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FlyingSquid , to news in Nato is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the alliance says
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Not coincidentally, the nuclear war nightmares that plagued my childhood in the 1980s have returned.

rockSlayer ,

Brought to you by the same people involved in the last one, it’s time for Cold War 2: Electric Boogaloo

FlyingSquid ,
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To make things worse, my dreams almost always end when the missiles start hitting, if it even gets much past finding out they have been launched.

That idea that I know the world’s about to end and I have maybe an hour’s warning and there’s literally nothing I can do about it… I had that nightmare twice Friday night.

ours , (edited )

An hour? Oh boy, it’s worst. 30 minutes for ICBMs and only for the higher ups. Even less for submarine launch missiles.

I’m currently reading Nuclear War: A scenario and so far it only cemented my initial understanding that once the bombs go off, not much matters since it’s the end of the World.

FlyingSquid ,
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I just hope I die right away rather than linger due to not being close enough to a ground zero.

Nougat ,

... when the missiles start hitting, ...

I'm lucky! That's also when my reality would end in a blaze of shockwave!

FlyingSquid ,
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Hopefully mine too, but that’s the point I wake up if I get that far. There’s no living in a Mad Max world in my dream. It’s always about the total lack of control as the world ends.

Hexadecimalkink , to worldnews in Nato in talks to put nuclear weapons on standby

NATO is the evil empire

einkorn ,
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Yes, comrad! Freedom is slavery and war is peace!

wheresmysurplusvalue ,
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Epic bacon quoting the Jorjor Wells book! You win the internet for today.

einkorn ,
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Sure do. Waiting for the next ban now, since I just notice that I again found my way on to the official tankie instance.

Black_Mald_Futures ,

You wouldn’t get banned if you had opinions that weren’t dogshit

robinnn ,
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Maybe don’t mindlessly say it requires cognitive dissonance to consider NATO (an organization that bombed Libya and supported anti-black rebels leading to an open-air slave market in the country, and armed/collaborated with Nazis and ethno-nationalists to sabotage left-wing movements in West Germany, Greece, Turkey, Italy, etc. (Operation Gladio)) an evil empire (and for slavery/against peace to use your 1984 comparison).

einkorn ,
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Maybe don’t mindlessly rattle off the same Whataboutism every time the current Russian war against Ukraine is being discussed.

realharo ,

It was Medvedev who started talking shit about nukes more than a year ago (and a lot since then)

reuters.com/…/russias-medvedev-wed-have-use-nucle…

reuters.com/…/putin-ally-medvedev-warns-nuclear-w…

LarkinDePark ,

Originally it was NATO via its puppet Zelensky.

Hexadecimalkink ,

Medvedev is a nut. I think he’s just spewing vitriol to appease the hawks in Russia. The same way Lindsey Graham does in the states.

yogthos OP ,
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always has been

JohnDClay , to worldnews in Nato in talks to put nuclear weapons on standby

The boomers are always on active alert, so would standby be a step down? I didn’t get what this would do. Everything is already ready to launch quickly and has been for decades.

bbigras ,

Yeah. It just sounds like silly war marketing.

breadsmasher , to news in Alleged Russian spy from Essex appears in court charged with passing on MP’s details
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The court heard that Mr Phillips is charged with “acquiring and retaining personal contact details of a Member of Parliament”

is this specifically a crime?

QuantumSpecter OP ,

National Security Act 2023

breadsmasher ,
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ty

Leg , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club

I don’t think I know what progress looks like anymore.

nifty , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
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It’s kinda ridiculous, I hate that Islamic countries fail the separation of religion and state test. Education is a great way to change it, and just aiming to make people less religiously inclined.

CoCo_Goldstein ,

Islam was designed to be all encompassing. A separation of religion and state is anathema to Islam.

nifty ,
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Doesn’t matter, and same can be said of any religion. What matters is educating people and making them prefer secular states.

force ,

It worked for Turkey… until recently…

MehBlah , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club

Its a crazy thing to try in a mullahville. Those guys hate anyone who isn’t their particular flavor. Pretty much like baptist with more power.

MichaelTen , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
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Read the book Psychiatric Slavery by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Limitless Peace!

AFC1886VCC , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club

He’s crazy for trying, yet also based as hell

spirinolas , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club

In their defense, you’d have to be insane to open a gay club in Pakistan.

zerog_bandit ,

Or any Muslim majority country.

“Religion of peace”.

I_Has_A_Hat ,

People are always surprised that I’m against Muslim immigrants. I don’t get it. I’m gay, seems pretty obvious to be against those who would rather I die. And I’m not against middle eastern immigrants. But Muslims? I have enough trouble with the Christians. Please keep your even more backward, fucked up religion in your shitty countries; which are only shitty because they are led by a backward, fucked up religion.

lemmy_99c4zb3e3 , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
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He probably should open go-goat club.

xc2215x , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club

Not sure why he thought that was a good idea. Being gay is fine but Pakistan not the best place.

afraid_of_zombies ,

I imagine to make a point.

yildolw ,
  • Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
  • Other country: No.
  • Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.
Linkerbaan , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
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Glad we supported the Pakistani coup and decided to recognize the illegitimate and fraudulent Pakistani elections where they jailed Imran Khan.

And now we get bonus points for being able to whine about the right wingers we’re supporting!

awesome_lowlander ,

As per Wikipedia:

The UN noted that there had been arrests of homosexuals within the past three years in 2018, 2019 and 2022.

So it’s not like LGBT issues were much better under Imran Khan either.

Linkerbaan ,
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Pakistan now went more right instead of less right so I’d be surprised if it isn’t worse now.

awesome_lowlander ,

I wouldn’t be surprised either, but you made it sound like things are a lot more clear cut than they actually are.

Linkerbaan ,
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The new Pakistani government is pretty extreme right wing so it’s certainly not getting better.

intrepid ,

The bad laws were in place even before Imran - so that isn’t unexpected. However, only a democratic government affords any chance of revisiting it. Arguing that the situation is the same now is completely disingenuous.

BilboBargains ,

It didn’t sound like that to me. Americans meddling in other countries is par for the course.

SkyezOpen ,

Holy shit they can tell the lesser of two evils after all.

Linkerbaan ,
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The difference is that America isn’t going to go less right if Biden wins. It’s already in a downward spiral and voting Biden isn’t going to break it. If anything it will strengthen 2028 Republicans.

Pakistan wasn’t caught in the uniparty trap yet.

andrew_bidlaw , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
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It sounds like a clever provocation, and he probably made sure it catches attention before they can silently move it under the carpet. He didn’t do any crime, he even proposed compromises to make it seem OK and followed official procedures, so they can’t (now, publicly) presecute him by law, but it offended their homophobia that much they found nothing more clever than dropping him into a mental yard instead of, like, declining his idea for some made up reason. What’s that if not a high-risk high-reward prank activism? At least, we now know that the state of Pakistan loses it’s shit over him touching that nerve.

mlg , to world in Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
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His mistake was not having a contact within the army leadership.

faintwhenfree ,

It was “not a mistake” for army leadership to not having a contact with the dude.

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