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This post really gets to the heart of the problem for people like you. You want reality to be more entertaining and sensational than it usually is. That's why you are so prone to being manipulated by right-wing media.
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It's just so frustrating having to deal with these idiots. Just literally the simplest, most basic public health measures.
Lol at acting like this is a bad thing.
prayers up for our big dumb war criminals
Classic military strategy. Like when the British pulled up at Fort Pitt and distributed smallpox blankets to their own troops.
Classic military strategy. Like when the British pulled up at Fort Pitt and distributed smallpox blankets to their own troops.
I don't think that happened. The 'two blankets and a handkerchief from the smallpox ward' were presented to the besieging Indians at a parley, but had no effect. The British later thought that the local smallpox outbreak among the Indians, which killed about a hundred, resulted from the 'gift', but it was already in progress before that time. It is not now believed that such items would be an effective vehicle for smallpox transmission.
I don't think that happened. The 'two blankets and a handkerchief from the smallpox ward' were presented to the besieging Indians at a parley, but had no effect. The British later thought that the local smallpox outbreak among the Indians, which killed about a hundred, resulted from the 'gift', but it was already in progress before that time. It is not now believed that such it
I don’t know if it’s possible to transmit smallpox via blankets. But they tried.
There is a famous quote “Could it not be contrived to Send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians?"
But the long, brutal, and terrible history of British colonialism wasn’t my point, I merely used that as a stage to illustrate how stupid it is to allow disease to spread among troops.
but it was already in progress before that time.
what a relief
yeah, sorry. my bad. aspiring war criminals.
The Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight members of a production team, including musicians, have been reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for performing in a concert livestreamed on Ahmadi’s YouTube channel in 2024.
According to court documents, the criminal court of Qom province sentenced the artists to flogging, a two-year ban on leaving the country and a two-year ban on engaging in artistic activities on charges that include offending public decency through the production and publication of “vulgar and immoral content” online.
Although the official judiciary news agency has yet to publish the ruling, rights groups and lawyers who reviewed the documents said the pattern of arrests and legal cases against artists publicly defying the regime reflects a broader effort to deter cultural dissent.
In December 2024, the 29-year-old singer performed the patriotic song Az Khoone Javanane Vatan (From the Blood of the Youth of the Homeland) without a hijab in a livestreamed performance that went viral.
She was briefly detained along with several musicians shortly after its release before being freed. Authorities later filed a formal case over the publication of the video, which has since accumulated millions of views on YouTube.
Bahar Ghandehari, the director of advocacy at the US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran, said “Ahmadi’s punishment of 74 lashes for merely singing and appearing without a hijab is yet another reminder that human rights conditions in Iran have not changed, despite the Iranian authorities’ wartime propaganda campaign aimed at improving their image.”
She added that the contrast between official imagery and the prosecution of artists exposed “the gap between the regime’s propaganda and reality”.
New boss, same as the old boss
I guess we now know why Trump soft-fired Tulsi. There was no point in waiting for this story to drop to make the move.
I guess we now know why Trump soft-fired Tulsi. There was no point in waiting for this story to drop to make the move.
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