You’re a politician, or you’re charismatic.
You’re not both.
That’s why most of the politicians that we have, don’t have a fucking clue what they’re doing.
Ne mbështesim Shqipërinë!
It seems that Rama has chosen this as the hill he will die on. He is currently serving his 4th term as Prime Minister (since last year), and as a result thinks he is infallible. But the people are increasingly calling for him to resign.
it’s also the scale of it and the profiteering from it.
I did get results for chemical weapons, Specifically chloropicrin, as it’s in one of the links and their other heinous war crimes. I just didn’t see any for white phospherous in particular. 🤷
Well, yes. But afaik Starmers is the only one that you can get arrested and have it reclassified as a terrorist action and imprisoned for lengthy sentences. Or get arrested as a terrorist. But unlikely to happen due the exact same offence if protesting a different war.
There are so many sources citing different figures, I just picked the one that is mostly used by media. Also, it is believed that the figures in Gaza are much higher than the figures that the data shows. But without proof, I didn’t/couldn’t link it.
Crazy. It seems like some politicians are really seeing the potential rewards that land value might become if they are accepted in to the EU. EU allegedly watching things more closely now, so it should be interesting. Good for the people of Albania trying to stop this in its tracks. Once they’re in the EU It’ll become a lot easier for the politicians to ignore them.
Yeah, I’ll have a look through my history and see how I phrased it, but it was something like “accusations of Russia using white phospherous or illegal weapons and war crimes” in a few different ways.
ai was useless (no surprises) but thought I would see if it spat out anything different anyway. They just asked me for reference links to feed them with. Which I obviously didn’t have.
I didn’t say no WP, I said I couldn’t find any accusations of it… and I couldn’t. But I have now added that link anyway.
Edited. Thanks. Wasn’t whitewashing Russia at all. I used Qwant, DDG, Google, and even asked a couple of AI bots, but couldn’t find anything about Russia using it. But I never said that they didn’t, because I am well aware that they commit war crimes too.
I was not comparing the wars for the wars. I was going to explain at the end, I ran out of time, but I naively thought it would be understood. I can only say what was in my head when I posted it. Or you did understand it, and approve of what’s happening.
I am not (I thought obviously) condoning any war.
I’m not saying that one war is “better” or “worse” than any other war.
My main point (really, my only point) is that Starmers government compared the two and decided that one is bad and the other is good.
Despite all the atrocities that Israel do (which I was trying to accentuate in the post) - People are getting locked up as terrorists for agreeing with Palestine action.
it’s fucking ridiculous
in the UK we can be arrested for protesting against a genocide.
According to ACLED, from 7 Oct 2023 - December 5, 2025, Israel attacked these countries (There have been many more attacks since then): (LINK)
Countries attacked by Russia since 24 Feb 2022 - Ukraine
Sanctions on Russia: 20 Sanction Packages
Sanctions on Israel by EU and HERE (harder to find any) 3 Sanction Packages
Israel war crimes in the war on Gaza. They’ve cut electricity, fuel, food and water to Gaza’s population and severely curtailed life-saving humanitarian aid, all of which are acts of collective punishment. The ICC has issued arrest warrants naming Israeli leaders and alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity (including starvation as a method of warfare). They have also been accused multiple times of attempting genocide. Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes - how governments respond could haunt them for years to come
I can’t find any accusations of Russia using white phospherous - EDIT (thanks @Gust@piefed.social)
The two wars are different in that The war in Ukraine is a state-to-state conflict, while the one in Gaza shows an asymmetric war in the besieged enclave
FACTBOX - Ukraine and Gaza wars compared
The Israeli wars are just dirtier than anything most have seen or heard of. In the UK you are more likely to be awarded something for protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine than anything else. But protesting against the more violent, more aggressive and more illegal wars commited by Israel will likely get you arrested and possibly treated as a terrorist.
Let that sink in.
In the UK if you protest against a genocide in another country, the government have ordered the Police to arrest you.
Petition: End the prosecution of peaceful protestors in the UK)
It’s true, there were videos of it a few months ago. They’ve been using it for a long time
This is nothing to do with the interests of Big Tech, this guy has used old Big Tech design to sell a nice looking product, for a premium price. People in general don’t like to part with that much money for something that is described as a “secondary device” that limits their capabilities in a way that they should be able to do themselves. Most smartphones already have digital wellbeing and parental controls on them. There are also tons of guides and apps on how to limit or restrict things on your smartphone that you can buy for a fraction of the price.
His pricing is all wrong, no doubt he will sell a few at that price to collectors, enthusiasts and some people that think it’s worth it. But at the end of the day, at this pricepoint, the phone will surely fall by the wayside.
There are plenty of other phones trying with the same idea, but similarly, the high prices put people off, and many of those have premium features (ghost phone, light phone) The ghost phone also offers cheaper alternatives. For a retro look you have the Punkt phone or many others.
From HERE
What does Fractic mean?
Back in school, a gifted kid told me to memorise “Chrisostomatico-perifractic-habitanamala-culacatescia-bobblers” as my new name, meaning “a man who is coated in gold”. This nickname stuck and led to others being named similarly, like Ladyfractic and Puppyfractic.
The Callback 8020 is set to be released in five variants. The BASIC Beige, ProtoPET White, and SX Silver models will each cost €499.99. Commodore is charging €549.99 for the transparent Starlight Edition. The Founders Edition, with a gold-plated “C=" key and gold-colored casing, will be offered for €640.
They are a lovely looking phone, but I’m sure that they must be targeting a niche section of the market.
There are definitely people that are pretentious enough to spend an extra €140 on an already expensive phone, so that they can have the gold plated “C=” on the front of the phone. I guess I know who they are targeting with these, and I’m glad I’m not one of them.
If they wanted to do it properly they could take a leaf out of the pages from STOKITI or EDRI - but they don’t want to do it properly. They just want to seem like they are doing something, while gathering data and profiteering at the same time. I would imagine Starmer and the rest of them have wet dreams about this shit and wake up with sticky cotton pyjamas every morning.
No. But hopefully it means that Iran will be able to fully unload on Israel (if Israel keep at it) without worrying about any repercussions from the US.
No idea. I was just wondering what actual power the judge has.
But if he tells them to ignore the order?
Does the judge have any real power to do anything?
That link leads to an article with the headline: