CNN is just saying
a lot of interesting things in this article
Afghanistan has rare earth minerals and, perhaps most importantly, what could be one of the world's biggest deposits of lithium — an essential but scarce component in rechargeable batteries and other technologies vital to tackling the climate crisis. https://t.co/HYBTEVne4u— CNN (@CNN) August 18, 2021
― Left, Thursday, 19 August 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
Surely these minerals must be protected for democracy
― Tumbledown Duck (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 August 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
in general the apparent lack of consensus* from media, political, military establishments in recent days has been very interesting to see, I’m not sure how it breaks down between/within those groups, what kinds of internal struggles it reflects, how far back this goes, or how much longer it will last, but there’s a hell of a lot of mixed messaging atm
*on things like how or if to deal with the taliban, on normalising relations, on further military action, on sanctions etc. for the most part there’s still an assumption that “we” are fundamentally righteous and well-meaning, an acknowledgment that we made mistakes, but not much agreement on what the specific mistakes are, who should be blamed, what should be done about it, etc
― Left, Thursday, 19 August 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
Plenty of that on this thread ffs
― Tumbledown Duck (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 August 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
No one has justified the intervention in this thread, at least since early august. 'Plenty of that' is hyperbolic.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 19 August 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
👀 pic.twitter.com/DYvAEtWY5d— Mukhtar (@Mukhtar_iam) August 19, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 August 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
Just rinsing this cunt.
You used to be more effective at spinning, Alastair. https://t.co/EldM0BZiZW pic.twitter.com/UOwebZ9QBj— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 19, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 August 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
Oh the whole thing is epic.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 August 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
"look, women will be able to be nurses what more do you want"
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 August 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
Lol
British news is insane atm, channel 4 is interviewing children of dead soldiers asking them if their dad died in vain— Lockheed Norman (@bigplurp) August 18, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 August 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
couldn't invent something more british than this pic.twitter.com/I7axN9mXiS— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) August 20, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 August 2021 08:52 (three years ago) link
don't worry Amelia is on the case and she's married to a connected gentleman
― calzino, Friday, 20 August 2021 09:03 (three years ago) link
Just horrifying.
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/20/european-leaders-exploiting-fears-afghan-refugee-crisis-eu-afghanistan?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 August 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
they should call it "the racism crisis" or "the border crisis" or at this point maybe "the genocide crisis"
― Left, Friday, 20 August 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
how much of a monster do you have to be to describe people fleeing for their lives as "sizeable flows of irregular migration". i know being europeans are generally monsters who find this language normal but still. whole article has a weird tone that almost reads like relief that the violence of the border regime will be effective enough to avoid stirring up local "populists" this time, which of course it won't however effective it is at making sure more people die
― Left, Friday, 20 August 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
The Taliban are sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals the world desperately needs
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS02aWM7zWACPr2t9ALLZL6J2b2vLra8qhwjg&usqp=CAU
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 August 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
Good article from the FT this weekend, on the atmosphere among the new generation of young people in Kabul in the weeks before the fall:
The last days of the 'New Afghanistan'
https://www.ft.com/content/4a276093-cf85-4da7-9093-6af6443bb53a
― o. nate, Monday, 23 August 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
Boris Johnson personally overruled Ben Wallace to allow Pen Farthing's animals to leave Kabul on a charter plane, friends sayFriend of Farthing Dominic Dyer told Mail Plus: "Mr Johnson's wife Carrie 'most certainly had something to do with the change'"https://t.co/14wwGzSfMg— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) August 25, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Nothing more English than favouring a good dog over a funny-looking human.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
I've never heard of any of those people except for Boris Johnson.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
i think Pen Farthing is a good friend of Raleigh Grifter
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
lol POLITICO:
https://i.imgur.com/VM4pUSE.jpg
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 August 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
ISIS may not have the biggest army, but sure seems to have the most media savvy.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Thursday, 26 August 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
How terrifying to be a kid evacuated from war-torn Afghanistan to South Korea to be met my people in full covid gear:https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Farc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost%252Es3%252Eamazonaws%252Ecom%2Fpublic%2FWYDDSRQGK4I6ZM6EYRRLD3OPZA%252Ejpg&w=992&h=662
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 August 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
by people
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 August 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E93JEF0XoAESiEB?format=jpg&name=large
"I'm relieved for me and feel happy for the animals"
― calzino, Saturday, 28 August 2021 10:10 (three years ago) link
nation of animal lovers in all its glory
― Left, Saturday, 28 August 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
i feel so many things, but one of them is deep hatred toward The Sun
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 11:05 (three years ago) link
who would read the sun
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 11:06 (three years ago) link
yes, i know, velvet underground, who loves the sun, not everyone
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link
if there ever any posh Brits with names Pen Farthing or Tuppence Middleton they are almost guaranteed to be evil tory scumbags, but with impeccable animal rights credentials.
― calzino, Saturday, 28 August 2021 12:32 (three years ago) link
are you fucking kidding me? they evacuated dogs and cats over people?
― treeship., Saturday, 28 August 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
i love dogs and cats but it's obscene.
Cats are probably okay under the Taliban? The Prophet himself was a cat lover. (Story goes he cut off a sleeve of his robe when he needed to leave instead of disturbing the cat sleeping on it.)
― Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 28 August 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
"The sharpest of Zakaria’s criticism of white feminism is reserved for white female journalists. “There’s a certain arc that the editors want,” she says, that these journalists deliver. “In the case of Afghanistan, there was very much an idea that this was America taking feminism to Afghan women,” and “liberating them from the Taliban. There are colonial precedents to sending female reporters out there. These white women are sent in as emblems – our women are brave and they are out taking pictures and writing stories and getting your story out to the world. But the assumption is that there isn’t anyone in Afghanistan who can write in English and tell the stories of Afghanistan to the world.”"
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/28/rafia-zakaria-a-lot-of-white-female-professors-told-me-to-quit?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 August 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
“There’s a certain arc that the editors want,” she says, that these journalists deliver.
Then the female journalists are just doing the job they are paid to do. Don't jump on them; jump on their editors for wanting to steer the news in a predetermined arc without regard for the truth.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 28 August 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
who’s doing what now
― Left, Saturday, 28 August 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
"Then the female journalists are just doing the job they are paid to do. Don't jump on them"
I'll jump on them then.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 August 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
If a journalist fails to deliver what an editor requires, that journalist gets no further assignments and the editor finds a different journalist who will deliver what the editor wants. Then the story in the media looks exactly the same as before but with a different byline.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 28 August 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
... which is why top-paying journalism jobs are so full of cynical careerists.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 28 August 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
To be fair it’s easier to shit on journalists on the internet.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 28 August 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 28 August 2021 bookmarkflaglink
Your full of shit.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 August 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
"To be fair it’s easier to shit on journalists on the internet."
thank goodness.
― calzino, Saturday, 28 August 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
Aimless, your Mr Logic routine is embarrassing you here.
― calzino, Saturday, 28 August 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
But, my mother was a Terran!
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 28 August 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
not funny, as usual
― sleeve, Sunday, 29 August 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
(checks piss, none missing)
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Sunday, 29 August 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
Surprised you've got anything to check.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 29 August 2021 10:40 (three years ago) link
surprise!
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Sunday, 29 August 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
lads
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 29 August 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link