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Tonyhillzone t1_je77vv0 wrote

Reply to comment by Drostan_S in Police using ‘excessive force’ at France protests, rights groups say by rein_deer7

What exactly do you want people to do? Burn down the entire country to force the government to change their policy? Maybe kill a few people?

I'm pro-protesters. I'm just anti-vandals and thugs. Burning and looting isn't democracy, its thuggery.

And FYI, I've been arrested 4 times for being involved in protests, but I've never used violence or intimidation or engaged in wanton vandalism. I've also suceeded in helping to get a small change in Irish law in August 2008 by engaging with various politicians and putting forward a damn good argument based on facts and research. So I'm not afraid to actually do something.

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FlamingMothBalls t1_je76xzq wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Russia Says Ukraine Using Long-Range US Artillery by TallAd3975

it's also his own best interests. No western power will make a move to dethrone Putin. He can lose Crimea and a have a full-blown civil war inside Russian territory, and none of that would threaten his reign - I don't think.

It would have to get a lot, lot worse inside Russia for him to want to lash out, and by the time that happens, he would lack the military and elite support to have such an attack take place.

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radishboy t1_je769ip wrote

Reply to comment by Camp_Grenada in 'Ultramassive' black hole discovered by Durham astronomers by [deleted]

What if it eventually got so big that the heat and pressure created some sort of “big bang” that flung the matter outwards into space, and “the big bang” is just something that happens when an object reaches a certain mass. So it’s just been a series of “big bangs” and “great gatherings” all interacting with each other.

All I know about the Big Bang is that “there was a big bang” so I’m literally just making shit up but I honestly don’t know enough about space to dispute it

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sldunn t1_je760cr wrote

Reply to comment by _Svankensen_ in 'A win of epic proportions': World's highest court can set out countries' climate obligations after Vanuatu secures historic UN vote by lurker_bee

Huh. Not anymore.

Top 15 Countries with the Highest CO2 Emissions per Capita (t) - EU JRC 2020 Palau — 55.29 Qatar — 35.64 Trinidad and Tobago — 21.97 Bahrain — 21.60 Kuwait — 20.91 United Arab Emirates — 20.70 Brunei Darussalam — 17.95 Saudi Arabia — 16.96 Oman — 16.9 Australia — 15.22 Canada — 14.43 Kazakhstan — 14.22 United States — 13.68 Turkmenistan — 13.37 Luxembourg — 13.24

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autotldr t1_je75y50 wrote

Reply to Australian Indigenous Elder uninvited by event organisers from officially welcoming former US president Obama for being "too difficult" by BangCrash

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)

> Indigenous elder Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO has been stopped from performing a Welcome to Country ceremony for Barack Obama because she was allegedly being "Too difficult".

> The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation said event organisers, Growth Faculty, removed Aunty Joy from event proceedings amid claims she was being "Too difficult".

> The corporation said Aunty Joy had asked event organisers to "Make appropriate accommodations for a support person" to accompany the elder to the event, along with "Requests to provide Mr Obama with a gift as is cultural practice".

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