That becomes moot when it’s war, and the coverage in question is about the internal political situation of the people they are currently fighting. The same applies to any country at war, and their domestic press coverage of their opposing force, or country.
Does this mean I should use AJ to source credible information on internal Israeli politics? How about Russia Today for reporting on Ukrainian morale?
Seriously, stop posting wartime propaganda and pretending it’s credible journalism.
I don’t know, I feel it brings something…a bit of good cheer and comic relief, which is always needed when discussing…checks notes… Ah yes, colonial settler violence, indigenous displacement, and ethnic cleansing.
Seeing as these all flow down from my original response, I’m pretty sure it’s you who doesn’t understand the context of the conversation.
Also, the torture in question wasn’t the execution method. So again, I suggest you re-read the comment thread.
The decades are a function of the appeals processes; some mandatory, and others initiated by inmates.
I’m not sure fast tracking the process would be an improvement…
You realize that my questions were rhetorical, right?
Re-read the comment chain, maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
So if I’m sentenced to 20 years for first degree murder, is the fear and terror I feel over losing my freedom the state torturing me?
What about if my doctor’s office refuses to give me my diagnosis over the phone on a Friday, and tells me I have to wait for an office appointment on Monday. Is that torture? Should I file a legal complaint or try to get charges pressed?
You’re conflating internal agony and anticipatory fear, with actual externally applied methods of torture.
I understand what point you’re trying to make, but words have meaning and if everything is torture, then how bad can torture really be?
I disagree that a painless execution is torture, even if I understand where you’re coming from.
My objection to capital punishment isn’t because I don’t believe some people deserve death.
My objection is simply that innocent people are convicted all the time, but at least unjust incarceration is situation that can be reversed.
Please don’t give this dipshit attention to these types of press stunts.
No, he will never do this and the only value here for him is people talking about it. That’s it, so don’t.
Setting aside the national shame that capital punishment is, regardless of the method used, they strapped his face with a mask. He wasn’t in a pod as nitrogen levels rose. He was force fed the gas with a mask that prevented him from “breathing” normally.
Imposter. That was a test. The real 4Chan would know that I use:
FileName.ACTUAL_REAL_LATEST_FINAL_PROD_VERSION
And it works everytime, about 70% of the time.
Are you the hacker known as 4Chan? How else could you know my version naming convention?
Regardless, all will be forgiven if you can remind what folder and file actually contains the final version. So… which is it?
Unlikely, this is more of the domestic and close ally variety e.g. Epstein’s handlers/killers, or of that same caliber. The kind of people who can waive off, or prevent, an FBI counterintelligence operation from getting in the way…
You’re using American verbiage, which is incorrect usage for this situation.
Conservatives traditionally conserve i.e. conserve traditions, nature, etc.
This is liberalism, in the classical laissez-faire sense, not the bastardized American usage of the word.
Call me a traditionalist, but I much prefer the antichrist.
Foreign policy is always about power, end of story.
America has been trying to remove itself from the ME, or at least significantly shrink it’s footprint, without leaving a power vacuum for Iran to fill. The plan was to have KSA and Israel fill that void instead, along with Turkey.
Morality and principles only directly impact foreign policy decisions if they impact the domestic political calculus. For example, if MBS believed moving forward with the Israeli partnership would result in him losing power.
This is not reflective of my own feelings or values. It’s just a neutral observation and assessment of the situation.
You’re not wrong, but maybe you’ve noticed that whenever any country announces they’ve arrested a spy, or foreign intelligence asset, the country they’re accused of spying for always, without fail, denounces it as political persecution and denies the allegations of spying.
So…while there’s recent precedent for political detentions of citizens under false pretense of spying, it’s not like it’s that hard to believe they were a spy.
The only real evidence we have that they aren’t a spy is that they weren’t summarily, and quietly, executed.
We’ll just have to wait and see how they proceed. Will they be used for a prisoner swap of detained Chinese intelligence assets? Or held indefinitely.
Because indefinite detention probably means innocent of spying, and waiting to be used for a political bargaining tool.
No, that’s not what’s happening.
Poor women and women in poor counties are used as baby ovens for the wealthy, or those with the means to rent their wombs. Which is why he specifically refers to it as the “commercialization”.
He’s saying that’s exploitive and immoral as there as children waiting to be adopted. So instead of “renting” a poor women’s womb, adopt a child instead.
Also, FWIW I’m pro-choice, but that doesn’t mean I should pretend everyone who thinks differently is evil.
Opposing abortion isn’t always about a misogynistic need to control women. For some people it’s a genuine belief that life begins at conception, which is what Pope Francis appears to sincerely believe.
That doesn’t extend to everyone, and I’d go so far as to say most of the Evangelical American pro-life movement are just reactionary hateful shitstains who are genuine misogynists that wouldn’t hesitate to get their mistress an abortion.
Anyways, just my $0.02
Security expenditures are just numbers on an Excel sheet, just like HR, and legal…it’s a business.
You know what else is a big threat? Executives of cost-center departments not understanding how to articulate their needs in terms of profit, or profit loss.
HR and legal departments are generally much better at explaining their concerns and needs in terms of profit, and not abstract concepts i.e. security.
Because of Russia’s vast geography and relatively limited waterway access, it’s better to think of their different fleets almost as individual smaller navies.
Especially in the context of the Black Sea fleet and Turkey’s ability to restrict access of military vessels through Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits because of the Montreux Convention.
So to answer your question under that more narrow scope, I believe it’s roughly 20% of the Black Sea fleet has been destroyed.