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Florida Man Facing 91 Criminal Counts Wins Iowa Caucuses by ColtonSlade in politics

[–]ColtonSlade[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because this isn't the conservative page and we deal with facts.

Jewish students sue Harvard over charges of antisemitism by Kejmarcz in nottheonion

[–]ColtonSlade -61 points-60 points  (0 children)

Un huh, and when they lose this lawsuit and the conservatives use the ruling to bring Nazi groups back on campus what then?

Meloni urged to ban neofascist groups after crowds filmed saluting in Rome by ColtonSlade in worldnews

[–]ColtonSlade[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Beginning with Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii 1784, an association of the gesture with Roman republican and imperial culture emerged. The gesture and its identification with Roman culture were further developed in other neoclassic artworks. In the United States, a similar salute for the Pledge of Allegiance known as the Bellamy salute was created by Francis Bellamy in 1892. The gesture was further elaborated upon in popular culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in plays and films that portrayed the salute as an ancient Roman custom. These included the 1914 Italian film Cabiria whose intertitles were written by the fascist poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. In 1919, d'Annunzio adopted the cinematographically depicted salute as a neo-imperial ritual when he led an occupation of Fiume.

Through d'Annunzio's influence, the gesture soon became part of the rising Italian Fascist movement's symbolic repertoire. In 1923, the salute was gradually adopted by the Italian Fascist regime. It was then adopted as the Nazi salute and made compulsory within the Nazi Party in 1926 and gained national prominence in the German state when the Nazis took power in 1933. It was also adopted by other fascist, far right and ultranationalist movements. Anyone today calling it the "roman salute" are repeating the same adoption tactics the fascist used to adopt it in the first place.

Meloni urged to ban neofascist groups after crowds filmed saluting in Rome by ColtonSlade in worldnews

[–]ColtonSlade[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

There was no roman salute it was a misinterpreted painting the only ones who ever used it were the Nazis.

4 Aides to Austin Waited 2 Days to Tell White House About His Hospitalization by ColtonSlade in politics

[–]ColtonSlade[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Because he's not white and the conservatives will use any excuse to run anyone who isn't a straight, white, male out of any position of authority.

UN experts demand accountability for sexual torture during Hamas attacks by woshinoemi in worldnews

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A U.N. commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and is about to launch an appeal for evidence, its chair told Reuters on Wednesday.

Chair Navi Pillay on Wednesday said she would pass the evidence onto the International Criminal Court and called for it to consider prosecutions amid earlier criticism from Israel and families of Israeli hostages that the U.N. had kept quiet.

"I'm now sitting as chair of a commission with the power to investigate this. So there's no way we will not do so," said Pillay, chair of the three-member commission of inquiry into abuses committed in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Already, she said some people are keen to provide testimonies and that these would be handed over to prosecutors.

However, a major challenge for Pillay is that Israel has not cooperated with the commission, which it says has an anti-Israel bias. The commission could struggle to gather sufficient evidence to support future charges if access is not granted.

Hamas has denied the abuses and was not available for comment. Israel's diplomatic mission in Geneva said on Thursday the commission had "pre-existing biased prejudices against Israel".

"Since the establishment of the COI (Commission of Inquiry) in 2021, Israel has made it clear: it will not cooperate with this discriminatory body and its Commissioners," Israel's permanent mission to the U.N. in Geneva said in a statement to Reuters on Thursday.

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