In the news thread

FFS
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/29/liz-trusss-phone-hacked-top-secret-info-suspected-russian-attack/

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Whoops!

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Don’t get too exited out there

Good summary of the crypto shitfest that happened yesterday

https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1590029012000440320?t=On_NFWK0IY9GP0IALf4uDw&s=19

Anyone else following US midterms?

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Doesn’t seem to have gone as badly as they thought it would for the dems which is good. Fingers crossed they don’t lose both houses.

Actual politicians name
https://twitter.com/ALGOP/status/1590201308690219008?t=2cRKSxEqVnUO5dhdi_tSRA&s=19

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Doesn’t look that young. :thinking:

Too much booze ages you!

*gets coat…

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Edited as is misleading*

What the fuck and how the fuck

Absolutely not surprised, as horrific as it is. Last thing they want is an uprising. I hope an uprising happens especially on this news

Iran is yet another horribly fucked up place (by any standards but particularly by our Western standards)

1979 they had a ā€œrevolutionā€ and went full retard. There’s endless articles like this -

The country went full on ultra conservative as a result of perceived encroachment of Western ideals (like gender equality etc.). Now it’s a regime with daily human rights atrocities

Its 2022 ffs.

Fuck religion. The biggest oppression humans and mostly women have had and still have to deal with . If we haven’t nuked ourselves and destroyed the planet , hopefully one day in the next centuries religion will be something for the history books .
Let’s go full Star Trek

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Not sure you can just blame religion. Michael Fabricants moaning about wokeness and cancel culture aren’t all especially religious but they’d happily see us dragged back a few centuries.

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in the US especially the majority of those right wing Michael Fabricants would strongly identify as christian despite being as far away from the teachings of christ as is possible

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see also, Northern Ireland people who can simultaneously identify as atheist and catholic/protestant. Religion and politics tend to have a muddy crossover.

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The Iranian protests are terrifying and inspiring at the same time, imagine knowing that there is the real potential for being arrested and executed and these young girls in school are still throwing off their headscarfs and screaming fuck the government. The absolute stones on them, I don’t know if I’d have it in me.

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Our calendar is based on religion, BC and AD (Before Christ and Anno Domini, the year of our lord), it’s in our legal system and political… and that’s just in moderate countries, it’s worse in countries with more extreme teachings. Everything is built around religion still, a modern country like America is not allowed to teach about evolution as it’s anti-Christian in some parts.
Religion has always held humanity back, we’d probably have second homes on Mars and found a cure for cancer by now if religion hadn’t existed and we’d be able to of kept striving forward.
While Michael Fabricants might not be that religious these days there is a deep rooted part of it built into the human psyche.

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