biden needs to focus on committing Genocide now. He has no time for Ukrainians beating an invasion. Surely Zeloonsky understands, he unconditionally supports israel’s genocide himself.

It goes on and on and on and on and...

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It's also a parliamentary system, and there hasn't been a stable coalition in forever. Netanyahu, despite his lack of public popularity, has the backroom connections to stay on top of 'the game' in a divided parliament, especially with two of the left-wing parties only narrowly missing the threshold in the last election.

Ana Piquer, human rights activist: ‘The militarization promoted by the government of Mexico has not improved security’ ( english.elpais.com )

The new director of Amnesty International in the Americas has criticized the use of the military and heavy-handed measures to combat crime in the region: ‘The Armed Forces are not trained to ensure public safety’...

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[Mexico sends police]

[Police are corrupted]

[Mexico sends Special Police(tm)]

[Special Police(tm) are corrupted]

[Mexico sends military]

[Military is corrupted]

[Mexico sends Special Forces]

[Special Forces are corrupted]

Maybe there's a more essential problem here than "We're not using the right weapons"?

Nah. Let's ignore these human rights dweebs and send more troops again.

Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo ( www.theguardian.com )

Egyptian and US mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days and Egyptian state news channel Al-Qahera said on Saturday that a consensus had been reached in the indirect talks over many of the disputed points but gave no further details....

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For the same reason that dictatorial regimes are still negotiated with to end wars.

"They represent the popular will" and "They represent the ability of the region to continue fighting" are two different things.

PugJesus OP ,
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"So you're saying there's a chance"

PugJesus OP ,
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Hence why she's elderly.

PugJesus ,
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Oh, so they're narrowing the targets of their attacks?

PugJesus OP ,
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  1. Hair dye actually has a long history.
  2. Magik
PugJesus ,
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Who DOESN'T want to visit a bloodthirsty theocratic warlord-state?

PugJesus ,
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As bad as the US can be, it's not even close.

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No, no, don't worry, they're attracting Chinese tourists and selling the nation's mineral rights to Chinese corporations, so it's actually Socialism With Chinese Characteristics.

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Just a flesh wound

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