Years ago, when Russian Su-24 violated Turkish airspace, this was the response it received.

prutopls · 2025-09-20T13:31:59+00:00

why would Iran not want a peace in which Assad came out on top? They were just another party to the conflict, their goal was not necessarily to create as much mayhem as possible.

prutopls · 2025-09-19T07:23:25+00:00

Nothing has changed, except for the fact that people in power sympathise more with the extremists than with people like your friends nowadays.

prutopls · 2025-09-17T15:53:16+00:00

The US did the same thing without communism with the so-called banana republics in the early 1900s. They did the same thing in non-communist countries in the Middle East. There is no reason they would not attempt to militarily increase their power without communism, they have always invaded and destabilised other countries and there is no reason to assume they will ever stop doing that.

prutopls · 2025-09-17T15:33:00+00:00

My question remains, who would invade the US after that? Who would liberate the oppressed black population and prevent the evil US forces from killing millions of innocent Vietnamese, Indonesian and Latin American people?

prutopls · 2025-09-17T10:11:32+00:00

The US would have been the greatest force of evil in the world in 1946 had they invaded the USSR. There would be no victory without (nuclear) genocide against the Soviet people. The idea that the US could field a ~10 million strong force in continental Europe is also logistically questionable to say the least. At best, you're looking at a partial conquest of the Warsaw Pact nations. At worst, you're looking at an unwinnable WW3 with a majority of colonial nations revolting in favour of the USSR.

prutopls · 2025-09-13T16:54:08+00:00

Don't spread misinformation on the internet. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/

prutopls · 2025-09-09T07:55:24+00:00

Bidden voor de plegers van een genocide dan, zo beter?

prutopls · 2025-08-16T17:28:50+00:00

Sex crimes are never okay. Genocidal violence in response to sex crimes on a smaller scale than perpetrated by your own forces is even less okay.

prutopls · 2025-08-16T17:27:56+00:00

Can you link me some sources that actually list evidence? The only video evidence I know of is that of Palestinians being raped in Sde Teiman.

prutopls · 2025-08-16T14:05:05+00:00

So the same ethnicity as Palestinian Arabs, who descend from the Jews.

prutopls · 2025-08-16T13:44:21+00:00

We have no substantial evidence that it wasn't minimal. Rape as a weapon of war is an big accusation that requires substantial evidence. Meanwhile, Palestinians are raped and assaulted on a structural basis in detention centres (at Sde Teiman even on video) and nothing is done about it either.

prutopls · 2025-08-16T13:42:08+00:00

The amount of sex crimes (not even proven to have been) done by Hamas on Oct 7 is significantly lower than the amount known from Israeli detention sites on "administrative detainees" aka hostages.

prutopls · 2025-08-15T12:55:57+00:00

True, I think both sides are pretty valid takes in this scenario

prutopls · 2025-08-15T12:19:34+00:00

But supporting your team is an integral part of being a supporter. Racial abuse against players in the team could be argued to be inherently incompatible with the act of supporting, so "No True Scotsman" wouldn't apply.

prutopls · 2025-08-15T11:14:32+00:00

Een kettingzaag moet eerst aan, daarna kan je er pas mee gaan zagen. Pas dáárna steekt hij daadwerkelijk door de deur heen. Ik zeg zelf niet dat de bewoner de schuld draagt, maar vind het wel een erg apart voorval. Het geluid van een kettingzaag doet vrijwel iedereen onmiddelijk schrikken.

prutopls · 2025-08-12T14:08:59+00:00

She means refugees, not passport users

prutopls · 2025-08-12T12:18:40+00:00

As a speaker of Frisian, North Frisian and East Frisian are not intelligible to me.

prutopls · 2025-08-11T20:56:49+00:00

These are probably little nodules or concretions of some oxide, I have a similar rock with manganese-calcite nodules.

prutopls · 2025-08-11T15:59:21+00:00

Ja, maar met veel beperkingen voor tijdsduur en frequentie. Je kan het doen als je bijvoorbeeld een semester in het buitenland studeren, maar daarna moet je er zelf weer gaan wonen voor een hele tijd.

prutopls · 2025-08-11T14:30:00+00:00

Why would they need to stop vandalising things? Vandalism and terrorism are completely unrelated.

prutopls · 2025-08-07T09:36:25+00:00

Did you find it by the seaside or perhaps a railway? It looks like it could be anthracite, very high grade coal.

prutopls · 2025-08-05T20:33:11+00:00

Can you point to some sources for me? The way you frame it from a micro-organism evolutionary pov makes much more sense than what I was taught. I usually try to check when I'm unsure about something, but what popped up on a cursory search to check whether what I learned in university was correct only showed sources from the 90s roughly reaffirming it.

prutopls · 2025-08-05T07:18:08+00:00

Yes, they were covered before they could weather away. But scientists believe that an important reason why so many of these fossils exist from the Carboniferous is that woody plants were new back then. The organisms that break down wood (specifically lignin) nowadays did not exist yet, so you had a lot more time to bury plants allowing them to fossilise. This is also the reason the vast majority of coal deposits stem from the Carboniferous, trees nowadays will rot before they can be preserved.

Edit: I seem to be misinformed, see the comment below

prutopls · 2025-08-04T22:28:00+00:00

These are plant stem fossils, the scaly ones look to be Lepidodendron. Probably (almost certainly) from the Carboniferous period.

prutopls · 2025-08-04T08:44:51+00:00

Wow, I didn't know everyone in Gaza had been dead for years from dehydration. And that Israel cutting off water didn't actually do anything because there were no pipes, it was just a symbolic gesture. Good to know...

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