CombatLiberalism [he/him]

It didn’t come from a lab in Wuhan, it was first discovered in Wuhan but was already going around in Italy for months at that point based on waste samples.

The point was that we have just as much evidence to say it came from Detrick as we do to say it came from a Chinese lab. It most likely didn’t come from either, but only one of these conspiracies gets pushed. If you provide any pushback that maybe China isn’t responsible for COVID you get met with “well they would lie and cover it up, so I might as well be right”

Advocates for the inmates said the incident was a protest over prison conditions, including the excessive heat, limited access to showers and ice and unclean drinking water. A US National Weather Service heat advisory is in place until Tuesday for the area, warning temperatures could reach up to 100F (37.7C)…

The DOC says the prison is short of 50 officers, which has been exacerbated by the holiday weekend, leading to intermittent lockdowns of inmates since Friday. It means prisoners have been kept in their cells for longer periods, reportedly with no air conditioning…

DOC commissioner Paul Schnell said inmates were usually given several hours a day during the weekend for recreation, but holiday-related staff shortages had cut that down to just a single hour.

Jesus, I can’t imagine how dehumanizing it must be to be locked up for 23 hours of the day in the blistering heat and not even have access to clean water

To combat this I set the packages directly across from wherever I’m cooking, instruction side facing me.

Remembering to throw it out after though??? Impossible task.

This entire thread is proof that the liberal understanding of geopolitics and foreign policy is entirely vibes based

Do you think these rounds just magically disappear after they’re used? They’re going to continue to litter the land and cause generations of people completely uninvolved in the conflict to suffer from birth defects, lung damage, and cancer, as can be seen after its use in Iraq. No one is immune to depleted uranium. At this point you can just admit that you care more about killing Russians than you do defending Ukraine, consequences be damned.

Unironically yes. A peace deal was in the works last year until, according to the Ukranian Pravda, Boris Johnson pressured Zelensky not to go through with it. This would have stopped the fighting and resulted in some withdrawal of Russian troops, but since the West is more interested in weakening their geopolitical rivals and helping the weapons industry rake in profit than ending the war, they squashed any possibility of that happening.

The op is specifically about depleted uranium but hey, if you want to make the case that we shouldn’t be sending weapons to Ukraine in the first place I’m not going to argue against it

To put this further into perspective, the United States currently has the highest prison population per capita in the world, and the second largest prison population in the world, with people of color making up over two thirds of that population. Roughly 1/5 of the world’s population are in American prisons, a vast portion of those being private prisons.

we and Azov

Mask off moment

My bad, I got the colors of the bars mixed up

Nowhere did I make the claim that it was, that doesn’t change a thing

Not that dangerous?

“Opposing the poisoning of masses of innocent people who had no say in the war is propaganda. I am very smart!”

Who said it was? It’s still an environmental contaminant, a carcinogen, and linked to a rise in birth defects after its use in Iraq

It’s use will have consequences far outside of the conflict and ruin the lives of who knows how many people who had absolutely no say in this war and I’m supposed to cheer it on?

Imagine being this bloodthirsty you’re willing to let Ukrainians suffer the effects of depleted uranium just to kill more Russians

Are you aware of what depleted uranium does to the human body? Innocent people are going to be dealing with the consequences of a decision made by a handful of people across the planet for decades after the war ends. Does poisoning generations of people sound like “defending” Ukrainians to you?

Every person involved in making this decision deserves to be buried in an unmarked grave with the weapons they love so much. How many innocent people completely uninvolved with the war are going to grow up suffering the effects of depleted uranium rounds? Another absolutely monstrous decision in a long line of monstrous decisions by the US government.